Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

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.

The mayor (Nestor Carbonell) always looks like he's wearing eyeliner. Especially as Richard Alpert on Lost.

I like the batman voice. It sounds like me if I had to be as deep and gruff.

I still think Gotham Central needs to be a fucking TV series.

the mayor was really good! (eyeliner notwithstanding)

BATMANUEL

lol

anyway, this was great. i really got into the overserious heavyosity of it. there was so much EXCESS, like the solution to movie making problems is always to have more and more of everything, more violence and politics and love stories and psychology and gadgets and big speeches and moral dilemmas and on and on and on.

i think the haters of this movie (thinking basically of denby and a. white here) who have got their panties in a bunch about a humble comic book film deigning to take on the apocalypse now mantle or whatever, are just kind of stuck. like, it doesn't take any critical work at all to pick out the politics and the thematic stuff about identity and legitimacy and the purposes of violence and law and all that -- all that shit is broadcast in the loudest way possible. where's the critical fun in that?

it'd be one thing to make strong reading that uh fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer is a set of interlocking parables about force, order, and civic responsibility or whatever, but tDK is practically begging every last punter to read it that way in every scene -- there's basically no subtext to this movie at all and therefore nothing for a poor critic to do boo hoo

let me say 'or whatever' a few more times

where's the critical fun in that?

True enough. I had my own thoughts.

Was Michael Bay's "Dark Knight" script linked to here yet? BBCode is hassling me about the URL so here it is: http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show%3Fid%3D947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506

that's a pretty convincing negative review you wrote there, goole. unless your idea of fun is being hit over the head by something!

sometimes it is!

i mean, led zeppelin weren't subtle either.

some ppl seem to be complaining that this movie tries to do too much and lays it all on too thick -- i don't think they are seeing something that isn't there, i just think those things are good, in this case.

funny, i like my talky human story type movies to be focused and tightly made (before sunset = awes, magnolia = straight garbage), but i have always liked it when big-budget summer movies try to "make people think". it's easy to find that sort of thing tedious and even condescending, i guess, but i love it. if it works.

i just think the dialog sucked, the music cues were terrible and the ending was underwhelming. did anyone actually care when rachel died?

i think the batman cared

did anyone actually care when rachel died?

sure!

I cared enough to keep thinking she was actually alive, and then the end of the film came and I was all "WTF"

I saw it last yesterday. I liked it, but two things struck me:

1)Gotham City. Remember the first two movies, and parts of the last, where Gotham seemed like this awesome alternative reality New York City? Now it just looks like a city. Wasn't this shot in Chicago? It doesn't look like Gotham. It looks like Chicago.

2)The batman voice has gotten really, really bad. Ruining it for the future bad.

Yeah, the Bale-Batman growl voice is kind of distracting most of the time. I've got no gripes about the real (and sometimes boring) look of Gotham. The films are already stylized enough with Batman and any villain he comes across as it is.

(Although I did think that for a city the supposed size of Gotham, Gotham General Hospital seemed kind of small)

I don't have a problem with the Batman voice because I think of it in the same terms as "Bruce Wayne, Idiotic Playboy Billionaire" in that Wayne isn't all that good at pulling off the masquerade-requiring portions of his life.

the batman animated series pulled off the bw/batman voice change much better.