Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Wonderful.
Where Batman Begins felt a compromise with studio bosses, The Dark Knight feels like Nolan with a free hand. It's edgy, with a genuinely frightening villain and, in a brilliantly welcome surprise, the moral greys established in the comics over the past 20-odd years.
I loved Ledger's Joker, the jagged score, even the surprisingly modest special effects, but what made my day was seeing The Dark Knight Returns up there on screen with The Killing Joke, Year One and the rest. "Comic-book movie" has become an insult, and rightly so: Spider-Man of the late 1960s is insipid fare. Now we've got this, Hancock, Watchmen next year -- let the age of the "graphic novel movie" begin.