Day at the Movies Review: Batman, The Mummy 3, and X-Files

However, Daniel and I didn't find Heath's performance to be Oscar winning. It was disturbing, yes. It was certainly a much darker Joker than I had ever seen. The movie is very dark and Daniel and I both felt the ending was contrived. I don't want to spoil anything, so I will just say that we felt the people of Gotham would have been very understanding of the change in personality of a character considering the circumstances and that it was unnecessary for another character to villianize himself to preserve the image of the first.

The part that I liked about the movie was the reversals that we didn't expect. Good guys were bad and bad guys were good. It was a good way to show that appearances can be deceiving and expectations can be wrong. To me, that was the greatest message of this movie. Daniel felt that he was being preached at through the movie and was very disappointed in the ending. We both agreed that we think Christian Bale makes the best Batman ever! Daniel and I did enjoy spotting buildings that we had seen during our trip to Chicago.

So, Daniel gives Batman:The Dark Knight 1 1/2 stars out of five. I give the movie 2.5 stars out of five. Were we harder on the movie because of the hype..maybe, but there is no way to know.

Now, on to the next movie. The next movie was The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. We weren't sure what to expect. I try very hard not to read reviews before I go out to see a movie I really want to see. Because I don't always agree with the reviews. However, I had gotten a glimpse of a star rating...and it was dismal. But I love Brendan Fraser and I love mummies, so I figured, what the heck.... What I liked about the movie: I loved the explanation for the Terra Cotta Army and why all of the soldiers look unique. I thought that part of the story was excellent. I also enjoyed the one liners. I found Jonathan to be his normal funny self. Rachel Weisz was sadly missed. She decided not to reprise the role of Evie and Maria Bello took her place. The chemistry between Brendan and Rachel had a lot to do with how successful the first two movies were. The chemisty is just not there for Brendan and Maria and therefore a normal driving component is missing.

We both gave this movie 2.5 stars out of 5. It wasn't awful, it wasn't great. It was entertaining. We hope they stop here and don't continue following the mummy adventures. And we hope they don't turn the rains over to the grown son. (Deja Vu Indiana Jones 4).

The last movie of the day was the one we had the lowest expectations for...X-Files, I Want to Believe. We loved X-files in the beginning, but as the series wound round and round, we lost interest and began to feel like there were no answers out there. But we wanted to believe, so we bought the X-files DVD which contained 8 of the television shows that Chris Carter felt people should see in order to get the most out of the movie. We were pleasantly surprised with this movie as it ended up being the best of the day. The storyline was believable (these types of medical procedures are occuring or are on the horizon). Mulder and Scully still work great together and Scully is still trying to figure out just what to believe.

We both give this movie 4 stars our of 5.

We watched movies on Friday and I will try to get around to giving you a review of them. Right now it is time to get the kids up and get ready for church.