Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

see, none of those are short for "Alfred"

How about the film ending with a real cliffhanger ending, with the Batmobile balancing on the edge of a cliff and Alfred says "Wait a minute, I've got an idea"? Oh never mind...

Saw this in IMAX last night. Really good, though strangely derivative of No Country for Old Men and Saw. Take those three movies and you've got a thesis on the American psyche in this decade, I guess.

I loved the heavy Mies van der Rohe influence on the interiors (which fits with the whole Chicago skyline). Also interesting how careful Nolan was to exclude any easily identifiable landmarks (Sears Tower, Hancock Tower, etc.) and focus on the more anonymous ones.

In IMAX, the Hong Kong section was especially amazing.

This film was shot before anyone but festival audiences saw No Country for Old Men, oui?

i tink i might see this tonight, i am very excited

not to get too OT here but is "saw" actually worth seeing eazy? usually mainstream horror movies come out & every year theres a couple where people are like but this ones DIFFERENT & SPECIAL in some way & every time theyre not (in my experience)

True. No idea if NCfOM the screenplay was circulated much before then, or if it's just (coin)cidence.

I've only seen enough of Saw clips to know it's a manclown taunting people and setting traps for them from afar.

But... The joker IS a 'manclown' and two-face DOES make decisions based on the toss of a coin, these are established characters devised way before 'saw' or 'no country' and as such it's bullshit to suggest they are derivative of the saw bloke and anton chigurrrrrrr.

Great movie by the way, a big step up from batman begins in my opinion.

And the pencil trick was just brilliant!

Reminiscent of Saw??????

y'know Batman villains and their traps, etc.

kinda foolish to say this is derivative of sources that are actually predated by all this stuff in the Batman mythos (coin-flipping, death traps, etc.)

saw and no country for old men = "IT IS DARK AND OSTENSIBLY NIHILISTIC"

yea i didnt make the connection b/w jigsaw=joker & two-face = chigurh, that doesnt really hold water

i always thought chigurh's coin fetish was pretty lol two-face.

And the pencil trick was just brilliant!

-- spaghetti, Friday, July 18, 2008 12:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

theatre had big lols at this

And I'm out of this thread until I see it.

"pencil trick" is enough of a harbinger of spoilers for me to know when I should leave.

The coin, the clown, you guys are right. As a moviegoer, and as far as thinking about what fears they're playing on, they made me think of these other movies.

i still can't get over how lame bale's "angry batman" growl was.

i can get over it. but it is kinda lame, like he's gargling gravel.

I had trouble with it for the first half-hour or so, eventually I got over it.

they should've gotten the dude from the animated series to do it

kevin conroy

I came three times. I'm seeing it again today

you did clean up the mess? just saying, i used to me an usher at a movie theater. be considerate.

buttered his popcorn --

no worries, I put garbage bags on my seat and the two adjoining....

through probably should have done that BEFORE I came....

whatever that shit is that they put on the popcorn, it sure as hell ain't butter.

really it is the nastiest shit ever. try heating it up in the morning! after i left that job i couldn't eat popcorn for like a year.

Canola oil if I'm not mistaken.

I don't know if perhaps I've just changed tastes over time, or if they've really tampered with the formula, but I absolutely abhor movie theatre popcorn now. It actually makes me feel sick to have more than a little of it, and I used to ingest it as a kid.

I had trouble with it for the first half-hour or so, eventually I got over it.

-- Simon H

i had the opposite reaction! i thought it was harder to get over at the end of the movie, when there was less cops-and-robbers and more batman in general.

i was just trying to explain this movie to my mom and i think whatever reviewer called it "untouchables with a batman in it" sort of nailed it, or at least the good parts of the movie. i thought the cops-and-robbers stuff was amazing and fantastic. the police funeral, the car chase, the scenes with the captured joker in the major crimes unit. the middle third, i guess. i would've been as happy with a batman-less movie of gary oldman & the MCU vs the joker!

I feel sorry for Mamma Mia. well ,not really because it's rubbish, but I wonder how many people attended the midnight premiere of that movie last night. I didn't see anybody going to see it at the theatre I went to.

x-post

the popcorn itself really isn't so bad. the buttery sludge they ask if you want on the popcorn is what i'm talking about.

xpost oh and the heist and hospital scenes. incredible!

Oldman was brilliant, but did anybody else think his accent poked out a hell of a lot more than it did in Batman Begins?

i think they switched oils fairly recently but i could be totally wrong

the only time ive ever gotten sick from movie theater popcorn was ironically at a theater that used REAL BUTTER, unfortunately they fucking soaked it in that stuff

agreed bloomer. the problem is I don't really like my popcorn plain unless I oversalt it, so I naturally ask for that "butter" concoction.

it really tastes like it came out of a cat though

Oldman was brilliant, but did anybody else think his accent walrus 'stache poked out a hell of a lot more than it did in Batman Begins?

ahahahahahahhahaha

just bought my ticket to today's afternoon show. hope all the mexicans don't steal the good seats

ana ortiz deserved more screen time ... maybe she'll come back in the next one?

completely unintentional xpost >:-(

it really tastes like it came out of a cat though

Unheated fresh from the container it looks like the bags of human fat from Fight Club.

*spoiler*

anybody that would have preferred to see Katie Holmes get blown up instead?

lols thats a pretty big fucking spoiler dude

Popcorn butter....is people!

that probably deserves a much bigger spoiler tag

i'd ask a mod to delete tat, but i don't want to spoil the movie for the mod

that's my fault, I forgot you can't merely just add extra lines to the message by hitting "enter" multiple times.

sorry about that, hope nobody who hasn't seen the movie is reading. I remember the angry messages on Yahoo! MOvies when Sixth Sense came out for that reason.

oh, i forgot about that too. good to know. :-(

well, i don't know about you all, i saw 2 of the 3 big twists coming but i didn't see that one!

“Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore.

I am totally ambivalent to report: Batman is still a comic book.

That is not to imply that I did not gain weighty moral insights from this masterpiece. For instance: it's wrong to spy on people, except when it works. :/