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An Idea In The Making

October 29, 2008

Today I captured all the footage from our Providence shoot on Monday. I am doing many things different this time around. I am looking at EVERY piece of footage captured as a possibility for use. On my last project I saw the shots I needed and dismissed the rest as shit. Then I saw my buddy Charlie’s edit from the same shoot and he utilized a lot more of the footage. So here I am in the learning process.

It is actually a lot more fun this way. Our style has been to just let the camera roll when we shoot, and we have captured things that we didn’t notice while shooting. I pretty much organized all the footage into little sub-clips and now I am in the mental stage of editing. I piece the story together and write down how the film could play out, then I turn the page in my scrapbook and do it again. Then the next night I write it a couple more times. Overall I get many different versions of what I could do, and hopefully can take the best parts from each and make a fantastic masterpiece.

On a side note. I don’t read enough. I don’t watch enough films. I don’t write enough. I don’t play guitar enough. I don’t work enough. I don’t hang out enough. But I’m pretty happy. And I’m working hard.

On another side note. I am not looking forward to the impending election day, and the results.

byebye.

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Beginning the Completion of the Trilogy

October 27, 2008

Today me and my current creative partner in crime, Charlie, filmed in Providence for our new film project. We got some cool stuff. So I’m looking forward to what crazy stuff we can come up with in the editing room this time. And you should too. We shot around Waterplace Park and at these cool steps. We made a journey to the State House with a pot of flowers. We were then incredibly nervous about standing on the steps, I was just waiting for state police to come out and shut us down. But apparently everyone was cool with it.

After shooting everything we hit up the mall for some disgusting taco bell. I saw a cool girl. I’ll update on the film on Friday when I get some editing down. And I’ll update on the girl, if I don’t act like a girl.

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My “Max Payne” Review

October 19, 2008

“All video game movies suck.” That is a common phrase around the interweb, and I mostly agree with it (although I do enjoy the Resident Evil series quite a bit). When plans of a Max Payne movie rolled around and they announced Wahlberg for the role I felt a smidge of optimism. When I saw Max Payne I felt a smidge of entertainment. Just a smidge.

What makes me angry about the “All video game movies suck” school of thought is that they don’t HAVE to suck. It is just time and time again terrible film-makers have kept this theme going. Max Payne doesn’t change that at all. It just doesn’t deliver on all levels. There are a few amazing visuals in this movie, but they are too far and in between.

The plot starts with Max Payne some years after his family’s murder. He is out for revenge. Connections are slowly but surely made between his family’s death and the death of a girl that he refused to fuck, and a drug on the streets.

This film had amazing visuals of hallucinations when people were on the drug. I think they could have used the drug and hallucinations a lot more and made the film more interesting. Instead we get Wahlberg, with his bad-ass face on, walking around intimidating people. They also used the slow-motion effect that was used in the game a couple times, but it just came off as distracting instead of contributing to the actual story.

Mark Wahlberg didn’t really do anything special with this character, but at the same time the writers didn’t give him a chance to flesh it out. I read an interview and he talked so highly about the film, but perhaps when he talks about it in retrospect he will think differently. I thought it was pretty cool to see Mila Kunis. I don’t think she has had a role like this before. She didn’t do a WHOLE lot but it was something different so I give her some credit.

Nothing about this film, except for a couple cool visuals that collectively equal about a minute, was memorable.

Despite all assumptions that video game movies suck, I gave this film a chance. It let me down. I was bored within 30 minutes of watching. Please do yourself a favor and don’t see this movie.

I give Max Payne a 3 out of 10.

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My “W.” Review

October 19, 2008

As I drove to the theater to see “W.” I decided it was about damn time I come up with a solid opinion of the real George W. Bush. When I think of George W. Bush I think of words such as idiot, dumb, misunderestimated, and lots of other demeaning words. But those words are not mine. Those are words from the mouths of many pissed off Americans. My question has always been:

Who is this man, and how did he become the most hated president of my time?

Perhaps this film answered it, or it just opened up the answer that I already had in me.

Oliver Stone wanted me to feel bad for W. I did feel bad up to a certain point in his life, but when W. changed himself to prove something to his father I stopped believing in him. Oliver Stone didn’t make this film to make fun of W., but he made it to show us that he was no different than any of us at one point in our lives. Stone also showed us that there is a point in our lives where we can do things differently.

