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Post by buntcakepan on May 28, 2008 12:52:21 GMT -5
I can't fucking wait for this. Batman Begins really kicked ass three years ago and we've all been waiting for this sequel. Christopher Nolan is a great director and he'll once again prove it with this movie. I wish July would come sooner. Anybody else looking forward to this or are you some faggot who likes Superman instead?
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Post by The Question on May 29, 2008 11:45:27 GMT -5
Of all the bandwagon-jumping comic book adaptations that are flooding the cinema of late, this is one of the few that I genuinely can't wait to see and also think looks awesome...the only other one that is a blip on my radar right now alongside that is Hellboy II, the first one was a hell of a lot of fun (no pun intended).
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Post by mdgeist316 on May 29, 2008 12:14:03 GMT -5
This will probably be the only movie I see at theaters this summer. I remember going to see Batman Begins, and this parent wouldn't step out to take his little girl to the bathroom so she kept yelling "I gotta go potty!!". Of course, this lead to bawling and me not hearing most of the movie.
I'll wait a few weeks after release, then check it out.
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Post by infromthemist on Jul 7, 2008 17:23:51 GMT -5
I can't wait for the July 18th release of The Dark Knight. Christian Bale is one of my very favorite actors who has portrayed the Caped Crusader. However, I am VERY intrigued by Heath Ledger's final performance mainly because he doesn't even sound remotely like himself in the trailers. Now, I realize that actors tend to change their accents and whatnot in order to get into character. But Mr. Ledger has always retained certain distinctive elements of his voice (in other words, I always knew that it was him). But not this time. And I can't wait to see what acting brilliance he brings to the silver screen this time.
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Post by soucriant on Jul 8, 2008 10:05:22 GMT -5
I can't wait, either. Heath Ledger looks intense in the trailer, it really looks like his best performance. Spiderman pales in comparison to the almighty Batman.
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Post by shaggyrand on Jul 8, 2008 10:23:46 GMT -5
However, I am VERY intrigued by Heath Ledger's final performance... Yeah... I can't wait for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Pernassus either. That said Bale's Batman is ok... I just hope he's got a better 'Batman' voice in this one. He sounded like he was trying too hard in Begins.
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Post by infromthemist on Jul 8, 2008 12:49:09 GMT -5
However, I am VERY intrigued by Heath Ledger's final performance... Yeah... I can't wait for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Pernassus either. That said Bale's Batman is ok... I just hope he's got a better 'Batman' voice in this one. He sounded like he was trying too hard in Begins. I'm glad to see that whatever issues the family had concerning Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Pernassus were resolved. And I didn't really mind Bale's voice so much in Batman Begins, but as I said before, he is only one of my favorites: Val Kilmer was/is my all-time favorite Batman, although Bale does do an excellent job.
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Post by Hug_the_Dead on Jul 8, 2008 13:22:36 GMT -5
I was excited at first, but I'm annoyed by the fans. It's the same with Dane Cook.
Not only is the IMDb board the worst board EVER, but those who go there to actually talk about the movie always bring up Heath Ledger's death. I feel that many people will rate this a 10/10 just because it was one of Ledger's final performances.
I'm not saying I'll rate it a 1/10, but I doubt very many people will give it a fair rating. This could be the worst movie ever, and I have no doubt it will break the Top 250.
I'm no fan of Batman Begins, either. It was long and boring, and Batman was a sissy. Even the George Clooney Batman kicked more ass than Christian Bale's Batman.
But I am still excited to see if it's not boring or overlong.
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Post by The Question on Jul 9, 2008 9:50:26 GMT -5
I'm no fan of Batman Begins, either. It was long and boring, and Batman was a sissy. Even the George Clooney Batman kicked more ass than Christian Bale's Batman. But I am still excited to see if it's not boring or overlong. Why do you say these things when you know I will wedgie you them for it??
