Dark Knight
Saw the Dark Knight this weekend and it’s proabably one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. Right up there with Old School and TSAM (There’s Something About Mary, for the Warren Jenkins’ out there).
The only problem I had with the movie was that it felt like it dragged a bit towards the end. Actually it might not have been the movie itself. Could have been the fact that I went to a very very special edition showing at the Kip’s Bay Loews on 32nd and 2nd Ave.
So I got there about an hour before the show on Sunday afternoon and a line was already forming. Stood in line until they let us in and got some prime seats for the movie. When I sat down I felt a little warm but didn’t think much of it. About thirty minutes into the movie, I started to realize what a treat I was in for. I was one of the lucky 1000 or so to be in the only theater in Manhattan that was showing this version of Dark Knight. IMAX? Nah that shit’s overrated.. this was NOSEMAX.
I think it was the scene when the Joker first appeared. Instead of just seeing the Joker in all his grundgy glory, you could actually SMELL him! It was very faint at first but then the smell got stronger and stronger as the Joker appeared more frequently. By about an hour and a half into the movie, it smelled like the Joker was actually in the theater sitting next to you! Or somewhere within a ten seat radius of you, in my case.
Then I realized it wasn’t part of the movie at all. Oh noes! The unmistakeable stench of really bad nerd body odor mixed in with popcorn butter and sweaty feet was relentlessly penetrating my nostrils and violating my nosehairs.
I guess the Kip’s Bay Loews decided that the movie wasn’t good enough on it’s own merit and added some of their custom climate effects in the theater. Or they were just too fucking cheap to turn up the A/C. For fuck’s sake you’d think at $12 a ticket you could at least get some damn air conditioning!
