The Dark Knight REALLY encouraging kids to be mean?

I was going to give a quick review of The Dark Knight (a home run by the way. Not the Grand Slam I was hoping for, by certainly a home run. Maybe even a two-run home run. I'd see it again, and I am CLEARLY going to buy the DVD), but then I was listening to the radio and heard a 16 year old kid call up a radio station saying that after the movie, he went out with his friends and they were throwing rocks through windows and being little shites.

The 16 year old caller had the audacity to blame the movie for his friends acting this way. Ummmm, a dead actor playing a FICTIONAL ROLE did not encourage your friends to be idiots there, Kid. That was your friends. They are acting like morons and were likely doing it before the movie came out Friday. Also, you can blame their parents for not teaching them the difference between right and wrong. It was like when the parents of the kid that killed himself sued Metallica and the trailer park family sued Beavis and Butthead for the trailer trash kids burning the doublewide down. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. I hope the judge throws the book at the kids...AND THEIR PARENTS. Be a little smarter, and parents, pay attention to what your kids are doing. ANd PS, if the Joker WAS real, and he saw some stupid kids wearing his makeup throwing rocks through windows, he'd probably give them the scars from his face.

They think they are hard-core? they aren't. They are just being stupid. Hey kids. If you liked the movie so much, go home and write the screenplay for the third one.

Don't blame Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker (pretty good BTW, but if he wins the Oscar, it is only because he is dead. If he was alive, it still would have been fantastic, but come on. The Joker isn't winning an Oscar. The Oscar people are too stuffy to give him an award for a role like that.) for these kids being morons. They are morons because of their shallow gene pool.

The only other thing about the movie I will say is they clearly set it up for #3, and with Catwoman, Penguin, and the Riddler still out there, I am excited. Should be good stuff. Oh, and don't forget Vicky Vail. Yeah, BABY!

A 98 out of 100. I wanted a Grand Slam and got a 2-run Homer. I am happy. Can't wait to see it in IMAX though. Maybe that pushes it over the top.