Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Dark Knight

For those of you who are big Batman fans, I'm sure you all loved Batman Begins and are eagerly anticipating (like yours truly here) the release of the next Batman movie, which happened to be the late Heath Ledger's final movie before he passed away last January.

Anyway, while surfing on YouTube this evening I came across this full trailer for the upcoming The Dark Knight movie. Heath was almost unrecognizable as the Joker in this movie! And his acting...oh man, talk about a method actor who does get way too deep into his character! His "Joker" was more psychotically scary than Jack Nicholson's "Joker" in the first Batman movies back in the early '90!

I'm glad to see that aside from Christian Bale (who reprised his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman), Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman were back into the skin of their 'old' characters from Batman Begins.

I guess we'll be seeing a helluva lot MORE action in this latest Batman movie installation. And I'm so glad this franchise was revived. I have to say that after Batman Forever I kinda lost interest in the franchise. George Clooney was nice to ogle at and so was Chris O'Donnell when they did Batman & Robin back in '97, but honestly the storyline went flat. I think that movie was made for the sake of...well, for the sake of showing off George and reminding the public about everyone's favourite billionaire avenger.