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Published Jul 19, 2008 Is this film perfect? No. To make a perfect film, one needs to be infalliable. But this is a damn good-dare I say great-film.

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posters5

Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 8:24 AM

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i'm not being contrarian.

i think that people are educated poorly when it comes to analytical skills. how many times have we heard that something is "good" or "great" just because it's "dark"? by that rubric, "indiana jones and the temple of doom" should be considered the best of the series since it's the darkest of the four. everyone--including the likes of roger ebert and a.o. scott--needs to wake up. "dark" isn't automatically good. rather, it's simply yet another adjective used to describe something.

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Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 9:44 AM

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i agree about the darkness with ed.

very good movie. i didnt know two face would be so involved in the one.

Tim Raynor

Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 10:19 AM

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That's true, I can think of some "dark" movies that were pretty lame! "Blade Runner" for example . . .

tony1569

Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 11:10 AM

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Tim, I agree. Blade Runner was just OK for me the first time around. After hearing all of the hype about it being a classic I decided to stream it from Netflix again and it still was just OK.

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Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 11:14 AM

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I got to see the Dark Knight Friday afternoon and all I can say is EPIC! Wow what a movie, it most defenitely ranks up there with some of the BIG ones. It has been a long time since I sall a movie and wanted to turn around, go buy another ticket and watch it again. Ledger was AMAZING, the Cinematography of the Chicago Skyline was breathless and the musical score actually gave me chills. Especially in the scenes right before the BIG action would kick in. There was that long high to low violine note that told you to brace yourself. And even though Ledger stole the show, not since The Godfather have all the actors on the screen meshed so well with each other.
Chris Nolan and his brother should be major proud of themselves. What a seamless story that made the almost three hours go by with such entertainment. It was the first time in a long one, that I was so excited to see a movie like The Dark Knight.
The BAR has been raised in Hollywood for super hero movies. Yes years from now, another movie will come along and deliver like The Dark Knight. However, that time will be in the distant future. All I can say is BRAVO BRAVO!!!

tony1569

Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 2:41 PM

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Like I said in another thread, I really don't go to the theater about once a year. I have an IMAX theater less than a 15 minute drive and I'm really tempted to go and see this film in IMAX, but I'm partial to what Tim said. I think I'll wait a couple of weeks to see it. Let the crowds die down. If I see it in IMAX (Baltimore), I'll be sure to let everyone know how the experience was.

EDIT: This is so not funny, I have not one but two IMAX theaters within 15-20 of my home and neither one is showing TDK. In order for me to see it in IMAX I have to travel 1hr to Harrisburg, PA.

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Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 5:16 PM

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Flame all you want, but THE best Superhero movie of ALL time is the Richard Donner-directed-1978 - Superman.

Hands down!

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Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 5:25 PM

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Eddie you don't disappoint.

I'm not talking about education or the level of darkness. I just think it's odd:
best comic-book superhero adaptations:
1) "iron man"
2) "the hulk" (ang lee/eric bana, not leterrier/norton)
3) "the dark knight"

Those are your favs, obviously, but how does Iron Man merit being on that list? Even "The Hulk" is more ambitious than IM, which is pretty run-of-the mill at the end of the day. And I don't see how you can rationalize IM tops TDK in any way. So yeah I'm curious.

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Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 9:19 PM

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Quote:
Those are your favs, obviously, but how does Iron Man merit being on that list?

I'm a die-hard comic book fan and film fan/scholar, and I would probably rate Iron Man the second best super-hero adaptation of all-time after Superman 2. So it's not just Eddie. I thought it was everything a super-hero movie should be - the perfect balance of fun and serious without wandering into the territory of camp or of pretension. And of all the super-hero adaptations I've seen, it is the one truest to its origins, though that probably doesn't matter to most viewers. It was, in short, fabulously entertaining.

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Jul 21, 2008 - CDT 9:23 PM

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Chris,

The only thing I'd add (which you hit on with the pretension) was Iron Man didn't think it was making some grand social/political statement. It looked and sounded as if it came out of a stereotypical comic book...and that's what it aspired to be.

TDK, on the other hand, isn't a comic book movie in "general" definition of a comic book. I hate even trying to compare them because they all have something to recommend. (Except Elektra...that was an awful movie.)

Jason, remember...I liked Ghost Rider

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