The events in W.’s life that were shown helped greatly in shaping my opinion. They will also add to those already established opinions if people are open to it. This film does something fantastic in taking the most hated man and turning him into a person, and it does so in a clean and honorable fashion. It has it’s laughs, but not always at the expense of our current president. And it has it’s slow parts that had me wondering at what point the film would start moving again.

Josh Brolin’s performance also lends a huge hand in the task of humanizing W. I was watching the man called W, and not Josh Brolin as W, which is all I can ask for from an actor. The same goes for the rest of the major cast. I was blown away by Thandie Newton as Condoleeza Rice. And I mean that in a bad way, that was more a bad impression than acting. I also favored the performance of Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell. I had never actually heard Powell talk a lot, but Wright convinced me that Powell probably talks just like that. From the moment I heard Elizabeth Banks was going to be playing Laura Bush I was very surprised. And while watching her performance, I was surprised throughout that she was actually doing this film (I will love her so much more when I see her in “Porno”).

I congratulate Oliver Stone on his accomplishment. W. is one of the most unforgettable films I have seen.

Back to my question:

Who is this man, and how did he become the most hated president of my time?

This man’s path to becoming president was not the best path. He spent a life trying to prove himself worthy of the Bush name, something that he shouldn’t have had to do. He had dreams in his early life of being an athlete and that carried on throughout his life. But his father, constantly dragging him down, didn’t allow that dream to flourish. This situation is very classic to me:

A person has a dream, but people try to hold them back. The great people see through the oppressors and succeed. Some people are so brought down that they may not succeed in obtaining their dreams, but they can still carry inspiration and hope on to others. Then you have your “W.”’s, and they become a lesser version of what they could have been, or something else they never should have been. President.

I give “W.” a 7 out of 10.

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Two Movies I Loved Full of Characters I Hated

October 13, 2008

Preface: Fuck, I have gone way too long without writing. I got scared honestly. But I’m getting back into it. Enjoy.

This past week I have watched two movies that have gotten the same reaction out of me: I really dislike the characters. The two movies:

Glengarry Glen Ross (plot summary from IMDB):

Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only “closers” will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters.

and Confessions of a Superhero (plot summary from IMDB):

CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO is a feature length documentary that chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their living working as superhero characters on Hollywood Boulevard. This deeply personal look into their daily routines reveals their hardships and triumphs as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame. The Hulk sold his Super Nintendo for a bus ticket to LA; Wonder Woman was a mid-western homecoming queen; Batman struggles with his anger, while Superman’s psyche is consumed by the Man of Steel. Although the Walk of Fame is right beneath their feet, their own paths to stardom prove to be long, hard climbs.

Both films feature dishonest characters. Glengarry Glen Ross showcases these salesmen who will lie and cheat to get their comissions and make it to the top. They just want their bloody money. Al Pacino’s character came off as rather honest at first. He was the top of the group of salesmen, or a “closer”, but then while trying to close a sale he shows just how good at lying he is. Maybe Kevin Spacey’s character was the most honest and likeable in this, as he was not a salesman, just the manager of sorts for the office. The other characters who were talking about how they were getting cheated and just complaining and complaining also pissed me off. They could talk so much about how they were being mistreated and that they would never get anywhere with the leads they were getting, but they wouldn’t actually DO anything about it. Until they did do something, and it wasn’t the right thing to do.

Confessions of a Superhero features real people who are really trying to make it in Hollywood by dressing up and taking pics with tourists. The problem is that some of them are scary when they mention the famous line “We work on tips”, and when a tourist doesn’t pay up the person dressed up gets pissed. Honestly, all I could think of was “get a real fucking job and spend your nights or mornings or any time off in auditions, or even acting school if you need it”. Some of these guys are just sitting there waiting for the big hand of success to come grab them, but it doesn’t work that way. The guy who is the Batman was probably the worst. He tells all these stories and confesses to a mass murder of Italian mobsters in the 80’s, but it’s hard to take him seriously.

Overall, these were FANTASTIC movies and just because I hated the characters/people does not mean that I hate the movie. I actually would love to see Glengarry Glen Ross again, that had some amazing performances from EVERYONE in it: Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, and some old guys.

Confessions of a Superhero was a great look at some very real people. Unfortunately for them, I do not sympathize one bit simply because they aren’t working hard enough towards their dream. If they were working hard enough, then they wouldn’t be in this documentary because they would be too busy.

