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| Topic Started: Jul 18 2008, 11:29 AM (517 Views) | |
| moomoo24 | Jul 18 2008, 11:29 AM Post #1 |
 
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I don't care if you're at work, I don't care if you're watching your kids or if you have to choose to spend your last 10 dollars on food for the day or a movie ticket. Just go. You'll thank me. I saw it last night at midnight and it was insanely good. |
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| Pookie | Jul 18 2008, 12:15 PM Post #2 |
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I'm watching my kids, I don't have 10 dollars, and Vinnie took my car to work :no1: :crybaby: No movie for me. |
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| Mattingly23 | Jul 18 2008, 12:24 PM Post #3 |
 
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You can't drive the house to the movie theater? (joking, joking)(tm) |
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| Pookie | Jul 18 2008, 12:46 PM Post #4 |
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Haha, we don't live in a trailer silly. :no: |
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| Mattingly23 | Jul 18 2008, 12:49 PM Post #5 |
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Did you know Vinnie when he lived in that chemical warehouse? |
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| Pookie | Jul 18 2008, 01:00 PM Post #6 |
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Yeah...who the hell lives in a warehouse...he's strange. I'm sure he was drunk the whole time. :vin: |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 18 2008, 02:21 PM Post #7 |
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I'm glad to hear it's so good. I'm planning on seeing it Sunday. I'd like to see it today, but IMAX tickets were sold out. Might as well see it in there than in the regular theatre. |
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| Sori4Mvp | Jul 18 2008, 05:45 PM Post #8 |
The Truth
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:laugh: Yes, I indeed was. It was a quaint place, let's of cob webs and beat up hardwood floors with holes for the spiders to dwell. I could even see the garage/basement area from the main floor from my "wallless" bedroom right near where my recliner was there was a hole, I could look straight into the bathroom below. It was a locker/gym. There were four shower stalls, a couple of urinals and a shitter, nice tile floor all through. LOL. What a place, I wish I would have had a digital camera then, I should have jacked my Dad's for some nice photos from that place! DAMN ME!!!! :wall: |
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| Mantlemurcer | Jul 18 2008, 06:39 PM Post #9 |
Home of Champions
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Is that when you experimented with guys? |
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| Pookie | Jul 18 2008, 06:47 PM Post #10 |
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Expereminted with guys huh? :unsure: |
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| Sori4Mvp | Jul 18 2008, 08:03 PM Post #11 |
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The Truth
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Fecker! :fyou: |
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| Sori4Mvp | Jul 18 2008, 08:04 PM Post #12 |
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I love you so much baby! I missed you so f*cking much today. You are the best. :love: |
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| Backseatfan | Jul 18 2008, 09:00 PM Post #13 |
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What's wrong with a little experimenting??? :bananahump: |
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| Venom | Jul 18 2008, 10:45 PM Post #14 |
The Dark Side
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It wasn't as great as I thought it would be. *****SPOILERS***** Heath Ledger as the Joker was absolute brilliance. He saved the movie, without question. Harvey Dent/Two Face was so weak. There is no way he could have carried a 3rd movie on his own as a villain like most people thought would happen, it's good they killed him off. I was excited about his character, but it turned out really, really weak. Although he did look cool. I'm shocked Joker didn't die. They might have been better re-doing that ending and having him fall instead of Batman saving him. You just know that they will get some goon to play Joker in the 3rd who won't be half as good as Ledger and it will just seem wrong. Ledger was so perfect as Joker. We'll see a Leonardo DiCaprio type as Joker in the 3rd, I'm sure. With Ledger's death, they should have re-done the ending. Anybody else playing that role will just seem silly. The Dark Knight gets 3 cookies out of 5: :cookie: :cookie: :cookie: |
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| Mantlemurcer | Jul 18 2008, 11:32 PM Post #15 |
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:laugh: |
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| Yanks473 | Jul 19 2008, 01:01 PM Post #16 |
And the Band played on......
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I see it tonight in IMAX. |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 21 2008, 12:48 PM Post #17 |
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Thoughts? |
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| Yanks473 | Jul 21 2008, 02:04 PM Post #18 |
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And the Band played on......
