I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET, but please read on...

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2008)

All my reviews are rather late because I can't stand crowds. You see I'm claustrophobic. In a crowded theater, I just keep looking at the red EXIT signs. That's the first thing I wanted to say, but please read on. You might find this interesting...
I ate up the Knight trailers.
It's a given I'm going to see the sequel to Batman Begins. That was an excellent movie. Jump starting that franchise after a sickening piece of Bat-guano like Batman and Robin was no mean feat (although I'm usually a big Clooney fan).
So this is a trailer review. Like everyone else, I focused on the Joker because the actor who played him died. I'm sorry that he will not be alive and making movies anymore.
I loved him to pieces in the Knight trailer. Nicholson was absolutely wunderbar in the kiddies version of Batman. But in the present existentialist mood of the franchise, the new Joker is, I believe, right on target.
The movie is still a Batman movie. It's going BIFF!, BOOM!, KER-POW!, SPLAT! and BANG! all over the place, groovy gadgets abound, Nolan (which I agree is a very good actor) is all wrapped up in his cool looking now-manageable full body condom and his Bat-angst, and this is a good sequel to a Batman movie with a budget in the high gazillions, right?
Then there's that maniac who plays the Joker. In a trailer that tries its damnedest not to be too Joker-centric, he is just fabulous.
Someone teased his hair and stuck about twenty cent's worth of gunk in it. Then they applied about a dollar's worth of red, black and white clown makeup to his face. The off-color clothes you could buy at any thrift shop for, say, twenty bucks. Hire a tailor to jack up his shoulders pads in the back to give him a slightly hunchbacked look for thirty bucks.
Let's just say sixty bucks worth of Joker, OK? The rest, I believe, will be pure genius.
I wanna see that. I'm hooked, and I'll add to this text when I've seen the movie.