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Did you see it on imax?

The movie was nothing short of phenomenal.
Heath Ledger's Joker is perfect, down to the last twitch, disturbingly perfect.
Seeing it in imax only made the movie more amazing.

everything looks better in imax.

Everyone needs to see that movie.

The Dark Knight made Iron Man look just like an average movie. It was simply amazing. Heath Ledger's Joker was perfection.

Something like 70 scenes in Dark Knight were actually filmed with high definition imax cameras, so it didn't just look nice because it happened to be on the imax screen.

All I'm going to say is that, if Heath Ledger does not win an Oscar solely on his supporting role as the Joker in the grammies this year, I will be so pissed, I'm going to throw a self-riot in my room. Notice how I said SOLELY BASED ON HIS ACTING, not because he's dead. Not to disrespect his death and such, but his performance in that movie was phenomenal, portraying the Joker perfectly with what he did with his facial emotions and presenting his interpretation of Joker's tone of speech. He was brilliant for the part, he executed the role perfectly in my opinion, and definitely deserves that Grammy solely based on his acting on this movie alone.

So, like, when you say Grammy, you mean Oscar, right?


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I didn't see it yet... I'm guessing they added a musical number.

oops.

they should just give him a grammy anyway, it's not like they're worth shit

saw it on the IMAX at 12:01 AM today and I have to say that this movie was absolutely incredible. One of the best movies I've ever seen and it definitely lived up to the hype it has been generating for the past 6 months-ish. As said above by nearly everybody else, Heath Ledger, in my opinion, did not just portray The Joker; he became The Joker. His performance was flawless, creating possibly the most frightening and disturbing villain I've seen in a movie to this day. Although they say Ledger's death was of "accidental overdose", I can definitely see how portraying this character led to his unfortunate and early death.

This movie is the one movie you will want to see this year. Even if you hate the movies or dare not pay the ridiculous ticket prices, you should not only watch it but go the extra mile and pay a bit more to watch it on IMAX because it is most definitely worth it.

hahahahahahahaha word.

very good movie, although some of the situations were a bit lacking in logic (it's a comic book, i can't be too harsh), it was a sweet movie and i think pretty much everyone did a solid job on the acting front. didn't anyone else love eckhart?

i loved eckhart's acting too, but heath ledger outshone everyone

Best Batman yet, that's for sure. This summer has been great for movies. Indiana Jones, Batman, Iron Man...

Man I'm loving it.

I grew weary of Bale's batman voice, but everybody did one hell of a job at every character. I heard all about Ledger's performance, and thought everybody was sucking the dead man's dick (which they are [I watched some E! last night and they had 2 independant half hour Heath Ledger love-ins]) but found that he fucking nailed it. But Eckhart's Harvey Dent is every bit as spot on as the Joker. It's just a damned shame that the Joker is a better villain by leaps and bounds. Now the bastard's dead and won't be recast for years.

/Has little sympathy for a millionaire who was probably banging one if not both of the Olson twins off-ing himself
/Has more for a man who went through a rough divorce and seeks medical help for his depression
//loses sympathy for that man when he goes around to half a dozen doctors to get prescriptions for counteracting drugs and goes on a self-medication spree.

Did anyone notice the abundance of makeup the Mayor was wearing, in particular eyeshadow?

Yes.

Saw the movie today. Epic awesome.

I will likely never see a better movie than TDK, unless it involves megan fox and my penis.

I agree about the Ledger-philia, my personally conducted statistics show most people can't name a movie he's starred in other than this one and BBM. i don't see what the BFD is about the guy, he's such an asshole, not even showing up to his own premier. what's up with that?

Also, christian bale could fill my gastank with diesel while raping and yelling at me in his batman voice and i would still worship him

Favorite scene: "I'm going to make this pencil disappear."

My favorite scene was with the nurses outfit and when the detonator doesnt work when he blows up the hospital... also when he slid down the pile of money...it was a nice touch.

I rewatched batman begins, and this was a far better movie. I think partially because the characters had a greater level of depth outright that the joker's attempts to change them for the worse we much more engaging than anything Crane or Raz Algoul could have done in BB.

A lot of people know and like the movie A Knights Tale. It plays on TV like every other week.

ATK, is that the one with keira knightly? i've barely heard of it, and didn't know heath ledger was in it. Actually what i don't know could fill a warehouse because i'm partially retarded, but what i do know is that i am glad katie holmes wasn't there to ruin the movie

IMO his depiction of the Joker completely absolves him of the sin that was A Knights Tale. That movie was an abomination.

I'd also like to note that it's way easier for me to rattle off Bale movies vs Ledger flicks. And Ledger was the star here.


/pardon me while I wipe the semen off my chin
//I feel so dirty.

Yeah, Ledger was definitely the star in this one. He stole every scene he was in. You almost wanted him to be in it again when it wasn't about him.

Saw it last night and as expected it was fucking amazing!

Ledger was even more incredible then I thought he would be, I mean I thought his casting was very brave and the second I saw the first trailer with his laugh I just knew he would be increible, but he was even more amazing then I thought he would be. I literally found his performance mesmerising, he completly stole the show. The movie was a much darker sequel as well, and the film in general was just fantastically done.

Eckenhart was great as well, and Two face was done some justice rather then being coloured purple and portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones! Very dissapointing that Ledger won't be able to reprise the role due to being dead n all, he really does deserve the Oscar.

