The Dark Knight

Ok, this far into the thread I am not spoiler alerting. Joker-in-drag was a very funny, very depraved scene. The movie was very excellent in jolting you around, not just with the action sequences, but in how you viewed the characters.
 
Great movie. Ledger was excellent. It's apples and oranges, but I didn't think anyone would surpass Nicholson's Joker. Ledger blew it out of the water.

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Only thing I didn't like was the political commentary on domestic spying. I interpreted it as "It's bad, but we really need it right now, and we'll get rid of it as soon as we're done".
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I finally saw this yesterday. Great movie. "Agent of Chaos" is right. The joker really made the movie. I liked the way they ended it too. Nothing like a little self sacrifice to make us all love the batman even more. Not to mention, batman taking the blame will probably help him in the future against the criminals who thought he always plays by the rules.

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Saw "The Dark Knight" about a week ago.

IMHO, it was somewhat too long and more complicated than I would have made a flick to suit my Batman needs, but it was very good and otherwise quite enjoyable.

Heath Ledger with a larger percentage of the screen time and a less complicated plot might have pleased me even more.

I think it could be unsuitable for the youngest of viewers, because it is so true to the Batman comics that I read as a pre-teenager: dark, sinister and violent and each episode featured very evil evil doers doing evil for evil purposes, evilly.

I wasn't a fan of the campy thirty minute TV episodes in the sixties.

"Bam!", "Whamo!!," Zap!!!"

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The individual cartoon panels in the DC comic book stories, some of which I still possess, were certainly more static, less graphic and less revealing of ongoing sadism than was this 152 minute long movie.

Batman uses mystery, mayhem, terror and torture to fight the villains in Gotham City, because that's what the villains themselves deal in.

He has no superpowers; he uses superior intellect, deception, more violent violence and much better gadgets to suppress and thwart the bad guys,

A comic book storyboard of cartoon drawings leaves more to the imagination than complete motion picture scenes can depict.

So I could have been happy with a shorter, sleeker screenplay with fewer subplots or total episodes, although very, very little of it was boring or pointless.

It ran toward the length of a Terrence Malick epic and, personally, I prefer my Batman stories a bit closer to comic book brevity in plot and message.

If this movie had a fault for me, I thought it revealed too much belabored detail and/or took too much time to tell the story.

But that's probably why other people liked it so much and their preference is certainly as equally valid as mine.

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This movie's a stylish, well-made, shadowy, action-filled tale with precious little redemption or salvation, just as the stories in the comic books were - but those pulpy pages were much more succinct and far less expensive than a movie ticket.

It was quite good and you certainly get your monies worth of moviemaking magic, so be sure to see "The Dark Knight," if you're a fan.

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I liked it a lot. Saw it last night. Give it a B+. I went in with lower expectations than most thinking it would be good not great in fear of being letdown after all of the hype. Thought Oldman, Freeman, Caine and Ledger's performances were great (Although I wouldnt say Oscar worthy). Bale and Eckhart were solid (although I kinda laughed when I saw Eckhart as Two Face, reminded me of the Terminator). Gyllenhaal was definately a step down from Holmes and was pretty annoying. Better than Batman Begins, but I dont think it was as good as everyone was making it up to be. Ledger's death had a lot to do with that. Definately not the film of the decade or whatever but it is certainly a fun ride. Cant wait for the 3rd to come out!
 
Anyone else think Batman should grow a mustache in the 3rd installment?

Edit: And I think Bale should portray Bruce Wayne as Patrick Bateman.
 
Thought it was great, but not as good as the first. I'm I alone in this?

Also thought Joker was great but actually not as creepy as suggested. Would have liked to see them keep him in dark lighting more and not reveal his entire face as much or as early on. Would have liked the suspense of not seeing Joker's full face for a while.

Liked the Harvey character but not two-face. Hope he died and doesn't make future appearances. Looked too much like The Terminator.

Are more of these new Batmans planned?
 
I thought it was really good, too. My only problem with the film is that it became increasingly comic bookish towards the end. That may be a strange comment about a comic book movie, but I thought that the reason that Batman Begins worked so well was that it brought in so much realism to the genre. By the end of this one, Harvey Dent was completely unbelievable, especially with the horrible makeup job. I felt like Nolan abandoned his ground a little. Also, I thought that Rachel was terrible. Katie Holmes was even worse in the first one, but Maggie Gyllenhaal brought nothing to the table. I was openly rooting for her to die.
 
Joker walking out of the hospital in a nurse outfit reminded me so much of Lesley walking down South First every morning.
 
As an anatomist, I was uphauled at the depiction of Two-Face. I am supposed to believe that all the skin, fat, glands, veins, arteries and visible nerves burned off, but the muscles were left intact? Also the eye still works after burning off the eyelid? Not to mention that the muscles weren't in the right places and orientations. It's not that hard to look at an anatomical drawing online for reference folks.
 
Saw the movie last night. Still liked the first one better but was impressed.

Ledger did an outstanding job. The scene where he went to Dent's hospital room and sat down in drag and smiled and said hi - the way he smiled absolutely creeped me out. Too bad that he is gone now..would have liked to have seen more of his character.
 
I saw The Dark Knight again last night, this time on a non-IMAX screen. Completely different movie. I can't believe the difference. The sounds was not great. I guess that is because they filmed it in IMAX format they had to modify it for non-IMAX audio and video. Anyway, has anyone else watched it on both? At times it seemed as if the picture was truncated on the top and bottom.

The Dark Knight IMAX experinece was close to, if the the best movie watchng experince of my life. The non-IMAX was ho-hum.

If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor. Pay the extra money and see it as it was intended to be.
 
It was the small things about the Joker that I enjoyed the most, like washing his hands at the hospital or applauding Gordon's promotion.
 
Ledger kicked the **** out of this movie.......
Grades:
Ledger a+
Bale a-
Gyllenhaal just needed to get the hell out.....
 
Rumor has Johnny Depp as the Riddler in the next Batman, Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the Penguin. However Nolan has stated that he doesn't like the Penguin so who knows.
 
IMO, it was not the best comic book action movie ever. I think that Batman Begins was definitely better. I would give it an A-.
 
Saw it last week. Loved it. Ledger was PHENOMENAL and deserves all the praise he is getting. I didn't really like the ending, for what it's worth, but that didn't ruin it for me.
 
For all of you people bemoaning the Maggie Gyllenhall upgrade, seriously, what the hell are you smoking? The whole reason for the change in the first place is because this script required the Rachel Dawes character to be somewhat emotionally torn between Wayne vs. Dent, and everyone involved in the production knew there was no way in hell Katie Holmes little wooden-acting *** would ever be able to pull it off.
Gyllenhall is actually capable of acting. To have had to watch Mrs. Cruise try to pull off the emotions and nuances Gyllenhall did prior to being blown up would have been painful and embarrassing. For those of you complaining about her as being "not as hot", that's the equivalent of saying "damn, I wish Keanu Reeves could've taken over for Ledger, Freeman, or Caine because he sure is good looking." Seriously, WTF?!?! You're idiots if you think Holmes could've come off unscathed. She has nothing in her acting history to even suggest she could have been remotely serviceable. She barely had any lines in Batman Begins and she was universally derided for being the weakest aspect of that movie by a mile.
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