I highly recommend these two films, and maybe you can hate the characters along with me.

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My “Burn After Reading” Review

September 12, 2008

If you liked No Country For Old Men, well, it doesn’t matter because “Burn After Reading” is a DIFFERENT film altogether.

“What the fuck!?” is what the tagline should be for this movie. John Malkovich’s character uses it extensively, and the audiences across the nation have probably said it too while watching this.

The story starts off simple enough: a CIA analyst gets demoted but doesn’t take it too well, and quits instead. He decides to start writing some memoirs that include details about his secret work with the CIA. His wife, in an attempt to get his financial records on a disc, accidentally copies his memoirs along with them. Her lawyer’s secretary drops her copy in Hardbody’s Gym and it lands in the hands of the awesomely, flaky, bleached-blonde-haired Chad Feldheimer played every little bit by Brad Pitt. He believes he has his hands on some classified intelligence “shit”. He believes he can get money for it by blackmailing the owner, Osbourne Cox played by Malkovich, and Chad’s co-worker wants in on the action so she can pay for her cosmetic surgery(s).

A tangled fucking web starts to get weaved including unfaithful wives and husbands, and one confused as hell CIA superior played perfectly by J.K. Simmons (most would know him as J. Jonah Jameson, or Juno’s daddy).

I was super-pumped to go see this movie. One reason being the Coens, and the other being Brad Pitt. I say Brad Pitt because the dude is fucking amazing in everything I’ve seen him in since Fight Club, not because I’m gay (I’d fuck him).

Brad Pitt definitely lived up to my expectations and beyond, as always with him. We are so used to seeing him being the cool guy, but then you get him as this who works in a gym and just does NOT have a clue and it is brilliant.

John Malkovich was pure madness and pushed the anger and drinking problems to just the right level, not too over the top.

Frances McDormand’s character was just as dumb as Pitt’s, and they were an amazing team. Watching her character’s actions was a treat. The whole time you are thinking to yourself, “Is she really doing/saying that?”

Tilda Swinton played an awesome bitch. Yeah, she was a bitch and it was perfect.

Let’s not forget Mr. George Clooney. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a role like this. With the combination of Brad Pitt AND George Clooney playing someone other than their cool guy characters, it was amazing. It was refreshing to not recognize Clooney as Clooney, and instead as this guy with some serious issues.

What amazes me most about this movie is the writing. This is one of the best stories, writing-wise, that I’ve ever seen. This is some hardcore and reverse-engineered “shit”. I say reverse-engineered because there’s no way the Coens’ could write this in a linear fashion. They had to have started at the end and wrote this backwards to follow it themselves. I give them HUGE credit for this.

Best comedy/thriller/spy-crime/drama/noir/”What the fuck!?” film of the year.

Burn After Reading

8 out of 10

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Fast & Furious

August 26, 2008

I know these haven’t been the most popular movies, but I fucking love the first two Fast and The Furious movies. I’m a sucker for car racing films, which is why I was one of three people to love Speed Racer. A new trailer came out for Fast & Furious. I had NO IDEA they were already this far into the process, I had heard about another one but didn’t think they had gotten this far.

I think the trailer looks amazing. I love the whole truck thing. It IS sort of re-hashed from the first film, but at the same time they added a whole new twist to it. You can’t honestly say that it does not look like some awesome car action in there.

Having a bunch of the original cast back seems pretty cool so far. As long as nothing is the same. I love Michelle Rodriguez, you can’t say she’s not hott. And good to see Mia back ( I have no idea what the actresses name is, I know it’s in the preview but she hasn’t been in anything since F&F1). Paul Walker also rocked in the first couple films. Actually that’s overstating it a bit. His persona was overacted a bit, but he had his moments in the first two films.

Vin Diesel has been disappointing lately, to say the least. But I am thrilled to see him back in the role that made him, and the only role that I have liked him in ever (although I should probably get on watching those Riddick movies). So I am pumped. This will be a movie I will see on opening night when it comes out in 2009.

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I’ve Missed You, Blog.

August 26, 2008

Wow, I’ve been lazy. I haven’t written in a while and I think I owe it to ALL THE WORLD to write today. Of course, I have been MEANING to write for a while now.

