I’ll go see it again for sure here in the next week.
I thought 2 face was pretty bad ass myself… Eckhart did a great transition from do-gooder to revenge seeker in no time flat.
I thought 2.5 hours was just the right length, gave everyone enough time to build their character without being too long.
Cant wait to see how they do the next movie with batman starting out as bad public image.
[quote]Cable wrote:
I think Aaron Eckhart did a great job as Dent, but come on, did he really need to look like a shitty rendition of the terminator? I was hoping for a Two-Face that was completely original and… grisly.
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And what is a terminator endo-skeleton a rendition of?? After all Harvey Dent/Two-Face is still just human…and it remains to be seen what his face will look like in the near future. Even at its present stage, it looks better than Schumacher/Burton’s “freak” accident with a pack of Kool-Aid and Laffy Taffy.
Awesome movie…picks up were Batman Begins left off. Joins Iron Man in how super hero movies SHOULD be done.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
Cable wrote:
I think Aaron Eckhart did a great job as Dent, but come on, did he really need to look like a shitty rendition of the terminator? I was hoping for a Two-Face that was completely original and… grisly.
And what is a terminator endo-skeleton a rendition of?? After all Harvey Dent/Two-Face is still just human…and it remains to be seen what his face will look like in the near future. Even at its present stage, it looks better than Schumacher/Burton’s “freak” accident with a pack of Kool-Aid and Laffy Taffy.
Awesome movie…picks up were Batman Begins left off. Joins Iron Man in how super hero movies SHOULD be done.
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I think Iron man and Hulk actually joined Batman Begins. And then the Dark Knight shut the door and locked it.
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
Cable wrote:
I think Aaron Eckhart did a great job as Dent, but come on, did he really need to look like a shitty rendition of the terminator? I was hoping for a Two-Face that was completely original and… grisly.
And what is a terminator endo-skeleton a rendition of?? After all Harvey Dent/Two-Face is still just human…and it remains to be seen what his face will look like in the near future. Even at its present stage, it looks better than Schumacher/Burton’s “freak” accident with a pack of Kool-Aid and Laffy Taffy.
Awesome movie…picks up were Batman Begins left off. Joins Iron Man in how super hero movies SHOULD be done.
I think Iron man and Hulk actually joined Batman Begins. And then the Dark Knight shut the door and locked it.
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Good point,along with a Lucius Fox super-encrypted pass code offered to those that are “worthy.”
Great movie.
SPOILERS
I loved the scenes with the emotional/social introspection, i.e Joker talking to Batman in the interrogation room, and Joker talking to dent on the hospital bed. I also thought the ferry scene was brilliant.
I also thought the action was well done and I appreciate Nolan panning the camera out to actually see the fight scenes where as in Batman Begins it was jerked all over the place. The assault scene on Tokyo was probably the best I’ve seen.
And the Joker “Magic Trick” where he made the pencil disappear was pure, unadulterated genius.
This is the only movie in the past couple of years to keep me on my toes throughout the whole movie, whenever I was thinking something wouldn’t happened it did, and vice versa.
Can’t wait for this to come on DVD.
Damn, En Sabur Nah.
Your post is riddled with spoilers. Like a spoiler sandwich.
Jesus Christ man I put the tag.
Who comes in this thread NOT expecting to see spoilers?
I doubt anyone who hasn’t seen the movie would just randomly join in at this stage and complain about spoilers.
SPOILERS
“Ha ha ha ha ha ho he he he hah… And I thought my jokes were bad.”
[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:
Jesus Christ man I put the tag.
Who comes in this thread NOT expecting to see spoilers?
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I’m kidding, Apoc. “Why so serious?”
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
En Sabah Nur wrote:
Jesus Christ man I put the tag.
Who comes in this thread NOT expecting to see spoilers?
I’m kidding, Apoc. “Why so serious?”
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LOL.
Epic. Absolutely epic.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
Cable wrote:
I think Aaron Eckhart did a great job as Dent, but come on, did he really need to look like a shitty rendition of the terminator? I was hoping for a Two-Face that was completely original and… grisly.
And what is a terminator endo-skeleton a rendition of?? After all Harvey Dent/Two-Face is still just human…and it remains to be seen what his face will look like in the near future. Even at its present stage, it looks better than Schumacher/Burton’s “freak” accident with a pack of Kool-Aid and Laffy Taffy.
Awesome movie…picks up were Batman Begins left off. Joins Iron Man in how super hero movies SHOULD be done.
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I’m not really sure what happened here, but I didn’t write that quote. I liked Two Face.
Only complaint about joker was he was too good. He made everyone else look bad.
[quote]Cable wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
Cable wrote:
I think Aaron Eckhart did a great job as Dent, but come on, did he really need to look like a shitty rendition of the terminator? I was hoping for a Two-Face that was completely original and… grisly.
