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Batman: The Dark Knight Movie Review

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ell, I finally broke down and bought Batman: The Dark Knight because they don't seem to have it at the lieberry and the price isn't going down at Wal-Mart. Lately, it seems like they sell the movies at full price for a couple of weeks, then it goes down to $13.

I got tired of waiting, didn't want to pay to rent it when I knew I was going to buy it, so I paid $19.96. It hurt me to do that. Because Circuit City was selling it for $13 ONCE and, of course, Wal-Mart had no copies and wouldn't issue a rain check.

Bastids.

Whatevuh.

The Dark Knight
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman
Director: Christopher Nolan
Genre: Action Crime Thriller
Plot:from IMDb: Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits.
Should you see it? Hell to the YES!!!
Rating (out of 5 hearts): ♥♥♥♥♥♥ (Yes, I know that's 6 hearts. I can count.)
My Comments: I really didn't have any expectations for this movie. I usually take a long time to see a movie if everyone and their brother has seen it and raved about it. All the hype makes me think the movie is going to be wonderful and I end up being disappointed. It took me until this summer to start watching Lost and now I love it.

This movie? This movie right here? This is THE SHIZNIT, BEEYOTCH!

"This movie? This movie right here? This is THE SHIZNIT, BEEYOTCH!"Heath Ledger was awesome as The Joker. I have always been partial to the first Batman movie with Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and the Prince Soundtrack :-). But Heath Ledger took this role OVER. O.V.E.R. Now I understand why people (the general public) were so sad about his death. Because it would have been awesome if we could have had another Batman vs. The Joker movie.

But maybe it's best that we can't. We will not be disappointed with a sub-par script or Ledger doing an impersonation of himself playing The Joker, nodamene?

What surprised me was how funny The Joker was in this. The fact that I really can't remember if Nicholson was this funny as The Joker is saying a lot (to me).

If you've already seen it, see it again. If you haven't seen it, buy it. It was awesome.

I had planned to go to sleep during the movie, but Evan is the one who got sleepy and went to bed. I stayed up for the whole movie. It felt a lot longer than 152 minutes, but not in a bad way. Then I came to write a review while it's still fresh on my mind.

Love it, Love it, Love it.

It seemed like a lot of familiar faces were in the movie like Michael Jai White (Spawn), Anthony Michael Hall, Eric Roberts and Aaron Eckhart as Two Face. Don't even get me started on the special effects for that. So much creepier than Tommy Lee Jones' portrayal.

Ok, I'm going to bed before I replay the whole movie.
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Now playing: Prince - Partyman

3:10 to Yuma Quick Review

Starring: Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster
Director: James Mangold
Genre: Drama Action Crime Western
Plot from IMDb: A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Rating (out of 5 hearts): &hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts
Should you see it? Absolutely!
My Comments: If you haven't seen this movie yet, go buy it. I'll admit to being a Russell Crowe fan, so I'll watch almost anything he's in. I watch Christian Bale because after seeing The Machinist, I watch whatever he's in because I think he's either very dedicated or insane. Maybe I'm trying to figure out which?

The movie starts with Dan Evans (Bale) having his barn burned down because he's behind on the payments for his land and the owner of the land wants to sell that particular land to the railroad company. Then we see Ben Wade (Crowe) and his gang of bandits robbing a stagecoach.

Evans & his two sons see what happens with the stagecoach, but Wade sees them too and takes their horses so they can't get to town too quickly to report the crime. Evans ends up agreeing to accompany Wade, along with a posse of lawmen, to the 3:10 train in another town that will take Wade to Yuma Prison. He does this for $200.

Along the way, we learn that Wade is one of the worst of criminals. He's robbed 21 stagecoaches and killed hundreds of people. He's a wanted man. Evans has lost full use of his leg in "the war" (I'm assuming Civil? He said he fought for the North).

There are great gun fights, but there's a really good story here. Both characters are well developed. There are reasons why they do what they do.

When I started watching the movie, I thought I'd fall asleep. By the end, I was sitting up straight wondering how it was all going to end.

I'll be adding this to my DVD collection ASAP. :-)