Who's going to see The Dark Knight?

I'm pretty excited about this one. The movie critics I've seen are calling the best superhero movie of all time and one of the best movies period. One more week...


http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/

Can't wait to see the trailer for Watchmen too.

You all know that it's true.



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This is a superb cast.

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All these movies seem the same to me. That said I'll probably go see it in a week or 2. :)

Batman Begins is the most realistic feeling superhero movie I've ever seen. That was the idea behind the Spiderman franchise was for the character to come alive and for the audience to relate to the hero. Nolan did a far better job of that than the Spiderman creators could have ever hoped to.

I am a big fan of super hero movies and do eventually see almost all of them. I do think that Iron Man certainly lived up to its hype and was arguably the most entertaining movie I've ever seen, followed closely by the X-men movies. But Batman Begins is the one I can watch over and over again because it is more than entertaining.

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VERY excited; reviews after the NY premiere are excellent.

I got my tickets for tomorrow night's midnight show...gonna be a blazing good time!!!

I mean, really. Can anyone think of a movie that was more highly anticipated than The Dark Knight, starring the late Heath Ledger as the Joker?


If it's not a good review, it's a news story about how 99% of all the reviews are so good.

When I was 14 in 1989, I remember Tim Burton's Batman was pretty highly anticipated. I went kind of nuts back then, myself. I wonder what it's like to be a 14 year old, comic book collecting boy right now.

Any thoughts?

Also, I recall there was an insane frenzy prior to the release of The Phantom Menace.

It was also arguably the biggest letdown as well.

This may be up there.

calculate the amount of anticipation leading up to a movie, plus the actual success of the movie (box office?), plus the critical reviews, minus the negative reviews and reaction, multiplied by the number of Oscars, and, well, is there something to it?

What could that be called?

Bigger than the Titanic, I would speculate - but, we shall see.

1. I hate movies that are made up entirely of visuals with no intellectual or emotional content. They're part of the dumbing down of America and the shortening of its attention span.

2. I'm suspicious of any movie that is so heavily hyped that you can hardly turn on the TV or pick up a magazine without seeing something about it. I avoid seeing such movies unless someone whose opinion I trust says it's better than it sounds. The last such film where that was true was Minority Report.

3. I never did like Batman, not as a comic book, not as a TV show, not as a movie character.

I'm going to go see a movie that I missed when it played at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, and best of all, there won't be any lines around the block for it.

no big deal to me. Keith Ledger did a fine job portraying the Joker but I don't think he should have lost sleep over the part. Just my opinion.

and wow, Heath Ledger's performance was completely compelling. I felt sad again at our having lost an incredible talent.

A very compelling performance, I thought. It was a good study of terrorism and how society chooses to respond to it. It was an interesting examination of moral relativism as well.

really enjoyed it. Ledger's performance is excellent as is the rest of the cast. Oldman is great as Gordon, it's almost hilarious watching all this mayhem on screen and Oldman (who is no slouch at playing scumbags and lunatics) isn't doing any of it.