I just thought I would share with the class

I was trying to alleviate the drudgery of my state government job tonight, and figured that trying to find reviews of The Dark Knight would do it. Thank goodness I did, or I may have missed this unintentionally funny excerpt (emphasis mine):

You can believe the hype, KNIGHT could have quite simply been renamed to THE JOKER. Ignoring the fact that we lost Ledger earlier this year, he truly does deserve credit for bringing one of the most diverse, unique and well-developed characters to the big screen since Daniel Day Lewis in THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Some will say it's over-the-top, while everyone else will see the true genius in his work. When Christopher and Jonathan Nolan reveal The Joker's motive early in the film, it's tough to take in, and tough to take serious (why so serious?), but by the final frame of the film, the viewer should be sold without question. The deconstruction of The Joker is something of wonder; watching Ledger descend deeper into psychosis was more interesting that watching Lewis do it in BLOOD. To say he will give the viewer goosebumps is an understatement.

Now, I'm nowhere close to being a professional film reviewer, but I think that if you're going to say the phrase "this is the best (something) since (film)," the film you're referencing should be more than six or seven months old. 

That being said, I have a feeling that if I had seen The Dark Knight weeks before almost anyone else, my brain wouldn't work, either.

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