the dark knight

I am not a movie person. I love a select few movies, which I watch over and over in the comfort of my own home. To be honest, my favorites are essentially the same movie with different characters. I would also like to mention that I've never seen any of my favorites in the theater. I rarely enjoy going to the theater, but I go, because I really don't have anything better to do.

Occasionally, a movie is surrounded by such hype that it's impossible not to watch it. Enter The Dark Night. It's not that I was expecting it to be bad. I just didn't think that I would like it. I generally don't like action movies; I don't like violence. I don't want to get all shook up in the movie theater, unless I'm being shaken by roars of laughter. The point is, this movie did not have good odds with me. In addition, I wanted to have a more critical eye, because it's just so easy to get caught up in the hype and come out praising a horrible movie (Juno?).

That being said, The Dark Knight was the best movie of the year, and I don't have to see any other movies this year to know that.