Dark Knights and heavy days
Written on July 23, 2008 by jez -
I feel compelled to write a brief entry here, as I don’t think I’ve been this excited since……. well, since Batman Begins was announced. Yes, I am as you may have guessed a truly massive Batman nerd, and have been eagerly awaiting The Dark Knight for almost two years now. Every review, trailer and snippet of info indicates that this may well be THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE, and I urge everyone to go and see it immediately. Well, tonight I get to go to an advanced screening, and I am literally soiling myself with excitement. Seriously, I’m almost freaking out here.
In addition to this, in the wee hours of the morning after, I shall be heading off to Hamburg on a four-day, 10-man stag do (my own this time), for fun, frolics and amusingly large sausages. I am told by my best men that on Saturday we will all be dressing as pimps. Make what you will of this.
Filed in: Cultural Runnings.
So, worth the hype? I think so… every second the Joker is on screen it’s impossible not to be completely transfixed (except while wincing from the ‘pencil trick’). I’m not sure there’d be quite so much Oscar talk if Mr Ledger was around to see the finished product, but he’s still up there with the all-time great baddies.
(Jack Nicholson had a better crazy laugh though.)