Batman: The Dark Night

[Mustaine]

Summed up in a word: meh


Maybe it was all the hype that has been around it for all these months, but after just finishing finally watching it I don't think it was all that.

I honestly thought Batman Begins was better. More unexpected stunts, effects, and action. I don't know how to totally explain it but I can kind of compare it to the Matrix. The first was totally amazing, the second while some of the same "wow" effects and stuff was expected they built on it and actually did more cool stuff...

The Dark Night... yes the Joker was decently acted, the Harvey Dent character was not IMHO. Overall nothing just "wowed" me about this film. I guess it was nothing "new" with the exception of the whole cell phone sonar BS, which made this movie like total comic fiction. Maybe that's it, the first movie he was a regular man using some neat hi-tech toys, but mostly it was a man.

Am I the only one not impressed with The Dark Night?

[SectorNine50]

Hmm... Joker decently acted?

Keep in mind that the Joker really sounds and acts like the main character in "A Knight's Tale."  I think Heath Ledger (Spelling?) did an absolutely outstanding job, look at everything he does, it's a completely different person.  Most actors actually have a bit of themselves show through when they do a part, this definitely isn't the case with this movie.  There are even rumors floating around that this movie was what really lead to Heath's death, some say you can get absorbed by the character your acting out...  Who knows if that's true, I'm no actor.

I thought it was very well done, I loved the suspense and mind games the most.  I just get a kick out of everything the Joker did, no matter how twisted it was.  But of course, everyone is different.

[uptown]

Makes me wonder if he was "absorbed" in his acting when he did BrokeBack Mountain.

[Mustaine]

Side note I just finished watching Hancock after Dark Night...

I really liked it! Quite original story, decently filmed, and I laughed out loud 2 or 3 times which is rare. I really liked the originality of the story in Hancock, and thought Will Smith was perfect for the role (I really think he is a talented actor).

Man I am really going opposite the "critics" and media, loving a dump of a movie in their minds, then being ho-hum on the golden boy movie. I have never trusted critics or reviews, and this just asserts it.

[Larry]

I had the same feeling with both Ironman and Dark Knight. Meh. The dark knight was about two hours to long. I thought it was going to end one time and was ready to go to bed when I checked "time left" and there was still another hour to go. I haven't got hancock yet but one that I just watched was step brothers. It made me laugh pretty good a few times.


Ledger did a great job with the joker. The guy who plays batman (don't even care to know his name) downright sucks. I cant stand how the guy talks.

[B17Skull12]

Maybe because im a prog nerd who like prog stuff, but damn i was clapping when Dark Knight was over.  <<<<<<<<<<Went to midnight release with some friends.

Ledger did excellent and i loved when you thought it was over and it wasn't.  Best movie this year imo.

[Curlew]

This movie was fantastic

[moot]

Total opposite for me. Hancock was a crappy B-movie with hollywood funding used as an excuse for a couple of good jokes... DK was great. Not without a few flaws but overall a kick bellybutton flick.

[SoonerMP]

I had the same feeling with both Ironman and Dark Knight. Meh. The dark knight was about two hours to long. I thought it was going to end one time and was ready to go to bed when I checked "time left" and there was still another hour to go. I haven't got hancock yet but one that I just watched was step brothers. It made me laugh pretty good a few times.


Ledger did a great job with the joker. The guy who plays batman (don't even care to know his name) downright sucks. I cant stand how the guy talks.

Christian Bale is the name, and he is probably one of the best actors out there today in my opinion. Have you seen any other movies he has made? As for the voice, they had it altered via computer to make him sound different than his character of Bruce Wayne.

Good movie all in all, not too sure how to compare it to the first one since I liked it too. As for movies put out this year... probably the top one so far.

[Trell]

Loved Dark Knight,  thought it was as good as Batman Begins,    Joker was a good role with a good actor,  But i would not have said he was the best actor ever.

[Fulmar]

Side note I just finished watching Hancock after Dark Night...

I really liked it! Quite original story, decently filmed, and I laughed out loud 2 or 3 times which is rare. I really liked the originality of the story in Hancock, and thought Will Smith was perfect for the role (I really think he is a talented actor).

Man I am really going opposite the "critics" and media, loving a dump of a movie in their minds, then being ho-hum on the golden boy movie. I have never trusted critics or reviews, and this just asserts it.

I make a list of people who I know not to listen to movie recommendations from.  Mainly, they're people my wife knows at work saying stuff like "You have to see such and such, its sooo funny!"  You sir, have now made that list! 

[Bronk]

I liked it. 

[trax1]

TDK was a great movie I think, I've only seen a bootleg copy of it on my PC so far, so I'm looking forward to seeing it again.  I think Heath Ledger was great as the Joker, just his mannerisms where great, he really made you feel like this guy is criminally insane.  I also liked how there was a couple of times you thought it was over, but it wasn't.

Too bad Heath Ledger died though, because you just know that they would have brought him back in a future sequel, maybe not the next one, but a later one, and I'm sure it would have made for again a great movie.

[-tronski-]

Dark Knight was a fantastic show...the Blu Ray is a sight to behold on my LCD. Hedger just nailed it as the Joker...

Hancock was alot better than i was expecting, but was a very poor second to Hellboy 2 and Iron Man which I saw about the same time

 Tronsky

[Murdr]

I honestly thought Batman Begins was better. More unexpected stunts, effects, and action. I don't know how to totally explain it but I can kind of compare it to the Matrix. The first was totally amazing, the second while some of the same "wow" effects and stuff was expected they built on it and actually did more cool stuff...

I was disappointed with the cinematography of the fight scenes in Batman Begins.  Christian Bale played the lead in Equilibrium, which had great fight choreography with the "gun katta".  Liam Nieson played Qui Gon with the lightsabre scenes.  And how do they film the fight scenes?  Jerk the camera all around and cut shots every second.  It was ridiculous.  I still liked it, and the way Bale played it though.

I really enjoyed DK, and really liked the way Ledger played the Joker.  Hancock....it was ok.