Well I’m thrilled to be the first pizappa-er (pizappan?  pizappese?) to post about Dark Knight.  I won’t say much about the plot or the action as I don’t want to spoil anything.

Now I thought Batman Begins was brilliant, but I was trepidacious about Dark Knight when I first heard about it.  My main issue was “why remake the Joker, when Jack Nicholson was so good?  Why not go with one of the other multitude of Batman villains?”  And then to top it off, they apparently have Heath Ledger playing the Joker?  What?

Now this was before Brokeback Mountain came out, which (gay jokes aside) was a brilliant movie, and Heath Ledger was incredible.  After that, my mindset started to change about him, and after seeing some of his work in a new light, I was starting to feel better about him taking on one of the best villain roles ever created.  In fact, a week before his death I even confessed to a fellow pizappish that I “officially consider myself a Heath Ledger fan.”  So I was quite saddened by his death.

After seeing Dark Knight, his death has become even more tragic, as his performance is nothing less than brilliant.  He is absolutely mesmerizing, disturbing, and hilarious everytime he’s on the screen.

Though Ledger steals the show, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhal (best cast change ever), Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, seesh, the rest of the cast, are all wonderful.  And Christopher Nolan has never been better at creating a blockbuster movie that has a whole lot of depth to it.  It’s going to break every sales record there is, and it’s a movie that truly deserves it (beating out shallow summer blockbusters like Spiderman III and Episode III.  I’ve probably offended a ton of people with that comment).

The only two criticisms I could even make (and these are not spoilers, don’t worry) are:

- why is the mayor so clearly wearing eyeliner?

- I can’t quite tell if it’s the writing or the actors, but several of the one liner actors are just terrible.

That’s literally all I’ve got.  It’s hard to not say this is the best movie thus far this year, so I’ll just say it.  It’s the best movie I’ve seen thus far this year.

So this is a rare occurrence where I encourage you all to be one of the masses flooding to see this movie.  At the very least you should be massively entertained by the Caped Crusader once again.