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Film: The Dark Knight

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Didn't like it at all.

Christian Bale over-did the gruff bat-voice, Heath Ledger's performance was absurdly over-rated... and I found the whole thing a little too corny and preachy. There was so much bullshit dialogue and repitition about the whole vigilante question. And what the fuck was with the ending? I mean right at the end where he runs off into the night, being pursued by the police. Was that just supposed to be cool or something? Cause it didn't make much sense.
 
My opinion: It's ridiculously overrated. The editing is horrible, like they handed the job to someone with severe ADHD. Nolan does not know how to shoot action scenes and they end up looking incredibly muddled. Ledger did a great job as the Joker and when he was offscreen the film suffered. The plot is just overstuffed; it went on far too long and the addition of Two-Face so late in the film felt unnecessary. Bale is completely bland and unremarkable, and Gylenhall's character is nothing more than a cheap plot device. The endless moral pontification is ham-fisted and lodged down the audience's throat- so much for subtlety. All in all, I suppose it's much better than most superhero/comic book films, but nowhere near the "masterpiece" it's being touted as by fanboys. 6/10
 
This movie is as close to perfection as a movie can come. It is, without a doubt, the best film i have seen in my life. I loved every second of it. The only (if any) thing that i would have wished was different kind of ending. Would have loved this film even more (if possible) if the ending would have been more of a cliffhanger, implying another sequel was palned...
 
^It seemed to me that another sequel is planned. The challenge for the filmmakers is going to be creating a villain that can compete with Heath Ledger's Joker (the element that basically made Dark Knight a great movie). Batman Begins was kind of lame to me for some reason, even though it was better than every Batman movie since Batman Returns, and now I realize why: there wasn't really an inspirational villain. I wouldn't mind seeing another batman movie with joker in it if it weren't for Heath Ledger's death. Every one that comes out after this one will suffer because the attention will be shifted away from the villain (unless a miracle occurs) and the weaknesses in the other characters will come to light.
 
i thought the two villains in BB were perfect for that episode. they cover more ground than i ever thought possible in setting the scene for both the batman character AND the psychotic villainry to follow.

it is for this reason i hold BB above TDK, which, depsite it's brilliance, is "just another episode" (so to speak)
 
^Do you remember the old batman cartoon series from the mid-nineties, with lots of cameos from various villains? I thought it was genius at the time, and I definitely always settle for a lack of continuity if the next episode is mind-blowing. One of the things that made Dark Knight great was the lack of continuity in any of the Joker's history with regard to anything relevant to the actual Batman stories of the past. He was just a crazy fuck, as one of my friends who saw the film before me said, with no back story and no explanation as to how he is able to fund or engineer these massive set-ups. That made his character all the more fascinating, and I'd settle on speculating as to what his actual story is forever - if they come out with another comparable villain in the next film, whether it be a true sequel or not.
 
BB was outstanding, IMO, until the last 30 minutes or so, when--in counterpoint to what someone already posted--it felt like just another superhero movie. TDK was also just another superhero movie, but I felt it finessed it much better. And, as everyone knows, Ledger's show-stealing performance didn't hurt.
 
^Do you remember the old batman cartoon series from the mid-nineties, with lots of cameos from various villains? I thought it was genius at the time, and I definitely always settle for a lack of continuity if the next episode is mind-blowing. One of the things that made Dark Knight great was the lack of continuity in any of the Joker's history with regard to anything relevant to the actual Batman stories of the past. He was just a crazy fuck, as one of my friends who saw the film before me said, with no back story and no explanation as to how he is able to fund or engineer these massive set-ups. That made his character all the more fascinating, and I'd settle on speculating as to what his actual story is forever - if they come out with another comparable villain in the next film, whether it be a true sequel or not.

good observation. let's all prey that the corporate execs don't make spin offs explaining the character (darth vader, boba fett) and ruining the element of mystique.

batman, on the other hand, and to a lesser extent the context of gothem, both gained much from the setup in BB. something always felt incomplete to me, with a guy dressed up as a bat on a mission of simple vengeance and a town full of looneys. my suspension of disbelief was stretched thin. Not any more.

n.b. many years ago in my fandom daze i made many comparative comment of the batman and boba fett and found that they both share a number of similarities that make them so ultracool.
 
in a similar vain, I loved how you never get a straight answer about what happened to his face. just watched it again tonight. just as good the 2nd time around. sucks that he died. he was awesome.
 
just got my 2-disc special edition dvd today...i'm definitely disappointed in the lack of special features...i paid extra for those extra features...not only that, the "special" edition (idk whats so "special" about it) only comes in widescreen, which no one will ever convince me is better...especially on this (relatively) tiny tv...nothing like watching a movie on a tiny screen and then having it chopped in half by the fucking aspect bars...it was only a couple bucks extra, but now i'm thinking i should have went with the not-so-special full screen edition

whatever...really good movie...i'm gonna try and see it in IMAX when its re-released

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In retrospect, giving him no background was itself brilliant: it makes him look like more of an archetype, or even a force of nature than a human being.
 
Dark Night movie

Dark Knight, I found to be a excellent movie. It was full of action,and Heath Ledger's acting was superb. I could watch it again.My other favourite movie was AUSTRALIA.I feel Nicole Kidman's acting was the best she ever did.
 
Still enjoy watching this movie when I have nothing to do. Haven't really felt this way about an action movie since the first Matrix. Except in the Matrix I was amped by the fight scenes and in Dark Knight I get excited whenever the joker enters the scene.
 
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