I'll admit, I'm not gonna lie. I was REALLY scared to revisit this again. This really got me into film. It's not the film that started my love for film, but it's the first film that made me say "I wanna go into the film industry" so it's really close to me. I've seen this countless times but I noticed that for many people, it does'nt hold up well today so I was really scared to revisit it. Thankfully, I…

I don't, I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... complete me.
-The Joker

The Dark Knight is not my favorite film based on a comic book, but that probably has more to do with my preferences in comic books then it does film. It is however head above shoulders my favorite Batman film. It's not because it's a great film (which it…

Batman Begins review is here.

The Dark Knight is a film that I like a little less with each new viewing. That is not to say it is not consistently entertaining with some exhilarating set pieces but the issues with the story become more pronounced over time. It is a film on an epic scale. Everything about it feels big and important but along the way this scale has dwarfed the characters. No longer is this a story about Bruce…

The following is going to sound as overly negative as my Batman Begins review was overly positive, but with extremely popular movies, sometimes I feel the need to speak a little 'louder' if I don't quite agree with the majority sentiment or reception. I've tried to refrain from hyperbole this time around, and probably sound pretty nitpicky (although the problems listed are basic and serious issues for me), but I do have plenty of good things to say about The…

La puedo ver doblada en arabe, con subtitulos en mandarin o hasta en 480p con tal de volverla a disfrutar igual. El drama criminal que ni siquiera las buenas películas de mafiosos plantean de esta manera y el caos causado por un hombre. Todo esa relación y enfrentamiento entre The Joker y Batman la cual Nolan supo narrar como los grandes. Fotografía, BSO en su mejor momento y el complicado y deotromundo guión.
Todo el drama y acción y las…

Why so serious?

Well personally I enjoy my Batman with that dark edge, the burden, the weight and the risk of loss. Whether this is done in the comics or films or any adaptation for that matter. Christopher Nolan does a great job in the second installment, the film hits the ground running, never relenting or stopping for pause. It is guilty of being convoluted and overly busy, but it does not really blemish the end product for me. Set…

"Now, our operation is small, but there's a lot of potential for 'aggressive' expansion..." - The Joker

Intelligent, fast-paced, complex, brutal, this is a Batman movie like no other. Batman Begins set the tone, and The Dark Knight darkened it.

The Joker was an ingenious addition to the saga at this time, and Heath Ledger's performance even more so, turning Batman's ultimate arch nemesis into a gibbering psychopath instead of the funny, wannabee clown Cesar Romero and Jack Nicholson brought…

My preparation for the last in Christopher Nolan's Bat trilogy continues in rewatching The Dark Knight, the middle part of his Batman saga. People frequently compare this to Batman Begins, unfairly to my mind as this is a completely different texture of movie; if Begins was a gloomy origin story and character study of Bruce Wayne's fear, Dark Knight is a Gotham crime epic that, this time, explores what it means to be Batman and the consequences of his caped…

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

There are seemingly some large gaps in logic that can often be attributed to poor editing. This story is too large in scope to have appeased a 3+ hour cut from the studio and this is where much, much nit-picking becomes valid. Scenes often mesh into montage to keep things moving. This is sometimes a breathless intensity that draws me in. Other times I'm left scratching my head (what happened at…