I have 1 question this evening...
funny thing my sis liked it so much she got the DVD yet even though i know its good i just didnt get around to watching it...... i guess i'm not in the mood yet 
I went to the midnight showing, where ALL THIRTY SCREENS WERE SOLD OUT FOR THE DARK NIGHT. And I fell asleep about twenty minutes in, woke up periodically.
Since it's been released on DVD, Craig has watched it multiple times, but I've never actually sat down to watch it with him. (Though I was in the room when he and a friend watched it with Rifftrax... but I was working on some project or other, in other words only half listening 8D; )
I'm sorry, but there are few 3 hour movies that can actually keep my attention the entire duration, and The Dark Knight is not one of them.
~Shadowed Spirit Sage
I've wathced the movie at least 5 times! It's definately one of my favorites!
Midnight showing? You mean when it first came out in theaters? @ Sage
Also, you could watch it in fragments, such as half-an-hour at a time or something. I imagine the movie would be especially interesting for people in Chicago, actually, seeing as how that's supposedly the main place where it was filmed.
Haven't watched it myself though (thought of this topic because of the mention of it in another thread on this board) I was just wondering how well-known it was here. According to wikipedia it's ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films...
that's good advice matt, watching a movie in fragments makes it more interesting. i do that with some movies when eatting alone XD
i know its a bad habbit but i cant sleep or eat in total silence, but since i dont like watching something i really like while busy eatting
i tend to watch half an hour of the movie and leave the rest for another lonely day XD
I've watched one of the recent batman films at a friend's house but I don't remember which because I found it to be boring as heck. It was the one with two face?
I dunno, Batman is not a character I have ever liked.
I don't watch tv son, I have a life.
I don't watch TV, and I still don't have a life, dear.
Though I suppose that's what happens when you work and school full time and still can't even afford cable. 8D
~Shadowed Spirit Sage
@Shadowed Spirit Sage same here.
EDIT: The later reply was typed up when this post for whatever reason didn't show up in the thread...
Still haven't watched Dark Knight, but I watched Batman Begins a couple times this weekend... at first because it's the movie Dark Knight was a sequel to, afterwards because it was worth it on its own anyway.
Still haven't watched Dark Knight, but I watched Batman Begins a couple times this weekend... at first because it's the movie Dark Knight was a sequel to, afterwards because it was worth it on its own anyway.
If you liked Begins, you'll love Dark Knight... I saw it 4 or 5 times in the theater alone =)
If you liked Begins, you'll love Dark Knight...
That assumption would only work if Dark Knight was of the same style as Begins except more so... I'd say it's a different style altogether.
But yeah, I watched it just then, and is it ever DISTURBING. Definitely more so than Batman Begins, which was dark too, but in quite a different way... hard to describe, really... and in a way that managed to be epic without being as disturbing... probably because Batman Begins has more of those Disney-esque sentimental moments, leaving the transition to the action more impactful than Dark Knight's focus on dark themes leaves it...
Different style? Nonesense. It's the same director, same cast, same locations, heck he even uses the same Bat Mobile and suit for the first portion of the sequel.
The major differences between the two movies, in atmosphere, were that the first movie used an amber filter and treated Batman from the badguys perspective (a monster in the shadows), whereas the sequel was more from the public/police perspective, where he was just a guy in a bat suit, which is simultaneously awesome and ridiculous.
To say there is a different feel is accurate, but not enough to seem like they're not connected. It'd be like saying Terminator 2 doesn't belong standing next to Terminator 1. Sure the first movie is a suspense horror movie where the robot is an unstoppable killer of whom they must run from and the second movie is an action movie where the good guys take big guns and fight against the unstoppable killing machine--- but they're quite clearly connected and compliment one another so nicely that to enjoy one IS to enjoy the other as they are part of a whole.
The DVD commentary sums up Dark Knight pretty well. In the first movie, Batman is a being of chaos fighting against the order of shadows who wish to wipe out chaotic things and bring about true order. In the second movie, The Joker is the being of chaos and Batman has to keep the city in order.
