holy hell, go see Dark Knight RIGHT NOW.

[The_vagabond7]

rocketpig said:

The_vagabond7 said:

That was fantastic, even better than I expected. Heath Ledger gave a performance of a lifetime. It's tragic he's dead now, but man what a final performance. That movie was darker than dark, it's disturbing, depressing, and incredible. It manages to be philosophical without being preachy, it's intelligent while not losing any of it's action packed awesomeness. And as great as the Joker is and as brilliant as his performance is, Aaron Eckhart deserves praise too. Harvey Dent was an incredibley engaging, sympathetic and ultimately sad and disturbing character unto himself. I can't praise this movie enough, go see it now.

 

Edit:Oh yeah, and if you don't like this movie you are either a terrified seven year old girl, or stupid. Maybe both.

I thought both Eckhart and Ledger outclassed Bale, which is really saying something as Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors.

The movie had a few flaws... The heavy-handed exposition of the Joker worked - well, because it's the Joker and that's what he does - but Dent's transformation was too sudden IMO. It could have been handled a little more subtly and it would have worked better. I'll let Nolan slide on that though because the movie already clocked in at 2 1/2 hours and frankly, I can't think of a single piece of that film that could have been edited out to clear time to focus on Dent a little more.

Still, overall probably my favorite superhero movie. Better than Iron Man and I thought that would be a tough film to follow. We'll see if it holds up in my eyes after a few more viewings.

 

I pretty much agree with all of that. harvey's change was a bit sudden, but it was necessary to the story and it was already a frikkin long movie. Right now I would say this is my favorite superhero movie as well, but I'm fresh off of it and still enjoying the high. I'll have to wait a bit and see it again to see if it still remains so sharp when I know what's coming. But as it stands, absolutely brilliant movie.