The Dark Knight
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D_Tintagel_Demondong
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I liked how he wasn't just a cartoon character, but a real man with a serious mental illness. It was gritty and raw and not at all like the comic book Joker, who was just inexplicably crazy... and quite strange. I think that this Joker got more screen time than Batman, or so it seemed.
He had that strange posture too. I barely recognized him. And the way that he wore the nurse's outfit with no shame... priceless.
THEDUDEofDestiny
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D_Jurgen Klitgaard
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I wanted to see it so bad again last night, I streamed it on my laptop, and hooked the laptop up to the big screen. It was a little crude in picture, but it got me my fix!
you know how everybody has a favorite movie? this is mine.
words cannot express what this movie means to true batman fans...i saw it for the 3rd time last weekend and it gets better every time i watch it. it is a near perfect movie in my opinion.
christopher nolan seems to see things exactly the way i do when it comes to film making and his style is already starting a new trend in the business. less CGI. thank God. not all of us are ignorant MTV raised fuckheads.
i'm done.
(ok...yes i watch the real world/road rules challenge)
words cannot express what this movie means to true batman fans...i saw it for the 3rd time last weekend and it gets better every time i watch it. it is a near perfect movie in my opinion.
christopher nolan seems to see things exactly the way i do when it comes to film making and his style is already starting a new trend in the business. less CGI. thank God. not all of us are ignorant MTV raised fuckheads.
i'm done.
(ok...yes i watch the real world/road rules challenge)
horsehungtim
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my only problem was that Bale's voice as Batman was even MORE growly than the first film. I'm not sure if that would make me grimace in public or laugh...
- b.c.,
(As I've said in similar threads) the most successful comic book super heroes are the ones that renewed themselves and evolved over times. In a way, Batman (or THE Batman) has in that regard come full circle.
When I started reading comic books (in the late 60's) Batman was one of my LEAST favorite comic books. First of all, I hated the artwork of creator Bob Kane. Always had him and little Robin (the boy blunder I used to call it) fighting amidst giant coffee cups and other ridiculous overlarge props. By the time his outfit took on that bat on a yellow backdrop design the series had degenerated into witless tedium (besides which they had a batdog, a batgirl, a batmobile, a batcopter, a bat "something" for every occasion.
Shortly after I had stopped reading the comics they began to evolve into something quite different from what they were. The unsual series started having slick spinoff variations on the original characters, new story lines and subplots developed... from all of this upheaval, experimentation, and renewal came the likes of the harder and grittier Dark Knight series, and I think that evolution and renewal (for the genre) has been a wonderful process.
Comic book super heroes are our modern day myths and legends. That they would live, breath, evolve into present day relevance, and come to life on the screen is a miraculous thing to behold - especially for those of us who read of them so long ago.
I thought the movie was being over hyped prior to seeing it and went in expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't. This movie was a gritty gripping examination of a clash of wills - between one criminally insane and another who, in his quest for justice, is perhaps not playing with a quite full deck either.
If you've never bothered to see a Batman movie ('cause you were living on Pluto or something) you DEFINITELY need to see this one. You'll not forget this Joker.
When I started reading comic books (in the late 60's) Batman was one of my LEAST favorite comic books. First of all, I hated the artwork of creator Bob Kane. Always had him and little Robin (the boy blunder I used to call it) fighting amidst giant coffee cups and other ridiculous overlarge props. By the time his outfit took on that bat on a yellow backdrop design the series had degenerated into witless tedium (besides which they had a batdog, a batgirl, a batmobile, a batcopter, a bat "something" for every occasion.
Shortly after I had stopped reading the comics they began to evolve into something quite different from what they were. The unsual series started having slick spinoff variations on the original characters, new story lines and subplots developed... from all of this upheaval, experimentation, and renewal came the likes of the harder and grittier Dark Knight series, and I think that evolution and renewal (for the genre) has been a wonderful process.
Comic book super heroes are our modern day myths and legends. That they would live, breath, evolve into present day relevance, and come to life on the screen is a miraculous thing to behold - especially for those of us who read of them so long ago.
