The Dark Knight

Set the record for highest weekend gross at $155 million, just $4 million over Spiderman. Weirdest part of that story is that I first read it Sunday morning, so God only knows how they try to accurately count the sales. It got a boost from being shown on imax screens, where tickets cost $3 more on average.

I liked it, but don't think it is the movie of the century that everyone will proclaim it to be. Ledger's Joker was outstanding, and I believe that the line "I will make this pencil disappear." will live on in my heart for years to come. Haven't seen Nicholson's Joker since I was a kid so I don't want to rush to call this the greatest Joker of all time, but it certainly was perfectly set in the new darker Batman universe.

Christian Bale did not spend much time outside the costume, so we didn't get to see much of his acting. He was good in the first one.

Also, Maggie Gyllenhaal took the place of Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes, Batman's secret heartthrob. She stole my heart in Stranger Than Fiction, so I certainly welcomed the switch.

Thoughts, impressions, more fleshed out reviews than my 5 second scribble at work?

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Hello all contributors,

Thanks for being willing to give this a shot. Let's basically just post funny and interesting links as we come across them hard at work. Also more than welcome would be posts on relevant discussions, in a moment I will start a Dark Knight thread.

While there is no moderating the conversation, I think it would be good for the posts to be SFW. If we want this to be read, it has to be more than links to the raunchier side of youtube.

In general, let's just have some fun. I can provide more insight as I learn about the interface and tools at our disposal.

Once we have week of posts built up, we can start linking friends in. This is how boingboing and fark got their starts, and while that isn't necessarily our goal, it wouldn't be a bad result either to have some small segment of the internet following us. I think we are a diverse group with interesting posts.

As we get a steady stream going, we may set up editors for categories and then posts on a subject would need to be run by them before going up, but for the moment let's just generate content. Editorship would improve article quality and give us all ownership in the process, which is a perk.

Just like with ABS, let's have fun.

Thanks,

Brian