The Dark Knight

#39 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

I'm really bummed that I didn't see this movie a long time ago while doing this list. The only movies that I'm doing in true order are the top ten, but I still knocked some movies out a long time ago that I would have felt a lot better replacing than John Carpenter's The Thing (like this, this, this, or this). But oh well, this movie is without a doubt the best superhero movie there's ever been, and one of the best crime movies, period. I mean, damn! Any time the Joker was on screen the whole theater was rapt. I don't know why I'm bothering to even talk about it since you've probably seen it already, and if you haven't, then JESUS, rent it now.

RATING: 93%

Batman Begins

After Joel Schumacher effectively destroyed Batman forever, I think we were all happy to see a new direction, and this movie ended up being pretty good. It ends up being extremely original to current continuity (with the Falcone mob family from Long Halloween, Batman being trained by Ra's Al Ghul, Mr. Zsasz), and the casting is superb. I saw this with a fellow comic geek and we were both basically sitting in a pool of our own drool at the end of the movie. Anyway, it's got some boring stretches, Katie Holmes is fucking terrible, the fight scenes are impossible to follow, the music is forgettable, and there are a ton of horrible one liners (some cop [Captain Gordon?] sees the Batmobile and says "I've got to get me one of those," I mean, come on), but it's pretty tits apart from that, and it only barely missed my top 100 which I swear I'll finish someday.

RATING: 81%