Its So Close

[artificialsky]

[gas prices kill]

^ ahahah +rep

I am going to see this in IMAX on Tuesday. I cannot fucking waaaiiitttt oh my goddddd

[frank]

holy shit... how does this movie have a 9.5 ranking on imdb - -x

[the_state]

SSSPPPOOOIIILLLEEERRRSSS

wtf happens to joker in the end? are we lead to believe that the swat team apprehended him? did they blow his brains out? will he use another cell phone stomach bomb to get out of jail?

that aside. i duno, best movie i've seen in a long time. could easily be one of the best movies i've ever seen in my life. heath ledger completely owned that shit. oscar oscar oscar. cinematography was perfect, loved the bleak, cold, yet glossy feel it had. i mean, it was fucking perfect. even the sonar couldn't ruin it for me. maggie gylennahllahlhal is smoking hot too, fuck the naysayers.

[Leonard Leroy]

all the villlains in the movies thus far don't have a final fate. It fits in. Kinda like a comic. You don't really kill off your villains.

[indesertum]

Did Lucius Fox quit at the end? No Morgan Freeman in future movies?

I don't even want to watch future batman movies. There can be no better villains than heath ledger's joker.

I saw this for the second time today and I have to say you have to appreciate all the little details in the movie like the very first conversation b/w the female detective and gordon about her mom being the hospital, the dog biting through batman's armor, things you don't notice unless you anticipate it.

Maggie Gyllenhaal was smoking hot, but the interrogation scene with lau was really bad acting, the rest were ok.

[mr fluffernutter]

When Fox was putting his name in the system there was a voiceover about having faith in people or something, which leads me to believe that Batman made the sonar machine destroy itself when Fox put his name in so he doesn't have to quit.

WOW THANKS

[C0C0]

Overall, was pretty amazing, aside from all the black people, like usual, screaming out "OH SHIT NIGGA" whenever anything happened,

i was so annoyed at my theatre when all the white people expressed interest in rachel dawes death, joker making a pencil disappear by smashing a gangster's face into it (they really liiked that one), commissioner gordon pretends to die to protect his family but he reappears later on just in time to save batman from joker, they also had a riot when joker bust out of jail by calling a cell phone implanted in another prisoners stomach,

also batman taking the blame for two face's murders in order to give harvey dent the legacy he deserved

neither of the groups on the boats blow each other up, and batman reveals himself only it's not batman, but two face

and ledger was amazing as joker!!

[Leonard Leroy]

holy shit... how does this movie have a 9.5 ranking on imdb - -x

Cause its a pretty damn decent movie if you're into the best movie ever made.

[samsikle]

I didnt really understand it? I found the plot really confusing?

i felt the same way sort of, in the way they led up to an action, the transition was kinda unclear. i don't remember specifically any point, but even when they watched it a second time, it was still unclear although i knew what was going to happen.

[mis]

^^ The only thing that annoyed me was Dent. Seemed like they threw that together to fill that space, but even that somehow didn't deter from the movie. It was just pointless.

If i remember correctly, the joker swapped the addresses so that batman would save dent instead of rachel, then he used rachels death to turn dent against batman and the police.

I think dent was important in the sense that he was a 'point' that the joker was trying to make. That even the best people do have the ability fo fall from grace and turn into killers. Kinda reminds me of kevin spacey in seven.

Great movie. But batmans voice was awful

[MindxMatters]

Haha yeah the way Christian Bale sounded as batman kind of bugged me too, in the first movie too.

[sarcastic]

I've seen a lot of these reviews popping up recently: they have some interesting points but overall they seem to fall into their own trap. That is, they lambaste the "darkness" and "intellectual depravity" as signs of "modern fear" (p.s. whatever) but spend the entire time backing themselves into the "but back in the good old days..." corner of fear which is, in my opinion, much worse.

I agree, I personally think they are trying way too hard to bring the movie down. And in the end, Is it not what the audience thinks?

"That might be the ultimate capitalist deception."

