Thread: The Dark Knight

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I'm surprised there's not already a thread for this...

as you can tell... I'm fucking pumped for this movie.


And...

The First 6 Minutes of the Movie

I hear ya dude. I'm going crazy here waiting.

Honestly, I don't think I've ever been as amped for any upcoming movie...ever...

...that's saying a lot. Most movies, I'm just like "that should be badass. Can't wait," but I'm really excited about this one. I love the realistic tone that Nolan is taking with the "standard superhero flick," and TDK is already having some great word of mouth about it.

Same here... I've been pumped for many a movie, but never so much for this one...

Spoiler for The Batcycle! Now called the Batpod!:

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My friend and I are going to the midnight showing. I'm very excited, and theres a good chance that he and I will see it again the next day with some of our friends who had to work or couldn't make it. I still have to pre-buy a ticket so I can get in easily...

Edit: I'm completely retarded.

I just got my tickets for an IMAX show Sunday morning. I'm getting very impatient here...

It will likely be Monday for me. I have a lot going on, so I haven't devoted a lot of headspace to the new Batman movie. Hopefully it will bitchslap me with awesomeness.

SOOOOOO?????? Someone must have seen it by now!! Talk!!!!!

I've heard NOTHING but phenomenal things. Speak now!!!!!

Word up. I saw it today after work. And holy fuck is it amazing. Way better than any superhero movie that's come out, ever. I mean, I thought Iron Man was pretty good, but in all seriousness it makes it look like garbage. It's fantastic. Go see it. Naoo

oooooh man.... GREAT, AWESOME movie. I lucked out, too. I got the LAST TICKET in the theater I went to. I was so happy at the time... If there are ever any more batman movies, I don't think anyone else can even come close to the performance Heath Ledger did as the Joker.

There will be another, at least. Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight are the first two installments in a trilogy.

Oh my GODDDD. I have to wait til Monday or Tuesday to see this.

I haven't been overly impressed with any batman movie thus far.. but looks like that's about to change!

I went to the public midnight screening at the theater I work at. We have 12 theaters in the entire cinema, and 3 of them were showing this movie at midnight. All 3 shows were completely sold out, and people were lining up at the theater doors of 10, 11 and 12 (the theaters playing the movie) which are near the end of the hall (the back of the cinema), since 8:00.

There were too many people for our normal queues to be set up, so we had to plant metal poles and set out "Do not cross" tape. There were 3 rows of these from the wall, and even then when filled, the line up went all the way out (yes, out) the front doors.

It was cool seeing some of the people getting into it. There were a couple people dressed up as batman, a robin, a couple jokers, and even some confused fellow dressed up as Symbiote Spiderman. One of our managers pulled aside one of the guys in the batman combo and took a picture of him holding our Batman Combo to send to our head office as P/R.

I got there with a girl I work with around 10:30. There were some delays on the showings. Theater 12, scheduled for midnight got in at 12:15, and we (theater 11, scheduled for 12:15) got in at 12:30. But it was well worth the wait.

The movie starts off on a good note. The whole theme of the movie is established in the first 5 minutes with the Joker and his minions killing each other while robbing a bank. Betrayal, looking out for yourself, and two-faced-ness. (For the sake of this, its a word.)

Its a theme that holds through the entire movie without deviation. Its as solid as the Joker's insanity. Which is highly entertaining I might add. I must admit that I giggled like a giddy school girl when he told the story of the scars on the side of his mouth, asked "Why so serious?" and slashed the sides open of the mouth of one who spoke when he shouldn't off. My gripe there is that it unfortunately doesn't actually show him slicing the guy.

My only gripe with the movie is you never know when its going to end. It has about 50 endings throughout the entire movie that are set up. You expect it to end and then it shows that its still only getting started. While a good thing in its own right, kinda annoying.

One example of this was one of my favourite joker scenes, when Harvey Dent falls to the persona of Two-Face. The Joker stands over Harvey in a hospital, wearing a nurses uniform. After his speech to Harvey on how much people suck, the Joker blows up the hospital while walking away with a happy skip to his step. My favourite piece in this part was when the explosion stopped midway through, he fumbles with the detonator until the hospital is engulfed and collapses entirely and the Joker runs off laughing like a maniac, arms waving.

The Joker was captured brilliantly in this movie, showing off his great insanity perfectly. The action was brilliant, the one liners classic, and the characters captured perfectly. Not to mention it was just, plain, epic.

Totally loved it. Totally worth getting out at 3:30am

This was an epic performance by keith Ledger. There has never being a better joker.

Wow, that was exactly what I wanted from the movie. Complete and utter chaos and despair! The Joker was just phenomenal. A complete sadist, but still able to make the audience laugh with scenes such as the "pencil trick." Best movie I've seen in a long time.

Originally Posted by Pastulio_

Wow, that was exactly what I wanted from the movie. Complete and utter chaos and despair! The Joker was just phenomenal. A complete sadist, but still able to make the audience laugh with scenes such as the "pencil trick." Best movie I've seen in a long time.

That pencil trick was one of my favorite scenes for sure, everyone in the theatre let out a big "oooh" when he pulled that off...

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Ah man. Best scene was when he blew up the hospital. The look of satisfaction on his face when he got the rest of the bombs to go off was amazing, and I couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculously long the final bombs took to go off.

i loved the movie. but the political implications scare me.

spoiler alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did anyone see the big ass phone camera vid-screen? yeah.

it seemed that the movie was saying,"you have to fight fire with fire." "fight crime with people as bad as the bad guys."
i don't like that. it reminds me of my town's police force.

hmm

Spoiler for spoilerssssss:

1. What was the deal with the guy when Joker got incarcerated? One minute he was like going to bust his ass, and then joker's got a knife against his throat and holding him hostage. And you search a criminal when you arrest them. You don't leave them with a six-inch switchblade.

2. Also; why did Batman go after Harvey Dent when he said, "I'm going after Rachel"? And wtf was Harvey Dent doing when he knocked over the can? It was like he was drinking the gasoline, or something.

The transitions were strange. I'm starting to have mixed feeling about this a couple of days after seeing it.

Oh, and damn Elis, I really want that avatar you've got now. Haha.

We took my mom to see it for her B-day yesterday. Heath Ledger's performance made my heart stop; he was amazing. It saddens me that he is dead, and if he doesn't get an Ocsar for his role as Joker, I WILL write a nasty letter to the Academy to show my displeasure. (Okay, it won't be nasty, but it will show my displeasure.)

The advanced task of the month in an upcoming month should be to do the pencil trick to a DC.

Originally Posted by Pastulio_

The advanced task of the month in an upcoming month should be to do the pencil trick to a DC.

I second this request

God oh god that was AMAZING. What an epic epic epic performance by Heath.

I'll never forget the experience at the theater. It was today (a Monday), and there was a huge line to get into the theater. The place was completely sold out.. thank god one person in our group thought to buy the tickets in advance.

When the movie started, there was complete and utter silence. All those people - not one of them made a sound. No popcorn crunching, no nothing.

Spoiler for heath ledger/joker:

I'm depressed as hell right now that Heath Ledger died. If Joker had died in the film, then that would have been a different matter. But he DIDN'T DIE... So in the next film, will they bring someone else in to play the joker, do you think?? UGH that's going to be a complete disaster, honestly... No one could be better, not after the actor died after such an amazing performance. Well, at least we can say that Ledger went out with a bang.

Originally Posted by Pastro

I second this request

Third!

Edit: Oh, look at this pic. Finally, someone who completely and utterly trumps Nicholson.

Oh! And! I had an eerie moment where I recognized "my" city. I didn't know parts of it (at least) were filmed in Chicago.