The Dark Knight rocks; Gotham City is finally getting brighter

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I WATCHED THE DARK KNIGHT last Wednesday (July 23) with my ex-girlfriend.† It was awesome!† The movie is almost 3 hours but I didn’t seem to notice. Multiple orgasms guaranteed! Oops sorry, bad language.† What I meant to say is that the movie seems to have several climaxes, so much so that for at least three times I thought it was already ending only to find out that there’s more.

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It’s one movie I would really recommend you watch.

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Let me put my shameless endorsement into context by saying that I was not a Batman fan (emphasis on ‘was’).

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I watched none of the Batman movies in the big screen before Batman Begins. Of course I eventually got to see them on HBO (or Cinemax or Star Movies). Even though I have a relatively high propensity for the out-of-the-ordinary, I still find the idea of Gotham City with all those freaky masked characters, Batman included, a little beyond me. Why does Gotham City have to be so dark, in the first place?† The big star casts and huge budget notwithstanding, those Batman movies – from Michael Keaton to Val Kilmer to George Clooney – simply weren’t sufficient to escape the caped crusader’s cartoonish origins.

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That is, until Batman Begins started it all over again.† Now everything is starting to make sense.

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And with The Dark Knight, even Joker’s character came to life – real life, that is – thanks to Heath Ledger’s superb acting performance. Enough has been said about that in the movie reviews both in Hollywood and in the local showbiz scene so I won’t add to it.† Except perhaps to say that I wouldn’t begrudge the people behind the Academy Awards if they give Ledger a posthumous Oscar as some movie reviewers are now speculating.

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I also like the way Two Face’s character was portrayed.† Short and sweet.† He ended up more of a hero than a villain, which is just right considering that he used to be Batman’s best friend in the original DC Comics series.

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Enough.† I’ll say more and those who are yet to see the movie would already lynch me. Go see the movie for yourself. #