Thieves By Tuesday*

The Concept: Joker bought around a few hundred boxes of old-fashioney playing cards and removed the jokers. He then arranged the jokers on a poster with a combination of tape, blood, and careful x-acto blade cutting, proceeded to airbrush the image of Batman, then defaced that image with all the cute quotes he uses in the movie. This establishes the scene in the film where the Joker is doing hours of tedious crafting to create self-referential collages.Joker always had that artist in him.

I hope the execs or whoever is in charge of the promotions to not take their job too seriously. Heath Ledger's death is enough to make the masses curious on what all the media hooplah is about the Dark Knight. Let's not overdo it shall we?

Followed the commercials, the trailers, the production photos, the interviews, a viral campaign on par with the Navy, but I'm still not sure if I want to see what might be the most hyped movie in history--a film that includes the final completed role of a talented young actor whose dark performance as one of comics' most notorious villains is already being hailed as Oscar-worthy. I mean, will Batman have some kind of Bat-arm-brace-metal-cutter thing or is just going to be more of the same old bull? Oh, he does have that? I guess I'm game then. Just hoping for no more assistant-leading man love teams here.