Guest blogger: Mike 1

If I was a millionaire who could do anything I would travel the world and experience everything I could in life. Bruce Wayne on the other hand uses his money for more useful resources such as a sweet car, a giant hidden cave and a really cool bat-shaped boomerang. Though he does have some really cool accessories I don’t think I could ever do what he does and save the world every day. In the newest Batman movie, Batman: The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne has to save everyone from the Joker who is played brilliantly by the late Heath Ledger who performance stunned ever single fan of the comic and people who were just finding out about the Batman universe. In the movie The Joker has come to the city of Gotham and has offered to get rid of “The Bat” for all the mobsters and villains who are hiding underground in fear that if they make the slightest move that Batman will find them and lock them up. He attempts to do so by setting up amazingly dramatic and emotional predicament for Wayne and making him find a way to stop him or something from killing either just one person or millions. In this movie Batman has tons to deal with between stopping the Joker, making spilt second decision to save people and watching out for another super villain made in the process of everything going on in the city of Gotham. This movie has tons of climatic scenes and twist that will have you saying “Oh my god what will he do” and “No way that just happen” more than once. Christian Bale is throws on the Bat Suit, with a couple new enhancements, for the second time and he seems to be a little more comfortable in it the second time around. He has amazing performances throughout the movie and really gets in to the role. Also I believe he does a good job of kind of playing two parts; on the one hand he is a highly respected billionaire and owner of Wayne enterprise, but then he is also the dark mysterious figure in the night that some fear and many use to praises until the city turns on him and accuses him of murder and he becomes a vigilante. Bale does a perfect job of playing both parts in this movie and he gives Batman that dark, mean side of Batman that audiences haven’t seen from this hero in a long time. Rodger and Ebert, two widely known movie critics, have only good things to say about the Dark Knight movie with comments like “This film, and to a lesser degree ‘Iron Man,’ redefine the possibilities of the ‘comic-book movie.’” I completely agree with them. I believe this movie made it possible for the comic book movie genre was changed after this movie because hero movies are not just for diehard fans anymore. It’s open for any kind of movie watchers and I hope all directors should take notes while watching this movie. I believe everyone should at least rent this movie if not buy it and while watching it realize that no matter what people say about you, if you know you’re doing the right thing then don’t change for anyone along with multiple other themes.