Sunday, July 27, 2008

Movie Review: Batman

Yesterday the Chinn's called with extra tickets to the new Batman movie. We drove down rather excitedly to meet up with them in San Mateo for this fabled movie.

HOLY SHIZ people - this movie is good. I am not saying any more as I don't want to get into the storyline too much.

Heath Ledger as the Joker, stupendous. He is totally creepy and enthralling. You can't stop watching the train wreck the madman is creating in Gotham - through cringes and everything.

Aaron Eckhart was great as the idealistic DA turned vengeful Two Face. He is quite a cutie (pre-face burn).

Maggie Gyllenhall is MUCH better than Katie Holme's version of Rachel. Maggie's had more "oomph" to her character. More sass, attitude and vibrance to her incarnation.

Christian Bale was consitent...I don't particularly find him attractive but he is a good actor. But can somebody please explain WHY does he need to do the fake gravelly voice as batman?

3 comments:

Chester said...

I'm glad they finally had him speaking in a dramatically different voice as Batman. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone always be thinking..."Why does Batman sound exactly like Bruce Wayne?"

Betty said...

I don't like the dramatic voice...it was too forced. But overall that's a small nit for an entirely wonderful movie

Anonymous said...

His voice is different because he's crazy loco!