Waiting for the Oscars

As we all know, it is almost time for the Oscars. I still have to see most of the nominees - in fact almost all of them. But there's still time. And once again I'm planning to watch the award ceremony live, which means that I'll be up all night and go to school next morning tired, but happy (depending on the winners of course).

If you don't know who has been nominated in which category, check them out here.

Review: The Dark Knight

I'm just going to list the positive and negative things because I'm lazy today and I have to go watch TV.

Good things:
+ Heath Ledger, absolutely my favourite Joker from now on. This is how I thought Joker should be.
+ Harvey Dent until the first half of the movie.
+ Gary Oldman, once more a solid performance.
+ Plot, not bad.
+ Bat suit, cool enough.

Bad things:
- Batman's voice (c'mon does anyone take him seriously with that voice that says "I've been drinking whiskey for twenty years"?)
- Bat car/bike, 'nuff said.
- Russians as bad guys. Why always the Russians? (or the Germans) Why not the Brits or the Chinese? You can make a movie with the Chinese as regular bad guys, you don't have to always use kung-fu with them!
- Harvey Dent in the last half of the movie.
- Bagpipes. Do they really use them in the States in every government official's funeral? Please let me know.

To put it all together shortly:
Heath Ledger IS the movie. Batman movies have always been about the bad guys and The Dark Knight is no exception.

Stars: ****

Oh, and a comment about the whole "should Ledger get an Oscar for this movie" -thingy.
The guy is dead. If he was still alive then definitely yes. But I think that it should be handed to someone whom we can hear say thank you.

Now I'm off to watch telly.