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The Dark Knight already getting amazing reviews

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Danny, Jul 9, 2008.

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    I was a huge fan of Batman Begins, and am really looking forward to The Dark Knight. Heath Ledger looks amazing in it, and Christian Bale looks like he's going to continue his awesomeness.

    The first reviews are out (probably against WB's wishes), and so far they are very very very extremely very positive.

    I can't wait for July 18th...

    Movie Review: The Dark Knight | Film School Rejects
     
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    Begins is the only real Batman movie to me----
    I always ask people who their favorite is superman or batman--as a personality indicator.....
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    I"m also really looking forward to this movie coming out, It happens to come out the day Hybridfest starts and I really want to see it, so I might end up trying to find a place in Madison to see it that evening.

    My younger brother has a very small part as an extra in this movie. He seems to have found some connection with the movie people and when they come to Chicago to film movies he has been getting more opportunities to appear in some of the films. The part he has in this upcoming movie is very small, but I still will have to look for him in the one scene that he is in.
     
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    My son is in the film industry. I'm not sure how he saw it, but he told me he saw the first 6 minutes of the movie in HD. His only comment was "Sweet Jesus!"

    It's going to be a great one.
     
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    It's been out a week now (and set new box office records), what's your consensus?

    I thought Ironman was better. Ironman was poignant; Batman is just bleak. Ironman scenes had their implausibilties, but Batman scenes were unbroken sequences of outrageous impossibilities. The frustrated attraction between Paltrow & Downey in Ironman gave the movie heart (as did other circumstances and situations); the "romance" in Batman could be bottled and sold as refrigerant.

    Ledger's Joker was a skillful work, carefully crafted, but left me unmoved. The lack of backstory (deliberately done to increase the irrational character's enigma) only made Joker flat, just another cartoon villain in a long parade of cartoon cinema villains.

    So I give it a B, most of that B for its technical expertise. Story and characterization: C minus.

    But I'm sure others of you have other ideas and impressions.

    Danny, did it measure up to what you were expecting?
     
    #6 airportkid, Jul 25, 2008
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