The Dark Knight: Yep, its really that good!

There’s no way you live in the free world and don’t know that The Dark Knight is opening this weekend. You’ve heard all the hype. We’ve been trained over and over again to believe anything with a big budget being over promoted by big corporations is never as good as they say. But just this one time … maybe for the last time … believe the hype. I saw The Dark Knight last night and it really is that good.

How hyped up could it be?

The first movie in this cur­rent series was a solid film. It was gritty, dark and cool. It put Batman back on top of the comic book movie list. You could even say it was more than a comic book movie. In a lot of ways it was a good film on its own. Any­time a big movie does that well, there’s bound to be lines for the squeal. Com­bine that with the grow­ing rep­u­ta­tion of direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan, talk of shoot­ing action scenes in IMAX, and the promise of more Bat gad­gets and the hype really starts grow­ing. Dis­play really dis­turb­ing teaser posters like the one pic­tured here, and every­one won­ders how crazy it can get. Throw in an amaz­ing mar­ket­ing cam­paign that started unfold­ing Nolan’s wild vision of the Joker and Gotham City through crazy planted inter­net clues, and entire web­sites devoted to por­tions of the plot … and the kids can’t stop talk­ing about it. The last straw came with the unex­pected death of Heath Ledger and the con­stant talk of watch­ing an Oscar-​worthy per­for­mance from the grave. Now people are tram­pling each other to get in. Tick­ets to the open­ing show have been sold out for weeks, and tick­ets are start­ing to sell out through early next week for IMAX the­aters. This could be the most hyped movie in history.

It lives up to everything you’ve heard.

It’s not a comic book movie any­more. The ques­tion is not how it com­pares to Spi­der­man or Super­man. (not even close) The real ques­tion is; how does it com­pare to Heat, or The Departed. (it just might be that good) I don’t know what else to say other than “check it out for yourself.” Oh yeah, you really might not want to bring young kids. Doesn’t that make you even more interested?