So...Danny and I saw the Dark Knight yesterday on IMAX. Talk about WOW! We had never seen a movie on IMAX before and then to see this movie on it was amazing. The screen was so huge! You really felt like you were in the movie sometimes. And the best part was we only had to pay a couple bucks for the IMAX tickets. Our local grocery store was doing a promo where if you purchased so many groceries they gave you free movie vouchers for $25. See? It pays to have three kids who require lots of food! Who knew? :o)
Anyway, back to the movie. I cannot get over how incredible it was! Heath Ledger was absolutely AMAZING as the Joker. He was so convincing that I was never sitting there thinking, "Oh, that's Heath Ledger playing the Joker." In fact, he was unrecognizable. He just had the whole audience captivated. He was creepy but I couldn't stop watching him. Every little gesture and quirk was done so well. It was as if they were able to convince the real Joker to play himself. (I know that sounds weird but that's how good his performance was.) If he doesn't win an Oscar for that performance I will be shocked.
The director (Christopher Nolan--my new favorite director) did a fantastic job and the screenplay was so well written. My one complaint with the entire movie was that Katie Holmes did not reprise the role of Rachel Dawes. The part was played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She just bugged me through the entire movie. She wasn't even that attractive in this movie and during some of the scenes she looked old enough to be Bruce Wayne's mother! Ick! And she had this kind of smug attitude about her--totally opposite of the "cute and sweet; I'm going to get the job done; I'm in way over my head" version that Katie Holmes did. I don't know. She just really bugged me.
Anyway, I can't say enough about how awesome the movie was (despite Maggie Gyllenhaal) . If you haven't seen it yet GO AND SEE IT! (Unless you haven't seen Batman Begins yet. In which I will say, "Why haven't you seen Batman Begins yet?? Go watch that first!)
