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Enough about the Oscar buzz, the Titanic comparison and the deepthroated voice. Batman has ticked Iron Man and he’s being stark about it. Get it.. Stark?!

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“My whole thing is that that I saw ‘The Dark Knight’. I feel like I’m dumb because I feel like I don’t get how many things that are so smart. It’s like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and script writing and I’m like, ‘That’s not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.’ I loved ‘The Prestige’ but didn’t understand ‘The Dark Knight’. Didn’t get it, still can’t tell you what happened in the movie, what happened to the character and in the end they need him to be a bad guy. I’m like, ‘I get it. This is so high brow and so f–king smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.’ You know what? F-ck DC comics. That’s all I have to say and that’s where I’m really coming from.”

Did he just use the “F” word on DC Comics. DC COMICS?!?! The peepz who brought us Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman, Flash and Ding Dong Daddy?!?!

Ooooh.. I gotta get me some popcorn now.

Fritzified’s display of awesome photography/photo-editing skills inspired me to rip movie pictures off the internet to create wonderfully sarcastic mashups in hopes that whatever creative genes I have make one more regular BackLineMedia reader. After this try, I probably wont do it again.

If only for the purpose of getting readers into this site, I can probably just make random references to Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Brothers and grab would-be searchers to my blog than kill my wrist trying to make the sponge tool work like it should.

Oh well.. the newsreel had The Dark Knight again today, saying the movie’s already grossed $400million. And even if it’s still 200 million dollars shy of Titanic’s world record ($600million domestic), the controversy savvy mainstream media had already raised the comparison.

Now, I’m not entirely sure if I like Leonardo di Caprio’s “Jack! ..Rose!” exchange with Kate Winslet more than Joker’s “You..complete..me” quip (in pink and white nurse clothing) but a 200 million dollar gap isn’t anywhere near talk-worthy to me.

So NO! Batman does not have a place in the Titanic.. YET! And if I’m being very frank, since I already turned this post into a no-hold-barred article, I am actually more amused with the way titles regarding this topic have been thrown by mainstream media:

1. Could ‘Knight’ Catch ‘Titanic’ Wave Herald Dispatch
2. Another Titanic Weekend for Dark Knight E! Online
3. Dark Knight Wont Sink Titanic’s Record MSNBC
4. Dark Knight Enters Titanic Territory Los Angeles Times
5. Can Dark Knight Sink Titanic Newsday.com
6. Titanic’s Been Unsikable.. Until the Dark Knight E! Online
7. Dark Knight Closes in on Titanic Telegraph.co.uk

LOLZ!

Forgive me for the long title, I wanted to give you a feel for what I had to say in this hohumm about the Dark Knight being too dark and haunting for kids. It seems to me all the glory that people gave in the passed week is taking a little bit of a curve with parents saying they should have been advised not to bring their 8 yr old to watch the PG-13 movie.

A PG-13 rating already suggests that some scenes from the movie may not suitable for kids, so if people are complaining that the Joker stuck a pencil in another man’s eye, that’s not really the rating board’s fault isn’t it? If anything, it’s the parent’s fault for bringing the kid into the cinema, and the parent’s responsibility to tell them not to do that in school.

Honestly, I dont know what was haunting about the Dark Knight. In a time where kids play Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto, what’s so bad about seeing Two Face’s half-burnt face and left eyeball? And since I already wrote it down, Hancock stuck a man’s head in another man’s ass and that wasn’t gross - oh what morals have we!?! Lolz! Seems to me that all this flak thrown to the Dark Knight is just media’s way of grabbing itself some audience by making news-worthy the same piece they praised during the premiere.

Tell you what, it would’ve been nice to have heard the advisory then…

Christopher Nolan’s version of the Dark Knight had been kept a buzz for more than a year, and for good reason - it cost 180 million dollars to make. That’s a particularly high number when you think that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was made only for $300 million. Warner Brothers must have lots of money.

