While I do appreciate your comment you still must understand. This review was more of an all inclusive “quick look” at the movie as a whole. In which I tried to touch on as many parts as I could with out giving away or describing too much. Now while I do appreciate you’re addition to my review, I do not appreciate the put down’s. No need for that here. You have to remember that when writing for a web site you must not only provide information, but also keep a reader entertained. Now you obviously we’re entertained enough to keep reading so I know that worked. The point being add what you will, but don’t put down, your comment was a well written review in itself, you should be proud of it, just don’t use it as an excuse to claim superiority.

What your review fails to address, and fails to even correctly identify, is the duality between the Batman and the Joker, how the two feed of each other and essentially, need the other to survive. Which raises the question of vigilantism versus heroism and its effects.

Batman is seen as the protector of good, and is paralleled by the Joker, portrayed as the protector of chaos. Each thrives on ensuring the continuation of their motives. And both Ledger and Bale try to push the envelope and attempt to force the other to compromise.

The inability of both the Joker and Batman to fundamentally destroy the other half (whether it be through bribery, assault, or trickery) is ultimately personified in the Shakespearean Tragedy of Harvey Dent. His fall from grace follows the same temptations of those faced by Ledger and Bale. Yet, Bale and Ledger are unyielding and uncompromising in their beliefs. Dent’s subsequent transformation follows his loss of love and innocence.
With this loss, Dent cannot bare the responsibility, thus leaving his life, and others, up to chance (symbolized by the two faced coin).

Your review also failed to comprehend the full impact of the movie itself. This movie does not define ‘our’ generation.

Rather, this movie reflects our generations motives, abilities, and concerns. We all have the capacity for evil, and the capacity for good. The Dark Knight shows us both the two extremes and the medium, and ultimately gives us the choice and questions of “how does one decide and know what is right?” and contrasts it with “what are the effects and burden of that ultimate decision.”

A letter to the editor:

You know a review is terrible when it focuses more on a flipping of an eighteen-wheeler than the parallelism, cynicism, and grandeur of Batman and the Joker.

“The Prestige” and “Memento” were both very good, thought-provoking films; and were very different in regards to the type of film presented. I wouldn’t call it Nolan’s finest work to date but merely a continuation of his solid track record.

Overall I found the film to be entertaining and, despite its long run time (which was only noticeable in brief instances), most certainly worthy of another in-theater viewing.

I’m not sure what else to say that hasn’t already been brought up. Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker was very well done, the CGI (or lack there-of) was top notch, and the plot wasn’t too filled with your typical superhero movie stereotypes.

I’ll give it an 8 out of 10; only because of the “drug-trip gone wrong” Sonar scenes and “bullet-reconstruction” scene stolen right out of a bad CSI rerun, I can only suspend my disbelief so far, I’m sorry. Despite those very minimal flaws it was a solid film that, to edit your wording slightly, has the potential to define our generation.

I just wanted to address your comment personally. We do extensive research before “jumping into posts”. AT&T has indeed confirmed that the price will change from $199/299 into a new price that has not yet been announced, they say so on their site. Also Apple will sell the phone at there stores for sure, AT&T is just a contract holder, it is still Apple’s product and they have reserved rights to sell just like the previous model. Also replacing a contract is not possible if you have a family plan such as myself, in which case I will only be paying the additional 10 or 20 dollar data fee. However (because we do research what we talk about) the iTunes activation is up for debate. I was sure it was able to be activated that way until I recently saw some news saying that feature will be gone. While I do appreciate your comment, we have researched this issue and any information was pulled from Apple and AT&T’s site respectively.

Thank You
-Matt

Do some research before jumping to blog posts. Pretty much nothing you said was correct.

ATT has already publicly stated that current att customers who buy a 3g iphone at the $199/$299 cost respectively will sign a new 2 year contract that will simply replace their current contract (and not extend it).

Further, while apple stores may sell the phone (this is still up for debate) - it will not be possible to activate from itunes.