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Re: I can't believe it

Postby Sage Of The Wise » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:14 am

The Dark Knight is definitely worth seeing. Don't know about the others.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby EmperorJeramyu » Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:04 am

Sage Of The Wise wrote:The Dark Knight is definitely worth seeing. Don't know about the others.

The Dark Night is awesome. Better than Batman Begins, which was already an excellent movie.

I was going to see Hancock, for the sole purpose of confirming it's shit. Of course I don't know for sure, but if it's like any other Will Smith movie, it's just another two hour ride of wasted potential and product placement. And for all you Will Smith fans out there, I have one thing to say... I'll always remember your secret shame.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby Angel_OA » Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:51 pm

The Dark Knight is mainly worth seeing for Heath Ledger.
I was so disappointed with Christian Bale.
Without a doubt it's Nolan's worst film...well I really mean 'least good'.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby MusashiEX » Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:59 pm

I'm watching Hancock just to see if Will Smith yells "Aw, hell naw!" really loudly. And yeah, The Dark Knight really is pretty good.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby Greatchickenman » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:43 pm

The Batman voice was just fucking ridiculous. He sounded like Assy Mcgee.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby EmperorJeramyu » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:30 pm

Spoiler Alert.

Yeah I'll admit, they should have.. dubbed him over with Kevin Conroy (90s animated cartoon). It's sort of hard to maintain a dramatic scene when one character is perpetually trying to hock a loogie. And Katie Holmes is much hotter than Maggie Gyllenhaal, but that role never should have existed in the first place. And some of it was a bit hard to swallow... like the sky hook, or the sonar thing near the end, or Batman surviving a 3 story fall, landing on his back, and then getting up and fleeing pursuit (but after all, he is the goddamn Batman). And some of the shit the Joker does... first, how does he keep getting henchmen? Second, how does he wire an entire hospital to explode? And how is it that he tells Harvey Dent that he's not a schemer, when everything he did in the movie up to that point was part of a plan to break him? He may be trying to thrust Gotham into chaos, but he seems to have a awfully elaborate... scheme, to do so. And he seem to plan things so far in advance it's unbelievable (the whole guy who swallowed the explosive cellphone thing... and how did he even get the knife from that one cop?). I understand the "psychotic Joker MO", and Heath Ledger's performance definitely brings that across, but still...
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby Greatchickenman » Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:33 am

The only part that I could possibly come up with something close to an explanation would be the Joker's henchmen. Since they point out that most of his henchmen are mentally ill, i think they just want you to accept that either the Joker attracts those types or he's actively recruiting from mental wards and homeless shelters. That explains why he's able to get more henchmen even though he's sacrificing them left and right.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby Angel_OA » Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:59 am

I think the explosive cellphone as Jera put it was just a detonator for charges that had already been set. Maybe the Joker had henchmen in the police as well?!
I dunno why people think its better than Batman Begins, The dark knight doesnt even have a proper ending.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby iamtheverb » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:14 am

what are you guys talking about?? don't you know The Dark Knight is the GREATEST MOVIE EVER???????
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby EmperorJeramyu » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:37 am

That list has Wall E higher up than The Matrix, The Departed, The Shining, Hotel Rwanda, Shaun of the Dead, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and about 200 other movies it doesn't deserve to be higher than. And it has two LoTR movies in the top 20 (they're good, but not "A" material by any means). So this only confirms my distant suspicion that there is a high density of really, really stupid people on IMDb, but I guess you can just look at the message board for pretty much any movie and figure that out.

And Empire is so not fucking better than Jedi. NERD RAGE.

And now I see that top 250 is a major flame war point on IMDb, go figure.
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Re: I can't believe it

Postby Sling » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:21 am

Wanted looks like the worst film ever. The Dark Knight looks pretty good. I don't know why people care so much. I gave up on waiting for good movies to come out when the released High School Musical. Hollywood producers aren't running out of ideas they're just shitting in the ideas pot.
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