Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

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.

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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. :/

in the final monologue, was i tripping, or did gary oldman actually call batman a "cyber defender"?

silent. Silent defender.

ha ha ha

i had just watched the obama speech about america's cyber defenses, must have been why i was tripping

*spoiler*

Did anybody think the gay sex scene with Oldman and Eckhart was unnecessary?

xpost To be fair, Batman is pretty cyber.

at the theatre i was at people kept screaming out "I LOVE YOU" in camp voices during the 3-way dent-bale-eckhart conversations

it was obnoxious but funny

oldman-bale-eckhart, ya mean?

I was pleasantly surprised at how well-behaved our crowd was. Normally they're bringing crying babies and actually taking pictures of themselves in the theatre (seriously, wtf?)

oldman-bale-eckhart, ya mean?

-- kenan

see, that's what GOOD ACTING does

i was disappointed that Shaquille O'Neal didn't have a cameo

the ayn rand comment upthread is wrong. the first act has pacing issues to be sure, but once we get to the part of the story nolan really wanted to tell, it's amazing. beautifully made.

except i keep calling him "dent" instead of "gordon", possibly because with that big mustache he looks a lot like a "harvey"

more like first and third act

yeah too bad about shaquille but at least you got tiny lister / zeus, right?

has anybody revisted the Burton/Shumacher Batman movies?

They didn't hold up for me as well as I thought. I still liked Burton's Batman but hated Batman Returns on repeat viewing.

Won't even touch the Shumacher's, which were crap

deeply underrated

I will still stand up for the third Batman movie as being great campy fun, with codpieces.

xpost, moonship otm

I might have to see that again now, actually, to wash all this coal-dust-colored moral gravity off me.

Madness is like gravity, indeed.

what's funny about the scene is that the thing on top of the helmet that looks an awful lot like a blender is actually the top of a commercial coffee grinder ... "caffeine'll kill ya!"

i forget exactly what the movie landscape was like when that came out but IIRC we were all suffering through a glut of surreal weirdly-lit fantasy-landscape movies like "city of lost children" and "nightmare before christmas" and whatnot and that whole OTT style (is there a name for it?) was starting to get pretty tired.

At least the Batman credit card ("never leave the cave without it") was saved for the next movie.

Lines uttered by Arnold Scwarzenegger (as Mr Freeze) in "Batman & Robin"

we were all suffering through a glut of surreal weirdly-lit fantasy-landscape movies

I feel like right now we're suffering through the Age Of The Thinly Veiled Meatphor. Usually for the war on terror, or Iraq, or what have you. You know what we really need? Better porn.

here's another thing we're suffering through: movies where people casually shoot each other without warning ... at points "the dark knight" started to feel a lot like "the departed" or "children of men" or "no country for old men" (specifically with the way GRITTY GUN VIOLENCE was deployed) and i don't have a whole lot of patience for that. a lot of times during the dark knight i was like "oh for god's sake, will the director please stop having hapless beat cops get shot for no reason". i actually sympathize with armond white on that point.