[Movie] The Dark Knight (Batman Begins Sequel)

Saw it for the second time today, and man, it's absolutely amazing. It's not often that I like a movie so much that I go right back and see it again, and what's crazy is that I feel like I could see it again tomorrow and still enjoy it a lot.

As for Heath Ledger, he is The Joker. He did a marvelous job. He's a shoo-in for a Best Actor nom, if not the award itself.

I loved Iron Man, but I have to say The Dark Knight tops that. Awesome that we got two fantastic superhero movies already this year.

EDIT: Hopefully no one listens to LeHah.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Please explain to me what's so wrong with that statement.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Obviously I haven't seen every movie that's come out, and like you said, there are plenty more to come this year. I'm just saying that based on this performance, I would think he would get a nom for best actor. The majority of the people voting are actors, correct? Maybe I'm just cynical, but I have to believe his death will bring him votes.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Yeah, that's it. It's certainly not that there is no way in hell Heath will get an Oscar for playing a fake-crazy (read: not even remotely realistic) person in a comic book movie.

Not realistic as far as crazy Joker-like people go? Judging him based on that seems kind of silly to me.

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It won't happen. The academy never comes close to this kind of choice.

I'm not very familiar with the academy's voting history. I was just assuming that based on his amazing performance + his death, he would get the nod. But if they don't go for stuff like this, then forget it.

EDIT: Should have said Best Supporting Actor.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It seems silly to me that you two get hung up on something like that. It's very believable that they would be talking about him using his moniker. That doesn't make me think, "Oh, Nolan is doing this to make sure the crowd knows these guys are working for the Joker." I just think, "OK, these guys were just brought on to do this job by the Joker and they're curious about him and naturally talking to the other guys about him."

Either way, I fail to see how that's an issue big enough to dwell on. If that somehow dampened your enjoyment of the movie, that's unfortunate.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by LeHah

Because I'm an intellectual in my everyday life, I don't like being talked to like an idiot. You may not mind having things explained to you in strained exposition in a pointless scene - but I do because my brain works.

Its not my fault you're stupid - but its because of people like you that the movie pandered the dialouge to such an extent.

:lol:

Please refrain from making assumptions about my intelligence. I totally understand where you're coming from when you say you don't want everything explained to you as if you're stupid. I appreciate movies that don't do that, and when they do, it's definitely annoying. I just didn't get any sense of that from their repeated mentions of The Joker. Again, it seems perfectly reasonable that guys in that situation would talk about The Joker by name (and use his name multiple times). I don't think that's necessarily Nolan doing that for the sake of the presumably slow audience.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Continuing with what Encephalon said - Is it possible that filmmakers sometimes simply create a fantasy in which the characters and events are to be taken at face value and not over-analyzed? I'm not saying that's the case with TDK, I just wonder if you critique every movie as if it has messages that the writer/director was trying to subtly communicate when it's quite possible that he/she did not mean to "say" anything but instead just wanted to make an entertaining flick.

How ya doing, buddy?