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The Dark Knight: News, Reviews, your Views. "SPOILERS" welcome!
optom3:
Well my husband, and in the end both sons went to see TDK. Very mixed reviews from all 3 of them. Matt who I was very against letting see it, was not remotely scared.He was the only one who really loved it.He liked every bit and wants to go and see it again.
My oldest son says the film was just O.K but he had to agree that Heath was amazing.My husband said without Heath it would be just average.
Husband and oldest son think Heath should get nominated, at least for best supporting actor,but don't think the flm should be nominated.
So a very mixed bag.
I was surprised my younger son wasn't scared but he just took it all at face value.My husband said a lot of the violence was implied and both him and the older son weremore disturbed by that, than the youngest.
They all said Heath was not on the screen enough and that he basically carried the movie. Interestingly they also all said it would be madness to do a 3rd batman as no one was going to be able to top Heaths' joker.But also that no other villain could top the joker.
tamarack:
I watched Batman Begins last night, which was a good thing because I didn't remember much of any of it from the first time I saw it, but it left me totally primed to see Heath today. I can only reiterate what others have said here...it was all about Heath for me. I would have seen the movie eventually, but I would have gotten it from Netflix if Heath hadn't been in it. It was all about waiting for him to be back on the screen, as far as I'm concerned.
I was SO glad to leave the theater with the opinion that there is no reason to think that this movie had anything to do with his death. He looked like a big kid who was having a whole lot of fun! When he was driving the semi and he said "I like this job. I like it I like it," (at least I think that's what he said) I could imagine that he was talking about the job of acting. I loved the lip-licking and smacking (are you seriously thinking that he wasn't acting, that he really had dry mouth, or just discussing it because it was mentioned in the review?).
I almost felt sorry for him for a minute when he was describing how his father had given him the smile, but then, of course, the story changed the next time he told it...LOL
Loved the nurse's uniform! Loved the hand sanitizer! Loved the standing up and then falling down after the semi flipped! He's so adept physically.
The scariest thing I saw was a little boy with his Batman figurine waiting for his mom to buy popcorn so they could go to see the movie!
Ellemeno:
Saw it.
And what Leslie said applied, that the violence was so comic-booky, that it mostly didn't get to me. That was a huge relief. If Heath wasn't on the screen, I simply closed my eyes during rough scenes. If Heath was on the screen, I made a little viewing hole with my hands, and just watched his face, and avoided the rest of the screen. But mostly, it wasn't what I had dreaded, not by a long shot, because it was clearly fake.
I felt pretty detached from the story much of the time, as I often do when I somehow wind up watching action films. Like it's just so over the top that I can't suspend disbelief, so my emotional engagement with the story and characters doesn't kick in. I don't think I ever really forgot I was watching a movie. I'm definitely not its intended demographic. EXCEPT that I'm a Heathen. And there they got me good.
It was a joy to see Heath, and to just watch him, and watch for him in his movements, sounds, mannerisms, etc. He had a surprising number of monologues, where it's just him and maybe one other character, and we get to listen to and look at him for a while. It must have been a blast to go full throttle like that.
I don't know if it was an Oscar-worthy performance. Or rather, I don't know if it was an Oscar-worthy role. He did great, he stole the show, but it sure wasn't Ennis, or even, no offense, Capote. I didn't think he was scary, but maybe that's because I was sitting there loving him, I went there to sit and love him.
I'm glad he was happy making it.
ednbarby:
I've taken anti-depressants for six years. I don't lick my lips much at all.
Saw the movie last night. It was mind-blowing. It's very rare that a movie surprises me. This one did more than once. I actually said the words "Oh, my God" out loud. A few times. I don't do that while watching movies. Hell, I don't do that in everyday life.
It wasn't difficult watching Heath. It was a joy - pure, unadulterated joy. I wanted to applaud after every one of his scenes - and come to think of it, I probably did. Along with most of the other people in the theater. And not because he's gone. I actually forgot that - believe it or not - until the end, when my heart stopped watching what I knew was his final scene in the movie when I realized that I wouldn't get to look forward to watching him reprise it, and improve upon perfection, in a few years.
That's what he could do - he could make me laugh while horrifying me. He could horrify me while making me laugh.
The scene that resonates with me the most is the one in which he said to someone he was about to torturously kill, "Look at me. LOOK. AT. ME." That second one made the hair on the back of my neck stand up (and elicited one of my many oh-my-Gods). The voice that came out of him then was unlike anything I could have conjured up in any of my worst night terrors.
He was The Shit. The Absolute Shit.
Ellemeno:
I was very glad I had read the list of violent moments on the kids-in-mind site before going to TDK, because it helped me recognize moments to close my eyes before something gross happened. Like when The Joker stabs a pencil down into a table top, I closed my eyes right away, because I had read about the moment that was coming after that, and knew I didn't want that image in my memory.
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