The Dark Knight: My Review: Review
A few weeks back I posted my review of The Dark Knight. At the time I had only seen the movie once. Shortly after we were given the opportunity to see Mama Mia! at work. Quickly everyone jumped on the “that’s a terrible idea bandwagon” and it got switched to The Dark Knight. I wasn’t about to miss an opportunity to get out of work and see the movie again. However, I have to say, that seeing it a second time did not make it better. Infact I’d say that it may have been too soon to see it again.
I noticed that there is a LOT of dialogue. Maybe too much. There were points where it was just talk, talk, talk, talk…………talk. I wanted to see more action, more Batman, more, Joker, more of those big IMAXy shots, more! There was so much talking in fact that I fell asleep, TWICE! Once just before the dead fake Batman comes flying into the window hanging by a noose (which scared the shit out of me and I jumped quite a bit). The other was near the one of the first endings of the movie. I don’t recall exactly, but oh well.
Oh, another thing that kinda irked me was when Christian Bale was Batman and talking to someone he went a little too deep/dark with the voice. I mean, he did it in the first one, and then over did it in this one. I could have stood to have him tone back just a smidge.
So yeah. It was about 30 minutes too long, Christian Bale was a bit to scruffly voiced, and the dialoge was draining. I think maybe another viewing in several months might be good, but not before then.