I thought the movie was being over hyped prior to seeing it and went in expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't. This movie was a gritty gripping examination of a clash of wills - between one criminally insane and another who, in his quest for justice, is perhaps not playing with a quite full deck either.
If you've never bothered to see a Batman movie ('cause you were living on Pluto or something) you DEFINITELY need to see this one. You'll not forget this Joker.
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D_Jurgen Klitgaard
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I've said it once and I'll say it over and over again, this has to be one of the best movies I have ever seen. Best story, best acting, best characters, best filmed. Never have I been in complete awe in any movie, so engrossed in it that I can't blink.
This is in no way a comic book/super hero movie. Everything in this movie has the chance of being 100% real in real life. It just takes someone with enough balls and cash to don a costume and fight crime. That's it, no super powers needed. It is a crime drama up there with the best of them. I believe Roeper or someone said that not since Heat, has there been a crime drama as worthy to stand up to it.
If you haven't seen it, what the hell are you waiting for? Don't take your young kids, it's not for them. This is very grown-up. Even 13 is probably pushing it. It has some very intense scenes, I found myself wincing a bit through it.
I think it has potential to win some oscars, I don't think the nature of it will keep it out of the running. Heath Ledger is so good, and you get so caught up in his acting, that you honestly forget that he is not with us anymore. You definitely feel even more saddened afterwards that he had to leave us so young, but at the same time you are glad that he went out with the greatest performance of his career. First movie I ever saw him in was A Knight's Tale, and that became one of my favorite movies. I think he has strong potential to win the oscar, and I don't even think his death will be a factor. I think the movie as a whole has strong potential to win best picture.
The only real crime I can think of is if they do a comic hero mash-up movie in the future. I think it would be doing a strong dis-service to the integrity of this franchise. No Robins, no nippled suits, no outlandish gadgets. Leave it gritty and raw, leave it old school!
This is in no way a comic book/super hero movie. Everything in this movie has the chance of being 100% real in real life. It just takes someone with enough balls and cash to don a costume and fight crime. That's it, no super powers needed. It is a crime drama up there with the best of them. I believe Roeper or someone said that not since Heat, has there been a crime drama as worthy to stand up to it.
If you haven't seen it, what the hell are you waiting for? Don't take your young kids, it's not for them. This is very grown-up. Even 13 is probably pushing it. It has some very intense scenes, I found myself wincing a bit through it.
I think it has potential to win some oscars, I don't think the nature of it will keep it out of the running. Heath Ledger is so good, and you get so caught up in his acting, that you honestly forget that he is not with us anymore. You definitely feel even more saddened afterwards that he had to leave us so young, but at the same time you are glad that he went out with the greatest performance of his career. First movie I ever saw him in was A Knight's Tale, and that became one of my favorite movies. I think he has strong potential to win the oscar, and I don't even think his death will be a factor. I think the movie as a whole has strong potential to win best picture.
The only real crime I can think of is if they do a comic hero mash-up movie in the future. I think it would be doing a strong dis-service to the integrity of this franchise. No Robins, no nippled suits, no outlandish gadgets. Leave it gritty and raw, leave it old school!
I have now.
Overall, I liked it, but I still prefer Nicholson's Joker. There were only a handful of occasions where Ledger really fit the name (specifically the hospital scene), and the rest of the time he was just an anarchist criminal mastermind with face paint. But that can be blamed more on the writers than on the actor.
Also, maybe it was just me, but who becomes Two Face was more predictable than some of the people here made it out to be. Maybe knowing that he was going to be in this one helped, but still.
You can tell in the theater who was a Batman fan and who wasn't... because as soon as that coin showed up, everyone hissed "Two-Face!!!!" to the person sitting next to them.
Great movie though, I really liked it.
Fortunately, in the theater I was in, everybody was either stupid or just knew better than to say anything.
I actually didn't even think about the coin until halfway through the movie. It was just the fact that he was the most constantly significant male character aside from Joker, Bruce, Alfred and what's-his-name in the R&D Lab. And I doubt either of those last two would become villains.
THEDUDEofDestiny
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i dont know man. ledger looked like the joker you described to me. especially in the scene when batman was trying to beat the shit out of him.
