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The Dark Knight : Why So Seriously Watch?
Posted by roanne in Movie Reviews, Personal Moods, The Dark Knight on July 19th, 2008

Disclaimer: I’m not really good into writing movie reviews so please bear with me.
It’s The Dark Knight’s second day of showing. Here I am, still as ecstatic as I was two days ago. Because of my feverish excitement for this Batman movie sequel, I chanced upon getting tickets in advance to watch it as soon as it’s shown lest movie houses might run out of tickets on the exact showing day.
And folks, this movie is currently topping the box office and promises to set up a new record, beating other superhero movies like Spider-Man 3 which currently holds the biggest gross opening sales! To add, it’s currently rated 9-point-something out of 10 in the Internet Movie Database, taking the 3rd spot on IMDB’s Top 250 movies (currently raking the number 1 spot).
The movie really proves that it’s beyond hype, and that the late great Heath Ledger will be surely missed as “The Joker”. For me, it’s really The Joker’s film more than Batman’s. He effectively reprised Jack Nicholson’s role, much to everyone’s surprise. Christian Bale’s characterization of Batman wasn’t bad at all, albeit he didn’t stand out as much as Ledger did. Read the rest of this entry »