Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Update 7.22.08

-School is three weeks away. I'm excited??? I hated school for 16 years of my life and now I can't wait to get going. Help....me.....
-Still reeling over Batman. I will probably see it again on Tuesday. Heath Ledger gets a thumbs up from me.
-Eagles training camp begins today....YES! GO GREEN!
-McCain and Obama will be having a forum at Saddleback church in CA next month. And Warren takes another step towards taking Falwell's mantle into politics. Sad thing is he is more centrist. Not crazy about that...not that I have a candidate in the race.
-McCain has already turned into the reactionist. Everything Obama does, he attacks. To me, sounds like he knows he's probably going to lose this things already and he's not moving ahead.
-Started my Hebrew studies. I hope I do well because I really want to learn this language.
-I have started counting down to Christmas. I will be hitting NYC with the sister and bro-in-law sometime before it. There is nothing better!
-Three Starbucks are closing in Willow Grove, PA including the two I spent a LOT of time at. I am really saddened by this. Thanks goodness none in Lynchburg are closing.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

The Dark Knight Movie Review


Wow. You know a movie is good when I get home at 3:30AM and want to write about it before bed.

There is a lot of hype over the movie mainly due to the performance of Heath Ledger as the Joker and his untimely death in real life. It is truly a shame because he did an amazing job! Jack Nicholson was a goofy psychotic Joker. Ledger is psychotic and evil. He is what the Joker was meant to be, not the cartoon that Nicholson was. His character is extremely dark and disturbed, yet very intelligent. Ledger has to be in contention for an Oscar.

The story of the movie is very good. The action was great. The character development very good as well. I didn't like the fact they crammed two bad guys into one movie nor did I care for the unbelievability of the drastic and immediate turn of Two-Face. However, As with Batman Begins, this movie is more believable than the crap Michael Keaton and them put out in the 90's. These are the Batman movies that should have been made.

I REALLY enjoyed this movie and would go see it again. That hasn't happened since Gladiator. The sad part is Ledger can't come back and do another flick as the Joker. He stole the show from Bale and company.

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