What has two thumbs and got to see The Dark Knight at 6:30 p.m. last night in the IMAX theater? This guy! About a month ago I posted a movie review where the reviewer started off with “I want to fuck this movie”. That is a little intense for me but I would definitely do some weird shit with The Dark Knight.

To see it on the IMAX screen was pants shitting awesome. We got into the theater about two minutes before the show started which means we ended up with third row seats. Not close enough to hurt your neck but close enough that I almost had to turn my head to see both edges of the IMAX screen.

The movie was just non-stop action. Sure there was some dialog and there is a great overall story about the struggle between heros and anti-heros but with the Joker constantly fucking shit up around Gotham things were always on the move. I know some people are already counting Heath Ledger’s Oscar votes and others are scoffing at those counters but the guy pulled off an amazing performance. He was genuinely scary as the Joker.

As with all Batman movies there were a lot of bat-gadgets, some believable and some not so believable. I don’t want to give any of the movie away but by far my favorite bat-gadget was the Sky Hook. Trust me, you’ll know it when you see it.

So is this movie going to win any awards, Ledger aside? Probably not but action movies like this generally don’t. If you loved the Michael Keaton Batman from 1989 and Batman Begins and would just as soon pretend all the ones in between never happened then you are going to love this movie.