And what is a terminator endo-skeleton a rendition of?? After all Harvey Dent/Two-Face is still just human…and it remains to be seen what his face will look like in the near future. Even at its present stage, it looks better than Schumacher/Burton’s “freak” accident with a pack of Kool-Aid and Laffy Taffy.
Awesome movie…picks up were Batman Begins left off. Joins Iron Man in how super hero movies SHOULD be done.
I’m not really sure what happened here, but I didn’t write that quote. I liked Two Face.
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sorry bout that…intended for SSC…oh well…The Dark Knight is the shit.
An awesome movie. My main complaint is with the interrogation scene. It felt a little rushed and I think it was one instance where more violence would have actually been a good thing.
Ledger was awesome as the joker; everything Nicholson should have been but wasn’t in the '89 Batman.
I got pretty lucky with my showing. I went to work about noon and according to the Carmike website there was a showing at 5:00pm (which I missed - I didn’t get off work until 5:30) and after that the first evening show was 7:00pm. I decide to drop by the theater after work to buy a 7:00pm ticket in advance and I noticed they had added a late 6:00pm showing. I took advantage of it and there were maybe 30 or 40 people with me in a 180 seat theater and most importantly - only a small handful of children. I got out around 9PM and the place was a circus. Parking lot was completely full, people were parking in the grass, in the parking lot at places that weren’t parking spots, filling up a restaurant parking lot across the street, etc. It was chaos and I was definitely glad I was on my way out.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Beowolf wrote:
So… next movie, what villain do you guys want to see?
The Riddler done in Saw-style could be awesome. Mad Hatter is a bit too cartoonish and joker-like I think. Freeze is a good bet, if they can salvage the way Arnold raped his character and make him the conflicted, wife-loving person he was in the animated series.
Clay-face and killer-croc are doubtful. I don’t see any heavy-CGI villains being a good fit for the Nolan-batverse.
The Penguin… is just too silly.
Catwoman is out. Selena Kyle is only interesting because of her and Bruce Wayne’s dynamic, which I don’t see happening in the nolan-batverse.
I’d love to see the Royal Flush Gang. But that has more to do with me hyper-craving a live-action Batman Beyond movie…
Killer Croc is perfect. Epidermalytic Hyperkeratosis is a real disease causing scaling of the skin. That is what Croc has (at least according to the animated Gotham Knight). If they plant it in reality, it would go over perfectly.
I also agree about the Riddler…even though Saw has been done. Obviously his angle would have to be something a little different than simply making someone physically suffer for “wrong doings”.[/quote]
Hell yes for Killer Croc.
Badass. Not sure what else to say about it. I was NOT expecting it to be this good.
To be honest, I kind of thought people were hyping up Ledger’s performance because he died and they didn’t want to say bad things and everybody was jumping on the bandwagon… boy was I wrong!
Holy shit. 2 and a half hours and I just might see it in theaters again.
Here’s my test for how good a movie is: how long do you go where you are just staring at the screen, totally engrossed and not even aware of the rest of the theater or that you’re even watching a movie? For most good movies, you can get sucked in for 5-10 minutes at a time during really good sequences. For this movie, I’m pretty sure I went a solid 40 minutes without moving anything but my eyes.
Just… epic.
I’m not that big a fan of comic books and movie renditions, but damn…
This movie was great.
Other top-notch one was Iron Man.
I should go pick up some comic books and learn me a thing or two.
-Nate
[quote]Nate Green wrote:
I’m not that big a fan of comic books and movie renditions, but damn…
This movie was great.
Other top-notch one was Iron Man.
I should go pick up some comic books and learn me a thing or two.
-Nate[/quote]
What up, Nate?
The Frank Miller and Alan Moore batmans are very good (only ones I’ve read actually… but they are killer). “The Killing Joke”, “First Year”, and if you only read one, I would make it “The Dark Knight”. Its nothing like the movie, but its the story of Bruce coming out of Batman retirement to beat some ass again.
Anyone else have any TPB’s they recommend?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Killer Croc is perfect. Epidermalytic Hyperkeratosis is a real disease causing scaling of the skin. That is what Croc has (at least according to the animated Gotham Knight). If they plant it in reality, it would go over perfectly.
I also agree about the Riddler…even though Saw has been done. Obviously his angle would have to be something a little different than simply making someone physically suffer for “wrong doings”.[/quote]
Killer Croc could only be a side character though. I think Riddler is there best bet for a main villain.
Making people suffer for there wrong doings is out… how about making people suffer for being ignorant or dumb? Kind of getting back at society for not valuing its own education. Maybe he sees himself as a figure helping along the evolution of mankind. And of course, he has a horrible case of OCD. Can’t help but give the police and batman riddles.