The Dark Knight

Wha'dya Think?

  • Epic, Awesome, Amazing, Best Superhero Film, Mutha ****in Perfect.

    Votes: 100 64.1%

  • Pretty good film, maybe the best Superhero movie.

    Votes: 38 24.4%

  • It was alright.

    Votes: 13 8.3%

  • Disliked it.

    Votes: 5 3.2%
  • Total voters
    156
Robin is horrible for the Nolan Batman movies. Not saying he's a bad character, but he just wouldn't fit with the dark nature of the new films.
 
You only say that because Robin has either been portrayed as some 70s go getter or an angsty prick getting jealous of George Clooney. I never thought the Joker could be portrayed "darkly" as in TDK but god damn was I wrong.
 
mastag said:
Well, Maroni fell about the same length...
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Yeah, but he fell right onto his feet, Harvey Fell onto his back and it very much so looked like he was dead. But, we'll see I suppose
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Well, we ended up getting great seats to our surprise, but I've been as early as 3 hours before the showing to a premier. 4 PM is a little nuts, but let me say waiting in line at a premier for 3 hours is actually fun, it's a great time to socialize, because the likely hood is that whoever is around you is just as big of a geek as you are.
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well, now that you mention it, thinkin back we did have a good fair share of convos with the group behind and the 2 couples in front of us that had their own group. Never really recurred to me but, then again it never does because we're pretty easy going where it's just pretty much the norm.

it was kinda weird because we had one of the couples grab us some food too and the guy came back with a hotdog covered waffle, lol. Makes me wonder what that place was serving over than hotdog covered waffles
 
Pesmerga said:
You only say that because Robin has either been portrayed as some 70s go getter or an angsty prick getting jealous of George Clooney. I never thought the Joker could be portrayed "darkly" as in TDK but god damn was I wrong.
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But almost all modern interpretations of Joker have portrayed him with varying degrees of psychopathy and sadism. Robin has always been either angsty and/or campy. They didn't have to destroy The Joker's character to fit the movie. To make Robin believable they would have to make him nothing like most of the mainstream comics.
 
More quotes-

"A Ho... He... Ha, Ha, Oh Ah ha... Ha..."

Mobster: "You think you can just steal from us and get away with it?"
Joker: "Yeah."

Mobster: "How much you want?"
Joker: "Half"
Mobster: "HAHA, this guy is crazy"
Joker: *muffles* "I'm not crazy..." *looks over coldly* "...I'm not."

"Now lets not.... blow this out of proportions..."
 
The most gripping of Joker's parts would have to be the street scene where he's walking down the middle of the road. That scene really showed how demented and estranged he really is. Shooting at random cars, not caring whatsoever, chanting to himself, "hit me, HIT ME!" Chills.
 
Who else thought The Joker seemed suicidal? The way he shouted HIT ME was as if he was demanding or begging. Also, the way he laughed as he was falling.
 
mastag said:
Who else thought The Joker seemed suicidal? The way he shouted HIT ME was as if he was demanding or begging. Also, the way he laughed as he was falling.
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Well he wanted to be killed by Batman, so he could make him break his one rule.
 
ailevation said:
I agree. Also the Riddler could pose a big challenge toward batman in these dark times.

Picture a scenario where somehow batman has fallen for the Riddlers scheme and is stuck in some sort of maze and the riddlers goal is to have a) batman die and person X survive or b) have batman survive and person X die. Batman has to find a way to somehow save his own ass and the person X's life. In between all this would be a personal conflict for batman as he goes from self doubting because the people of gotham hate him but somehow gets the willpower to overcome and get out of there alive with person X alive
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eh... batman meets saw?

two face survived. the harvey dent that the public knew is now dead, though.

also: can any one remember the many stories of the joker's scars? i only remember him telling about his abusive father.
 
there was the one where his wife thought he should smile more often
 
iirc Bale said he'd be outa there if they decided to introduce Robin.
 
Finally saw it last night. Not as incredible as everyone made it out to be, but it was still f*ckin' awesome.
 
mikeecm said:
two face survived. the harvey dent that the public knew is now dead, though.

also: can any one remember the many stories of the joker's scars? i only remember him telling about his abusive father.
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I don't think Dent did survive. He seemed dead and they had a funeral / memorial service for him at the end. There's not a lot more they can really do with the character, which I think is why they pushed to include him in 2 rather than have him be the main villain in 3. They focused mostly on his transformation via the Joker, which is the cooler part of his character anyway.

The joker only told two stories as I recall. The first was his father being abusive to his mother. And the second was that the joker had a wife who got disfigured and felt unattractive. to show her that he would still love her, he diced his own mouth up, afterwhich she couldn't stand to look at him. I wish they had put in one more to solidify the fact that he's insane and might not even know what happened, but two was still solid.
 
I think I remember a couple times after he would ask, "you know how I got these scars?" but didn't get into the stories, which I think implies that he had more versions to tell
 
What noob moderator locked the other thread but left this inferior (all posts spoilers plz lol!) one open?
 
