He not only gets all up in dat on the senate floor but can tell The Joker himself that the good people of Gotham won’t stand for Scumbags like him! Oh yeah and his imdb page soon shows us that he was the only senator that has ever been in a movie with Coolio and the Governator. Damn. And don’t get me started on my other badass Senator. Fuck yeah first socialist Senator. Fuck yeah Bernie Sanders. Fuck yeah Vermont. Fuck yeah.
Anyway, the movie
Damn. What an intense fucking film that was. During the entire two plus hours I barely breathed. I remember feeling exactly the same way when I saw Batman Begins and Memento and the parts of The Prestige when I wasn’t thinking “Whoa, David Bowie!” But the reason why I posted the above poster is because the movie belonged completely to Heath Ledger. From his harassing my Senator to the fiendishly brilliant plots he dreamed up or his haunting philosophy and unbearably phenomenal acting, he deserves the Oscar he’ll receive. Other than to say that I feel physically shaken, the fact that it is four in the morning limits my cognitive clarity in writing movie reviews thus I write no more. I want to say that I wished it was slightly more convoluted, but that might be my reaction to hearing the owner of the theater say it needs to be watched more than once. Backtracking a bit, just like Star Wars is the story of Vader, The Dark Knight is all about the Joker, which is fascinating because we learn nothing reliably about his history. We are only able to question the fundamental nature of humanity through the example he leads.
And now for something completely different that makes me laugh:
#1 by Chris on July 18th, 2008
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Whoa Max, let’s try to calm it on the f-bombs there buddy, my Mom reads this stuff.
#2 by Alex on July 18th, 2008
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she didn’t mind when i shouted “fuck me!” last night. that’s right, network censors.
#3 by Giancarlo on July 19th, 2008
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Max, as much as The Dark Knight was about the Joker (Heath was freakin’ amazing), I’d definetly say that The Dark Knight is about actually the Rise and Fall of Harvey Dent…
Hell, that’s what the title is referring to.
#4 by Max on July 19th, 2008
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Granted. But still the Joker was the most fascinating character.
#5 by Sabrina on July 26th, 2008
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Wholly and completely agree, Maximus. He didn’t look or sound like himself. I think the only problem I have with the poster is the very girlsey handwriting that the Joker employs.