Bale was of course he usual awesome self! Shame Cillian Murphy didn't have a bit more screen time either really.

Heath was in 10 Things I Hate About You. My sisters watched that movie at least 10 times a day when it came out on VCR.

Just saw Batman again in iMax. Holy shit, do yourself a favor and check it out. My head exploded and sprayed the unfortunate bystanders next to me with all sorts of cranial fluids and a torrent of brain blood. Fuck, it was awesome

i love this movieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

the only shitty part is when batman disasters on the wall with the badpod after flipping over the joker's semi in the SWAT chase scene

I disagree, I think the power slide shortly before is worse because it's ... you know... impossible. At least the wall spin is possible the way the bike's designed. That powerslide with the sideways spinning wheel with guns on the side was fundamentally wrong. On the wall the body of the pod spun, on the powerslide the wheel spun... I declare shenanigans.

you're probably right, but the wall flip just seemed a little too gay. Ruined the scene in some respects - it's just like if you bought a perfect, flawless white shirt and afterwards you notice a tiny red dot on it. it's barely visible but you fucking know it's there and you slowly lose your mind.

also, the one swat guy in the truck had way too many lines. he was like the only one talking for the whole 20 minutes. Joker only had a few, dent had one, even the fucking tumbler had one, but it was mainly the one guy doing play-by-play ("is that a bazooka?!")

I think that added a little comedy to the action, the one and his stupid comments. I for one liked it.

Ok super serial question: how much do you think the movie would have made if mr. ledger didn't die? (current gross http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=darkknight.htm)

Saw it and loved it. We will never know what a talent we lost in Heath Ledger. For people more interested in him http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/, shows all the movies he did. I would recommend Lords of Dogtown if you want to see him play a role perfectly.

I worked with a girl at Siemens Medical that looked EXACTLY like the long blonde haired main character in Lords of Dogtown.

/why the hell is does "blonde" set off the spell check?

I'm not sure that I liked this one better than Batman Begins. Yeah I agree with everyone that the acting was superb and it was a very well done movie. But I like the storyline behind Batman Begins more, the plot is richer. After The Dark Knight, I was sitting there like okay that was great but, wait, what happened?

Maybe I can summarize.

SPOILER WARNING:
Harvey Dent gets transformed into two face.
The Gotham City that existed before BB is shown to have evolved into a civilized place full of hope and promise.
The Joker unites the gangs of the city against Batman.
Batman takes on a wonderful burden.
The movie deals with many of the dilemmas we're faced with today, from unwarranted surveillance to whether or not it is ever necessary to kill a man in order to stop him.

BB was good though. I just think this one was head and shoulders above it in terms of the complexity of the story and the evolution of the characters. Particularly when you consider the city itself to be a living character.

very good summary, but i would like to append one more point if i may. At the end of the movie batman becomes a martyr for gotham's CUNTinuing battle against corruption and everything harvey dent stood for pre-explosion. BatBale Begins was a great orgin story, and it is that very fact which stops it from ever reaching where the Dark Knight has gone. The Dark Knight is this generation's "Empire Strikes Back".

I liked your deCUNTstruction of the end. however... It's not Gothams fight against corruption IMO. It's batman and Gordon. Gotham would be just as happy to hunt down harvey and murder the shit out of him, but if they do they lose their way. They'd made so much progress since BB that all of Wayne's hard work in BOTH movies would have been for naught had he let the mob go after their symbol of hope. I think batman was Bruce Wayne's sacrifice to his own personal war. Ergo it was as selfish an act as any other he engages in.

Plus it's probably really fun to run from an incompetent police force with inferior technology.

see i think it is gotham's fight, although the primary players are batman and gordon. The good citizens were just too afraid to take a stance, like gordon in BB, before batman began (teehee) lending a hand - cue the impersonators vs. crane in the parking garage.

the boat scene shows that the people aren't totally cutthroat and uncaring, and i think the only thing keeping the fireworks from going off was their thinking dent was alive and well. i don't think they would be happy to hunt him down had he lived, they would be absolutely demoralized. gotham would once again plunge into chaos. And that's why sacrifices were made as batman and as bruce wayne - less for personal reasons in BB but for "good of the people" reasons in TDK.

SPOILER ALERT:

Highlight to read. Was checking to see if anyone reading this thread hasn't seen it, but I wouldn't want it spoiled for me, so I'm going on the safe side.

I was waiting for the boat of everyday blue collar people to blow up the ship full of convicts. I think that would have portrayed Gotham much better. Showing that the citizens are as uncaring as criminals. As I watched the build up. I expected it more. To also show that anyone pushed to the edge will commit murder. That would tie in well with the Joker's "I'm going to make you break your one rule" challenge. Instead, what I saw was a group of people not willing to kill each other, because they thought about it and later, realized that the other group hadn't killed them yet. It showed that most people in Gotham are unwilling to kill people who are sparing their lives, directly.

I do think that they would be willing to turn Dent in. They were perfectly willing to turn Batman in. Why not Dent? Had the Joker pulled the same stunt he did with the Wayne employee, would people think twice about killing Harvey Dent?

You're all a bunch of cock eyed little girls for heath ledger.

That is all =D

I finally saw it and found it to be one of the best I've seen. The way Ledger portrayed the Joker, was simply amazing.