The Dark Knight (SPOILERS)

[Cosmic Muse]

torgosPizza, I have never found a single thing you've ever posted even slightly amusing, so I guess we're even.

It looks like somebody is just begging to get banned for acting like a jerk towards an Administrator.

so, he's kinda like the Joker, only his jokes aren't as good

Blasphemy!!! Don't insult the Clown Prince of Crime that way! Actually he's probably one rung below Pauly Shore in terms of comedic genius.


Anyways, on a more positive, well relatively positive nonvitriolic note, I am excited to see what Nolan has in store for us with the Dark Knight. It'll be interesting to see such different takes on two characters who've been portrayed by other actors. IMHO Tommy Lee Jones could have been a great Two Face but he was saddled with a director that was going for the Bang Zowie quality of the 60's Batman series. Not the interpretation that would favor the dark origins of this character. This struck me today though. I was talking with my mother and the only reason she's hesitant to go see this movie is because of Heath Ledger. She told me he's just too creepy and that she believes it was this role that lead to his accidental overdose.

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

It kinda was

[RoninFox]

This might have been the trigger, but I think it's obvious there were problems there already.

[Cosmic Muse]

Well, like I said this was what my mother old me as far as her reasons for not watching The Dark Knight. I'n definitely going to be there though because the best tribute to Heath Ledger would be to see his wonderful performance in this movie.

[esoobaC .T bocaJ]

 

[SmilinJackRoss]

Peter Travers at Rolling Stone gives it 3.5 out of 4 stars.

Review contains spoilers:

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/16155928/review/21477208/the_dark_knight

but the first & last paragraphs are fairly harmless:

Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check. But Nolan is just warming up. There's something raw and elemental at work in this artfully imagined universe. Striking out from his Batman origin story, Nolan cuts through to a deeper dimension. Huh? Wha? How can a conflicted guy in a bat suit and a villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile speak to the essentials of the human condition? Just hang on for a shock to the system. The Dark Knight creates a place where good and evil — expected to do battle — decide instead to get it on and dance. "I don't want to kill you," Heath Ledger's psycho Joker tells Christian Bale's stalwart Batman. "You complete me." Don't buy the tease. He means it.
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No fair giving away the mysteries of The Dark Knight. It's enough to marvel at the way Nolan — a world-class filmmaker, be it Memento, Insomnia or The Prestige — brings pop escapism whisper-close to enduring art. It's enough to watch Bale chillingly render Batman as a lost warrior, evoking Al Pacino in The Godfather II in his delusion and desolation. It's enough to see Ledger conjure up the anarchy of the Sex Pistols and A Clockwork Orange as he creates a Joker for the ages. Go ahead, bitch about the movie being too long, at two and a half hours, for short attention spans (it is), too somber for the Hulk crowd (it is), too smart for its own good (it isn't). The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination. It's full of surprises you don't see coming. And just try to get it out of your dreams.

[BathTub]

Sounds Good.

[ScottotD]

so.... excited.... can't.... wait... 

[Rude]

so.... excited.... can't.... wait... 

That post just goes so perfectly with your avatar. It's like you're literally bursting with antici... pation!

-Rude

[ScottotD]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... KaBOOM!

[GLaDOS]

I envy you. I will never know what it feels like for my head to explode. I am going to see Dark Knight midnight opening.

[Chaos]

We're driving all the way to Halifax (300 miles) to see it in a real theater this weekend. This will be the first movie I have seen in the theaters on opening weekend in about 5 years... and the first movie I have seen in the theaters period in about a year.

There's no theater here, and we don't get out much.

Add me to the list of people whose heads are pending explosion with anticipation.

[GLaDOS]

We're driving all the way to Halifax (300 miles) to see it in a real theater this weekend. This will be the first movie I have seen in the theaters on opening weekend in about 5 years... and the first movie I have seen in the theaters period in about a year.
There's no theater here, and we don't get out much.
Add me to the list of people whose heads are pending explosion with anticipation.

Chaos... I bet I'll get to see it before you.

[MSTJedi]

We're driving all the way to Halifax (300 miles) to see it in a real theater this weekend. This will be the first movie I have seen in the theaters on opening weekend in about 5 years... and the first movie I have seen in the theaters period in about a year.
There's no theater here, and we don't get out much.
Add me to the list of people whose heads are pending explosion with anticipation.

Chaos... I bet I'll get to see it before you.

Depends on what time zone you're in.

And while I probably won't be able to see this on opening night - babysitters are so hard to find - I am looking forward to this.

[Thorns of Crimson Death]

I'm not the biggest fan of Batman to begin with, but what Nolan did with "Begins", I became a believer.  I admit that the mid 90's versions jaded me and I really couldn't take the "Batman" name seriously until the last movie, which was superb.  Nor was I ever keen on the idea of Ledger being the Joker when I first heard he was casted for the role until I saw quality previews of him and am now convinced his performance will be epic.

All that being said, there's really not a god-damn reason why this shouldn't be the best movie I see all summer.