Anyone seen a good movie lately?

Zanshin · July 17, 2008, 09:27:29 AM

Caught Gone Baby Gone the other night. I thought it was very well done. I read the book, so I had a little bit of an issue with Casey Affleck's sort of scrawny variation of Patrick, but other than that I thought it was a really solid outing. Well worth watching.

ice grillin you · July 18, 2008, 09:05:10 AM

Quote from: SD_Eagle on July 14, 2008, 09:34:30 PM
Do we have a Stephen Hunter review yet? I just can't see a movie without that.

your wish is my command

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602877.html

not the best of reviews...RT categorizes it as "fresh"...he particularly hates eckhart who i also cant stand and everytime i see the previews i cringe cause hes so bad...like everyone else he raves about ledger

Seabiscuit36 · July 18, 2008, 09:30:50 AM

http://www.revolutiontt.net/goodwillweekend.php

Open invites to RevTT this weekend, a badass Torrent site

Eagles_Legendz · July 18, 2008, 11:26:41 AM

Went to the midnight showing. The movie was quite good and incredibly involving. I didn't have an issue with Eckhart--I actually thought he played Dent's character exactly how Nolan would want him to. It definitely deals a great deal with morality and human nature when faced with a threat in interesting ways.

4.5/5

Oh and Ledger, sans hyperbole, is simply astounding.

mussa · July 18, 2008, 11:34:26 AM

I'm going to see it Tuesday during the day. me so horny

rjs246 · July 18, 2008, 11:45:00 AM

Next time, save the keystrokes.

Seabiscuit36 · July 18, 2008, 11:51:13 AM

Midnight results

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FRIDAY 7AM: Warner Bros is well on its way to making Hollywood history this weekend. That's because its opening comic book caper The Dark Knight is already on its way to breaking records left and right today even as it's still sparking a ticket-selling frenzy across North America. I've just been told that the latest Batman installment's midnight shows broke the record of $16 million set by Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith. "Over $17 million, and still counting," my insider says this morning. I should have final midnight numbers by 9:30AM. Across North America, theater owners are working feverishly to squeeze in more screenings of the runaway success to meet voracious moviegoer demand.

NGM · July 18, 2008, 03:55:18 PM

Just saw The Dark Knight, incredible.

4.5/5

They did try to mash a lot of stuff in, hence the missing .5

MadMarchHare · July 18, 2008, 05:25:28 PM

TDK is far too dense to really fully understand in one viewing. I may actually go see it again.

For those who've already seen it (NOT A SPOILER per se):

"How about a magic trick?" evoked the most visceral reaction from a movie house crowd I've seen since James Caan brained Kathy Bates in Misery.

5/5.

SunMo · July 19, 2008, 08:56:25 AM

The Dark Knight:

Really good movie, but I didn't leave the theater with my mind blown like I thought I would and I'm not sure why. Gavely voice Batman was starting to wear on me, but that's a minor thing. The story was good, the performances were great especially Ledger and Eckhart. Maggie G was a much better Rachel and I wish she would've been in the first one.

My main problem with the movie (big spoilers involved):

I really don't like that they killed Two-Face. I had a feeling that they would develop him and kill him in the same movie, but I was hoping that they would set him up for the next movie. There is a lot more to the character, but all we're left with is a guy who got revenge because his girlfriend got killed. We basically got 1/2 of a movie of Two-Face after an extensive set up. That really bothered me.

ice grillin you · July 19, 2008, 09:18:46 AM

Quote from: MadMarchHare on July 18, 2008, 05:25:28 PM
TDK is far too dense to really fully understand in one viewing.

WTF?....whats to uderstand

i thought it was a great movie but like sun wasn blown away...as happens to a lot of movies that are 2.5 hrs or longer...it was about 15-20 minutes to long...the whole scene with batman stopping the swat teams from killing the hostage clowns was tedious ridiculous and should have been cut out

i thought the preaching and message sending got a little to overt at the end as well...the sonar bush/nsa spying analogy was trying to hard and the people who are percived as bad can be good and vice versa thing with the ferrys was a little corny...i also thought the sonar technology that bruce wayne came up with was to unrealistic and seemed like a short cut by nolan

agree with sun batmans voice is laughably overdone at times...throw bales awful lisp on top of it and it got annoying

a lot of that is nitpicking tho...imo it was the best movie of its kind ive ever seen...for two reasons...as reviews hit on it wasnt a typical comic book superhero movie...it was much more drama/suspense...the lack of cgi....nolan is a great movie maker and respects the art using as little cgi as possible...i only really noticed it once and that was when the helicopter crashed on the street

ledger was everything everyone said he would be...amazing....any of you fanboys know if the ending was edited after ledger died...like did the joker originally get away but they changed that knowing that theres no possible way anyone could follow up his performance...i also feel like the movie could have ended after he broke out of jail and rachel died...i think it would have played much better that away...and as sun said with two face living

SunMo · July 19, 2008, 09:22:41 AM

i don't think they changed the ending once Ledger died...because that was kind of the story between Batman and Joker, he would catch him, put him away in the mental institution and then Joker would escape so he could play with Batman some more. i think there was a possibility of more in a third movie, but the farging pillhead ruined that.

Rome · July 19, 2008, 09:47:53 AM

The Dark Knight took in an astounding $60M-$63M in receipts yesterday.

ice grillin you · July 19, 2008, 10:01:52 AM

wow

i saw it took in over 18 million on just the thurs nite midnight showing

MadMarchHare · July 19, 2008, 10:08:42 AM

Quote from: SunMo on July 19, 2008, 08:56:25 AM
The Dark Knight:

Really good movie, but I didn't leave the theater with my mind blown like I thought I would and I'm not sure why. Gavely voice Batman was starting to wear on me, but that's a minor thing. The story was good, the performances were great especially Ledger and Eckhart. Maggie G was a much better Rachel and I wish she would've been in the first one.

My main problem with the movie (big spoilers involved):

I really don't like that they killed Two-Face. I had a feeling that they would develop him and kill him in the same movie, but I was hoping that they would set him up for the next movie. There is a lot more to the character, but all we're left with is a guy who got revenge because his girlfriend got killed. We basically got 1/2 of a movie of Two-Face after an extensive set up. That really bothered me.

You see I had this discussion with the group I saw it with. When exactly did they say he was dead? All they talked about was that the "symbol" was dead, and Batman had to take the fall for it so that the good Dent had done wouldn't be damaged. My guess? They put his ass in Arkham, and he'll be critical to the plot in Batman 3 (the redemption of the cowl).