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The Dark Knight: News, Reviews, your Views. "SPOILERS" welcome!
optom3:
I find it strange that the only films I can not watch several times over are TDK and Candy. TDK broke my heart because it showed the true genius of Heath, and reaffirmed what I already knew we had lost, in a horribly stark way. Had his last fully completed role been a light touch comedy, it may have been easier.I still maintain, Casanova was so under rated. He used subtlety and small facial expressions, where he could have used, OTT gestures.Always less is more.
Candy I cannot watch again as it is just too raw.I lost a good friend that way too which does not help, he was a superbly talented musician and had just completed his first score for a small arthouse film.Also with all the hype that surrounded Heaths death, Candy became very painful,it makes me cry even now.It seems to me that for many, true artistic genius come with a flaw.The attraction towards excess, to facilitate the expansion of the mind in as many ways as possible. Very very sad.What our maker seems to give with one hand, he seems to also in many cases to say, well that gift will come at a cost.
Anyway back on topic. Heath as the joker is one of the finest pieces of total immersion acting I have ever seen.There is no Heath, only Joker and in some ways that helps, but in others it hurts, because part of me wants to see Heath, if that makes any sense.
I am sometimes thankful for my Bipolar a in my high moments I can easily believe he is still here,unfortunately in my down times the opposite is all to searingly apparent. Now being one of those.
I guess the business analyst we have just had in, telling us we will be bankrupt in 6/12 is not improving things a great deal.Guess I will just have to kick myself up the rear end and prove him wrong!!!
Shasta542:
TDK still #1 even on its 4th weekend!
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=326360>1=28101
"It has taken on a life of its own, and in doing so got so much positive press and word of mouth that older audiences who normally don't rush out to see movies or maybe only see two, three movies a year are coming out in large numbers," Fellman said. "It's a question of `We've been reading about this for three, four weeks now. Let's go see what it's all about.'"
optom3:
--- Quote from: Shasta542 on August 10, 2008, 04:33:35 pm ---TDK still #1 even on its 4th weekend!
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=326360>1=28101
"It has taken on a life of its own, and in doing so got so much positive press and word of mouth that older audiences who normally don't rush out to see movies or maybe only see two, three movies a year are coming out in large numbers," Fellman said. "It's a question of `We've been reading about this for three, four weeks now. Let's go see what it's all about.'"
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I have just finished reading that online somewhere.It almost seemd begrudging though, as the figures are followed up with, but tickets cost more than they did when Titanic hit the screens.!!!! The implication being even if TDK does eventually take the No.1 slot which I think was 600 million. It would not really be No.1 owing to ticket price comparisons.
Peronally I just could not stand Titanic,so TDK has won in my book already.!
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Mandy21 on August 08, 2008, 12:00:51 am ---I was thinking the whole time that if he wasn't a homicidal maniac, I would give anything to have him as my best friend. If that makes any sense at all...
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It makes complete sense to me. I just watched it for my third time tonight. My brother is visiting from Ohio, and I took him to see it for his first. You all can relate with the joy in sharing something known and loved with a newbie... And the greater joy in watching someone "get it" like you did your very first time. He laughed at all the right parts, said "Oh, my God!" at all the right parts. OK. Basically, he repeated my feelings. So that means he's perfect!
What we both got about Heath's performance is that, on some level, this guy really makes sense. That scene in the hospital with Harvey Dent (the wonderful, wonderful way he said "Hi" notwithstanding) really got me this time. He brought Harvey down to his level by making sense. He was right. It really is pathetic to think that we have any control whatsover over chaos. I think that's why the lines in the Billy Idol song that go "There is nothing fair in this world. There is nothing safe in this world. And there's nothing sure in this world, and there's nothing pure in this world - is there nothing left in this world?" so resonate with me.
The other thing that got me tonight was his voice. Didn't fully appreciate all the nuances in it before. But for some reason, tonight, my ears were finely tuned in. He is just The Shit. Always has been, always will be.
Oh, and my brother, God bless him, thought Maggie was "sexy as hell." Good man.
cmr107:
I saw it for the second time tonight, this time on IMAX. (We got there 10 minutes before it started, for a Sunday afternoon show, but it was so full we had to sit in the second row! That is NOT a good seat at an IMAX.) I was completely fascinated by his voice before, but the better sound quality of the IMAX theatre somehow made it even more fascinating to me. I may be weird, but I could listen to it for hours.
I looked really hard for the 'Matilda' on his nurse uniform name tag, thinking I could see it on such a huge screen right in front of my face, but I couldn't. I could see that something was written there, but couldn't make out any letters. :-\ Oh well. I'll just trust that it's there.
Random question: I keep hearing about the three different stories he tells about how he got the scars, but I only hear two. He tells one to the guy in that dreadful scene with the body bag and one to Rachel at the fundraiser, but that's all. Near the end when the ferry boat people are making their decisions he asks Batman if he knows how he got them, but he doesn't actually tell a story. Am I missing the third story somewhere?
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