BATKEI

I went to see The Dark Knight.

*** SPOILER ALERT! ***

“How about a magic trick?” - says the Joker, as he sticks a pencil standing up on the table. Gambol has had enough of the freak’s antics and motions to his bodygaurd, Chuckles, unleashing him onto the Joker. As Chuckles makes his way from around the other mob bosses, the Joker, calm and playful as always continues, “I will make this pencil dissappear right before your very eyes.”

Chuckles gets to the Joker and straight away attempts a headlock, the Joker, swiftly counters the hold and with a quick and swift swoop grabs the back of Chuckles’ head and smashes it onto the table where the propped up pencil awaits driving it straight into his skull in a horrific moment.

*** SPOILER END! ***

Movie audiences break out laughing.

Heath Ledger was always a great actor, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Patriot, First Knight, Monstor’s Ball were all great performances, and Brokeback mountain even won him an Academy Award nomination. But his potrayal of the Joker in Chris Nolan’s follow up to the 2006 Batman Begins, just might be his best performance ever. The audiences in the cinema-hall I was in stood up and applauded his perfrmance at the end.

And as for the movie itself, sequels are usually bigger and badder than their predecessors, and I don’t mean bad as in bad-ass, I do mean bad as in “was there any real need to push the enveloppe and ruin the franchise” bad. This sequel is probably going to go down in the history of sequels as the single greatest sequel movie ever to any other movie that was the single most awesome movie when it came out. Batman Begins was a new take on Batman, one that Batman fans all over the world, especially the graphic novel readers, who understand the real darkness in the split personalities of Bruce Wayne and Batman, could appreciate and love and use as emotional support to once and for all forget the embarassment that was one George Clown-y in a nippled Bat-Suit fighting the Governer of California cheesy one-liners et al.

Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent who rightfully transforms into coin-flipping Two-Face was another strong performance, close to the heart of the characters true personality. It wasn’t difficult replacing the extraordinarily beautiful Maggie Gyllenhaall as the new Rachael Dawes and the legendary Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman as Lucious Fox and Lt. and then Commissioner Gordon respectively, seemed like they were born for these roles.

John says that he doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life now that it has reached its pinnacle, talking about how great The Dark Knight was. I too feel that I need to spend seven years in a Tibetan monastary to counterbalance the excitement levels I achieved last night watching the Dark Knight.

kaeyspaceIII presents Bat-Kei and Jo-Kei-er.

Bat-Kei VS Bat-Kei

What I’ve done here is taken the mascot for kaeyspaceIII and cosplayed him into The Dark Knight characters. I’m currently also considering working on Commissioner Gordon, Luscious Fox, Alfred and Harvey ‘Two-Face’ Dent versions.

And to complete things off, I will also give you another couple of goodies. First, a Bat-Kei vs Jo-Kei-er picture, and click on it for a special widescreen edition 1280×800 Wallpaper.

Bat-Kei vs Jo-Kei-er
EDIT

OK, here are the rest.

Alfred  Comissioner Gordon

Lucius Fox  Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent

And to finish things off, here’s the full wallpaper. If you want to post it up on a different site or forum, feel free to do so, just remember to credit it to me. Without that it’s just rude.

Dark-Kei Series Widescreen 1280x800 Wallpaper

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