My Dark Knight review

[ThePaleBird]

lol

[mictron]

the voice is so people don't realize its BRUCE WAYNE. its disguised on purpose. ITS BAD ASS.

"hey look, bruce wayne is dressed up in a big cumbersome suit doing his froggy from the little rascals impression again!"

"man, why can't that dude just wear a lampshade on his head like everyone else. billionaires..."

[John A]

car = great but the motorcycle was retarded and awkward.
joker = great
batman = yawn
gadgets, special effects = great


the dumbed down story blew. Overall grade = meh.

[Naked Rob]

Morgan Freeman seriously hurt in car accident - MSNBC.com

[Jimboyaka]

i wonder why the bruce timm cartoons are the only ones that get it right.

i like bale as batman, but i can't figure out the voice thing and it's so...extreme. you'd figure they would make him reign it in a little.

I bet he has to use a lot of lozenges after doing those scenes

[marmite]

They should have had Maggie playing Rachel right up until that warehouse scene, then swapped in Katie Holmes and blew her up for real.

ha! agreed.

[ENothing]

i wonder why the bruce timm cartoons are the only ones that get it right.

i like bale as batman, but i can't figure out the voice thing and it's so...extreme. you'd figure they would make him reign it in a little.

Not nearly as extreme as Bale but Kevin Conroy in the Timm series used a different voice for Bruce Wayne & Batman. Timm probably took the idea from the Fleischer Superman cartoons of the forties where they did the same thing.

[Barry Obama]

saw it last in Imax. Loved it, altho it should a been called 'Joker'.....

1. Joker: brilliant performance. Too bad homey OD'ed. No one can ever play the Joker again. He should get a posthumous Oscar. I will go see it again because of this performance. Especially loved his slimey assed rotting teeth. So nasty.

2.Cinematography: Brilliant. I loved the essentially CGI-less backdrop of Chicago. A lot of the shots where also really really sweet....and the opening bank robbery sequence was a great lil flick all its own.

3.everything else...normal, altho I did appreciate the totally weirdly super normal ' O look it's my dad....o no, its GARY OLDMAN....another bizaarely great performance for reasons outside the movie.

4. Bale is actually a good batman, basically a robot. In this one tho, it seemed to me the mask design was a little weird, the nose was too long and too high up so his close ups looked goofy.

5. as a 'comic book movie'-the lack of constant lame looking cgi and the adult treatment of the sequences ...it transcends the genre.

[The Dirty Protest]

2.Cinematography: Brilliant. I loved the essentially CGI-less backdrop of Chicago. A lot of the shots where also really really sweet....and the opening bank robbery sequence was a great lil flick all its own.

Liked the fact it made it more REAL, didn't like the fact it looked less 'Gotham'.

Wouldn't have mattered if Batman was based in a real city, but it did just look like he was hanging out in Chicago, and that was the only thing I didn't like, cos Gotham is as much of a character as anything else.

[marmite]

The only problem I had with the film was the sound - could barely hear what anyone was saying over the noise.
Or was that just me...?