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The Dark Knight review: Gutted

I was well impressed with this film. Up there with dare dveil(directors cut) as my favorite super hero(or geek with gadgets in this case) film ever.

Heath ledger didn't disserpoint dispite being hyped massively(i was expecting to be disserpointed).

I thought it was a great film. bring on two face!


dave
 
kained&able said:
eh???

I don't remember that! you sure hes dead and not just nearly dead and disfigured

dave
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Quoth Aaron Eckhart himself: "I mean, there's gonna be many more [films]. You're talking to a person who knows nothing about it or has no power whatsoever, but I do think Chris and his brother have more to say. I mean, people love the movie. Um, Harvey, I'm sure, is dead. Unfortunately, we are not going to see The Joker again." Plus, we, um, saw his funeral at the very end of the film, while Gary Oldman's speechifying.
 
We saw the funeral but they've already lied to the public about him being guilty of the murders to preserve his image, locking him away in a mental asylum is no more of a leap.
 
bluestreak said:
No he wasn't.:D
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I think I'm just getting old and grumpy, I would have loved it ten years ago, thought the effects were excellent and Heath's Joker was well done (but not as good as I was expecting). But I just found it a bit stupid, cheesy and Waspy. I didn't like Batman Begins either but this was better. Just... disappointing.

But then the Dark Knight (and the Killing Joke) is the only Batman comic I really liked and this wasn't much like that, I never cared much for DC when I was a comics nutter. Don't like Bale much either, does he need to be in so many films? and he had a stupid voice as Batman. I thought Oldman was good though - a bit of humanity in the film.

Thought the bit on the ships was ridiculous, they should have taken that out and shortened the film a bit. Not enough acting or decent characterisation (Gyllenhaal phoned her part in, I swear she forgot her line at one point). Too many set pieces and the best one was in the trailer so I'd already seen it (the truck flip). I watched it on 720p on a 42" plasma with really loud surround and my gf fell asleep twice :).
Sound and fury signifying nothing. What was the message, that we need hidden and shady people doing dodgy shit that they think's right for our own good? And didn't Batman ever do a first aid course? jeez let half the man's face burn off...but Dent gave me my first big laugh when he shot the driver.

If I had 3 hours to waste again, I'd watch Once upon a time in America again. *moan, moan*
 
I've seen this one, at least a dozen times.

I worked in a movie theatre on the Sunset Strip this summer. The turnout of moviegoers was always strongest at midnight.

(As far as Hollywood is concerned, the place is actually a ghetto, I catch the bus up there.)
 
I watched this on Friday night. I thought it was pretty good apart from Batman's voice which made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion. Was it meant to be menacing? :D
 
Talkie Toaster said:
I watched this on Friday night. I thought it was pretty good apart from Batman's voice which made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion. Was it meant to be menacing? :D
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Yeah, what the fuck was that about?

Christian Bale was uncharacteristically weak in that role, Ledger blew him off the screen.
 
Ledger was the highlight, but the rest of the acting and story twists were really well done too. I did pause it a few times to have a break though - I can imagine being forced to sit through it for 2.5 hours in a cinema might be grating.
 
Talkie Toaster said:
the acting and story twists were really well done too...
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I can't agree. It looked to me to be over-produced and over-shot, it lacked passion and it lacked decisive direction.

I enjoyed it for what it was - the same way I enjoyed Alien vs Predator, a gimmicky film not to be taken too seriously.
 
I must admit I rewound a few bits to make sure I understood some subtle bits of the dialogue which sometimes got hidden by the booming soundtrack.
 
pk said:
I can't agree. It looked to me to be over-produced and over-shot, it lacked passion and it lacked decisive direction.

I enjoyed it for what it was - the same way I enjoyed Alien vs Predator, a gimmicky film not to be taken too seriously.
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Weird; I felt that, just like Batman Begins, it was, as these things go, exceptionally high-quality.
 
CharlieAddict said:
it's officially the best film ever on IMDB after 135,443 votes.
Rotten Tomatoes has given it 95%.

gee...some people just love a good whinge on u75.
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Indeed. I watched it last summer, came out going that was very good, but did feel a little hollow as it had all been so much to cope with, then watched it again in August with a mate who isn't easily pleased by most Hollywood films, and he pointed out that it was quite Shakespearean and really a cut above most, and then I watched it again the other day just to double check, and it really is very very good. And ledger's acting was good, but it was only good cos the script is fucking fantastic. if he'd been given a bunch of one liners like Jack Nicholson had it wouldn't have been much cop.

I mean, you get people like Mamet and so on who make twisty films. This has that. You get the Godfather films with their epic scope. This has that. You get the good action films. It has that too. And then you get the more arthousey films of this world, the Guardian reading films, like Hana Bi, films with moral complexity and no easy answers. Again, it had that too.

Off hand, I can't think of a more complete film.
 
pk said:
I enjoyed it for what it was - the same way I enjoyed Alien vs Predator, a gimmicky film not to be taken too seriously.
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When I reread stuff like this I do wonder if people on here actually know what good writing and stuff is and what isn't. or if they just write random things on a view generator and post them
 
Indeed. The film is good on so many levels. Anything which you watch again a year later and like it even more than the first time in the cinema, has to be good.

A gimmicky film on a par with Aliens V Predator indeed! And I suppose Hamlet is a throwaway piece of airport literature about on a par with Mary Poppins.

:D
 
I would be prepared to watch this film again (to spot the Shakespearean undercurrent!:D) but re-reading my review, it still feels accurate.

Remember, I am a fan of all Batman media, I love Heath Ledger and Bale, I was looking forward to seeing the film, I was at the press premiere surrounded by Batgeeks and hardcore comicheads, and it was on Imax - all the ingredients were there to make me love it.

But still I did not.:(:facepalm:
 
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