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Movie is awesome. Seeing it in IMAX is a strain on the neck but it's an expierence. |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 21 2008, 02:12 PM Post #19 |
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Did you have to buy tickets in advance? IMAX has been sold out so far. I was going to see it Friday, yesterday, and today, but sold out. |
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| Mattingly23 | Jul 21 2008, 02:14 PM Post #20 |
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I'm planning on seeing it this coming weekend at some point, but not at the IMAX. I want to bang out Batman Begins again this week before I go because it's been awhile since I have watched it. |
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| Yanks473 | Jul 21 2008, 02:35 PM Post #21 |
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And the Band played on......
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I bought my tickets two weeks in advance. You probably don't have to do that now though. |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 22 2008, 12:18 AM Post #22 |
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I think I gotta go see this by myself. Everytime I can arrange a time where it's not sold out, I can't go because someone else isn't available. I should just put on a hoodie and go see it at 11:45 tomorrow morning |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 22 2008, 04:05 PM Post #23 |
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I just reserved tickets for Thursday at 7 for IMAX. It took forever to get a time that wasn't sold out or where I could go with someone else |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 25 2008, 01:09 AM Post #24 |
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It was sellout once again tonight, so I was lucky I preordered my tickets. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and Heath Ledger's role was perfect. He made him so dark, yet humorous at the same time. The guy was evil beyond evil and still could get some laughs. That's the way the Joker should be played. Leaving the Joker alive bugged me, because they are probably gonna re-do the role, and like Rob said, no one is going to duplicate that performance. Maggie Gylenheal is NOT attractive. They couldn't have gotten someone easy on the eye to replace Katie Holmes? I enjoyed the build up of Harvey Dent into Two-Face. The payoff wasn't that great though, kind of like Venom in Spiderman 3. I love the whole coin-flipping villian though. No Country For Old Men had the best. The scenario on the boats was a joke though. The nature of man is so selfish and brutal. There's no f*cking way people aren't rioting and blowing up the other right away. Overall, 9 broken faces out of 10 |
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| Venom | Jul 25 2008, 01:32 AM Post #25 |
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:lmao: It is strange that they left Joker alive. It would have been so easy to re-do that ending and just have him fall. I'm guessing they have big plans for the character in future movies. But who could possible do as good a job as Ledger? Johnny Depp maybe. If Daniel Day Lewis was 25-30 he would of been perfect, but he's too old. That little scoundrel who discovered Bruce Wayne was Batman is rumoured to be the Riddler in the 3rd. His name was Coleman Reese in the movie, but they kept referring to him as Mr. Reese (LFW should appreciate that name). Also Lucius did make reference to Batman's new suit protecting him against cats, so maybe Catwoman in the 3rd? |
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| HendoBaby | Jul 25 2008, 08:53 AM Post #26 |
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I am thinking the Joker was destined to return, but maybe not in the next movie. Joker is the main money-making villian. They'll set up some prison break sequence in the 4th or maybe at the end of the 3rd. They gotta make the next one feature another main villain. I've heard the Riddler mentioned a lot, but I don't want it focusing on that guy. They can do better than that. I can't see how they can make the Riddler formidable if he's that little douche. Bruce Wayne probably has to pay him off now, so you could be right. Maybe Catwoman gets used too with the Riddler in some way. I can't see the new ones remaking the Penguin. He just doesn't fit. |
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| Strider | Jul 25 2008, 12:11 PM Post #27 |
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I think the movie's pretty overrated. I gave it a 7, and I might be being generous because the storyline was ambitious. There were too many stupid flaws that compromised the realism that's the selling point of the series. - Props to Ledger. I saw the Michael Keaton Batmans when I was a kid, so I don't remember how Jack Nicholson was (and certainly not the subtleties), but I'm gonna assume Ledger was better because when it comes to judging, nothing that happened before I can remember is as good. I do think the performance was overrated, though. Not anything he did wrong, but I don't think the role was demanding enough for people to dickride like they have. The coach told him to take the 15-foot jumper and he swished it. But it wasn't a 3/4 court shot. It's not like Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull." But it was a good performance and it probably deserves Oscar consideration. The bank robbery scene was great. And I liked that they killed off Rachel Dawes. Going forward, I don't think her character is necessary and her death eliminates the possibility of any overdone love-dovey hero bullshit. I liked the little things about the Joker. How he changed the story of his mouth scars every time; how his witty statements didn't come out too rapid-fire. Too often in movies they make characters rattle off philosophical stuff like they're saying, "I had peanut butter for breakfast." It comes off sounding scripted. In fact, they were guilty of it with Alfred. When he goes into that, "Some men can't be bought or bullied, reasoned or negotiated with." Alliteration in bought/bullied and it's too convenient that it ends on "negotiated" because it's in regards to the Joker situation. And there wasn't even a split-second pause as he said it. Yes, I nit-pick hell outta small things in movies. - The movie starts up strong but flames out in the last hour or so. Certainly the last 30-40 minutes, which seemed rushed. - What was the Scarecrow's role? Batman jumps on his van, crushes the roof and gets him? Huh? That's the end of it? No explanation? The f*ck was the point? A lot of people complained about the movie being too long (and they can shut the f*ck up, by the way), but that's a scene they could've cut. - Didn't like Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel. Because I couldn't get my dick hard off her if I tried. I like the idea of the leading lady not being the typical pretty 25-year-old starlet-of-the-week, but this character is supposed to be gorgeous. They mention it a couple times in the movie. Who's fawning over Maggie? Not even the retarded Hollyowood-obsessed population that thinks every bitch under 35 in a movie is "HOT!" Katie Holmes can't act, but they'd have been better off keeping her for the role. Or giving it to Gianna Michaels. - I think they went in looking for reasons to use lots of special effects and blow sh*t up. The scene where Batman finds the Asian guy, it's over the top. Batman's supposed to move in silence and be gone with the shadows. He's shutting down a building, doing major damage, tossing a guy out the window and then shooting a grappling hook into a Boeing 737 to fly them to safety. Could've saved some money on effects and toned that scene down. Especially since the Asian guy wasn't that important to the story. - What was with the sonar thing with the cell phones? Out of nowhere, they've got some machine that can listen in on 30 million cell phone calls. And they're using that to track the Joker. There was no other way to find him? What kind of suped-up Patriot Act sh*t was that? Fox is gonna listen in on every phone conversation (possibly millions going on at the same time) and then pick out Joker's voice, track him down and figure it all out in time to catch him. C'mon now. I don't even think black people in the theater fell for that one. - Can movies stop with the stupid, ill-timed one-liners? When Joker shoves Rachel off the balcony and Batman slides down the side of the building to reach her and he doesn't use the grappling hook and they land on a car and they're somehow unscathed - extremely retarded sequence in itself - and he asks if she's OK and she says, "Let's not do that again." Bitch, what? Because if anyone slid down the side of a skyscraper (like human Windex streaks) and fell 500 feet, looking death in the face all the way down, and landed on a car and somehow lived, and somehow came out of it without a scratch, they'd say what Aunt Roberta says at Six Flags after getting off a roller coaster with the kids. - When they're transporting Harvey in the armored truck, for the amount of damage the Joker did there, there wasn't enough chaos (especially with the recent deaths of city officials). You fire a bazooka and blow up cop cars and destroy a major metropolitan tunnel, all hell is breaking lose. Certainly, the cops aren't gonna be all calm and one-lining like they were in that scene. - Batman flipping the 18-wheeler. I know people loved that sh*t. Thought that sh*t was kickass. The black people in the theater applauded when it happened. Well, f*ck all of you. Too over the top and too ridiculous. Batman doesn't believe in killing, which was made very clear in this movie. So that means Batman flipped the semi with full confidence that it wouldn't cause any serious injuries. Right? If so, that'd make him pretty f*cking dumb. Which he isn't. Right there was just the writers/producers wanting to do something purely for the aesthetic; throwing common sense into a fart's wind. And if they're gonna do the flip, Joker can't come out of it without a scratch. If someone somehow lived through that, at the very least, they've got wounds, broken bones and a massive concussion. They couldn't even give the motherf*cker an ankle sprain. - Rachel's death didn't seem to impact Bruce as much as it should've. It would've been good to see him cry (unless I missed it while cracking jokes on the nuggas in the crowd that clapped for every explosion) or go completely nuts for a while. Next to the death of his parents, that's the most devastating thing that could've happened to him so the story owed the character some emotion. Especially since her death ruined his dream of one day living a normal life and settling down with the love of his life. - The cops were too dumb. I know it's a rule that cops have to be kinda hapless in superhero movies, but these guys were more than the predictible stupid. When Batman left the interrogation room to go save Rachel/Harvey