The Dark Knight

[myrgthful]

Pipes and I got to see "The Dark Knight" last night on IMAX, with my brother and his wife.

We'd seen it once before, but the experience was simply better when projected on a screen the size of a building. Apparently, from what I'm told, this movie was filmed for IMAX, and then the top and bottom portions were cut off to fit in most "regular"(

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[jademg]

Oh yea. I definitely thought this was better than "Begins"...it WAS darker though. I usually don't find myself disturbed by movies, but this one got me in a couple of places. All of the acting was brilliant, especially Heath's. If I hadn't known it was him, I might not have placed him. But yea, good.

[myrgthful]

Agreed. This one got me. What got me the most, though, was the moral situations that characters found themselves in. And, the choices they made --- such as sacrificing themselves (in the case of Dent and Batman), or choosing NOT to sacrifice others -- which flavored the outcome of the movie.

I would like to think that neither ship would detonate the other, in that later situation. What a triumph.

[the_pangolin]

Personally, I thought Heath Ledger played it more like one of the Joker's henchmen than the Joker himself. My roommate felt like he never really "came down" from his manic side, wheras I myself felt he didn't bring enough of the manic intensity and black humor that have always been part and parcel of the Joker: between us we agreed that he almost hit it right.

But NO-ONE will ever be a better Joker than Mr. Mark Hamill.

[myrgthful]

Heh! I was shocked to learn that Mark Hamil was the Joker, after watching the animated series for awhile. He really did do a good job, didn't he? ;-)

(I have to admit... I have a perma-crush on Harley Quinn)