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Post by DA on Jul 21, 2008 2:08:19 GMT
I love Sunset. Goddamn it, I wish the IMAX theater was still there!! I'll need to drive to Ft. Lauderdale for the IMAX theater. Want to carpool? Ha, I'm so damn lazy I just now got my permit. I basically can't drive for shit man lol |
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Post by pizzaboy on Jul 21, 2008 14:58:15 GMT
I love Sunset. Goddamn it, I wish the IMAX theater was still there!! I'll need to drive to Ft. Lauderdale for the IMAX theater. Want to carpool? I basically can't drive for shit man lol In Miami, who'd notice? LOL |
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jul 21, 2008 15:51:31 GMT
True. shit, they gave ME a license.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Jul 22, 2008 14:33:42 GMT
Off topic, but Christian Bale just got arrested for assault.....
...and this was reported by his mother and sister!
Did he play Batman or Joker this time around? I can't tell...
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Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2008 14:45:06 GMT
Man > Woman
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jul 22, 2008 18:39:15 GMT
Jesus. Cocksuckers will say that he got "lost" in his role as Batman also.
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Post by RNL on Jul 23, 2008 23:27:57 GMT
I don't think this film is very good.
I understand the fanboy love, but I don't understand the professional critical song-and-dance.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jul 24, 2008 0:00:54 GMT
What's not that good about the film? I thought personally that it was as close to perfect as a Blockbuster has been since "Jaws". It's a taut film, with wonderful performances all around and a wonderful, mature script.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Jul 24, 2008 16:19:05 GMT
Wetdog, did you fall for the hype?
SPOILER WARNING!
Speaking of which, favorite scenes folks?
How about when Joker is on top of his mountain of money, slides it down like Scrooge McDuck, then sets it on fire. What a wonderful visual that explains Joker more than the 1989 movie ever did in 2 hours.
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Post by svsg on Jul 24, 2008 16:48:22 GMT
Speaking of which, favorite scenes folks? |
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Post by Omar on Jul 24, 2008 16:55:57 GMT
Speaking of which, favorite scenes folks? |
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DA
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Post by DA on Jul 24, 2008 19:50:20 GMT
The Joker's manipulation of Harvey Dent while in the hospital ("You were a schemer...") is excellent.
"Let's put a SMILE on THAT FACE!"
"You and I are going to be doing this forever..." was both poignant and satisfying; the former because obviously Heath won't be around for it, and the latter because that scene reminded me a LOT of the cathedral scene in '89, only this time it ended the right way.
"What doesn't kill you makes you...stranger," the first appearance of The Joker's face in the film is simply epic.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Jul 24, 2008 19:57:15 GMT
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jul 24, 2008 21:40:54 GMT
Joe, what's your rating for TDK?
My favorite scene?
SPOILER WARNING:
That encounter between the Joker and Rachel Dawes in Wayne's apartment. It was dizzying, literally and very frightening.
The Joker going after Dent in the SWAT car as Batman tries to take him down is brilliant. So well executed.
And that last scene as Batman talks to Gordon, essentially telling him to print the legend, not the truth. It's very reminiscent of the end of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence".
And of course, the Joker destroying Gotham general in a Nurses outfit, waiting for a late charge to blow. Brilliant.
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Post by Jenson71 on Jul 24, 2008 22:09:32 GMT
SPOILER WARNING: The Joker going after Dent in the SWAT car as Batman tries to take him down is brilliant. So well executed. My problem with this was: why didn't the SWAT team shoot back? I'm going to be seeing this again pretty soon. Can't wait. My favorite scene was defintely the ending with the voice-over(s) talking about the essence of Batman. |
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Post by ronnierocketago on Jul 24, 2008 22:19:48 GMT
Joe, what's your rating for TDK? My favorite scene? SPOILER WARNING: That encounter between the Joker and Rachel Dawes in Wayne's apartment. It was dizzying, literally and very frightening. The Joker going after Dent in the SWAT car as Batman tries to take him down is brilliant. So well executed. And that last scene as Batman talks to Gordon, essentially telling him to print the legend, not the truth. It's very reminiscent of the end of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence". And of course, the Joker destroying Gotham general in a Nurses outfit, waiting for a late charge to blow. Brilliant. Review coming this weekend, though lets just say its good. Off to the WARGAMES screening tonight. |
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Post by ronnierocketago on Jul 24, 2008 22:23:31 GMT
SPOILER WARNING: The Joker going after Dent in the SWAT car as Batman tries to take him down is brilliant. So well executed. My problem with this was: why didn't the SWAT team shoot back? I'm going to be seeing this again pretty soon. Can't wait. My favorite scene was defintely the ending with the voice-over(s) talking about the essence of Batman. LOVED that ending, which just made an awesome movie even more...well, awesome. "Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now...and so we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector...a dark knight." |
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Post by DA on Jul 24, 2008 23:16:52 GMT
"Slaughter is the best medicine" is so appropriate and true to the essence of The Joker.
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Post by Capo on Jul 25, 2008 18:21:54 GMT
The Dark KnightChristopher Nolan 2008 | USA
While Bruce Wayne encourages District Attorney Harvey Dent as the new heroic face Gotham City needs, Batman's role as vigilante guardian comes under threat when a new violent force, the Joker, comes to prominence.
Neither as subtle nor as morally ambiguous as it takes itself to be - or, at least, as the hype suggested - this is a film that, when the dust settles (let's be honest), will be known more for being Ledger's last completed performance than for genuine greatness. As the Joker, or Nihilism personified, Ledger makes the most of an unusually thin script, inflecting his contrivedly whogivesafuck dialogue with a facial and bodily commitment that helps distract from the strained hipness of it all. It's a performance to woo the romantics, but the Oscar hype is premature. As for Bale, who is by now used to carrying films on his own, he's more exciting to watch as Bruce Wayne in a Lamborghini than as his titular, masked alter-ego, which is probably in large part due to the silly, gruff voice he suddenly succumbs to when suited and booted, and to the fact that the Batsuit itself is a victim of elaborate over-design. Other factors, as well as these, bring the film close to the campiness it intends to eradicate: the early sequences between Lucius Fox and Bruce Wayne bear a telling familiarity to the recurring, predictable episodes between 007 and Q from the James Bond films; and the moments (few and far between, but present nonetheless) of romantic innuendo and would-be emotional attachment bring it closer still. But two things save it. Firstly, the production design allows for on-location filming (Chicago substitutes for Gotham), that lends an anonymous, industrial realism to the setting (as opposed to the overwhelming if impressive stylisation of the Burton films). Secondly, and more noticeably, Nolan's ever-reliable feel for narrative pacing and momentum is what makes this a superior comics book adaptation (as with Nolan's two previous films, Lee Smith edits). The opening grips one from the off, with a musical undercurrent running through various viewpoints of a bank robbery, and the film's most exhilarating set-pieces thereafter work in the same way: meaning is established through cross-cutting, in the same way that made the many twists of The Prestige so riveting. His camera moves a lot, too, mostly in swift, smooth circles round static characters or tall, empowered skyscrapers; the former shot either at head-height or from low angles, the latter from the heavens, encompassing a world at once personal and immediate, yet unstable in its quest for justice or morality.
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Post by Capo on Jul 25, 2008 18:29:26 GMT
If Nolan does another Batman film, which is now likely, I hope he doesn't become synonymous with it, and find it difficult to venture into other stuff. I think he's a terrific filmmaker, and has much more talent to offer the medium.
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