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Post by Hug_the_Dead on Jul 9, 2008 13:46:01 GMT -5
I'm no fan of Batman Begins, either. It was long and boring, and Batman was a sissy. Even the George Clooney Batman kicked more ass than Christian Bale's Batman. But I am still excited to see if it's not boring or overlong. Why do you say these things when you know I will wedgie you them for it?? Maybe I was anticipating it. I'll even say that Robin is a better hero than Bale's Batman.
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Post by morbidkid5458 on Jul 9, 2008 18:42:32 GMT -5
The Dark Knight is going to be wicked! It's funny coming from me because I don't even like Batman! The new Joker looks so badass though it's impossible for you not to be excited.
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Post by buntcakepan on Jul 17, 2008 23:13:24 GMT -5
Seeing it tomorrow at 10am. Ordered a ticket through Fandango for the first time.
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Post by Coffin Jim on Jul 17, 2008 23:19:42 GMT -5
Summer blockbuster? BOOOOO!
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Post by hardcockzombie on Jul 18, 2008 14:27:38 GMT -5
Go see it. Now. Don't wait. Just go see it already. Why haven't you left yet?
I had a smile on face every time Ledger was on screen. He was deliciously evil. I'm seriously contemplating going to see it again.
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Post by buntcakepan on Jul 18, 2008 15:40:50 GMT -5
This was the shit! Easily the greatest superhero movie ever made and one of the best movies ever made imo. See it for sure.
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Post by infromthemist on Jul 18, 2008 16:03:11 GMT -5
We're going to see this tomorrow and I can't wait! Glad to hear that it was "da bomb." ;D
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Post by buntcakepan on Jul 18, 2008 16:18:06 GMT -5
We're going to see this tomorrow and I can't wait! Glad to hear that it was "da bomb." ;D It'll blow you through the back wall of the theater. *uses Die Hard tagline for some reason? *
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Post by infromthemist on Jul 18, 2008 20:02:39 GMT -5
And I'll probably remember that line when the movie starts....
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Post by infromthemist on Jul 20, 2008 2:57:03 GMT -5
This was THE BEST movie I have seen in a very long time. Heath Ledger's Joker was nothing short of true brilliance and the rest of the cast was superb. Easily a 10/10. Damn that was an AWESOME movie! I'd see it again in a New York minute.
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Post by The Question on Jul 20, 2008 4:23:01 GMT -5
For those of you who've seen it: May giant batarangs fly out of your butts for seeing it before me, damn it. ;D
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Post by infromthemist on Jul 20, 2008 11:51:30 GMT -5
For those of you who've seen it: May giant batarangs fly out of your butts for seeing it before me, damn it. ;D Well, you know the remedy for that...get your ass to a theater and watch it. ;D
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Post by shaggyrand on Jul 20, 2008 14:24:59 GMT -5
Jast saw it this morning... I don't gush love for anything... but I'm real close to gushing in my pants just thinking about it. Nolan made a good movie, period. I hate the 'best superhero movie ever!!!', It's just a damn good movie.
Edit: I can spell.
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Post by Non-Believer Yet Damned on Jul 20, 2008 15:42:17 GMT -5
8/10 I couldn't help but think that when Bruce Wayne was talking at the dinner table with Rachel and Harvey Dent, I heard Patrick Bateman speaking. And I can’t be the only one who thought Ledger sounded a lot like Richard Dreyfuss?
I really enjoyed it, but I liked Iron Man more.
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Post by Tara ntula on Jul 20, 2008 15:53:09 GMT -5
I thought it was a very good film, which will be remembered as great due to Heath's fucking amazingly phenomenal performance. Can't say that it deserves a 9.7 or whatever in the hell it's getting, but it was very well done. I particularly liked the opening heist scene and I thought the interrogation room scene was pure brilliance--Heath's Joker literally gave me the chills--and the scene with the nurse's uniform was nothing short of excellent. Like others have mentioned, I'm pretty freaked out by Bale's Batman voice. He works so well as Wayne, but it's a little weird for me when he's in the suit.
