Two nights ago, me and 14 of my closest friends decided to go see the new Batman flick. So, I thought I'd give a little spiel about it. !!WARNING, SPOILERS A-PLENTY!!
Honestly, for me, the movie started off a little lame. It's not that it was bad, I just didn't feel it lived up to the hype, but how could it? This movie has been highly anticipated since it's predecessor, and every since Heath Ledgers death, it's all anyone can talk about. Anyways, I didn't really care for the first 10 minutes all that much because they brought back The Scarecrow, (who I thought was an incredible character in the first movie) only to immediately have him beaten like some low-grade thug. After this, the movie began to pick up speed, and by the third or fourth scene with The Joker, it was apparent that this was Heath Ledger's best performance, and he was going to make this movie incredible. I also really liked the way they began to construct the Harvey Dent character, which I thought they were setting up for the third movie, however was disappointed when he became Two-Face almost instantly. The other thing that really bothered me about the Dent story line, was in the scenes leading up to his "conversion," there were about a 100 references to his face being the face of Gotham. Whatever happened to a little cinematic subtlety? All in all, I felt it was a really good movie, a little predictable in some places, but still very entertaining, and visual impressive. I do have one huge issue, but it really has nothing to do with the movie itself, it's with the rating. While the movie was very "clean" in that it had little to no bad language or sexual content, I still feel it should have been rated R. A movie with that much dark subject matter has no place being rated the same as a disney movie. I personally believe most younger kids would have been better off seeing a cheesy teen flick with some gratuitous nudity in it, instead of watching something that is so disturbingly twisted. It seems like we often think if there's no F-bombs, or half-naked women than it's a "clean" movie, but we don't focus on the movie itself, or it's message. Well, I'm sick of typing, bye
