Did any of us see this movie yet?
If you did, did you like it?
And importantly, do you think it would be so popular if Heath Ledger wasn’t recently dead?
Are you suggesting he committed suicide to increase ticket sales and gain posthumous fame?
djm
Of course not. What an absurd question. You know better.
We are going to have a team outing at work and see this film. It’ll be a couple of weeks, though, but I’ll be glad to report once I’ve seen it.
–James
Batman rocks. Except for the part about dressing up in a leotard… and the vigilantism… and maybe hiding out in a cave with a young boy… The more I think about it… Batman seems a little creepy.
You have a point. tight panties, young tidbit and a fast car… it is a bit on the sleezy side!
I’ve always heard that Batman and Robin were an item. There are a million pictures of them kissing on Google.
Well what do you expect. Bruce’s parents were brutually murdered, June 26th, right in front of his eyes, of course he has issues. I’m more concerned about why we never see him put on that black eye makeup when he dons the suit yet he’s always got it on when he’s suited-up. Is he embarrassed or what?
All early reviews I’ve read state that Ledger, alive or dead, is very deserving of an Oscar for this. Can’t wait to see for myself in the next couple of days.
But yeah, I do think his death created a lot of the buzz surrounding the film. I’m just glad to hear that his performance would still have been considered Oscar-worthy had he not died.
The hype is really going overboard on this. Apparently Michael Caine is now proclaiming this as the best picture he has ever been in (says something about Michael Caine movies, eh?). It’s just a comic book story, after all.
djm
After the failure of the 1997 Batman & Robin, there were several attempts to start again. Batman Begins somehow was able to breath life into batman. Older viewers had time to watch it and forget that Schwarzenegger ever played Mr. Freeze and made the hero and villains more believable. The critics liked it and it was a commercial success.
So the The Dark Knight is doing well. People wanted to see it when it came out. People would have gone and seen it even without the death.
But not the same people. There are lots of people who know Ledger from Brokeback Mountain who want to see his last full performance and are watching this movie just for that reason. I may be one of them.
I did wonder about the hype. An article likened Ledger’s performance
to Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest. Since Nicholson is,
to many of my generation, the quentissential Joker, this sounds very
interesting. I was wondering when I heard about the casting how anyone
could live up to Nicholson’s Joker, so I’d like to see if the hype is true.
Somehow I think I can restrain myself till it comes out on DVD.
djm
yar, me too! Yes, I want to see it but I’m not in that much of a hurry.
My daughter saw it and said that the Joker acted very much like our friend and bagpipe/Paraguayan harp maker Brian Steeger. Upon viewing this - well, maybe a little. My daughter and I went to a late showing Sunday and didn’t get home until 1 AM.
I almost left and went next door to “Mamma Mia” with Streep and Brosnan. That is my kind of movie.
Despite Maggie G. wgho I enjoy in any movie, I could have passed on this one. This movie has a little bit too much torture, darkness, gore, and such violent crap that I wonder what is the point of it, except to extract money out of the pockets of the sheeple - for which it succeeded. Again, Hollywood demonstrates its vision of what America wants. Similar to GM and Ford who are about to go bankrupt. Hollywood has a good business model but such movies belie a moral bankruptcy. Its a good thing they also produce totally frivolous movies like the over the top “Mamma Mia”. These movies at least doesn’t give one scary nightmares.
The Batman was busted in London, what joke(r).