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Post by obscure437 on Jul 20, 2008 18:14:02 GMT -5
The hype for this film is really fucking annoying me. If I do see it, it'll be a download. Fuck blockbuster cinema. FUCK IT! ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHH!
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Post by HymenLick on Jul 21, 2008 4:23:43 GMT -5
I am literally existing for this films release. Please god let me live long enough just to see this flick. Please?
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Post by The Question on Jul 27, 2008 11:00:18 GMT -5
I got to see this last night - excellent film, like Batman Begins it showed that just because you're crafting a blockbuster from comic book source material, you don't have to treat the audience like they have low IQs or cater to those whose attention spans are around the 2-minute mark. It's a good, old-fashioned, solid, well-crafted movie and beats the shit out of anything so mainstream that's come out in a long time. It's not flawless, for me there's one sequence in particular I think in retrospect could have been excised: The bit with the boats and the detonators. I liked the point it was proving, but I think by that time the dramatic thrust would have been fine with threat to the hostages and the Joker himself, and a more effective way of doing the same thing would have been to pull a similar trick between them, maybe the J-man trying to prove his point by just trying to get two friends to shoot each other or something...to me, that would have been more immediate, personal and intense, and less corny like the boat thing, it was the one big false note to me, like when the people on the bridge in Spider-Man started jeering the Green Goblin and with that "You mess with him, you mess with all of us", sentimental gibberish. That being said, for a movie like this to juggle so many balls in the air, to consistently sustain interest and indeed defy expectations, and to be a mainstream movie so full of ideas, is no mean feat in this day and age, where it's become acceptable practice to take easily saleable properties and franchises and haul them out with half-assed scripts just to turn over a quick buck. Ledger, Caine, Freeman, Eckhart and Bale were all great (and I still don't get the problems with Batman's voice...it's meant to be animalistic, intimidating and to serve the purpose of disguising his normal voice...one thing that always used to bug me about some superhero stuff was that they talked EXACTLY the same as they do in a mask, and to people they know in both their personas and nobody said... "Hey, has anyone told you you sound just like Peter Parker?"...or at worst it's the hoarse whisper of doom like Michael Keaton's Batman where criminals alternate between "Sorry, I didn't catch that, could you repeat what you just said?" or running away in case he gives them a throat infection). But I also think more kudos should be going to Gary Oldman - goddamn, that man is such a chameleon, and the fact his Jim Gordon is perfect yet understated means he goes unnoticed among the masks and the makeup, but he provides a lot of this movie's emotional core and delivers, at the end, a speech which could have seemed awkward and hammy in any other actor's hands.
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Post by Non-Believer Yet Damned on Jul 28, 2008 0:50:12 GMT -5
I saw it a second time today (don't worry...they got no cash from me.) and I noticed a pairing of lines that I missed the first time round.
Early in the movie.
Bruce Wayne-- “How will it hold up against dogs?”
And near the very end.
Batman--“Send the dogs on me”
Cool eh?
On another note. I was trying to catch the dates on Dents coin(s). I think they were 1927 and 192? The mintmark is on the reverse so an exact match is impossible, but I'd love to know the dates. Anyone know for sure?
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Post by revannadynamite on Aug 28, 2008 15:19:08 GMT -5
Best Batman Movie EVAR.
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Post by darksidegirl26 on Sept 26, 2008 22:39:04 GMT -5
LOVED The Dark Knight. Has to be one of my favorite batman movies along side Batman Returns and Mask of Phantasm. Everything was great. Still hate the Rachel character. I think in Batman Begins, it should've been Talia Al'Ghul instead, to create some tension. Harvey Dent was good. The make-up the end, well....I wasn't expecting it. Batman's voice? I still don't like it. I'm sorry, but I think Michael Keaton and Kevin's voices were much better IMO. Ahhh....and the joker! What can I say about the joker that hasn't already been said? Heath Ledger, where you are man, I salute you! He really MADE the joker character. Although I still have a soft spot for Nicholson's and Hamil's (who is my #1). So all in all, despite the way overblown hype, this one definietly lives up to it. Let's hope it beats Titanic!
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