I Finally Saw Batman AND I Have a New Boyfriend!!

I was starting to feel like I was the only person in American that had not seen the Dark Night!! Well that feeling is over because I went to see it on Thursday, so if you haven't seen it, YOU are the last person in American to have not seen it...sorry.

Originally we wanted to see it opening weekend but of course Danny would only see it on IMAX and the IMAX tickets were sold out days in advance. The first time we could get tickets for an IMAX showing was for yesterday evening. We all met at the theater (myself, Danny, Danny’s friend Tim and his son Matt) as everyone was coming from work. After parking in the parking garage I headed up and was greeted by this.


That is the line for our movie wrapped all the way around the back of the building. Crap…this movie came out 6 days ago and the lines were still insane!! The worst part of it all is that when I met up with the guys we were at the very back of the line. Crap again…who wants to watch an IMAX movie in the front row? Not me but apparently that is where we were going to be stuck!! BUT don’t worry…thanks to Danny’s ninja like skills (and paying an extra $9) we were able to get PRIME seats in the middle of the theater.

They really had the theater all done up with posters and decorations. I snapped a couple of lame pictures but something strange happened. For the first time in my life I was embarrassed to take pictures. There were all these people around and I thought they were looking at me taking pictures of the movie theater and thinking
“look at the crazy girl taking pictures of the theater! I feel so bad for her!” They don’t know about my blog which means that they wouldn’t understand. So this is all I could snag.

They had all these saying from the movie written on the mirrors in red paint…it was kinda freaky!!

Finally after what seems like months of waiting, yes I am truly one of those girls that actually gets excited to go see movies like this and Spiderman, Star Wars, etc., I was in my seat ready to go. Danny knows that if he were to go see a movie of this caliber with out me I would be devastated!! Honestly.

I must tell you, I won’t do a full movie review as my blog isn’t a movie review site and there are plenty of other more credible places to go for a review, I thought this movie was insanely good!!!! The best movie I have seen in a long time. Even if I did try and review it I wouldn’t be able to do it justice!! It wasn’t your typical cheesy comic book superhero movie. It was dark, but funny at the same time. It had a very intriguing plot and everyone in the movie was a great actor. I even thought Maggie Gyllenhaal, who Danny can’t stand, did a great job. I think I liked her because I loved the interaction between her character and Bruce Wayne. I thought she played the character much more real that Katie Holmes (by the way nice job on opting out of the second Batman Katie...I mean who wants to be in the highest opening movie ever when you could be in Mad Money).

I definitely recommend seeing the movie in IMAX, there was some just down right crazy shots in the IMAX version!! There is one scene where Batman is standing on top of a building over looking the city and it feels like you are literally standing on top of that building too!!

If you are looking for a happy movie, with a perfect little ending all wrapped up with a nice bow on top, then this isn’t the movie for you, which is a big part of the reason I like this movie even more, its Batman…it is supposed to be dark and sad.

We recently saw Iron Man when it was out, which I thought was good, but isn’t even in the same league as Dark Knight. If you asked me to go see Dark Night with you today I would say "heck yes" (sorry I wouldn’t go with you to see Iron Man)!! I don’t generally buy DVD’s, as I think it is a waste, but I will absolutely being purchasing this one (maybe I also have ulterior motives, keeping reading to find those out).

Now let’s get to the real hype of the movie…Heath Ledgers performance. I thought going into the movie that all the hype over Heath Ledger would be...well just that...hype. I figured that his performance would be good but not anything crazy special and totally not anything deserving of an Oscar like everyone has been saying.

Well color me wrong because his performance was AMAZING. I think that if he doesn't get an Oscar then that crap is rigged, I haven’t seen a performance this year that was even close to the level of his. I often found myself wanting to turn away but I was fixed to the screen. It was so totally creepy in the most perfect of ways.

Speaking of perfection...while Heath Ledgers performance was definitely a movie stealer...HOLY CRAP, Christian Bale was freaking HOT!! Where the heck did he come from?! Shoot I have watched him since Swing Kids, American Psycho (which I think Danny has made me watch 892 times… “I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now...”) and of course in Batman Begins. I even watched him in such blockbusters as Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Prestige and The New World. The whole time I thought…sure he is a good looking guy but nothing special. As amazing as the movie was last night and as amazing as Ledgers performance was, all I could think to myself was HOLY CRAP…Christian Bale is HOT!! I mean he is so hot he might, no he is, giving my other boyfriend Patrick Dempsey a run for his money!! I mean look at this!!

I think he is so hot that I just can’t stop posting pictures of him. Totally no reason behind the pictures other than I want to look at him!! Hehehehehehe.

Oh…and just because it is Friday…here is another!!

Ok...last one...I promise!!



Have you seen the Dark Night yet? If so what did you think? If not get your butt out there and see it!!

Happy Friday Everyone!! Have a great weekend!!