The Dark Knight -
When I first bought the DVD for TDK like 2 months ago, I told myself that I wasn't going to watch it every week like I used to do for Batman Begins. So far I've kept that promise to myself and I'm sure glad that I did, because it's actually been almost 2 months since I last watched it and it was just great to watch it again tonight. Right from the very first scene I was gazed into the movie, I couldn't stop watching even if I wanted to. Which also makes me want to point out that this may have the best movie opening ever, just because it has like the 2 best first scenes in a movie in a movie that I can remember, which are the bank robbery scene and the scarecrow scene.
Now I was thinking of what to say about Heath Ledger after watching it a little while ago, but then I thought was there really anything to mention about his performance that I haven't already raved about yet? So I guess I'll just keep it short saying that he did an amazing job and deserves 'Best Supporting Actor' this year, which I'm sure he's basically already a lock for getting. Gary Oldman really needs to be mentioned because he's just such an underrated actor, who just happens to be my second favorite actor of all-time. This really isn't his best performance yet, be he sure does a great job in the role. He's my second favorite acting wise out of the cast. Personally though, I don't get why everyone was making such a big deal about Bale's Batman voice. It seemed pretty normal to me, I mean you're supposed to have a voice that no one would be able to tell that it's you. Eckhart did a great job as Dent, I did notice a little gripe with him tonight as Two-Face though. Right in the very last scene he's basically holding a gun to Gordon's son, Two-Face isn't meant to be like that, Two-Face basically only goes after bad guys. That really wasn't a gripe with Eckhart's acting though, that's a gripe with then writing.
As I just mentioned, that was probably my only gripe with the writing, except I do think a couple of scenes could've been made a little bit longer. I mean some of the scene were only like a couple of seconds long, they could've made it at least a little bit longer than that. I also really felt that the ending was sort of weak with this viewing, but Zimmer and Newton's scrore along with Oldman's speech really made up for the weak ending though. I do think that this is the ultimate surround sound system movie, because on my surround sound system every sound just sticks out so perfectly. The score is the main thing that sticks out though, heck some scenes it even seemed to overlap the talking. The score really is amazing though, probably my favorite soundtrack of 2008.
I'm really glad I decided to watch it again tonight though, because it really made me remember how much I actually love it. It may have not been my best viewing of it, the first in theaters will always be the best for me, but it was sure a darn great viewing. I would recommend this to people, but more than likely I think everyone has seen this by now. Most people seemed to have seen it by the time it left theaters, most of everyone else that didn't see it then I'm sure have seen it since the 2 months it's been on DVD.