The Dark Knight ( do not read if want to see movie)

I saw the new Batman movie last night. Now you have to understand Batman is the bomb as far as I am concerned. I mean really a man who has all the money in the world, the brains to make more if he looses his current billions and a do gooder. Who actually fights crime and seems to be indestructable. While still being human and struggling with his alter ego. I mean what more could a girl want. However, if an individual goes into the Dark Knight movie expecting this movie to be like any of the others. Or the Joker or Harvey Dent to be like the others. Then in good east coast language forgetabout it (i know sp) ... I was talking to my sister today and educated in understanding Heath Ledger's Joker is more like those in the comic strips the one the original writer wanted him to be. Not the laughing funny guy from the early tv shows or even Jack Nicholason's version. But a very disturbed man who is hell bent on taking another down. On destroying another man. When put into this perspective then I understood. And realized I would have to go and see the movie again to get all the inuendos and parts which are important. Do not get me wrong I still think the movie was a tad long, and thought there could have been a few places it could have ended before it did. Not to mention some of the normal predicatibility one finds in any "superhero" movie. But I love the new ideas and implications of is "Batman" really a superhero or just a man trying to make a difference