To celebrate our anniversary this year I took my lovely wife out for a pub lunch and then followed that up with a trip to the cinema to see The Dark Knight Rises, an excellent film that if you haven't seen then you should do so right away.
The Dark Knight Trilogy is, I have to say, the strongest trilogy of films ever made. Not the best but certainly the most rounded and consistently good.
I mean for me there will never be a trilogy like the original Star Wars trilogy. This is the best film trilogy ever made but (there's always a but) it is not without its flaws and all these flaws lie in the last chapter. Return of the Jedi is a film of four parts, three of which are fantastic and one that is utterly lame. The film starts with the rescue of Solo from Jabba's palace, excellent, just the start we wanted. Then You get the big fight between Vader and Luke accompanied by John Williams dramatic score, perfect. Accompanying this we have the Lando led assault on the Super Death Star, thrilling. But then we get the battle of Endor. A bunch of teddies take on the might of the Imperial army, lame, lame, lame. Just a bad idea for which Lucas will forever be mocked.
Another trilogy that fan boys are constantly poring love out for (not to mention the constant war of words between Star Wars fans and these fans) is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now don't get me wrong Fellowship was a great film as was Towers but lets not get giddy about Return of the King. This was the poorest film of the trilogy by a long shot with hardly anything to save it. I mean it was just 3 hours of fighting and the film had so many false endings you got the feeling it was never going to stop. But when the war was won by a bunch of ghosts it was over in the blink of an eye. This film was just a terrible end to the trilogy and because of this it takes third place in the top three trilogies.
Nolan's Batman trilogy though is consistently brilliant through all three parts and the end of Rises rounds the story arc of perfectly. There are no real flaws to be counted in Rises, a few moans to be had, the music being too loud in places and Banes dialogue being hard to understand here and there but other than that it was a solid film. Easily the second best trilogy ever made. Some people will disagree but that's what people do. Keeps life interesting.
The pub lunch was good too. A mixed grill with all the trimmings and my wife had chicken skewers with a spicy sauce. Excellent.
Till next time.....
The Voice has spoken.
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