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...with this breaking box office records this weekend and with the rave review from Roeper and friend (one of the best of the year - a sure Academy Award Best Picture nominee), I'm surprised no one has posted about it.
I saw it last night - the IMAX theaters are completely sold out for the weekend, so it was at a regular theater.
While I enjoyed it a lot - there was plenty of action - it seemed a little too long and ultimately unsatisfying. Great comic book film but I'm not sure I really cared about what happened to any of the characters.
Heath Ledger's performance is amazing and I predict he will win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for it.
I'd give it a B+.
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The IMAX Version will ruin you. You'll never go to a movie again without thinking about it.
I saw it at the King of Prussia Imax and it was the most profound audio-video experience I've ever seen. Ledger was awesome.
I've never seen such dense imaging either in either the story nor the AV experience.
10/10
Peter
I was quite disappointed with the movie. The first one with Bale was outstanding.
I'm afraid this hype about Ledger is just the studio taking advantage of his death to make a buck. His performance was terrible -- unclear, uncomfortable and annoying to look at rather than entertaining, and completely no communication of the character. He was unfocused and unsure -- his hazy portrayal reminded me that he had been using a lot of drugs and his focus probably suffered. Also, he lacked the age and gravitas for the character. He was miscast and did a poor job even for him.
Though apples and oranges, I'd give Nicholson 5 stars and ledger maybe 1 star. It was be mass media hypnosis if he got an Oscar nomination.
... and I have yet to see the film. Inevitably this situation will divide opinion. He looks good in the trailers and reviews I have seen and I am really looking forward to seeing it.
I agree that the first one (last one?) with Bale in the lead was excellent.
Not sure what you are thinking about here. Ledger's performance and/or the director's vision of the Joker was truly marvelous. Well executed and worth a second look.
...so I have no opinion on Leger's perfromance. But I really hated Nicholson's Joker.
Really really really.
...and not the hype, but the actual performance.
It was brilliant, consistant and captured the essence of the character here portrayed as an unbalanced anarchist.
Nicholson was just playing Jack on steroids.
I can appreciate the criticism of Jack Nicholson -- he was Jack on steroids and for me that was very entertaining. He also had clarity of performance.
I think everyone else should give ledger's performance a second look. He was genuinely uncomfortable and very annoying to watch. He offered no clarity of the character. The makeup and look was an interesting version. He struck a coule of poses that were visually interesting -- like when he sat in jail. Still, I say he was terrible and miscast.
Maybe people are wowed by this "version." I believe people are heavily influenced by the hype. I'd imagine the studio has made many extra millions by exploiting ledger's death. His death without any exploitation would bring in extra millions. Having studio shills out there praising it as incredible when it simply isn't has no doubt benefitted them even more.
I felt he was a fairly ordinary actor, capable of common type characterizations. He was way out of his element and it showed.
all due respect, that's got to be the most misguided review I've ever seen.
Miscast? Uncomfortable? No clarity of character?
It's you against the world. About 99.99% of it...
somehow he nailed it - and I do not know how I know this but it seemed perfect. Like a kid you knew at school that went off the deep end, a little bit of human in there somewhere. I missed Katie Holmes, nothing against Maggie G. (who I like) but I looked forward to see Katie and she was gone. Aaron Eckhart is very good and his makeup will make your skin crawl.
Bottom line for me is TDK is very good but too long, I did not have an emotional involvement and my mind wandered toward the end. Too bad, this is an adult movie with smart dialogue and neat effects.
Still, go see it at the theater for full effect.
thanks
Phil
main course, and dessert.
Way too much.
More climaxes than a 10 dollar hooker paid 100 bucks.
It was so breathless that the quieter moments seemed strange.
Ledger, however, was fantastic.
What a terrible loss.
What a waste.
He seemed to have the talent of a Dean or Brando.
I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the movie. The Dark knight has been over-hyped and to some extent unsatisfying. It's the type of movie that critics love but most people who I talked with thought it was just O.k. I preferred Batman Begins over the the Dark Knight. I'd give the Dark Knight a solid B rating.
This is what happens when a studio gets out of the way and allows the writer , producer and director { Nolan } , to make his own film . Thank you Warner Bros. It is serious and well paced with solid performances all around . This is a mature efort that lives up to the hype . Relative to other films in this genre , The Dark Knight sets the bar . If not for 300 , this would be my favorite comic adaptation . Now we have the Watchman and The Spirit from Frank Miller coming so the plot will thicken but make no mistake ; The Dark Knight is a nice respite from silly child's fare that have bloated the theatres and weakened our standards.
I had to see it. Forgetting all the hype, I thought Batman Begins was absolutely tremendous. I have liked Christian Bale since I saw his total commitment in The Machinist. Batman Begins was close to a film noir, dark as can be.
Now we get the sequel, hyped to the skies and with the unfortunate but effective marketing hook that the star died young and this is his legacy.
In the light of all the hype and my own expectations, I was a tiny bit disappointed.
Nevertheless, on its own terms, I am totally impressed that this is the very unusual summer action flick that actually seems to be mostly about big philosophical questions. The Joker cares not about money (this is beaten into the audience's head before it is emphasized by his setting fire to a pile of cash). His motivation, as much as can be guessed, seems to be hatred of any rule and a destruction of all society's rules.
And so he sees the Batman as a kindred spirit, a man who doesn't pay attention to society's arbitrary rules, and pretends to uphold the law by breaking the law.
None of this is subtle in any way. It is hard to care about any people in the movie, as none of them have any real human characteristics. Christian Bale is given very little to do. The CGI action scenes are not very exciting to me- I found a chase on foot in Tell No One to be more exciting than all these fake cartoon chases.
So it had flaws. Heath Ledger hammed it up, but that was perfect for the role. A complete nihilist is an unusual thing in a movie- I cannot off the top of my head think of another.
Flawed yes, but a lot more meat than one could reasonably expect from a summer blockbuster.
I completely agree. A couple things in TDK did not work for me, most notably the new Katie Holmes. But the pacing and moral exploration were intense. Nolan is a gifted director to pull that off. He made character development such a driving force in Batman Begins that I thought TDK would be similarly driven. Wrong. Only Two Face had significant character development. What then drove TDK? Nothing but a morality lesson and good old fashioned action sequences and both were dizzying in their ferocity.Did you catch the politics of the film? Batman chooses to purposefully damn himself in public opinion to do what's right for gotham city. He also develops an incredibly high tech surveillance program by tapping into the cell phones of every citizen to try to catch one man. Fantastic stuff and couldn't be more relevant to the dilemmas we face, even if it is just a superhero blockbuster.
And there were tons of incredible details, most of which went by so fast I didn't really have a chance to catch them. The symbol of the two-headed coin used by a villain is starting to become cliched after No Country for Old Men, but did you catch where Nolan used this exact same coin? The Prestige--another powerhouse of a film from Nolan/Bale.
Great sequel, as different from Batman Begins as can be.
-------------Call it, friendo.
To hedge..
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
I was not impressed , although Heath did play the part well. I couldn't stand Nicholson in the past, can't stand him in much of anything.
I was only interested for about 10 mimutes, however my 3 children, 27, 21 and 19 thought is was fantastic.
I enjoyed Batman begins much more.
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