The Batman. The Joker. The new movie, The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan reviewed by Jason Ross.

I saw this movie two nights ago. I saw the movie with four other people in the city where nine other people were supposed to show up, but didn’t.  The nine people felt a midnight show was too late to watch and movie so they backed out.  I went no matter what.  I feel like I practically live in the city and only come back to Rockland to sleep because I live and work outside of Rockland. Anyway, I saw this movie and felt as if the movie was the best Batman movie ever made.  It was even better as a midnight showing.

I felt on the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next. There were feelings of emotional horror since from the beginning the Joker started in. The movie didn’t reveal anything more about the Joker instead it went into his crazy world. A world where the Joker wanted no rules and the movie revealed how crazy people can get by bringing a Gotham city down to its core trying to make it crumble.  The Joker was played by the late Heath Ledger who made the audience feel scared by the Joker’s threatening actions. Batman who was played by Christian Bale played our hero.

Throughout the movie the Joker (the late Heath Ledger) tries to convince Batman to reveal himself in order for the homicides to stop. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhardt) who is a prosecutor for Gotham city and works with his fiancee, Rachel Dawe (Maggie Gyllenhaal).  They both try to bring justice to the crimes of the city eventually Harvey Dent admits to be Batman to convince the Joker to stop. This does not convince the Joker.  The Joker manipulates and twists the world of Batman to think that all heroes eventually become the villain themselves. Before Harvey Dent transforms himself into Two-Face, the Joker sneaks into the hospital room where Harvey Dent was recovering from face trauma.  After the meeting with the Joker, he transforms into evil and becomes Two-Face. The Joker who uses only knives and explosives to kill Gotham citizens; Two-Face uses a handgun for his own sense of evil identity.

Two-Face goes after all the people who led to the death of his fiancée Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal). His anger kills many Gotham citizens. Eventually Batman and Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) gets the better of Two-Face tragically.

The Joker influences every character in this movie and even the audience watching. He influences the characters especially Batman to show the audience not all good remains good. The audience is influenced since they start feeling scared and angry at the Joker. The late Heath Ledger did a great job portraying the Joker. Even though we don’t know how the Joker became so evil terrorizing Gotham citizens, we get a feel for what he means.

Feeling influenced to do things is a part of life and the main theme in this movie is to stay strong and true to yourself without letting anybody convince you to change who you are. The movie also shows people everybody can be influenced even your heroes in life. You should find strength within yourself, not to find it in other people. The Joker reminds me of individuals who seek out to demonize others.

I highly recommend this movie to anybody to see. In any case by watching this film you could figure out who is the Dark Knight. It is a great sense of comic fiction brought to life. I would even go see it again in IMAX!

take it easy,

out, J

what is better than a movie that is about fantasy.  Anway, if you hadn’t read the books about Narnia, you’ll probably have a hard time understanding the movies as well.

Prince Caspian is a movie that i saw two weeks ago.  It is very good and tells the story of how when the four brothers and sisters of adam and eve come back to Narnia, it is a complete difference to when they left.  Narnia is no longer Narnia.  Humans had invaded and conquered Narnia.  Aslan was no where to be found, and Narnia was renamed while the creatures and trees and other plants of Narnia went dormant for years.

Prince Caspian is the ever eminent figure that will help Narnia be Narnia once again with the help of Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.

It is a story about survival and also a story about growing up to be an adult because Peter and Susan grow up finally to be on their own especially when Aslan comes back at some point in the movie.

It is very spiritual and for those people that want to see something inspiring and spiritual you should go see this movie.

It can’t change anyone to be better, but it can inspire you to want to change.

out, J

I saw part of the movie Death at a Funeral which is pretty hysterical to everyone in the theater though I didn’t get to see the whole movie, I hope to see the whole movie and laugh till I drop and understand the storyline.  Comment if you have seen this movie….

We all strive for love.

We all strive for power though we do not get it the way we want to.

We all strive for working our tails off.

All of this leads to being the most positive we can be…

The movie Stardust, based on Neil Gaiman’s book. though reading the book first could have made things a lot better for planting pictures in my head,  I suppose the movie will do.

I am sure the book is better, but the movie was excellent story telling.

Neil Gaiman is a an amazing novelist and creator of fantasy.

The movie was about how a boy/man named Triesten discovers who he is.  His life starts out in the movie like he can not do much for himself, but he tries to a bit.  He lives with his single father where he had no idea who and where his mom was/is at the moments of time.

He has a first love, Victoria who he strives to be with, but she treats him like he is nothing  and that really frustrates him.  This man, Humphrey gets upset that Triesten is going after his woman, so Humphrey makes him feel belittled.

When one day he takes Victoria to the park with champagne and food, he feels he can win her over Humphrey by buying her love.

That is when destiny calls and Triesten’s life is finally revealed to him during a journey to find out.

He and Victoria watch what it looks like a shooting star fly and land on the earth creating a crater…

When Triesten goes  to his father after finding out from trying to cross a wall barrier seperating humans from the other world.  Triesten finds out that his father crossed the wall himself and that is how Triesten became Triesten because the father met a princess who helped create Triesten.  But, without Triesten realizing he is a prince during the whole movie.

This movie is about self discovery and finding out what love is all about.

He gets the woman of his dreams, becomes king of the other world but after a fight with witches and his uncles he didn’t realize were his uncles.  And he finally meets his mother the princess. He falls in love with the woman who was the shooting star.

Love is unconditional yet destiny sort of chooses who we will love in the future.

In ways I can relate to Triesten on many aspects of life.  There are woman out there I have thought I fell in love with, but because they thought I was boy and not a man, they wanted the other guy.

Triesten is a wonderful person/character that I can relate to.

Anyway, have a good day, I will be in Central Park…

out, J

Pan’s Labyrinth was a fantastic movie.  It took place in the World War II era in Spain.  A little girl and her mother are boarding at a fort house somewhere in the middle of spain with her stepfather or the captain of the army.  The little girl is in to fantasy and discovers a whole new fantasy world outside of the reality of the war.  the girl sees a fairy that guides her into the secret fantasy world throughout the movie which leads her into a maze.  That’s when she discovers that she is a princess and her dad is the king of the fantasy underworld.   She has to unravel three tasks in order to pass her test to become the princess of her fate.  The tasks are dangerous and she sees many exotic creatures and things in order to see her father the king again.  Its an adventure that truly amazes me that she can finally envision seeing her father who had died years before.  I highly recommend people to see this movie the cinematography was excellent and the quality of the acting was great.

Next up my next movie to see, Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuaron.