The Dark Knight

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:07pm

I have never been so bored by a movie. An over rated two and half hour waste of time. Heath Ledger's performance is nothing special and if things had turned out to be different, the praise would be far from coming.

Saw it in a full cinema and nearly everyone around me kept looking at watches, phones to figure out what time it was and when this hell would be ending.

Such a disappointing film.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:45pm

Updated On: 1/15/09 at 08:45 PM

[Mythus]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:51pm

I liked it. D:

Saw it last night in IMAX as well.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:59pm

Maybe you just didn't get it?

[fanpires]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:02pm

i won't see it because i can't stand bale. since when is he leading man potential? yuck.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:03pm

Bale is an ERSERME actor! What the schwibby are you talking about?

Was this thread made solely to anger me because my chair is about to break in a couple of seconds.

[DG]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:06pm

"Maybe you just didn't get it?"

Please.

Maybe they 'got it', and just didn't want it.

That is the most infantile response imaginable to someone who didn't like what you do.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:08pm

Okay that's it...

/Cruel_Sandwich punches DG in the face

[DG]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:09pm

HA!

You'ld be toast, little boy - trust me on this.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:11pm

/Cruel_Sandwich swiftly dodges the KNIFE pulled on him by DG

[DG]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:15pm

*DG doesn't have time for that*

I've been curious how the actual audience response was going to pan out. The initial critical response has been overwhelmingly positive - by no less than Richard Corliss of TIME, for example.

I wonder how much 'backlash' will play into this?

The ad campaign here in LA is VERY Heath-centric - so we know what they're hoping to cash in on.
Updated On: 7/16/08 at 09:15 PM

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:40pm

/Police come and arrest Cruel_Sandwich

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:28pm

Cruel, trust me I and everyone around me got it, it just bored me and around 400 other people. The action was dull, Ledger was uninteresting and far from being any sort of major villian, Bale and his really weird speaking voice ( did he take voice lessons from Mark Walberg? )

If Ledger had not died this movie would not be getting the press that it is, as simple as that!

Updated On: 7/17/08 at 11:28 PM

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 4:04am

Updated On: 1/15/09 at 04:04 AM

[Weez]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 5:36am

You'ld

I love that. That's very pretty. :3

[tazber]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 6:49am

I was bored by the forst one. I have no intention of wasting my time on this one.

And really, Heath was decent in Brokeback Mountain, but he's never been a great actor by any stretch.

[Kasie]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 7:26am

I'm going to see it because of Christian Bale. It has nothing to do with Heath Ledger, though I am excited to see if his performance will live up to the hype.
I've never been too impressed with any of his movies and while I don't think his acting is bad, I do think he is a little overrated.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 7:32am

For Kasie:

DISMISSING OSCAR HYPE
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20080716/121624914500.html

[Kasie]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 7:46am

An Oscar? Ha!

I didn't think people were taking it to that level. Well, whatever. I guess I will just have to go see it before I judge too harshly.

Until then, I have no choice but to laugh at the thought.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 7:59am

I remember prior to BATMAN FOREVER's release there was Oscar buzz surrounding Jim Carrey's Riddler portrayal. Of course, nothing ever came of it. Maybe it's the same thing.

[Mythus]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 9:53am

I remember prior to BATMAN FOREVER's release there was Oscar buzz surrounding Jim Carrey's Riddler portrayal.

OH wow. I really needed a good laugh this morning. An Oscar for the Riddler. Wow.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 9:57am

I'm with Taz. I really disliked BATMAN BEGINS, a big ugly bludgeon of a movie with ZERO entertainment value. I've had more fun watching concentration camp footage. All that nonsense about the League of Shadows, feh, all the bogus moralizing and phony easy "darkness" really left me cold.

I wasn't going to bother with DARK KNIGHT until I saw some clips of Ledger's joker, which sparked my interest. At last a villain I can root for to demolish Bale's bummer Batman.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 10:28am

Stephanie Zacharek in Salon.com

"As much as I disliked "Batman Begins," finding myself not just unmoved but bored by its alleged darkness and moral complexity, I concede that it was at least a real movie, with a thought-out structure, a reasonable degree of character development and, most significant, an adherence to visual logic that was at least workmanlike. "The Dark Knight" offers the same degree of murkiness, both visually and thematically, and maybe even a little more. (The cinematographer is, once again, Nolan's frequent collaborator Wally Pfister, working largely in a dank, muted palette of grays and greens.) And Nolan -- who co-wrote the script with his brother, Jonathan, working from a story he conceived with David S. Goyer -- gives us enough multilayered subplots to at least fool us into thinking this is a work of intellectual and moral complexity. But as a piece of visual storytelling, from shot to shot, "The Dark Knight" is a mess. Characters disappear from one locale and show up inexplicably in another, thanks to the magic of editing. At one point, we learn two characters have been abducted, but Nolan doesn't bother to show us who did it or how. (Later, he explains the "who did it" with dialogue -- the lazy way.) At the end, a major character is left hanging, literally, as we are figuratively. If this is genius, give me hackery."

[Weez]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:17pm

Okay, can we just cut the arguing and get to the important points?

Dear people who have actually seen the film,

Does Christian Bale take his point off at any point during the movie?

Yours,
knows what she likes to see in her summer entertainment

(Note to self: get laid. You seem to need it.)

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 7/17/08 at 1:55pm

Once this weekend ends, I really hope I don't have to hear about this movie again until Awards season. One person on Facebook has been counting down the hours until the midnight showing... every hour.