hideously overrated

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2008)

I finally went to see it Monday night. After all and that has been said about this movie, i thought it was good, not great. I enjoyed it a little. The movie could have been cut down by at least 30 minutes. There was a lot of talking.
Maggie Gyllenhaal was absolutely disgusting and hard to watch. I'm getting sick of Christian Bale's batman voice. It just gets annoying after a while. His voice was cool in batman begins, but he's just forcing it so much! You even see him spit a few times.
I'll suspended belief a little bit for each superhero movie, even batman bending the barrel of a machine gun. Linking millions of phones together without the help of Luscious Fox? How did that even occur? that was kind of a heart breaking moment
for me where I said to myself, "I'm not going to believe this so this movie can succeed." I never thought of Heath Ledger as a good actor or someone i'd say, "oh he's in that movie lets go see it!" but he was amazing in this movie. If it wasn't for the way he portrayed the joker this movie might not be getting the praise it is. I thought he'd actually have more scenes, like the Nicholson joker, but he didn't.
There was a lot of talk about how dark this movie is and even how dark batman is in it. I didn't really get that from this movie. I was hoping it would be even more dark and eerie. I think my favorite part is when the joker is driving down the street and sticking his head out the window and there is no sound - now that was eerie.
A lot of sappy parts that cut down on the darkness of the movie.
Oh, I wasn't exactly thrilled that they took over an hour in the previous batman to explain how Batman got started and how the Scarecrow guy got started but didn't explain how the joker got started. there is no rhyme without reason. Why is the joker the way he is? back story? anything? nope.. They even managed to squeak in how Harvey Dent turned into two-face.
Gotham looked a lot like Chicago, what if they had to go to chicago, when they're in gotham?! I mean they managed to go to Hong Kong!
Ironman was better or maybe I just think ironman was better because I didn't expect it to be as good as i thought it was.
Stop giving this movie 10/10. It is not godfather, it is not pulpfiction, it is not lawrence of arabaia. This is not classic film making, this is not good acting, writing, plot development, character development, ETC. STOP IT!!!!!!