The Dark Knight

While it may come as no surprise to most of us, I must say it anyway: The Dark Knight was the biggest movie of 2008, the 2000's and possibly of the 20 & 21st century combined. There are few movies which stand in this right to be as popular and resonant with a society as Chris Nolan's cinematic masterpiece.

At 11:50 July 17th, 2008 I walked into a already crowded theater and sat inevitably down in the front row. Luckily for me, looking up to view this gigantic film only added to the audacity of the picture. Now, not to trash on 3D movies, cause they are cool sometimes... There is just something about the way a film in 2D brings the world into perspective in ways that you couldn't imagine. For example, Chris Nolan manages to do something quite unique in this experience: Gotham (Chicago) looks just about bigger than any city you may have seen in your life, while you watch The Dark Knight, you just contemplate how they made it look so darn big. Does anybody know?
Anybody?
IMAX cameras. Chris Nolan did a brilliant thing: all of the outside city shots of Gotham (Chicago) were filmed in IMAX, yet all of the inside shots were filmed with a smaller, but still high quality; high expense camera.

But none of that has anything to do with how you would enjoy the movie. When we talk about enjoying The Dark Knight, I mean really, just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and jujubees... There aren't many movies that can beat it. The storytelling is superb and unique; unlike most superhero movies it does not choose to explore ever facade of every character that the camera ever focuses on. In fact our arch enemy, The Joker, Is not explored at all. Never do we know a single thing about his past, his life, his scars, his love, his insanity... We know one thing and one thing only: The Joker is here to do what he is here to do... and he is going to do it. We find ourselves rooting for the bad guy just a tad, but then again, Batman is a bit of a bad guy too. It takes us a hour of pencils getting shoved into eye sockets, knives in mouths, and hangings off of sky scrapers to figure out that everybody in Gotham is a little good and a little bad. Nobody can point fingers because the second we do, someone has pointed out the flaws we try so hard to mask ourselves. We are products of our environment.Chris Nolan demonstrates this thesis very clearly through the turn of District Attorney Harvey Dent who, like everybody else in Gotham, has the potential to be either the hero or the villain. As we know, Dent turns into Two-Face who has a split personality. The only way he can make up his mind about a certain decision is by flipping a coin. Dent turns into two face because part of his face was burnt and he lost his dearest love, Rachael Dawes (Mega bummer for would be good guys). Chris Nolan has a intention of showing us that the good can fall from the highest steeple... and he makes it very... VERY entertaining

This movie will make almost every guy happy for a month. Rent it, and watch it with him girls... it's like flowers on a bad day for you.  DAM

3/3 people points. Need i really give a reason? YES, and it is that this is simply the best superhero movie that you may get the chance to watch.