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The Dark Knight  permlink

Category: Culture
Posted on: July 21, 2008 5:51 AM, by Razib

I didn't watch The Dark Knight this weekend. Anyone else out there?

Comments

I didn't, but then I live in Japan, so perhaps that's a cop out.

Posted by: Spike Gomes | July 21, 2008 6:31 AM

Brian, Chad, and John did! Go read their blogs. The movie was great. The best Batman ever. Ledger was awesome. He turned Nicholson into a joke(r).

Posted by: Ian | July 21, 2008 8:49 AM

I didn't watch it, either.

Posted by: Bill LaLonde | July 21, 2008 11:45 AM

Yeah, I can't believe Batman dies at the end.

Posted by: Joker | July 21, 2008 12:04 PM

Dark Knight is a must see for sure, though it might be a better game plant to go after the crowds die down a bit.

Posted by: patrick | July 21, 2008 7:15 PM

Who could get in? I had to go to Hellboy II instead. (Not bad, by the way, if you don't need too much of a plot.)

Posted by: Inductivist | July 22, 2008 2:00 AM

Absolutely blown away. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a while.

Posted by: Amit | July 22, 2008 11:34 AM

Very good crime thriller take on the Batman mythos. I still don't like Bale's guttural, growly Batman voice and the (mild spoiler) über-sonar veered into the fantastical a bit -- but otherwise it was top notch.

So I enjoyed it, but I actually prefer the 80s Tim Burton Batman movie *because* of it's over-the-top comic book art direction.

The Nolanverse version of Batman is great at capturing the dark, gritty realism that he's aiming for. But it also drains some of the comic-book magic out. Part of the fun of superhero flicks, for me, is the way they capture that nostalgic feel of being a child. I like the less realistic art and bolder colors of the Burton Batman or, more recently, the Spider-man and Iron Man movies.

That balance between the fantastic and the realistic is tough and varies from person to person. It's a good movie. And Harvey Dent's make-up was disgusting yet oddly fascinating. It'll be interesting to see what they do next.

Posted by: jim | July 22, 2008 7:08 PM

I saw part of U.S Marshalls on tv, but that was it.

Posted by: TGGP | July 25, 2008 6:27 PM

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