Guest blogger: Britney 3

I agree one hundred percent with Mike’s blog about Batman. Growing up I used to watch all of the Batman cartoons and movies, and by far The Dark Knight is the best of all the Batman films combined, new and old. I mean you can beat the classics, but The Dark Knight just doesn’t have any competition. The arrangement of actors and climatic scenes is amazing; all of the actors played their rolls perfectly and the fight and action scenes can’t be outdone. The best actor by far I believe has to be the joker played by Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger played the Joker so while you could get lost in his madness and believe that in real life he is also a crazed sociopath with a hang up on smiles. The critics on rogerebert.com describe him as Mephistopheles, a demon form German folk lore, I don’t know if I would go quite so far as describe him as a demon out to get peoples souls. Although the Joker is a dark soul himself, I don’t think he was out to get peoples souls. He was out to get people to understand how fragile life is and how we all have to make choices we don’t want to and in the end those choices will hurt people no matter what. You just have to pick the lesser of the two evils. I think that his lesson for the people of Gotham is life sucks then you die. The Joker is by far the best actor in the movie, his dark thoughts and crazed but thought out actions make him a character that will keep you guessing what’s next and why.