What movies are you watching?
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Batman Begins might be the better movie, but The Dark Knight is a game changer. Is Heat meets Batman and there are sequences that are top notch filmmaking for me.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Ledger does a superb role, and the movie is well made, but even in the cinema I found it too predictable. It always does exactly what you would expect. Decent movie all in all.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
TDKR is a weird movie. Probably the worst of the actual good ones.
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Agreed.tragabigzanda wrote:I thought the Harvey Dent storyline was kind of counterintuitive.Anders wrote:Ledger does a superb role, and the movie is well made, but even in the cinema I found it too predictable. It always does exactly what you would expect. Decent movie all in all.
Also agreed.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:TDKR is a weird movie. Probably the worst of the actual good ones.
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the whole sequence of them getting Joker is oustanding and at the same time, it feels so close to a lot of comics books.
Batman going for Joker, this one shooting him, Gordon coming unexpected...so good.
Batman going for Joker, this one shooting him, Gordon coming unexpected...so good.
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I still don't understand Gordon's secret plan. Why did he need to pretend to be dead? He knew someone was going to shoot him?
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It's not a good one at all. It's one of the worst sequels ever.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:TDKR is a weird movie. Probably the worst of the actual good ones.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Let us never watch it againBurtReynolds wrote:It's not a good one at all. It's one of the worst sequels ever.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:TDKR is a weird movie. Probably the worst of the actual good ones.
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Yes! never!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Let us never watch it againBurtReynolds wrote:It's not a good one at all. It's one of the worst sequels ever.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:TDKR is a weird movie. Probably the worst of the actual good ones.
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Do you think we would view it differently if Steven Seagal were in it?BurtReynolds wrote:Yes! never!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Let us never watch it againBurtReynolds wrote:It's not a good one at all. It's one of the worst sequels ever.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:TDKR is a weird movie. Probably the worst of the actual good ones.
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I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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Re: What movies are you watching?
this is how I feel about it rnAnders wrote:Ledger does a superb role, and the movie is well made, but even in the cinema I found it too predictable. It always does exactly what you would expect. Decent movie all in all.
Gotham has no personality, it just feels like any American city; I need much more stylistic filmmaking, give me Gothic and give me Art Deco, give me Reeves!
it's got some great sequences but a LOT of boring corporate drama before we get to them
Heath Ledger runs rings around literally every other actor on set
idk, I'm not a big "action movie" fan, I'm gonna need horror thrown in the mix to be convinced I'm really watching Batman (atm my favourite Bats is "Returns")
I just watched a clip of Paul Dano's Riddler being interrogated and trolling Batman, and I honestly haven't smiled like that since watching vintage X-Files creeps fuck with Mulder
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is it just me or is fucking Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow *tragically underutilized* in this franchise?
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Danny Devito biting off that guys nose is the pinnacle of the Batman movies.
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fuck yeah, so good
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The editing kills those Nolan movies. Relentless, unnatural. The last time I revisited them I was kind of shocked
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Also the cheesy dialogue and Bale's Batman voice.Jorge wrote:The editing kills those Nolan movies. Relentless, unnatural. The last time I revisited them I was kind of shocked
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Why are you spoiling the movie for yourself by watching clips? Please stop!Ms Harmless wrote:
I just watched a clip of Paul Dano's Riddler being interrogated and trolling Batman, and I honestly haven't smiled like that since watching vintage X-Files creeps fuck with Mulder
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
I had no problem with Bale’s Batman voice, and thought he was a fantastic Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Sitting in the theater now. Pray I don’t fall asleep.
Sitting in the theater now. Pray I don’t fall asleep.
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I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait