Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

Did no-one else expect that the Joker had actually been sneaky and given them the detonators to their own boats but told them the opposite? I was expecting that to be the case and for the boat of "good people" to blow themselves up.

The Chicago stuff is awesome, yes - "OMG they're riding a motorbike through the train station we use to go Kalamazoo" etc. Makes me miss Chicago, and makes me want to go see it in IMAX (although nearest IMAX to hear is 20 miles away).

Oh and I liked the final speech, but I'm a sucker for that kind of shit.

Did no-one else expect that the Joker had actually been sneaky and given them the detonators to their own boats but told them the opposite?

This was pretty much the small group I was with's thought. It actually occurs to me just now, reading your post and typing this out, that the fact that we weren't only expecting it but kinda wanting it to happen -- for *something* deeply horrifying like that to happen -- means that the movie functions better as an implicit critique of expectations of violence in film than, say, Funny Games. (And did it ever have its cake and eat it too on that front.)

spoilers!

all this talk of gotham's "saintly" citizens misses out on two things: the regular folks showing up at the TV station to try and kill the guy who tried to out batman, and the fact that the people on the boat vote overwhelmingly to push the button.

anthony michael hall was the news anchor

Michael Jai White was the gangster. The good criminal was Tiny Lister.

jon/via/chicago, do you still want IMAX tickets? i know someone that has 2 tickets for tuesday evening at the cinemark seven bridges (no idea where that is) and is selling them for face value. i can't keep up with the chicago thread at the moment, so if you are interested, email me through ILX mail.

Michael Jai White was the gangster. The good criminal was Tiny Lister.

Oh yeah you're right. Brain fart.

totally thought each boat had their own triggers, for sure. and i kept wanting to nudge people in the theater (in rock island, il) about all the chicago intersections (THAT IS FRANKLIN AND VANBUREN, YO) but no one cared.

the pencil trick was totally o_O and would have been even creepier if they entire movie theater HADN'T ERUPTED INTO CHEERING WTF. i mean, it was a midnight showing attended mostly by teenagers, but seriously. most of the creepy, awesome, whatever stuff was completely undercut by people cheering their asses off. stfu

pencil tricks was more gasps where we were. cheering was all at the trailers, thankfully. oh, and at the lorry flip.

yea but what do you expect on a midnight showing? that's why I'm usually afraid to go to those.

I went again yesterday in the afternoon and it was apples and oranges.

Bale's batman voice = Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse. You heard it here first.

xpost: I read that as "aspies and oranges"

I SAW THE Movie Today at the Amc Theater at 2 30 It Was So Cool Everybody was like amazed when The Joker Did The Pencil Trick at the henchmen I Think when he stabbed him he stabbed his eye or his head but It Was like so cool.

Ok. The Joker sticks a pencil in the desk vertically, with the pointed end up and tells the mob bosses in the conference room that he is gonna preform a 'magic trick' and make the pencil 'disappear.' The group of mob bosses think it's a joke (which it kind of is) so they send a man to go beat him up and stop waisting their time. The Joker calmly watches the man come after him and slams the man's head down into the pencil. When the dead body slides off the table the pencil is fully inside of the man's head; thus the pencil 'disappeared'.

This was significant because the Joker predicted that the mob boss was gonna send one of his men after him when he mentioned the 'magic trick'. By killing the man with the pencil and 'making the pencil disappear' he kept his word, creeped out the mob bosses, and showed them that he could predict their movements in the traditional joker fashion.

Honestly, it was my favourite scene in the movie.

Pencil trick ruled yes. When I went, it was a gasp swiftly followed by nervous laughter. can't wait when the clip of this inevitably shows up on youtube so you could play it over and over and over.

Second favourite is the Joker dancing on top of the pyramid of cash and then he slides down the pyramid, cause it looks like it could have been a scene from the animated series.

Best scene (shot, I guess) in the movie: without a doubt the Joker riding in the police car, hanging out the window, mugging for nobody, then silently closing his eyes and taking in the air. Fabulous.

Also, if I were Ledger I would have purposely kept fucking up the pile of money scene so I could keep sliding down it. That shit must have been fun.

That scene in the police car (which appeared in the trailer) was one that made me really excited about the movie. definite OTM

whaddaya know.. pencil trick already up on youtube, most likely not for long. cellphone cam quality, natch.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=szjKxptMLfA

people were cheering at this movie, goodness.

when's this out on blu ray then?

after I saw this last night I had a dream that my penis was a talking Samurai sword that quoted the works of Thoreau......

that happened to me after Cop and a Half

haha, they held auditions for that little kid's part here in Universal Orlando...ya know, back when that stuff still happened here in O-town

The entire theater here also cheered and laughed at the pencil trick, but my biggest cheer was when Gordon came back and arrested the Joker. I was genuinely shocked when he "died" and completely bowled over when he came back. (Also I am a Gary Oldman fangirl bigtime)

The main discussion after the movie for us was regarding the next villain...we were thinking Catwoman since the next movie by default will be missing a main female?

and why are people marking spoilers...this is a thread about a movie that has already come out...if anyone who hasn't seen TDK and doesn't want to know what happens comes here and reads the recent posts, they get what they deserve.

And it's #1 on the IMDB top 250, a ranking which I am sure will never down.

not until the next Resident Evil movie comes out, at least

and why are people marking spoilers...this is a thread about a movie that has already come out...if anyone who hasn't seen TDK and doesn't want to know what happens comes here and reads the recent posts, they get what they deserve

not in the uk it isn't you selfish bastard.

i think UK readers would still be aware that people might just possibly want to discuss details of the plot in the first week after the film came out in the US. anyone reading a thread on a film that's out in either the US or the UK and not expecting spoilers is pretty crazy.

i thought it was internet polite to add spoiler warnings to such things.

I think it is (and my bad again for not marking mine bigger)...I know if I was reading through this thread and the movie wasn't out where I lived, I'd be looking for the spoiler tag to determine which messages to skip

And it's #1 on the IMDB top 250

I'm shocked.

It would be nice if everyone would leave off with the spoilers at least until after the opening weekend, no matter what the movie is.

Honestly, it was my favourite scene in the movie.

Everyone keeps raving about the pencil thing and it was the one time I had to use the bathroom so I missed it argh.

Ok, this was even better than I thought it would be.

Best scene (shot, I guess) in the movie: without a doubt the Joker riding in the police car, hanging out the window, mugging for nobody, then silently closing his eyes and taking in the air. Fabulous.

did that remind anyone else of a scene from Basquiat? (i haven't seen it for years but them in a jeep with the pogues playing?)

anyway this movie was great....one review i read compared it to more of a departed/untouchables type thing but with superheroes which i thought was pretty dead on.

i'm just SO PISSED at that guy for dying. honestly, it's almost like the movie's biggest fault for me was the whole meta-ledger death was something that kept taking me out of the film, because every time he did something great i kept thinking "what a shame"...not that it's the film's fault, but it's THERE i couldn't help it.

but really it's a fine fine film.

yea, I did that too. it's really unavoidable.

oh noes sorry guys about the whole spoiler thing. It's out here in Australia, and back home in Malaysia, so I just assumed it had a global release. Didn't know there was a different one for the UK.

or anywhere else for that matter.

Against the whole no spoiler thing, I haven't seen anyone who hasn't seen it post anything other than annoyance at spoilers - which suggests that it would be better to just get on with discussion.

But this is all besides the point, obv, and I'll drop it now.

Batman’s ‘Dark Night’ Sets Weekend Record

A very dark night.

Yeah, one of the local reviewers mentioned that this wasn't the best superhero movie ever, but one of the best crime dramas in quite some time.

boxofficemojo is apparently geting pretty slammed right now. i'm getting server errors and "LAST UPDATED: 12/31/1969"

OK, before the movie where I saw it, they had one of those dumbass trivia question loops running, and one required you to guess who said a particular quite: "Life is hard. After all, kills you." I yelled, "Heath Ledger!" Too soon?

no way dude that was so fucking awesome that you said that. thanks on behalf of everyone.

this movie fuckin stunk. fuck chris nolan and fuck hans zimmer.

chaki otm

haha

Bale's batman voice = Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse. You heard it here first.

-- Kath, Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

it borders on harvey fierstein @ times..so terrible

what did people think of the score? some was really overbearing i thought (esp. first like 20 minutes); other parts were v. good, im thinking the more "noise" sections that reminded me of a woman in the dunes

it wasn't bad, I thought the funniest moment was.. someone asks the Joker whether he thinks he's just going to steal all their money or something & he's like, "uh, yeah?" there were a few extremely lame moments that annoyed me. I thought eckhart was pretty great. was the mayor wearing eyeliner? that was cool.

Major Crimes? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit.