Dark Knight

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Simply awesome

[SHOW]

[wart57]

Saw it on Saturday, I liked it, but I think the buzz is a bit over the top. Great movie and all, but I guess I got my hopes up too much, because I thought it dragged a bit.

[phins]

I thought it was great, and probably the best sci-fi ish movie I've ever seen.

The Joker makes the movie though, and I love the above part about the pencil.

[Jocephus]

Simply awesome

[SHOW]

im so swiping that...

[BW23]

I thought it was great, too. But I didn't buy into any of the hype. And I thought the hype around Ledger was simply because of his untimely passing. I figured we saw the great parts in the trailer. Wrong. He far exceeded by expectations. As did the movie.

[heyzeus]

I'm with Clement on this one. It was good, but could've used some editing down. Sometimes the moviemakers decided to fall into the Bourne Identity trap of throwing in some complicated plot turns that, if they come fast enough, nobody in the theatre will think about long enough to question why they happened. Ledger's Joker was kinda one dimensional - I mean, he does that dimension very well, but I didn't feel that awe inspired or horrified or captivated as, say, by Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh.

Finally, for a guy who loves chaos and seems to kill off all of his employees, how does he manage to rig everything in the city with complicated explosives so that something else either blows up or is threatened to be blown up every 5 minutes?

Also, where did the Joker come from? Why does he just seemingly appear and blow everything up one day? I feel like his origins and development weren't very well explained.

[ghostrunner]

Also, where did the Joker come from? Why does he just seemingly appear and blow everything up one day? I feel like his origins and development weren't very well explained.

I think that was intentional. I loved that he kept changing his own backstory. You start to think you might grasp why he is what he is, and feel something for him. Because on some level that's what you want - to understand why. Then it turns out even that was a joke, and it's entirely on the audience since none of the characters he talks to gets to hear the conflicting stories.

They drop hints that he was a small-time criminal (obviously an intelligent one), but at this point he's lost any sense of restraint or empathy or shame.

[stlouie_lipp]

Also, where did the Joker come from? Why does he just seemingly appear and blow everything up one day? I feel like his origins and development weren't very well explained.

I think that was intentional. I loved that he kept changing his own backstory. You start to think you might grasp why he is what he is, and feel something for him. Because on some level that's what you want - to understand why. Then it turns out even that was a joke, and it's entirely on the audience since none of the characters he talks to gets to hear the conflicting stories.

They drop hints that he was a small-time criminal (obviously an intelligent one), but at this point he's lost any sense of restraint or empathy or shame.

I liked the fact that there was no backstory. He's just a psychopath who arrives on the scene and starts wrecking shop.

[ThatGuy]

I'm with Clement on this one. It was good, but could've used some editing down. Sometimes the moviemakers decided to fall into the Bourne Identity trap of throwing in some complicated plot turns that, if they come fast enough, nobody in the theatre will think about long enough to question why they happened. Ledger's Joker was kinda one dimensional - I mean, he does that dimension very well, but I didn't feel that awe inspired or horrified or captivated as, say, by Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh.

Finally, for a guy who loves chaos and seems to kill off all of his employees, how does he manage to rig everything in the city with complicated explosives so that something else either blows up or is threatened to be blown up every 5 minutes?

Also, where did the Joker come from? Why does he just seemingly appear and blow everything up one day? I feel like his origins and development weren't very well explained.

Elitist.

[heyzeus]

No, not elitist. I am elite.