The Dark Knight

[PartyCrasher]

I am so gonna watch it .. local mag gives it hype review.

[Inky]

I'd like to see it on the big imax screen but really I don't like going to movies much, can't smoke, laydown, stretch out. soooooo... as soon as a decent cam, r5 or screener comes out its on.

[garyoak99]

So far no scene release T_T, not even a screener.

 

I wouldn't be THAT impatient; it sometimes takes a couple of days AFTER the movie is released to even get a cam of the movie. Screeners aren't always available for ALL movies.

[solidius23]

garyoak you have been warned u have porn in your avatar

[ken_cinder]

It's funny how these blockbusters keep breaking each other's records in an age where they reckon people go to the movies less than they used to.

 

I'm seeing a screening on Monday (tomorrow) night. I am pumped. I hope it doesn't disappoint... I've been watching Batman Begins again and I must say it isn't all as great as I remember it :/

 

Not hard to break sales records, when a movie ticket costs 5x what it used to when I was a kid. Even if half as many people are going.

[BlackKnight]

NB - If you've seen the trailer then this post is spoiler free.

 

Now that this is out, what did everyone think? I think it did a lot of things well but got a terrible number of things horribly wrong. I'll elaborate later but here are some of the parts I didn't like;

 

 

-No human aspect to the Joker. I'm not talking about an origin story- being an advocate of chaos is not motive enough for anyone, no matter how utterly mad they are, going to the elaborate lengths he does in the film.

 

-Batman was even shallower (if possible) than in Batman Begins. His gruff voice became tedious and he played almost an accessory role to what is going on. For that reason I am very glad the word 'Batman' is not anywhere in the title.

 

-The pacing was all wrong. The first act was far too bloated, and the final act far too rushed. The whole Hong Kong business could have been excised altogether and the time spent elsewhere. A very emotional arc in the second half of the film, which I wont spoil, doesn't really develop- there isn't enough time left to flesh it out. I was at the point where I knew I should be feeling something, but didn't really connect emotionally. The reason, I think, is because the emphasis on certain events was all wrong.

 

-A number of really cool shots (not scenes) from the trailer were replaced with takes that were less visually interesting. Minor gripe.

 

-The finale with the Joker was just pathetic. A terribly un-spectacular way to end 2 and half hours of build up.

 

 

What I did like was the grand plot and strong allusion to the title and central theme throughout. However, like I just said, the time was distributed all wrong, and the important parts not made significant enough. The emotion wasn't conveyed as well as it should have been, especially for a film as overly tragic as this. Also ideologies were thrown around, characters were flippant, and no one, not even the martyrs, had a terribly good reason for believing what they believed or doing what they did.

 

Gah go see the movie so I don't have to worry about spoiling too much. I realise how vague all this sounds right now. Overall though I was disappointed and I don't think that is because I had high expectations (which I did). It's because despite all the good things about the film which I loved and conveniently didn't mention, and despite the millions of positive reviews, the makers of The Dark Knight bit off more than they could chew. TDK needs at least a DVD re-edit before I'd even think about considering it for the title of 'best Batman film'.

[iq_132]

Quite honestly one of the best films I've seen in years. The "Joker" character was amazing to say the least.

[solidius23]

best movie i have seen in yrs as well its going in my top 20 of all time, heath ledger as the jokers was mind blowing. tragic we wont see him reprise the role but i dont think any one would dare try to take the role after his performance.

[OverlordMondo]

I didn't find any of the things Black Knight did especially detracting from the movie. I also didn't have very high expectations of the movie. I think the Joker as an "Agent of Chaos" suited the character just fine, and made for some very interesting scenes.

 

 

My biggest complaint about the movie was Two-Face. Up until the part where he died, his scenes would've made a great lead in to a sequel, but because of his death that just won't happen, so his character felt ultimately short lived. The redeeming feature to this is that it was never explicitly stated that he was dead, and I seem to remember his last scene depicting him as still breathing.

 

[Gryph]

I've seen it twice in less than 24 hours. So awesome.

[Smilee]

I really enjoyed it. I felt the beginning came off with a rocky start, but it just got better and better from there. As always the Heath was amazing in this movie and I definitely thought it was his greatest performance.

[Fatal Rose]

One of the BEST EVAR!1!!1!!!!!1Z0<G!1!

 

Seriously this was an amazing movie.

Joker was awesome.

Only thing I disliked was Batman's voice.

[solidius23]

im going to see it again tomorrow.

[Salorskin]

Dude... speechless, almost!

 

 

I'll try to be as vague as possible...

 

 

A lot of the story reminded me of The Long Halloween - the villains Batman dealt with, the rise of the freaks and fall of the mob, and its emphasis on how tragic a character Harvey Dent truly is.

The victims being murdered reminded me of Dark Victory, and I could totally tell that arc influenced this movie as well.

And how heartless the Joker was, how evil and destructive, and how far ahead of Batman and the police - totally The Joker's Five-Way Revenge and The Man Who Laughs. Everyone was a pawn, it was amazing, and it was all true to these characters.

 

I was so impressed by everything, especially Ledger. He was The Joker in The Dark Knight, no question about it. He was so terrifying it reminded me of Grant Morrison's take on the character, and what seemed like false pleas for sympathy was reminiscent of Alan Moore's Joker. These guys definitely did their homework!

 

And the way the bad guys are caught... it was seriously a comic on film.

 

 

I don't think Harvey Dent was killed, everyone is always left to believe that's the case with the dude in the comic books. The man is a survivor, and it's totally open for a longer run on Two Face in another film.

 

 

 

 

And besides all of this, it was probably one of the best movies I've ever seen.

Edited July 19, 2008 by Salorskin

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

Am I just that lazy or is there no scene release, not even a crummy cam as of yet?