Topics that I wanted to write about over the past two weeks, but never did:

1, The Pepperoni Hot Pockets Recall

My friend, Ian, warned me about this first. I adore my pepperoni Hot Pockets, so I did some research. Apparently some plastic got into the hot pockets on a certain day. I THINK the pack I have in my freezer is safe because the date is different. So I ate mine that same day. I figured, It’s just plastic and not rat poison or something. The worst that could happen is it cuts my mouth, or I swallow it and it rips apart my insides. No big, at least I’m not hungry.

2. Tropic Thunder Review

I have a rule that if I haven’t written the review in the same weekend that the movie was released, I will probably skip the review. So here’s my review: Ben Stiller makes some funny ass films. Tropic Thunder is fucking awesome. Robert Downey Jr. rocks, and I never thought Monks in love could be such a funny thing to watch. I’m sure you all saw it already. WASN’T TOM CRUISE NUTS!?!?!? I also heard about the protests against the movie because of the use of the word retard, and the film that Ben Stiller’s character was in: Simple Jack, whose tagline is “Once, there was a retard.” So I was very very VERY nervous when a woman wheeled in a man on a wheelchair, representing both types of people that were offended. I was like “FUCK I can’t laugh, DON’T laugh.” I laughed.

3. Way of No Way

I will most likely be updating on this regularly. Basically, my friends, Alex and Ian, and I are back on the hard track of our band. We played a lot in High School, and then after that it was very sporadic as everyone was in college/work. But Alex dropped out, and Ian doesn’t want to go to school. So the band life it is. I JUST started at school, so the pressure was on me. But I love the busy lifestyle and I have told them that my school life will not get in the way. I will divulge more on this in it’s own topic soon.

4. ROKU NETFLIX BOX

If you don’t have Netflix (GET IT), then you haven’t heard of this, or you have (that was a pointless sentence). Netflix has a watch instantly feature, along with their DVD mail delivery system. You can go on the PC and watch movies off their website, streamed at great quality all around. But not all of their movies are available for Watch Instantly, but they are working on that. And I don’t hold that against them, streaming is the future of watching movies, and they are the first ones to step in on that. To further that venture, they have released the Roku Netflix Box. I finally got one and HOLY FUCK it is amazing. Not one bad thing has been said about this thing, and rightly so. I set it up and was watching an episode of Dexter in 10 minutes out of the box. The quality is mind boggling. You can go with an ethernet cable OR wireless. One would assume that the wireless feature of streaming a huge movie would be not so fantastic. Fuck that, this thing is JUST as good as DVD’s. The sound is amazing and the video is amazing. I never thought this thing was possible. When I first watched an episode of Dexter, I freaked out for a second because the audio and video somehow got misaligned. I HATE that. But then 15 seconds later, it paused for a split second and it was FIXED by itself. I can’t say enough about this thing. GET ONE.

There you have it. I feel I made up for the past two weeks, sort of. I’m still trying to figure out how to handle this site, content wise, and technical wise. But I am not very educated on the technical side of things, so that may be a while. But if you can read then you should be okay.

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My “Pineapple Express” Review

August 9, 2008

4 out of 5

The first trailer for Pineapple Express had left me flabbergasted. I didn’t know what to think. It was two guys, who seemed a lot like the stoner kids that I steered away from in high school, talking about and smoking some pot. I was thinking that either it wasn’t funny in the least, or that it was just blowing(ha ha) right over my head in stoner fashion that I don’t understand. Thank GOD this movie turned out to be SOOO much better than that trailer made me initially think.

The main thing I keep hearing is that this is a comedy for stoners, and only stoners will enjoy it the most. I have to say that, for someone who has never been into smoking pot, I enjoyed this movie just as much as anybody who has smoked themselves dumb. Stoner comedy has become it’s own comedy form thanks to the likes of Cheech and Chong and…any other comedian who smokes pot. Either Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg are geniuses or I like stoner comedy. I like to think the former is true.

The film starts out by giving us Seth Rogan’s character, Dale. Dale is a guy who serves court papers to people. He dresses up in disguises because, unless the person identifies themselves, he can’t give them the papers. A great intro that hardly means anything to the rest of the movie, which is just fine.

