Angelina was born to play Catwoman.

I wouldn't mind seeing her play Catwoman

Too bad its not as good as FANTASTIC FOUR, right?



$200+ million in 5 days....thanks for the advice.



I don't think Heath Ledger will be available.



Ditto!

She certainly breeds like a cat.

Cats adopt foreign babies for publicity?

Cats are attention whores, in case you don't know.

If there is, I hope they give us some explanation about why there is a Robin. Otherwise the existence of Robin will only remind us of Heath Ledger and his role in Brokeback Mountain.

How about Al Pacino as Black Mask?

There will NOT BE A ROBIN. Hell, Bale has said it himself that he won't fucking do a 3rd movie if that shit is being done.

Also, tying homosexuality with pedophiles? How clever.



Thing is, can Pacino play a gangster?

Jake Gylenhall as Robin.

See the irony?

Well said Irishman. Definitely the best Batman movie ever made. It'a about time that they made a movie that showed the REAL Dark, cynical, vigilante side of Batman. The way that The Batman is in the comic books. The reason that he's known as The Dark Knight.

Ledger steals the show. His portrayal of the Joker is totally DEAD ON! He captures the exact characteristics that the comic book Joker has. He's the dark, cynical and homicidal maniac that the Joker is in the comic books.

And the makeup of the Harvey Dent / TWO FACE character is outstanding.

I really enjoyed this movie!

Not only that DC, but the Joker is such a cunning villain. He's always in control, even when it appears he's not. Everything has already been planned, nothing's left to chance.

Since I assume you have me on IGNORE...

How about that great ending monologue? Seriously, that was the icing on the goddman cake for me.

As for Ledger, how about that scene when Joker is on top of a mountain of money, he slides down like Scrooge McDuck, and sets it on fire. What a wonderful visual that defines the Clown Prince of Crime.

Really, a great cast that totally delivered the bacon home besides Ledger, though he got the more flashy memorable part.

I'm going see it again tomorrow.

Don't have you on ignore Ronnie. Not at all.

The parts that you point out were really good parts and good acting on Ledger's part. No question about it.

But I really did love the (now I'm paraphrasing here) "I'm gonna make this pencil dissapear" scene! Brilliant!

And the clapping scene is also a great peice of acting. Typical getting the point across without uttering a word.

Great stuff.

You're right, the pencil scene is CLASSIC.



Ledger WILL get an Oscar nomination at the very least.

My girlfriend and I saw it on opening night. We went kind of early to avoid the long lines that were bound to occur for the later shows.What an OUTSTANDING film. So many great moments (the pencil and "I just want my phone call" scenes pop into my mind instantly.)While Ledger definitely stole the show, the rest of the cast also did an outstanding job. There's really nothing more I can add that hasn't already been said. An instant classic!

XDCX, what is up my friend!?

Here's my short response to the film.

The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan 2008 | USA
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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.
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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.

How do you compare it to BATMAN BEGINS?

I'd need to see that again, really.

I'd rank Nolan's films thusly:

1. The Prestige (2006)
2. Memento (2000)
3. Batman Begins (2005)
4. Insomnia (2002)
5. The Dark Knight (2008)
6. Following (1998)

I think.

Such low preference for Following? We can use a different/new thread for this if you want to discuss further.

Why do people have a problem with his "Batman voice"? I think it makes it more real that he actually changes it than to just use his normanl voice.

It makes sense to change your voice when you talk to people that know Bruce and Batman.

I agree, but I guess people just don't like that raspy voice. Not everyone can be Kevin Conroy.

You know it didn't bother me so much, but my daughter kept wondering why his voice was like that. It did sound a little strange, but I just assumed it was because Bruce Wayne was disguising his voice.


TIS

It's a good film. I like it. I just think all the others are better.

A different question: What percentage of the people who see this film will know of it in relation to Christopher Nolan?

I just got back from seeing The Dark Knight. eh... My first reaction was that it is over-hyped and if Heath Ledger were still alive there wouldn't be any mention of Oscar nominations (but people would still think he was a great Joker).

Maybe I'll feel different once the whole experience sinks in a little.

EDIT: As of right now I liked Batman Begins much more.

You crazy.

If you have an IMAX around you, I recommend going to see it there.

It made no difference during the film to me if Ledger was dead or alive. That performance is going to be iconic even if he was alive.

I agree, I did not even know it was heath ledger while I was watching. I liked his role very much and later found out to my surprise that he played the role