"...teen demographic. This not only revamps ideas of escapist entertainment; like Nolan, it corrupts them."

"Nolan’s single trick is to torment viewers with relentless action montages; distracting ellipses that create narrative frustration and paranoia. Delayed resolution. Fake tension. Such effects used to be called cheap."

Come on... really?

[Leonard Leroy]

Haha yeah the way Christian Bale sounded as batman kind of bugged me too, in the first movie too.

I liked it. How did you expect him to talk? Like a normal person? Part of the Batman's thing is psychological warfare. He's a control freak, and infomaniac.

[bouwnt]

the scene after the joker escapes from jail and is wildin out hanging out the window of a cop car... weeeeoww. made

my

dick twitch.

no music, no sound.

just twitchin

[the_state]

^that was pretty chilling. the whole jail cell scene was brilliant.

i really like how they didn't show any cheesy scenes of the joker sitting at "the headquarters" with his goons plotting how they were gonna blow up the hospital, or set up the bomb in the stomach, or any of that shit. definitely had a bigger impact with him just moving in silence.

[High Monika]

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS DONT READ ETC

after seeing the movie what bothers me most about the review is that it seemed to focus on there being no hope...no light at the end of the tunnel. but the boat scene (although slightly predictable) gave exactly that . . . as soon as they choose to do the right thing they complete undo anything that review says

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

I dunno. I saw the boat scene as complete criticism of the public at large, as was the rest of the movie. The boat full of normal people VOTE to kill everyone else. But after that they're too chickenshit to actually kill the other boat. It didn't really have anything to do with them being good people. In every other scene, the public at large is ready to sacrifice Batman, the accountant, etc. etc.

Unfortunately I can't remember what other movies push the "public can't be trusted" argument, but it's getting thrown around a lot.

[_ironman]

i watched it last night. good movie, and like everyone said: heath ledger as joker was amazing

when the inmate threw their boat's key out the window, people in the theatre started clapping...wtf :confused:

[C0C0]

^^ i was just waiting for him to do something already since they kept focusing on him

[Leonard Leroy]

Deebo is the magical negro of the movie.

Surprisingly not morgan freeman this time.

[jl3969]

you guys are forgetting the best part of the movie: Edison Chen cameo.

i saw this in HK tonight and a couple dudes started laughing at his 10 sec role.

[cersepn]

WHAT?! 10 sec is giving him waay too much credit. It was a blink or you'll miss it 'scene'. To add to his misery, the camera wasn't really zoomed in on his face so it was kinda blur

[skiniks]

Fox is the magical negro of the movie.

Surprisingly not morgan freeman this time.

• Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) in Batman Begins and Batman: The Dark Knight

[Leonard Leroy]

Yes, I know. Lucius Fox only faces "discrimination, disability, and social constraint" in the Batman Begins in his postion at Wayne Enterprises. Lucius Fox is president in DK and can't be the MN.

Deebo was straight up MN to the letter in this movie.

[broneck]

I don't think he was, based on the guy on the other boat being white. . .was the white guy a magical negro also? i'm saying no.

[Leonard Leroy]

white guy was an asshole though. and swarmy.

We look at deebo and think he going to press the button. The white guard wants to press but doesn't have the balls. Nope, he saved the day and provided a lesson through mere action. Straight up Magical negro.

and wise =/= magicial.

Edit: And c'mon, i'm joking about this but not. Deebo is so magical negro, i'm not even trying to argue this hahaha

[High Monika]

^^ C0C0 is gonna have your balls for this magical negro talk.

[mrip]

if anyone wants to see Maggie Gyllenhaals tits watch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Baby

im watching the 1989 batman

so boring compared to DK

[C0C0]

^^ C0C0 is gonna have your balls for this magical negro talk.

not true lol it was a good point

[diewhitegirls]

Saw it again in IMAX. Holy IMAX. The parts that annoyed me before annoyed me more this time, but it's amazing the second time. Have lots of time to focus on the nuances. Wheeee.