The Dark Knight depressed the fuck out of me.

but it was still the best thing i've seen this year, and possibly this decade.

Also, Anthony Micheal Hall as Mike Engel?

Come on, why couldn't they just call him Jack Ryder?

" So comics scholars will understand me when I compare ‘The Dark Knight’ to WATCHMEN as a measure of its likely impact on the ’genre’ that spawned it. Like WATCHMEN, it forces all previous and future offerings of its kind into a higher-level dialogue and it will be intriguing to see what comes next. This looks set to redefine the limits of what a ‘superhero movie’ is capable of. It shares with WATCHMEN a devious intricacy of structure, a hyper-machine-like sense of super-organized ideas whizzing around in perfect formation like the Red Arrows. As the whole immense engine clicks into place, and suddenly you understand WHY the title, the moment is accompanied by that peculiar sense of completion and accomplishment that, to me, is one hallmark of creative brilliance in the popular arts."

-Grant Morrison

granted, i knew i shouldn't have opened this thread