{"id":15549,"date":"2020-02-15T21:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15549"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:34:45","slug":"the-dark-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-dark-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Some men aren&#8217;t looking for anything logical, like money. They can&#8217;t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>, released in 2008<\/p>\n<p>Batman and Jim Gordon are working on taking down the mob in Gotham, when the Joker decides he&#8217;s not getting enough attention. Meanwhile, Rachel is dating the new district attorney Harvey Dent. And Bruce Wayne continues to act like a millionaire playboy, like taking the entire Russian ballet company on his yacht.<\/p>\n<p>I was wowed by this movie the first time I saw it, but I now think that it&#8217;s not quite as satisfying as its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes on the ferries, especially the last scene with the prisoners, are tremendous.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about different types of heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nestor Carbonell, and Keith Szarabajka. Directed by Christopher Nolan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/batman-begins\/\"><strong>Batman Begins<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer&#8217;s music comes to the fore more often than in the previous movie. A splendid new theme for Harvey Dent is added.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 3rd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Some men aren&#8217;t looking for anything logical, like money. They can&#8217;t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.&#8221; The Dark Knight, released in 2008 Batman and Jim Gordon are working on taking down the mob in Gotham, when the Joker decides he&#8217;s not getting enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92,15,6,5],"class_list":["post-15549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-batman","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15557,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions\/15557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}