So who's seen it? Reviews?
So who's seen it? Reviews?
Went to see it yesterday. My friends liked it a lot. I thought it was okay, but found it kinda weird for some reason. Some things just seemed out of place, somehow. Eh, I'm very picky with movies though. This could also have something to do with the fact that we ended up in the wrong room and had to wait for the next showing to start, so we ended up spending a total of 4 hours there.Really long movie...but overall entertaining. Heath Ledger does a good job as Joker and of course, it's always nice to get a nice look at Christian Bale.
It's almost like Titanic mania...I didn't want to jump on that bandwagon but the way people are talking about it, I have to see it. It's been sold out at every theater here since 12am friday. I finally managed to find a ticket and am going this afternoon. Ideally, I wanted to see it in IMAX but that's sold out for the next week!
It was really good, but it was sort of like Spider-Man 3, where even though the actual content of the movie was great, it's like there was too much is going on, and when it was over I felt emotionally drained.
They should have cut out all the Hong Kong parts, at least, and also added some CGI to Gotham in order to make it not look exactly like Chicago, where it was filmed, which I thought was stupid and distracting.
The person I saw it with actually compared it to Spider-Man 2, I'm too tired to remember why...something to do with the villans...I don't feel as though it had too much going on, or emotionally drained. I kind of liked how it didn't really effect me emotionally actually. Maybe you felt that way because it was so long.
I noticed license plates said Illinois...bugged me for some reason.
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This is one epic masterpiece of a comic book film If I've ever seen one. The next time you watch a comic-to-film adaptation with this much creativity, intelligence, larger than life action, dead on characterizations, emotion, and acting that makes it look like these characters walked right off the pages of the comics, it's probably because it's a Christopher Nolan film.
There are so many amazing performances with A list talent that it's hard even for Ledger's incredible, untouchable Joker performance to make you forget about all the other characters moving this story along. It's also very hard to pinpoint a favorite scene in the movie since there are so many absolutely brilliant moments peppered throughout the movie. I could go on, but now seems like a good place to stop.
You do not want to miss THE DARK KNIGHT. Christopher Nolan takes this film to heights no other Batman film would ever dare to go.
Perfect 10 IMO.
Saw it last night. One of the best movies I've seen in theater in a very long time.
People who love comic book batman and the one with jim carrey and arnold might not like it. However, anyone who is interested in movies, or even human nature, can probably find something interesting in the film.
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The movie's getting enough praise, so here's some more criticism (more like nitpicking):
Bale's Batman voice still sounds like Alec Baldwin with throat cancer. I know he's trying to hide his identity, but it sounds awful.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, while a better actress than Katie Holmes, had terrible makeup that made her look like a saggy-eyed pig.
***Minor Harvey Dent-related SPOILERS***
Two Face was under-utilized, ala Venom in Spider-Man 3, making me think he should have just been revealed at the very end as a setup for the third movie.
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There was some sloppy directing in the action scenes that felt disjointed. You could tell that Nolan was pushing the running length and had to make trade-offs with certain scenes, (like how the party scene abruptly ended) to avoid the ire of the producers. Like I said before, the China scenes should have been cut.
Ledger's Joker performance was as good as the hype would have you believe, but it was so good that Batman felt like more of a supporting character than the main star, which admittedly happens a lot in superhero movies.
The movie didn't "feel" like a Batman movie, so much as a crime drama set in Chicago that happened to feature a real man pretending to be Batman--it's almost too realistic.
Gotham City is a character in the Batman stories, and needs to feel more imposing and massive than the daytime shots of Chicago used in the movie. They should have touched it up with CGI to make it feel a little more fantastic.
Near the end of the movie there were extended shots of Batman running, which looked totally ridiculous. Just like zombies, the problem with Batman is that the longer the camera stays on him--the more we see him--the less believable and more comedic he becomes.
Despite all these nitpicks, it's a wonderful movie, 4 stars, etc., that pretty much everyone should see, regardless of being into comic books or not. Perhaps my complaint about the feel of the movie is actually one of the film's virtues, since the story is allowed to speak for itself instead of relying on comic book nostalgia.
Semispoiler + semijoke:
I couldn't help thinking:
Now, if batman was gamma, and shot the joker when the joker crashed that first party scene (where he came in with the helicopter), then all of these problems down the road would have been eliminated. So.... +1 for eliminating scum.
There were a few situations where I was like "Man, Batman really needs to just carry on his Bat-Belt a Bat-Magnum or something, like Dirty Harry". But perhaps that leaves room open for new movie The Dirty Knight.
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rofl, I thought both of these things at numerous points during the movie.
I hadn't thought of that, but I agree that it would be interesting to see how the movie would pan out as such. It also would've been a great way to draw attention away from the Joker character and the thoughts that I know I had, at least, about how they would set up the third movie, what with Ledger's death.Two Face was under-utilized, ala Venom in Spider-Man 3, making me think he should have just been revealed at the very end as a setup for the third movie.
Definitely agree on this one; I think this will be a series unlike any other in that the second movie will be remembered as the best, because there's just no way the third can be as amazing without Ledger, and the emphasis on him (and Eckart) in this movie resulting in the detraction from the Batman character is really going to be hard to overcome without Ledger's presence. It leaves a massive hole to be filled that I don't think Bale and Eckart, although talented actors, are going to be able to fill in such a way that the third lives up to the second.Ledger's Joker performance was as good as the hype would have you believe, but it was so good that Batman felt like more of a supporting character than the main star, which admittedly happens a lot in superhero movies.
Hadn't thought of that. The lack of Wayne Manor and the emphasis on the villains really does take away from the idea of it being a "Batman" movie, although the emphasis on the uniquely "Batman" villains helps the cause, I think.The movie didn't "feel" like a Batman movie, so much as a crime drama set in Chicago that happened to feature a real man pretending to be Batman--it's almost too realistic.
Agreed. They could have taken a few cues (but not too many) from Frank Miller to ad that larger-than-life comic touchGotham City is a character in the Batman stories, and needs to feel more imposing and massive than the daytime shots of Chicago used in the movie. They should have touched it up with CGI to make it feel a little more fantastic.
Well said.Despite all these nitpicks, it's a wonderful movie, 4 stars, etc., that pretty much everyone should see, regardless of being into comic books or not. Perhaps my complaint about the feel of the movie is actually one of the film's virtues, since the story is allowed to speak for itself instead of relying on comic book nostalgia.
But, for a certainty, back then,
We loved so many, yet hated so much,
We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...
Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
Whilst our laughter echoed,
Under cerulean skies...