What's going on here? First this locked, now the other one is locked and this one open.
 
Much better, this is the good thread :)

Gonna go see this on Wednesday. It's gonna be TEH AWESHENS!
 
Eejit, you are a twat.
What did you do that for?
 
Would I be lost if I see The Dark Knight without watching Begins first?
 
Begins is a great film, but I've heard people enjoying DK without seeing the first. I'd watch Begins, though, because theres no harm in seeing it.
 
i'm pretty sure harvey's alive... ill watch it again tomorrow to confirm
 
I watched the old batman movie yesterday and compared to Ledger, Nicholson looks like a pile of garbage wrapped in a diaper.
 
I decided I am going to make a Scarecrow Mask like in the films for Halloween, it will probably be difficult. Fabric is tough to work with.
 
Begins is on FX right now. Watching it, and wow, what a huge upgrade in quality TDK was. And Begins was a great movie of it's own. Nolan outdid himself.
 
I was spoiled a bit by ****ing Dominos pizza and Comcast week's before the movie and I knew it was a spoiler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9Ktw0QbCw
Thanks for spoiling the bit that the Tumbler got destroyed. How come there was no Joker gas? They should have had it in the bank scene with the smoker grenade. The Comcast ad also spoiled a bit by saying the movie had RPG's and I thought the movie was going to have Joker gas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyqnULw7Iwk
 
I thought the batbike design kind of gave away that it was going to eject from the batmobile.
 
I just thought that:
Oldman created a new car for him, I had no idea the Batmobile self destructed. Some people may say that is cheesy but it's not. It was used by the Army and they don't want that to fall in the enemy hands to create one against us. So making is self destruct is not lame by any means.
 
hool10 said:
I was spoiled a bit by ****ing Dominos pizza and Comcast week's before the movie and I knew it was a spoiler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9Ktw0QbCw
Thanks for spoiling the bit that the Tumbler got destroyed. How come there was no Joker gas? They should have had it in the bank scene with the smoker grenade. The Comcast ad also spoiled a bit by saying the movie had RPG's and I thought the movie was going to have Joker gas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyqnULw7Iwk
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How on earth is that spoiling the film?

Where was it implied the Tumbler got destroyed? How is Scarecrow's Fear Gas spoiling the movie?

AND HOW ON EARTH DOES IT SPOIL THE MOVIE BY SAYING THERE IS A ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE IN THE MOVIE?! That's only in like every movie preview for The Dark Knight.
 
9/10

Great movie. Epic? I'm personally not sure.

Joker basically stole the movie.

Honestly I was always riveted when Joker was on screen. I was disturbed when he did the pencil disappearing trick. Then I was disturbed again when he was holding the knife to the mob boss mouth while telling a deranged story about how he got the scars. Also that long whining creepy note that would play when Joker was in the scene, so well done.

I basically wanted to watch this movie for Joker alone. There was so many great scenes with him, like him prancing along while blowing up a hospital, and then him standing near a pile of burning money. This Joker Heath Ledger played reminded me of our usual serial killers and psychopaths in our society, unlike Jack Nicholson's Joker.

Now does Heath Ledger deserve an oscar? Well since Malcolm McDowell didn't get a nomination for Clockwork Orange, then Heath Ledger most likely will not get it. Yet still I definitely think they both deserve an oscar nomination for such well portrayed extreme characters.

Everyone else in comparison to the Joker just weren't that interesting in this movie.

Batman's voice was really raspy at times that I began to think he sounded like Patty from the Simpsons.

I didnt care at all for Rachel Dawes. Was I the only one that found it funny when the explosion cut her off while she was babbling about nonsense?

I thought Arron Eckhart played Harvey Dent extremely well. Yes I got the whole idea that he was the white knight of Gotham City and I believed it. Yet his transformation to Two-Face didnt seem that great to me. I think its because it became really redundant when he kept flipping a coin in front of his victims. I havent read the comic books, but if this is all he does then they were right to kill him off in this movie. Joker is so much more interesting than Two-Face.

I dont think they can bring back the Joker. I think they should end the movies here because all the other villians are so one-dimensional in comparison to the Joker. Though it played out like a tragic Shakespearean play, it felt like a right ending to the batman movies.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
How on earth is that spoiling the film?

Where was it implied the Tumbler got destroyed? How is Scarecrow's Fear Gas spoiling the movie?

AND HOW ON EARTH DOES IT SPOIL THE MOVIE BY SAYING THERE IS A ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE IN THE MOVIE?! That's only in like every movie preview for The Dark Knight.
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The womans car was destroyed and she told the goons that the Joker owes her a new car. So instantly I thought "the Joker destroyed Batmans Tumbler?!?!" Also the Joker poison is in the first movie. It put a smile on the face while killing the person. I thought they had brought it back in the film but they didn't. For people like my dad though, they hadn't seen a trailer for the film. He told me that he doesn't get hyped up years before a film. :dozey: I mean I didn't know that the Tumbler was destroyed and if you noticed, they pulled those 2 ads rather quick.
 
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