Dark Knight-Everything and More!

It's so easy these days to go into a movie theater for a film that you've been dying to see, only to be disappointed in the end.  That was definitely not the case with Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight.  The film was magnificent, with good directorial skills (I loved the opening scene!), good acting on every actor's parts, and of course, the magnificence that is (was?) Heath Ledger.  Even Aaron Eckhart, who I hate most of the time (at least in No Reservations, he kind of bugged me) delivered an exceptional part as Harvey Dent, aka Two Face.  Everything worked with this one.  It was so easy to forget what the first film was like, due to the small lapse in time between the two, but as soon as the movie started, I remembered again why I loved the first one.  Christian Bale made an awesome Batman, with his sleek technology and cool old guys as assistants (Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman).  This film turned out to be so much better than my expectations held for it.  Heath Ledger was phenomenal as The Joker.  Seriously, if you go see this, your mind will be reeling for hours later thinking about how he played that part.   It's really sad that he won't be able to go forward with that role, considering no one else could ever play it like he did.  Go see this movie if you liked the first one, and if not, go see the first one and then see this movie.  It shows how awesome and moving cinema directors can truly be.