Both sides of the same coin and both important stories to tell. Begins deals with personal fear, personal chaos versus congrigated organization and cold hard thinking. Knight deals with public fear and public chaos versus Batman's lawful good nature and how far he is willing to go to keep peace (burn the forest, so to speak).
I love both movies dearly, but Knight edges out for, if nothing else, Nolan is growing as a director, and he stopped making Gotham look so murkey and amber shaded.
Both sides of the same coin
The DVD commentary sums up Dark Knight pretty well. In the first movie, Batman is a being of chaos fighting against the order of shadows who wish to wipe out chaotic things and bring about true order. In the second movie, The Joker is the being of chaos and Batman has to keep the city in order.
Both sides of the same coin and both important stories to tell. Begins deals with personal fear, personal chaos versus congrigated organization and cold hard thinking. Knight deals with public fear and public chaos versus Batman's lawful good nature and how far he is willing to go to keep peace (burn the forest, so to speak).
I love both movies dearly, but Knight edges out for, if nothing else, Nolan is growing as a director, and he stopped making Gotham look so murkey and amber shaded.
Murkey? You mean as in blurry, or as in darker-coloured? Haven't heard the DVD commentary, but the compare-and-contrast distinction you mentioned is sort of interesting...
And TTG where did you get that image? Is there some sort of archive of "[insert character] sees what you did there" or something like that? o.o
Matt.
This is completely off-topic.
But we need to RP sometime.
Like, as soon as you read this.
~Shadowednavi
It's just a thing that movies go through, at the time it was made Begins was when all these new TVs were getting popular and EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD was being filmed so dark you could barely see anything, plus Nolan was new to action (he's a drama director, after all) and didn't know how to do any fight scenes without it being a blurred mess. So let's go both.
These days we have the whole EVERYTHING IS A COOL BLUE era, which is far more tolerable. Just look at the new Tron for examples of how that style looks, and Dark Knight's entire advertizing stratergy (from logo to box art) abuses it heavily.
It's just a thing that movies go through, at the time it was made Begins was when all these new TVs were getting popular and EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD was being filmed so dark you could barely see anything, plus Nolan was new to action (he's a drama director, after all) and didn't know how to do any fight scenes without it being a blurred mess. So let's go both.
These days we have the whole EVERYTHING IS A COOL BLUE era, which is far more tolerable. Just look at the new Tron for examples of how that style looks, and Dark Knight's entire advertizing stratergy (from logo to box art) abuses it heavily.
I don't know about Tron, but I notice the Dark Knight boxart looking like a mostly dark-grey, blue-tinted tone... I guess the colour's supposed to be a metaphor for the movie.
But yeah, I don't know much about the differeces between how movies were filmed at different times or whatever... I'm sort of left wondering how you know about this stuff. XD
And TTG where did you get that image? Is there some sort of archive of "[insert character] sees what you did there" or something like that? o.o
Google Image searched an appropriate picture, added the Impact font in MS Paint.
And TTG where did you get that image? Is there some sort of archive of "[insert character] sees what you did there" or something like that? o.o
Google Image searched an appropriate picture, added the Impact font in MS Paint.
And here I thought adding text in Paint just created an opaque rectangle... but then I actually tried adding text in Paint myself and it didn't... must have been thinking of a different version than the one I had. o.o
Also, I can't help wonder if Joker's style is supposed to be partly a reference to Internet trolling. I know Joker's mostly referred to as a terrorist in the movie, but his laughter at people beating him up, or his yelling at people to hit him with vehicles... seems to be some sort of reference to the "attack him and he wins" aspect of trolling, except taken to an extreme...
EDIT: Speaking of "two sides of the same coin" I noticed that the two sides of the same box each seem to fit two halves of the same movie... the back cover seems better suited to the first half of the movie (ie. the stuff before the chase scene involving the SWAT vans and clown truck) and the front cover seems better suited to the second half of the movie, when it gets REALLY intense...
