The Dark Knight

Last night was the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight." My dad and I left our house at about 10:00. We went to the gas station and bought two Rock Stars and two sodas, before we headed to the theater. The line to get inside the theater was insane!! It wrapped all the way around the theater--thank goodness we redeemed our tickets a few days ago, otherwise we would have had to wait in the ticket line also. My dad slammed his Rock Star while we waited in line. (Might I add...my dad and I were the only "normal" people waiting in line!! The line consisted of teenagers who were either drunk, potty mouths, smoking, or waaaayyyy to into the movie. There is no reason an 18 year old should have his face painted as the movie character, and there is also no reason to be dressed in a full Batman
(or joker) costume...that it taking it to an extreme that isn't even funny!) We were dreading where we would get stuck sitting, but were very grateful when we found out that our friends were saving us seats...good seats too!! (Front row seats!...but not the very lowest front seats.) For as long as the line was, it moved along very quickly. It only took us about 15 minutes to get inside the theater. We bought our popcorn and went to sit down. We watched stupid previews and listened to all the freaky teenagers yelling at each other for an hour. The movie was supposed to start at 12:01 (yes, I did mean 12:01!) but it didn't actually start until nearly 12:30. My dad was all amped up on his Rock Star, and at one point he started "booing"...trying to get the theater to start the movie. I was telling my mom this morning, I don't know what I enjoyed more, the movie...or my dad and his BFF, Art. They are so funny together! They are like two peas in a pod. They both have the same sense of humor and are very dry, so they understand each other and never get offended when one says something offensively funny. (Does that make sense?!?) Anyways, after a long time of waiting and watching bad and/or lame previews the movie finally started. This is the best movie I have seen in a long, long, long time!! For you Batman fans, (which I don't know if any of my blog readers even like Batman, but for my sake...pretend you do!) The Dark Knight is better than Batman Begins! (Sequels are NEVER better than the first, so this was a amazing movie!) It was written perfectly, and the acting was insanely good. It had just enough humor in it to keep the crowd chuckling--but no belly laughs. The joker was my favorite actor. He did such a good job, and he had a really hard role. In all: it was entertaining, humorous, and pretty clean. It was pretty violent, but didn't show much blood and there were only a few bad words in it. Let's put it this way...I usually fall asleep every time we go to a theater (for some portion of the movie...no matter how entertaining it is), I didn't fall asleep once during this movie, I didn't even struggle to stay awake. The Dark Knight has become my new favorite movie; my dad and I are already planning to go watch it again, and we NEVER see a movie twice in the theaters! Five stars for this movie!