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Oh my goodness. Batman: The Dark Knight was amazing. Seriously, the best movie ever. I’m not a huge follower of Batman or anything like that. Never was. But TDK came through shining and even with all they hype for the movie, they didn’t let me down. Heath Ledger (may he rest in peace) did a PHENOMENAL job as The Joker. Not even kidding. He had that character roll perfected to a “T”.

So we get to the theater a little before 10:00 and get our tickets printed from the box office with our confirmation number and whatnot. We go to stand in line and wait, and there’s already a pretty decent line going on. Will’s mom called and said that she heard on the news that people had been waiting in line since the day before, which doesn’t surprise me. I’m glad we got there early enough though, because there were at least 100 or more people in front of us.

We wasted some time in line, chilling on the floor and it was SO HOT in there (thank you 90* weather). They passed out candy and did a drawing for free t-shirts and movie posters (which none of us won). They even had an issue of The Gotham Times newspaper that they handed out to everyone, which was really cool.

They began seating about 45 minutes early, which was nice. The theater was air conditioned and much cooler than waiting in the hallway. I’d never been to an IMAX theater before, and the screen was HUGE, although I thought that the theater itself would hold more people. We were a few rows closer to the screen than we preferred, and a little to the left, but really it wasn’t bad seating at all. Could’ve been worse and been in the front row. As it was we had to kind of pan our heads back and forth at some points during the movie because the screen was just SO big. Amazing.

When the lights dimmed and the movie came on, people started clapping and then it got just dead quiet as the first scene opened. It was all uphill from there.

The story line. The cinematography. The one-liners from The Joker. Everything was simply genius. There were points in the movie where everyone started clapping because it was such a good scene or whatnot. When the credits rolled, most of the movie goers stayed in their seats (including us) to make sure we didn’t miss anything that may have been added at the end, which we didn’t. But a majority of the people clapped when Heath Ledger’s name came on the screen, and that was kind of cool. It’s so sad that he’s gone. His performance was phenomenal and I wouldn’t be surprised if he won best actor or whatnot in the movie awards.

We will definitely be seeing it again. I’d even pay the $12 to see it in IMAX again. We had such a good time, even though we didn’t get home until 3 in the morning and Dave had to be to work for 8. Poor guy is so tired!