The Dark Knight

Yesterday, I mentioned that Tyler and I had bought tickets for The Dark Knight when we went to see Hancock. Well, we did. Tyler bought his and I bought three; one for myself, Kat and Melinda.

I didn’t get off work until eleven, and where I work is about twenty minutes from the movie theatre. Naturally, when eleven o’clock comes around someone just has to come in and buy something (I was going to call them a douchebag, but it’s not their fault that I wanted to leave right at eleven and normally it wouldn’t be a big deal). Long story short, I booted ass from the campground to the theatre. Got stuck behind some slow driving jackass, and made it there in about fifteen minutes.

I called Tyler, because he was going to go at eleven (the show started at midnight) and try to get seats for us all. The girls couldn’t go in because I had their tickets. Well, Tyler got there at eleven and couldn’t find four seats together. So when I called him he was like sorry. :/ They let the show in at 9:10… who the hell goes three hours before a movie starts to sit there in the theatre? O_O Eager people, I guess.

We ended up being in the second row, which initially was really hard on the eyes, but it ended up being okay once you got used to it. We got our cheese popcorn and a collectible Batman cup. The previews went on for like half an hour which was annoying, but at the same time who can blame them. They had four cinemas booked for Batman and for the most part it was sold out.

There were some people there in Joker makeup and the audience was pretty cool. The one guy behind us kept making annoying, yet funny remarks throughout the previews. I love going to the opening show, because you get the people who want to be there really badly. For the most part.

The movie itself was really good and Heath Ledger was awesome as Joker. It was actually hard to believe it was him, because I don’t know… I guess I always picture him as the guy in 10 Things I Hate About You, A Knight’s Tale or Casanova. And of course Christian Bale was great too. I loved him as Batman in Batman Begins, so this was no different. Michael Caine as Alfred rocks as well.

I don’t want to give any spoilers away for people who haven’t seen it, so I don’t really want to write too much about it. Batman is just super cool. And the Joker was great because although he’s absolutely psychoic and terrifying in the sense that he has no remorse whatsoever, he’s pretty comical. There were a few deaths in the movie I was really surprised by and while it was predictable because it’s Batman and in a way, you always know who’s supposed to win, nothing was so obvious that you felt bored. Does that make sense?

Anyways, I really liked it. I think more than I did Batman Begins. So I’d tell you if you’re interested at all, to go see it. But I’ve always loved Batman, because my dad and I used to watch the oolllddd ones with Adam West when I was a kid. You know, with the POW, BAM, BOP! Looking back on them they’re ridiculously corny, but as a kid I absolutely loved them, haha.