Over the weekend, Dark Knight had already reached $155 million bucks making it a record weekend opening. And as the weekend isn’t over yet as of this writing, the movie is definitely gonna gross further. Some even hinting it could get its way onto the $200 million mark.

As for it’s other records..

• It was released in over 4360 cinemas, more than any other movie to date.
• Dark Knight had already set a midnight preview record of 18 million beating Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith which previously held the record at 16.9 million.
• With $155m currently in tow, this is also the best Batman film yet. Previous Batman movies only averaged 47million in the box office. Batman Begins grossed 205million domestically.
• It is the biggest movie of the year so far. Beating Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and, yes, Iron Man.
• Speaking of another Marvel record Batman smashed, Spiderman no longer holds weekend boy office record at 151million. Though there is argument that inflation helped Batman in this regard since Spiderman 3 sold more tickets at what was then 6.50 compared to the 8 bucks I had to pay for to see the Dark Knight.

For my review of the movie, please check out Dark Knight Review: All About the Joker

I wish more artists would act like Heath Ledger - that’s what occurred to me after watching the Dark Knight movie. For someone who plays a villain disgusted for the past 40-50 years, Ledger gave us a great performance and a different perception of Joker’s persona.

There was a sense of nobility to Heath’s portrayal - the false kind, of course. Joker as an anarch sold on the idea that the world is made up of rules governed by a higher evil, that the world swallows the weak and that every “Mr Goody Two-Shoes” would lean to self-serving decisions when the tides have turned on them.

No, the Joker does not have moral fiber - he is wicked, ruthless, and downright psychotic, and I would not glorify him even if he has such a morbidly awesome sense of humor, but he makes quite a case. Where Batman stands up for good, Joker maintains that there is no such thing as good. Hence he is evil. Now that, my friends, is a sense of purpose. ROFL!

Harvey Dent serves as the euphemism for both Batman’s and Joker’s philosophies. Where Batman believes that Gotham has found a “white knight” in Dent to rid the city of criminals, Joker makes of him a trophy in this tug of war and paves the way for him becoming Two Face.

I take this movie away from Batman because, while he rocked the Lamborghini and turned his motorcycle 180 like “Whoah!,” that stupid, husky voice and delayed fighting made me cringe a little. I also think he was a little short (What’s Christian Bale’s height anyway). And to Mr. Gordon - you sly man you - you had me fooled on whether you’re dead, or alive, or if you’re gonna die again. I didn’t know it was gonna be Rachel. Morgan Freeman is subtle as Lucius Fox - he’s always subtle. He makes a point along with Alfred (and the people in the boat) that good and evil is a choice for all of us, even for billionaire Bruce Wayne who plays nonchalant about the city he deeply cares for. That’s why he’s the Dark Knight.

Ok. That covers everything.

As for Ledger, I wasn’t sold on him being Oscar-worthy and I somehow felt that the clamor for him to be nominated was a sympathy prize. He was an admittedly talented actor but I thought it mediocre to give him an award he did not deserve. After seeing this portrayal, I say give him the bald dude and a tribute.

As if you hadn’t had enough reasons to watch the Dark Knight movie this Friday, the previews said to show before the movie might be just as compelling.

It was earlier reported that Watchmen, a film adaptation of the comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibson, would be showing its first trailer in the Batman movie. Additional reports said that Christian Bale’s Terminator Salvation and Leonardo di Caprio’s Body of Lies will also be making its trailer debuts.

When I first saw the character of Harvey Dent on the cast of the Dark Knight movie, I knew at once that the movie was partly gonna show the origin of Two Face - another of Batman’s arch-enemies.

Source: “Two-Face was once Harvey Dent, District Attorney of Gotham City and close ally of Batman. After a criminal disfigured half of his face with acid, Dent became the insane crime boss Two-Face who would choose to do either good or evil depending upon the results of flipping a coin..”

Batman’s new trailer seems to give us a glimpse of his transition from good to ..either/or. =P