 merrie says: Spoiler alert: This is not a review of the latest Batman installment, "The Dark Knight," but don't read on if you want to be totally surprised at the theater! Director Chris Nolan's latest installment of Batman, shown to a packed IMAX house Saturday in LA, made good on many of the amped-up promises touted in its trailers: cooler new toys, groundbreaking cinematography, a darker tone and the genesis of a villain named Two-Face. In this flick, Ledger showed us what a masterful actor he was - certainly deserving of a posthumous Oscar nomination. Ledger developed a whole new body language for the character. His Joker's tendency to lick his lips and blink extra slowly gives him, at times, the appearance of a demonic lizard. He kills without a second thought and in the most artful of ways. Watch for his stomach-churning "magic trick" with a pencil, by way of introducing himself to a roomful of Gotham City's most notorious villains. Christian Bale is more brawny, and more tormented, than in "Batman Begins he spends a good deal of the movie trying to figure out how to not be Batman anymore. Enter Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent, the superstar district attorney who's been dubbed the city's "white knight" - in marked contrast to the black-suited superhero. Other familiar faces - from "Batman Begins" and elsewhere - abound. Gary Oldman is back as Lt. James Gordon, and Michael Caine returns as Alfred the butler. Blink... I didn't read the clip or your comments because I don't want to know what happens, but I have read that Heath Ledger does a great job as the Joker. I don't want to know what happensThe article doesn't reveal any actual details or events, but it does describe the Joker's diabolical persona. It goes on to describe the rest of the characters in general terms. (The NY Post article is two pages long) "But make no mistake: This is Ledger's show, and whenever he wasn't around, the audience was palpably waiting for him to turn up again", the writer says. Morgan Freeman is one of my favorites! Morgan Freeman is a really good actor. |
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