The Dark Knight

Sarah: Welcome everyone, to the Adventures of Silver Girl . . .

Olivia: And Aureus!

Sarah: As we sit back and give you reviews on comic book movies . . .

Olivia: From real super heroines! . . . Sarah?

Sarah: Yeah sweetie?

Olivia: Why do you get all of the long lines in the intro? I don't think that's fair. Your name comes first, and I never spent any time as a super villain, unlike someone.

Sarah: . . . Next time. I promise. Your name goes first, you get the longer lines. Promise!

Olivia: Sounds good! So! Today's film is The Dark Knight, Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, and the adorable Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Sarah: And Garry Oldman with a guest spot of Cillian Murphy, both of them reprising their roles from the previous films. But those don't get adorable added to them.

Olivia: Hey. I can't help it. Maggie is adorable, and you know it. She's cute as a button. Plus, she's a very welcome change from Katie Holmes, whose husband is more mind fried than you were back during your bouts with the Stockholm's.

Sarah: True, and . . . true. Rachel Dawes goes from seeming pouty and annoying to an actual character, even if her primary function is as before to affect the Bat, and this time, Harvey Dent. Her much cuter voice makes it much more enjoyable to watch.

Olivia: Agreed! The casting was excellent, period. Well, everyone that worked last time still worked. Michael Caine was great as before, and Cillian Murphy's brief little cameo does well to remind all of us that just because you deal with someone, if they aren't dead, you shouldn't count them out.

Sarah: One of these days, hopefully, that'll stop being the case.

Olivia: Hopefully. I wouldn't bet on it though. Mourning Frost, Dust, people like them have a tendency of just not going away.

Sarah: Better than going around killing them, which is an important.

Olivia: Obviously. And more important to be aware of the stronger you are.

Sarah: That's right, my gold little fighter!

Olivia: That is horribly uncreative, sweetie! Call me something cooler.

Sarah: Well uhm... The Golden . . . The metal . . . maiden!

Olivia: . . . Saraaaaah . . . Okay. At least you didn't call me Liv.

Sarah: You got it, livie!

Olivia: -whines- Okay . . . Well, for one, Batman passes out not at all through out this flick, therefore making it inaccurate to SARAH'S experiences . . .

Sarah: Now you're just being mean! But yes, the Bats pulls everything off with an amazing amount of skill and far cooler toys than I ever had as Patina. The "Batpod" looked rediculous on the movie posters I know, but It looks awesome in action, and its awesomeness is functional as well as visual. If Sylvia had those kind of moves . . .

Olivia: If Sylvia could move like that, you'd be wearing a helmet.

Sarah: . . . -whimper- You're not very fair.

Olivia: Hey, I've said it before. I won't splatter.

Sarah: You got anything to add?!

Olivia: Of course. The action scenes were all very energetic, though at times things felt a little one sided, and our heroes and their allies/patrons were a little hesitant to do anything besides get the crap beaten out of them until things go just a little too far. A lot of good people, innocent people, got hurt because people were kinda... waiting.

Sarah: And Bruce is a little... emotional. Lets face it Bruce, you dress like a bat. Even at worst I only dressed like- and don't you say a word Olivia- a figure skater or a sailor scout or something. Though I didn't realize the latter for looong time. That was embarrassing . . . but anyway! If you dress up like that, you've gotta do dark things. You've gotta kick ass. And you don't get to quit.

Olivia: Well, it did have some familiar feelings to . . . which batman movie was that where batman wanted to quit, but realized he couldn't? Forever? And Robin? I don't remember. Either way, well, it shows that bats' treatment isn't new at least.

Sarah: TO be fair, he deals with it fairly decently . . .

Olivia: Yeah, I know. For a rich boy whose biggest threat is a clown with bad makeup skills.

Sarah: Do not make fun of the joker. Heath Ledger did an awesome job.

Olivia: He did, honestly. He made you believe that a clown could be the biggest threat to Gotham. A gangster clown, sort of. Part of this is because the town seemed ill equipped to deal with anyone who wasn't afraid of getting killed or arrested doing crazy things. The Bat is good, but he can't be everywhere.

Sarah: True. Mostly.

Olivia: Not everyone has an alternate future self.

Sarah: Batman does! Sort of. He's from the future!

Olivia: Terry doesn't count.

Sarah: ...point...

Olivia: So! Action was good, and Sarah has adorable problems. All a part of why we love her. Characters were good. Actors were good.

Sarah: The theme was hammered in a little hard. Like way too hard. I think they told me the moral of the movie every five minutes.

Olivia: That's because it'll be on the test later.

Sarah: True! Because at the end, if you weren't really following that meaning, its just a kick in the teeth.

Olivia: It is anyway! Its the kind of story that demands a sequel, and this one took what . . . four years?

Sarah: Fuck.

Olivia: Well, I give it two golden thumbs up. Over all, the only flaws I can think of didn't detract from the movie, even when pointed out by Jade when we had her over for dinner the other night.

Sarah: Mmmm that was some dinner . . .

Olivia: A-hem? -glare-

Sarah: Oh! Right! I give it five sparks!

Olivia: And thus concludes The Adventures of Aureus and Silver Girl!

Sarah: Hey, you said that backwards!