The Best Of The Bats (So Far)

Amidst all the more important things that occupied my time the past month up to last week (my mother’s possible breast cancer being one of them), I managed to squeeze in some time to watch “The Dark Knight”. I’ve been waiting for the movie ever since I saw the mock decorations at SM Megamall.

It was awesome. I don’t know much about Chris Nolan’s other works, but his two renditions of The Batman tops all movies done on the character before. “The Dark Knight” is by far, the best Batman movie (dislodging the Tim Burton ones) and the best superhero movie I’ve watched. It had a certain darkness and rawness to the action sequences and emotions as well. I don’t want to add to the clamor for the posthumous award for Heath Ledger, but he did well. The Joker in this movie was really really twisted that I wanted to be like him. Or at least, I wanted get inside his head. Christian Bale is, as I said before, perfect for the Batman role, so I hope he stays on for future sequels. The events leading to Harvey Two-Face Dent into a coin-flipping criminal really affects you, too. Hopefully if there’s still some malls showing it by late August I’ll watch it again during my birthday week.

My congratulations to the creative team, to the cast, and to the production team of this movie. Outdo this one, please.