The beginning/ TDK thoughts

You, the reader, stand at the threshold of an experiment.  This experiment will decide whether a penniless young artist with some entertaining opinions and a mountain of debt can begin to possibly support himself with a blog.  The process will be long and grueling.  Success will not be achieved immediately.  But with your help, O My Brothers, will I attempt to viddy financial security from my own malenky glazzballs.

We shall hope that I must not resort to talking of Geico car insurance, of cheap airline tickets, or of imax or fandango movie ticket reservations.

Speaking of imax, however, my girlfriend and I attended a midnight showing of The Dark Knight last night.  It should be said from here on out for my blog's benefit that DC comics' the Joker is my favorite character of all time.  Let me just say that I was happy with all of the Joker parts.  The pacing of the film helped its 2.5 hour runtime to zip along and keep its audience interested.  I did have trouble understanding some of Batman's lines, though.  Christian Bale's Batman voice seems to have become akin to a man with a frog in his throat.  I found myself at several points in the film wanting to offer him a lozenge or a glass of water.

Furthermore, I love the casting of Michael Caine as Alfred, but his cockney accent got in the way more than a few times.  It was like listening to Ozzy Osbourne or Keith Richards delivering key dialogue.

I digress.  Heath Ledger's Joker is easily the reason to see this movie once and again.  I was saddened by Heath's passing before, but now I am irate that he is gone.  I blame Lee Strasberg for Heath's death, personally.  Just so everyone can play, Lee Strasberg is considered by many to be the patriarch of modern method acting, and to be sure, method acting killed Heath Ledger.  He got so into the role as the Joker that he became VERY depressed and could not sleep.  He took sleeping pills to try and combat this, but (on purpose or not) he took entirely too many.

Any other review points would be spoilers for people who have not yet seen the film.  It must also be said in this first post that I loathe spoilers and the people who blurt them out.  I am a proponent of letting people enjoy the movie for themselves.  This means:

• Do NOT walk in late to a movie unless it cannot be helped.
• Do NOT talk during the film (unless whispering).
• Turn off your cellphone PLEASE.
• Do NOT spoil the movie for others by blabbing about key points after seeing it.

*sigh* Now that that is over with, I recommend seeing The Dark Knight at least once.  There are a lot of good things in the film, the greatest of which being Ledger's Joker.

In the future, I hope to talk more about my favorite subjects on this blog.  These include film, comic books, video games, and art in general.  Expect a kooky, kitschy edge, love for B-movies and their popculture ilk, and, above all, not taking everything so seriously.

Until we meet again, my friends, live well, laugh often, and use your head!

Don't let the positrons hit you on the way out!