So I was wondering, with all this praise that the late Heath Ledger is receiving for his turn as the Clown Prince of Crime in The Dark Knight, can he be the catalyst for a comic book movie earning an Oscar? And I mean a serious Oscar, an acting one. I mean I don’t want to see best sound FX or best editing or stuff like that. What I want to see is a best acting or best supporting actor nod. I will admit, no comic book movie, as entertaining as they have been, has had performance on an Oscar level.
Could Ledger’s Joker be it?
I will admit I was one of those people who was skeptical of the choice to have Ledger as the Joker. To me the Joker was two people, Jack Nicholson in Burton’s 1989 Batman and Mark Hamil’s voice acting turn as the Joker in the animated DC Comics universe.
My fears were smoothed over after seeing the first couple shots of Ledger in full Joker mode.
Wow.
The man definitely had the look.
Then came the first teaser, a snippet of dialog and a laugh.
"Starting tonight, people will die. I'm a man of my word" *insert laugh*
Mmmm k....so it was getting better.
And now to see the trailers, to see the TV spots and here Ledger as Joker....man you can’t even tell it’s him. As people have said, it’s not so much Heath Ledger playing the Joker as Heath Ledger being replaced by the Joker.
This was a dedicated man. I do hope his dedication to the role is not what led to his demise.
Multiple clips have been released with footage from the movie. While my geeked-ness pushed me to check out all the Iron Man and Hulk clips I could before those movies were released, I am going to resist checking out anything Dark Knight-related save the promo I am including in this blog as it is just awesome.

I am more than ready for the midnight showing on the 17th. I intend to be there early and to get a good seat so I can enjoy what should be a great great movie and maybe a little Oscar history.

And yeah I am late with posting my review on it, but I have been very very busy procrastinating with packing my stuff for my big July 18 move. But I have seen the movie and it reminded me of "I am Legend." Why? Well the first half of the movie is great with Will Smith playing a character who seems to be alone in the world and then the second half becomes typical Hollywood-esque movie making.

The movie did have a twist that I didn't see coming, which I give them props for, but really all the did was open the door for many many other questions they didn't tie up by the end of the movie. This is not a movie personally i think should get a sequel, but given the money made in the opening weekend of $66 million and near week-long earning of $107 million, you might see one. We all know Smith is not adverse to shooting sequels.

Jason Bateman steals the show as the man trying to change Hancock's image to the public. Charlize Theron is OK, but she adds to the questions you will have at the end of the movie like I said. I dunno, suspend logic and reason for a couple hours and you can see Hancock. I didn't not like it, but like Wanted, I felt like this could have been better.