and nobody remembered to re-cuff Joker, you knew how it'd play out. You can't even say it's because they were all frantic about the bombs because that cop went in there, conversing with Joker, thinking he was gonna be hardass, he wasn't exactly flustered. And you knew Joker would goad him into a fight and you knew how that'd play out. Then the cops let him hold the dude hostage with a sharp object. They had him surrounded in the precinct, with their guns drawn, but nobody fired. [insert NYPD joke here if you'd like] It's like 50 cops in there, someone could've shot him in the back. In the face, too. It takes a bullet like 1/8th of a second to connect. It takes considerably longer for a man to cut someone's throat with a piece of glass. Pull the trigger! Even if it's at the expense of that guy, killing Joker would've been worth it. They've got the biggest villain the city has ever seen in their grasp and they let him bargain out it. They should've written the escape scene differently. You can't have him get away like that. - How come nobody told Two Face that the reason they saved him instead of Rachel is because Joker lied about the addresses? Ya know, in his desperation, with his family held at gunpoint, you'd think Gordon would've mentioned it. - Harvey's transformation to Two Face was too quick and he was too easy. Maybe they should've moved the explosion up earlier in the story so there would've been time to develop that. All it took was a two-minute chat with Joker for him to turn into a villain. The man who was the "shining white knight" (or some sh*t), and he was so easily influenced by someone he should hate more than the devil. Someone in Harvey's situation would sooner commit suicide that turn villain. You'd have to devote like an hour to his transformation and get into the psychology deeply to pull it off right (switching scenes to continue the rest of the storyline, of course). - If they really wanted to make the movie dark, they could've blown up at least one ferry. After D-Bo (Tommy Lister will always be D-Bo) threw out the detonator, they could've had the civilians press the button to blow up the prisoners' ferry. Because, really, that's what would've happened. Something like that, after D-Bo's gesture, would've made the Joker's evil more evil and it'd get the audience emotional. Especially with a charismatic villain, people will tend to forget how much they hate him and you want constant reminders throughout the movie of how sinister he is. You either make the audience feel for him (you know the bad guy that you feel sorry for when he gets killed) or make them despise him. Go all the way. - I don't think Bale did that good a job in this one. His acting wasn't as good as it was in the first. That in addition to Batman having basically a tertiary role. The storyline more centered aroud Harvey and Joker. - I hate the Batman voice. I didn't like it in "Batman Begins" and I disliked it more in this one. You know what it sounds like? Someone trying real hard to impersonate a dark superhero. Too forced. The voice has to be different from Bruce Wayne's, but don't make it ridiculous. |
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| Strider | Jul 25 2008, 12:19 PM Post #28 |
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I think the Riddler would make for a good villain in this. None of that goofy sh*t from "Batman Forever," but make him a more serious, evil character. I don't know if the guy playing Reese (or even that particular character) can pull it off, though, even though it sorta sets up that way. What would be Reese's reason for turning evil and hating Batman? Because he wouldn't let him extort him? He later saved his life. They might have to just scrap that and introduce a completely fresh character for that. But if it is Reese, it could work out well since he's a genius who knows Batman's identity. He could do more damage to him than any of the previous villains (Ra' Shal Guhl - and I murdered that spelling - knew his identity, but Batman wasn't his ultimate goal and he wasn't a genius) and really f*ck things up. They could make it a psychological/mystery type of thing where he plays mind games and outsmarts everyone the whole movie. Creating chaos and getting away with it, giving Batman his greatest challenge. Penguin has to be a no. That character would be too jokey for the new series. And I'd prefer no Catwoman, unless it's a minor character. Like just some bitch Bruce is rocking off on the side who's also an intelligent thief (maybe even a golddigger) and she gets killed halfway through the movie. |
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| Venom | Jul 25 2008, 02:34 PM Post #29 |
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The Dark Side
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Riddler just makes too much sense, the guy knows who Batman is, he wants money, and he calls himself Mr. Reese. Riddler was famous for having silly puns as names Edward . Nygma (Enigma), now Mr. Reese (Mysteries). As for the Penguin, he can be done if he's done right. People thought the Joker would be too silly for this movie and it turned out great. As long as they don't get a massive fat joke like DeVito to play the role. A guy like Philip Seymour Hoffman would be great. |
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| amit | Jul 25 2008, 03:15 PM Post #30 |
Lizard King
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Maybe you should audition for it. |
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