Talk about a Dark Knight!
I know a lot of my Harry Potter flist is into Twilight now (I'll get there eventually, I promise) but I am a Batman geek on the side. My youngest son and I went to the midnight showing last night (Thursday night, whatever) and there were a ton of people there. I think the theater we went to had 8 screens of the Dark Knight and the only larger openings I've been to were Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix - and this was pretty close to that size.
This one is the reason I like Batman and not really any other super-heroes like Superman or Spiderman. Batman is much more morally ambiguous and edgy. Nolan's Batman is also more human and less comic-booky than others have been. Anyway, I won't spoil except to say that the film is fantastic. The Joker is truly the sick psychopath he's supposed to be and just like in Batman Begins, Christian Bale just is Batman. I have a crush. And Gary Oldman makes me have a soft spot for Jim Gordon. I think I'm crushing on him as well. Much more age appropriate, those two, than my Potter/Radcliffe crush.
This one is the reason I like Batman and not really any other super-heroes like Superman or Spiderman. Batman is much more morally ambiguous and edgy. Nolan's Batman is also more human and less comic-booky than others have been. Anyway, I won't spoil except to say that the film is fantastic. The Joker is truly the sick psychopath he's supposed to be and just like in Batman Begins, Christian Bale just is Batman. I have a crush. And Gary Oldman makes me have a soft spot for Jim Gordon. I think I'm crushing on him as well. Much more age appropriate, those two, than my Potter/Radcliffe crush.