January TOTM

It is fitting that the first Trailer of the Month for 2008 is for the film I'm most excited to see this year - The Dark Knight. Check out the full length trailer on The Dark Knight's official site http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/ or by searching for it on YouTube. While the new trailer isn't especially original, it does the trick and gets my blood pumping for the next installment in the Batman series. Based on the trailer, Heath Ledger's Joker is a nice blend of creepy and humorously wacky (though not as over-the-top as Jack Nicholson played it), and the Batcycle looks pretty slick. I was surprised to see what appears to be a less CGI-driven take on Gotham. Both this film and Batman Begins were filmed in my home city of Chicago, but in Batman Begins the city was barely recognizable through all the CGI additions. In a few scenes from The Dark Knight trailer, many buildings in downtown Chicago are immediately recognizable and don't seem to have been digitally altered much, if at all.