What I have always found mysterious is why Gotham City folk are such suckers for disaster. Whenever there's something major going on, Gotham residents go to the city in droves. Oh shoot, is an evil and terribly twisted person planning to bomb the city hospital? I'll be damned if I miss that. Oh is there a crazy ass clown who is on the lookout for people to kill? I'll have to see that for myself.

And why are they all... still... in Gotham? It's been nothing but chaos and destruction in that sick city since God knows when. Why are they still living there? Someone should tell these people that the world is a big place and since most of them are probably American citizens (I did see a Chinese guy in one of the scenes), they'd have easy access to all the other places.

Have you noticed how Gotham City is so much like the Philippines? The similarities are so uncanny, it kills me. We hate everything, we complain about everything, we vote for a hero only to find out that the hero is a villain after all and we complain about that, too. We have a lot of drug syndicates going on and people are so quick to turn against each other. And let's not forget how similar the ferry dilemma was to the recent ZTE catastrophe all of us witnessed. And yes, all the good ones have been turned to two-faced freaks.

And like those lovely Gotham residents, no one really wants to fucking budge. And the people who do get out say they never really wanted to go. Weird innit?

At this point, it must be pretty apparent to you that I've already watched the Batman movie and boy-oh, that was the best Batman movie ever, hands down. I was able to get over the icky love stuff because Gyllenhaal's character redeemed herself (by dying) in the end. Why is it that whenever I look at Maggie Gyllenhaal, I think slut slut slut. Which is why she was perfect for the lawyer role.

The movie is definitely in the watch-in-cinema category. And yes, Ledger was very convincing as Joker but he surely would not be winning any awards because of it. If the Academy Awards committee is bent on giving an award to anyone, they should give one to the Gotham City people. For misplaced optimism, if not for anything else.