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The Dark Knight: News, Reviews, your Views. "SPOILERS" welcome!
optom3:
Thanks for the kids in mind link. There is NO way my younger son is going to see it.He would have nightmares for weeks.That is a really useful site.
I shall use it in future,but BBM gets a 6 and TDK only a 7, for vilolence/gore,
Madness,if BBM is a 6 then it sounds lke TDK should be 106 !!!!!!
BelAir:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on July 18, 2008, 11:13:04 pm ---Home from the movies....
For the first time ever in my life, I had to evacuate a movie theater in the middle of the movie! And naturally, it was at a very very intense Joker moment! We all trooped out of the the theater, hung around in the parking lot, watched the one fire truck arrive and the two firemen go into the building (when I saw just 2 firemen I knew it wasn't serious!). Eventually a cop arrived and gave the "all clear" and they let us back in. Because it was digital, the movie started up in the exact place it left off but the 45 minute break did disrupt my concentration. Oh well.
My review: I usually loathe these types of movies and stop watching after about 20 minutes. This one...I got through the whole thing. And I sort of enjoyed it. But I think what I enjoyed was (in this order) 1) Heath's performance; 2) scenes of Chicago that I recognized*; 3) Morgan Freeman's few funny lines; 4) Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne (I think he is a very handsome man). Beyond that... well, I guess Michael Caine was good, in a stereotyped sort of role.
*one amazing glimpse I caught was of our hotel from our November trip to Chicago! Hannah picked up on it too.
I thought Maggie G. was as dull as dishwater. Sorry for anyone who thought she did a good job. And if this is an improvement over Katie Holmes in the previous movie...ack! Aaron Eckhart's character was also not showing me this huge conflict/transformation thing that was supposed to be going on. Yes, Gary Oldman was good but even he started to get a little dull and repetitious at the end.
Lots of special effects and blowing up buildings. Okay, seen one, I've seen 'em all.
As Paul said, the costume change scene with Heath was great and I especially liked the little touch with the hand sanitizer! LOL. Yes folks, clean hands do save lives!
I am slightly curious to go see the first movie to figure out the bits and pieces I was missing in this one. But I doubt I will see this again in a theater...this is a "once is enough" type movie for me.
As I said on the Heath, Heath, Heath thread, it disappoints me that this is at 94% on rottentomatoes and BBM is 87%. I mean really...it's a no brainer which movie people will be watching 50 years from now.
L
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That's cool about your hotel Leslie...
I doubt watching Batman Begins will answer many of the questions you have...
I want to start a "who loves Heath in drag?" poll! I saw it at a regular theater, so I suspect I will eventually see it at IMAX, sheerly for the purpose of seeing Heath on a gigantic screen.
Interesting find Elle, with the kids-in-mind, I wonder what rates a 10 on violence and gore, I also checked Hostage (horrible violent gory film, imo) and it rated an 8.
... so I searched the site and don't really understand how exactly they do it, but I did find some '10' movies as an example (in terms of violence): The Last Samurai, Natural Born Killers, Gladiator, The Patriot, Schindler's List, True Romance, Fight Club. guess the lesson is, best to read the descriptions!
MaineWriter:
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His accent is bizarre (I'm sure you've seen the clips), he does this thing with his tongue that adds to his creepiness. He has one costume change that is hilarious. Funny, I don't want to spoil it!
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His accent reminded me of his Skip Engblom accent in The Lords of Dogtown. It seemed to be a variation on that.
One review I read (from the Boston Globe, I think...) said the lip-licking thing reminded him of patients who are on anti-depressants. Paul, any comment on that?
L
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: southendmd on July 18, 2008, 04:13:18 am ---I am a confirmed wimp when it comes to violence in films, and this was way over the top for me. I actually thought of walking out a few times. The PG-13 rating is an absolute travesty, in my opinion. Even though there may not be much in the way of gore, I squirmed through most of the thing.
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--- Quote from: Elle on July 18, 2008, 10:30:45 pm ---Okay, so here is the link to the kids-in-mind page about The Dark Knight. I am glad I read it - I am stunned that I am about to knowingly go tomorrow to watch a movie with so much brutality and sadism. But what we do for love....
http://www.kids-in-mind.com/d/darkknight.htm
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Thank you both for posting that, that was what I personally have been looking for in order to make up my mind about going to watch the film.
I am a confirmed movie violence wimp too, and eager and determined to stay that way - I don't want to numb my mind to others' pain or accustom it to feeling no empathy or to stop reacting to cruelty. So whether this sentiment should win out, or my love for Heath, has been a real conundrum where TDK was concerned. It's been bothering me a lot. :-\
From what I'd read in reviews that to some extent detail the gore, sadism and general horror (worst of which, to me, being the pencil thing and the bomb in the stomach...) it came as no surprise... but OK. There it is and now I know for sure.
I still think it's sad and worrying that this kind of mind-numbingly nasty stuff is what creates box office records and has reviewers falling over themselves to hand out superlatives and praise. Think how many more people will watch this than will ever get around to watching the thought-provoking, humane Brokeback!
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: Meryl on July 17, 2008, 07:15:09 pm ---From the Tribeca Film Festival newsletter, a wonderful article, clearly written by a Brokie:
http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/news-features/features/heath.html
With Ennis Del Mar, the young actor delivered a performance so stunning and true that we’ll never be able to quit him.
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Oh my, I had missed this due to staying away from TDK spoilers. Thank you ever so much for posting that, Meryl. And it's so so so true.... I still can't quit Heath, it would seem, and I'll never tire of Brokeback Mountain. Never. All this other stuff and fuss is really just incidental and will pass....
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