Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

a lil heavy handed but yeah -- forget joker, the opening scene is one of the best opening scenes in an action movie everrr

My least favorite major hit of the last five years. I put it on my Netflix queue to see if I still hate it.

a lil heavy handed but yeah -- forget joker, the opening scene is one of the best opening scenes in an action movie everrr

Too bad about the rest of the movie.

probably my most favorite major hit of the past 5 years

you should put it on your netflix queue to see if you still love it

I finally did: I was right.

well we haven't heard from deej yet

Come Anticipate Rewatching The Dark Knight.

I will always have love for this because of the nice shots of Chicago and because I took my dad to the IMAX rerelease and he geeked hilariously hard over it, but that ending monologue never made any serious sense to me until someone on Tumblr captioned a picture of Kanye with it in the wake of the Taylor Swift fiasco

you should put it on your netflix queue to see if you still love it

― real s1ock (s1ocki), Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:57 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i own it but ill put it in my netflix queue anyway

for balance

Come Anticipate Rescreening The Dark Knight.

So I've had it up to here waiting for a new Batman film to come out.

I don't think you actually have.

haha

I agree w Matt about Ledger being the only reason I will watch this movie.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

well, that and THE BATMAN VOICE.

other reasons-

michael caine
morgan freeman
looks great
fighting/action scenes & setpieces all great

love catching bits of this movie on HBO, as far as heavy-handed blockbusters go, there's a lot of bells and whistles and actors I like.

xpost!

do people think "I like michael caine/morgan freeman"?

what a very strange question

That scene w/Morgan Freeman and the dude who has figured out that Bruce Wayne is or is funding Batman is A+

i can't remember if it worked better the first time i saw it or not, but i think the movie would be pretty great if Nolan was capable of really injected an element of chaos (and fear of that chaos) into the movie. prob the best non-ledger scene in the movie is just before the big action set piece in the middle, with the police convoy setting out and you're wondering just what in the hell is about to happen...

i think the first one is a more enjoyable watch tbh

ilx hates all cinema, it's a conspiracy to send us back to the flipbook era

nah that's just morbs pining for what he grew up with

because he's old

(<3 morbs)

Morbs =

http://images.hollywood.com/site/man_from_earth_poster.jpg

This movie is great

BUT

I did like The Prestige more than either Batman movies.

prestige love always kind of astounds me.

because no morgan freeman in it right

The Prestige was awesome!

i saw the twist coming p early and i think maybe didn't enjoy as much as i should have? might re'screen'

bowie makes up for no freeman, obvs

which "twist" iirc there are like 3

also prestige was raaadd

one of my fave flicks of the 2000s

I think it's kind of a toss-up as to whether "The Prestige" or "Memento" is better, but yeah "The Prestige" is fucking great.

Memento didn't take it far enough. not only should movies be shot in reverse order, they should be shot with scenes from other movies spliced in

I might have liked The Dark Knight had Bowie played the Maggie Gyllenhaal character.

David or Sam?

Angela.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-oldwest/JamesBowie.jpg

When I told you that if Gotham no longer needed Batman we could be together, I meant it. But I'm not sure the day will come when you will no longer need Batman. I hope it does and if it does I will be there, but only as your *friend.* I'm sorry to let you down. If you lose your faith in me, please keep your faith in people. Love, now and always, - Rachel.

ahahahaa

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_62MBVz5zYo4/TCMFT6ih46I/AAAAAAAABWE/loYR49gOl8U/s1600/sam_bowie3.jpg

Bruce, don't make me your only chance fr a normal life :(

prob the best non-ledger scene in the movie is just before the big action set piece in the middle, with the police convoy setting out and you're wondering just what in the hell is about to happen...

kind of agree, and did like the chase scene as a whole, but that was the point at which i began to disengage from the film. and i'd managed to fool myself into thinking that it must be nearly over, so i spent the next hour+ in increasing frustration that it was still fucking going. i mean, i love ledger, freeman and caine in it, but really did not enjoy this film.

then again, i haven't liked anything nolan's done since memento, so i guess i'm doomed to hate.

I agree that The Prestige was better than both Batmans. Even if it kinda relied on the twists, they weren't there just for pure mindscrew value, they actually added depth to both main characters. Inception was probably more impressive and than The Prestige, but at times it felt like Nolan was too much in love with its cleverness, the plot was kinda needlessly complex. The Prestige was more streamlined, basically just a ripping yarn with good characters, with no particular message or anything. But the best bits in Inception were still better than anything else Nolan has ever done, hard to say which of the two is better.

Rewatched Begins last night for first time--it really is a bit of a mess. Kind of surprised, actually, that it did well enough to spawn a (much, much better) sequel. Ra's as villain? Tedious and silly first hour? Stupid supervillain microwave panic gas plot? What IS this shit? It's as though they did their 'Batman & Robin' before their 'Batman Returns', rather than after.

ehhh....Batman is a kind of ludicrous premise to begin with...I imagine all the Year One stuff is at least a little necessary if you want to even begin to take it seriously.

I haven't seen Inception yet. I heard it was loosely based off another Christopher Priest novel--A Dream of Wessex--which I've wanted to read for a long time. I imagine I'll read it before I go see it (and yes that means that I will miss the experience of seeing it in the theater, but my policy dovetails nicely with my poverty...)