Posted on 06/27/2008 7:50:22 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
No, that would be the Black Night, although he does seem to have bat ears.
“Dark Knight” comes from a 20 year old rewrite of the Batman story, which among other things spawned the Batman movies, although they have always been a dissapointment. This is the movie fans have been waiting for.
yak yak yak. Too much talk. Too much thinking. Batman should be fun. The review makes me want to find another movie.
Phht, in 20 years they’ll make a another “reboot” [see: Superman, the Hulk, Get Smart, every crap 70s series that gets turned into a “movie”—or two/three if you want to even think about the Brady Bunch].
This Hollywood treadmill got old a long time ago.
You didn’t like Batman Begins, I take it?
Batman Begins was awesome, this might be even better (granted, its just word of mouth).
Agreed and I am not even a comic book fan. I have been looking forward to this not only because of the incredible reviews of it that I have been hearing but Ledger and Bale’s performances are supposedly off the charts.
I never even care about these kinds of films but this is one I am headed to for sure.
I'll bet half that will be dark psychological brooding by everyone.
Me? I wanna watch stuff blow-up.
Agreed. Batman Begins was indeed awesome. The best of them all imo. Bale is one of the best actors out there.
His performance in American Psycho is one of the best ever put on screen. I also loved him in Swing Kids.
I don’t think anyone can give me the other Batman movies and I did buy “Batman Begins”. I loved the opening scenes. I was wondering if I had walked into the wrong theatre.
I’m going to see “Wanted” this weekend starring Angelina Jolie. I’m expecting it to be a horrible movie but I’m looking to be entertained. It’s been a hectic week.
Do not rent “Jumper”. Hollywood gave up it’s moral compass on that one.
I heard “Wall E” is great and Pixtar hit another homer. I just saw “Cars” a couple of days ago. I should have seen it when it came out. It was wonderful. I grew up a couple of miles away from the end of Route 66 outside of Chicago. We went to California in 1960 driving it all the way.
More reviews have come in, and are assuring us the action is going to be beyond spectacular.
http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/06/the-dark-knight-review
http://www.filmfocus.nl/specials/item3.php?id=10309
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_en_ot/film_dark_knight_first_look
By the looks of things, they will have a HARD time topping this movie.
Batman’s not supposed to be fun, Batman is supposed to be insane. Batman became fun for a while because of the campy TV show, but the original Batman all the way back to the first comics, and then the reborn Batman after Frank Miller’s Dark Knight series is not a nice person. In the early days he actually crippled bad guys, not fun.
Did you catch the wink/nudge at the beginning, with the Speedway of the South lettering done in the same style at the "Song of the South" movie poster?
The detail level that those Pixar guys are capable of is just astonishing.
I missed that one but did you know from the extras, the blinking lights of Flo’s cafe went on and off in the correct firing sequence of a Ford flathead?
Fillmore was correct that the traffic light was slow on one of the blinks by a half second?
From the Merchant of Venice, a lady lawyer is nicknamed Portia[Porsche] from one of the characters?
The locomotive had the same number as the classroom where the computer guys from Pixtar learned their craft.
In some of the clips from “The Dark Knight,” Bale almost seems to be channeling Patrick Bateman from “American Psycho” in his portrayal of Bruce Wayne.
In a good way, I mean.
So, do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
Um...never heard of ‘em.
Why?
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