Then we meet James Franco’s character, Saul. By far one of my favorite comedic characters ever. The guy just NAILS the unkempt stoner look and comes off very likable in the process. I couldn’t believe that this was the same guy that played Harry Osborn in Spider-Man. The thing I (and probably everyone else) notice about some comedy actors, including Rogan, is that they basically play the same guy in every comedy they do. But seeing the diversity of Franco in Spider-Man, and then Pineapple Express, makes me think this guy is a really good actor. I hope to see more roles from him in major movies.

The action in this movie just blew me away, in more ways than one. First, it was hilarious a lot of the time. Second, it was GOOD action and it was done well. It reminded me so much of Hot Fuzz in the way that both movies were made by people who grew up on action films. They both took their favorite parts of different action movies and rolled them into one. They manage to pay tribute to AND mock a little bit the action, while keeping it FUNNY. Pineapple Express also succeeded where another summer 2008 movie, Get Smart, failed. Get Smart was supposed to be a comedy, so that’s what I was expecting. But what I got was a few snickers and some okay action. Get Smart I think tried too hard on the action, and didn’t try hard enough on the funny. Pineapple Express kept an amazing balance between the two, so much so that they just blend together into the greatest action-comedy I can think of.

The story is brilliant. As seen on the preview: Rogan’s character, Dale, witnesses a murder and then not-so-silently gets away from the scene. But not before being noticed by the murderers. They follow the easy trail by finding the roach (stoner term for a disposed joint…wow I’m so cool and hip) that Dale ditched out the window. They murderer recognizes the weed as being Pineapple Express, and the plot’s genius unfolds.

You absolutely MUST see this film. This movie is incredibly funny and awesome (note to self- create new adjectives to describe greatness of movies). bye bye.

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My “The Dark Knight” Review: Round Two.

July 23, 2008

I finally got to see the Dark Knight for the second time. I am aware it has only been 5 days since the midnight showing, but it could NOT wait. So on take two of watching the movie I decided to pay attention to details that have been brought to my attention that I did not notice before. I also reevaluted the problems I had with the film the first time around. If you haven’t seen the film and for SOME UNHOLY REASON have not heard how freakin’ amazing it is, and you somehow need to be convinced before seeing it. Then read my first review, because I will be getting very nit-picky in this article.

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN THE DARK KNIGHT!

This is pretty much my analysis of certain parts of the film, and other thoughts as I watched it for the second time:

Opening Scene: The Bank Heist

I love the opening of The Dark Knight. No opening credits, a bat sign coming out of blue flames and BOOM we are in the film. The opening bank heist scene is the best opening that I could have hoped for. It is the perfectly twisted plan to expect from The Joker. He hires everyone and tells them each to kill the other guy so that the shares are bigger, but nobody knows that the other guy was also told to kill a guy. Out of confusion and a perfectly crafted plan, The Joker is revealed to actually be involved in the heist and is the last man standing.

The Parking Garage Scene

This scene is where the problems start, and overall it is a weak scene. The Scarecrow and some mobsters are meeting over a problem with the Scarecrow’s drugs. A copycat Batman steps in and starts shooting people. Not a bad start to the scene. In comes the awesome tank-of-a-Batmobile under remote control. Again, pretty awesome start. So where’s the Bat? He appears in the garage out of the darkness, as usual, and BENDS A GUN BARREL WITH ONE HAND!? I’m no scientist or physicist or geinocologist but I think we can all agree that it takes more than human strength to bend a barrel of a gun in the way it happened in this film. Not only that, but, if Batman actually had super strength, that thug would not be able to hold that gun as Batman bent the barrel. It would just get lifted out of his hands. How did the makers of this film let that one go? I understand expirimenting, but there had to be a point where someone was like, “Wait a minute, that’s fuckin cheesy.”

I did really enjoy the next part when Batman jumped on the side of the van and tried to cut his way in. He failed badly and got slammed into one of the garage’s support pillars, and just to be attacked by a couple of dogs. There was no better or funnier way than to show how he is still not so perfect and very human. But he kicks those pooches asses and jumps off the ledge to land on top of the van that the Scarecrow is escaping in. So then Batman ties him and the copycat Batman up and drives off. THAT’S IT?!

