Batman: The Dark Knight
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- kuzzAAAAM
Thought the script was pretty cheesy: borrowing heavily from Saw and No Country for Old Men, and i hated all the stupid "war on terror" allegories (and that bit where he says: "made in china? pah! shuda bought American!" lol, twats)
But it was well put-together and Heath Ledger... WOW. Made the film.
(Batman Begins wuz betta).
- ukit0
Yeah, slightly overrated, but still a good flick. I'm sure I'll watch it again sometime.
- Georges0
kuzzAAAAM sounds a lot like khurram
are you related?
- uncle_helv0
Yep good film, but I guess there has to be an element of cheese, as he dresses up as Bat after all!
Heather Ledger's performance lived up to all the hype (no pun intended)
- kinobe0
how come katie holmes werent in it
- because she's brainwashed by the scientologists?OnesandZeros
- Scheduling issues. Guess she had something more important going on.CygnusZero2
- or everyone realised she is crap and didn't tell her there was a new film.v3nt
- haha and then she showed up at the premiere without being invited in an old wedding dresseighteen
- "I'M STILL BEAUTIFUL! LOVE ME!"eighteen
- cgindia1870
First scene reminds me of "Heat"
- That's what the director kind of wanted apparently, as it's the same guy!uncle_helv
- whut chu takin bout uncle_helv?ian
- Heat is by Michael Mann, The Dark Knight is by Chris Nolan.Ruffian
- D'oh my fault, he was inspired by Heat then or something, I'm sure I read it somewhere?!uncle_helv
- Yeah...Van Sant from Heat is the bankmanager who goes apeshit with the shotgun!!!babaganush
- yeah it was like watching heat, but maybe its because all banks look the sameFallowDeer
- forbes0
really enjoyed the film myself - heath ledger was pretty good
- rafalski0
Were you banned "the other day" Khuzzinsky? I remember you were asking for it, but you know, they never listen..
- aesthletics0
Briliant! it expanded upon and didn't repeat Batman Begins. The Godfather Part 2 of comic book films. Borrowed heavily from Saw? Hardly. The Joker was playing sick games long before the saw killer.
- dsgnr0
I loved it.. there's this one scene that took me out of it's grips though.
you know when your watching a movie obviously it's all fake but you when a movie is really good you open yourself up and go with the flow.It was all good until he flicked the bat pod on the wall, now that was just to much.. strange enough I didn't had that with the plane escape in Japan.. it was just something about the way it was filmed I guess
- Jaline0
"borrowing heavily from Saw and No Country for Old Men"
No. A lot of this stuff was in the comic books and already had a darker feel before the above films. I like both of the films you mentioned. However, while I realize films are a separate medium compared to books and comics, I'm not a believer of commenting about various aspects you didn't like before knowing about the original format of the text you are talking about.
It also irks me when people think a coin toss was originated from a character of a film that came out in 2007.
- kuzzAAAAM0
IMO the grainy videos of torture scenes, the psycho-sadistic nature of the joker's "trix" was CLEARLY inspired by all the recent graphic horror movies - in atmosphere, tension and implied horror. This was an ORIGINAL script by the Nolan brothers.
Also, re: No Country for Old Men, it's enough for me to compare Nolan's "Two face" to Shoemacher's Harvey Keitel version, to see where the influence lies.
- Mal0
- hiimerik0
imax was awesome!
- babaganush0
The Heat homage is by way of the shotgun wielding bank manager in Dark Knight. He played Van Sant in Heat
- kelpie0
can't believe you thought begins was better kuzz. I mean I TOTALLY can not believe that. That one really dissapointed me, this one wasn't nearly as good as people were saying n here but still a pretty decent picture.
- utopian10
Waiting for the DVD, yawn...
- kelpie0
your borrowing chat is shite too. That's how the joker has been for a long long time and no one has had the balls to put him on screen as a genuine psychotic, anarchic, sadist. Its of its time, aye, and no doubt the general level of escalation in on screen sadism and violence has opened the door for writing him this way but, imho, you're dead wrong