Here’s what I was hoping for: In the movie Face/Off there is a scene in the start of the movie that looks like the ending action sequence in most action films. It just takes the action, emotion, and intensity to the max right off the bat(ha ha). So I was hoping that if they were going to finish off the Scarecrow in the beginning of this movie, make it huge. Have a crazy fight with the Scarecrows poison shit spraying everywhere and give Batman a HUGE run for his money from the start. The dog bites and the slam into the pillar were a good touch on that front, but imagine him high on that Scarecrow angeldust with two dogs on his ass.

Overall, it was a weak ending for Scarecrow and a weak introduction for Batman.

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes

Don’t worry, it gets positive here.

The first time seeing this film I totally forgot to watch Maggie Gyllenhaal’s performance, and the difference between her and Holmes. I made sure to pay attention this time, and she blew me away. The chemistry she had with Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne was fantastic and worked so well. She brought a whole new dimension to the character that was not brought out at all from Katie Holmes’s performance. I especially noticed how awesome she was during the interrogation scene with Lau and her last scene in the warehouse rigged with explosives. Great casting choice.

Heath Ledger as The Joker

I won’t get into detail here because the performance speaks for itself. Some of the best parts in the film and the best parts with the Joker are when he is talking. Ledger as The Joker is one of the best performances I have ever seen(TAKE NOTE: I only said the best performance, I PERSONALLY, have seen.) Definitely one of my favorite performances ever. Up there with Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. The real tragedy is that Heath Ledger is not around to receive the praise in person.

Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman

The first time watching all my attention was on the Joker, but this time I made sure to pay closer attention to Bale and his, no doubt, perfect performance. The performance of Bale as Bruce Wayne is great, because it is actually Christian Bale acting as Bruce Wayne acting as an irresponsible playboy enjoying daddy’s trust fund. The true character of Bruce Wayne is actually Batman. Just like Superman’s costume is Clark Kent, Batman’s costume is “Bruce Wayne The Playboy”.

Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face

There is no other word that comes to mind other than perfect. Watching him from the start of the film, being fresh into the DA position, through his path to madness, becoming (a short-lived) Two-Face, was nothing short of phenomenal and moving. That brings me to my next point:

The Death of Two-Face

As awesome as Eckhart was as Two-Face, I would have liked to see less of him in this film and more of him in another Batman film. If they had left him where he was in that hospital bed, incredibly pissed off and vengeful after having talked to the Joker, then that would have freed up a lot of time. That extra time could have been used to compliment my idea of a bigger demise to the Scarecrow and bigger entrance for Batman in the beginning of the movie. Don’t get me wrong, everytime Two-Face was on screen was still amazing, but he was so underused. The whole scene with Two-Face and Gordon’s family should not have happened. Even after all that happened to Harvey Dent, I think it would have taken a lot more time to drive him crazy enough to want to kill a child. Enough time would be, say, the first two acts of a third Batman movie?

Film Conclusion

After Two-Face is dead on the ground, Batman and Commissioner Gordon exchange some grand speeches. My understanding is that Batman and Gordon have realized that Gotham needs a hero, obviously, but Batman can not be the hero they need…yet. Batman says he will take the blame for the men that Two-Face killed. He has to break his only rule of not killing people, and that makes him The Dark Knight. The savior of Gotham City who has to KILL the bad guys because it’s the only way. Now sticking to that philosophy. All they had to do was have Batman kill the joker. That was a great scene when the Joker and Batman fought it out for the last time. One of my favorite parts in the whole film was Joker falling off of the building. It was just very intense for the short amount of time it happens. And then him talking while hanging upside down was equally intense and a great performance by Ledger. The details of what should have happened next could be up to the film-makers, but ultimately there should have been some last bit of scuffling between the two and then the Joker falls and does NOT get saved. And my opinion on having the Joker die in the end is in NO WAY influenced by the death of Heath Ledger. I think it was in the film maker’s intention to leave the ending with the Joker the way it was before the death of Ledger.

Side Note: I absolutely loved that they saved showing the title, “The Dark Knight”, until the very end of the movie when he truly becomes The Dark Knight.

The Film Kicks Ass

There is no doubt that this is the craziest, darkest, and most awesome comic book movie to hit the screens since Batman Begins. Most of this article seems like a downer on the film, but I am mearly PURPOSELY pointing out the bad parts. I couldn’t write an article on ALL the great parts of this movie because it would be way to long, not to say this one isn’t.

As much as I would like to have seen more Joker in a third movie, I would have been plenty happy with the Joker meeting his death at the hands of THE DARK KNIGHT!

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