Why did I look in here? Fortunately, I didn’t actually read it. We need some sort of special spoiler code around here.

Yeah, put the heading. Sure a lot of people will see it over the weekend and the discussion will grow.

The “*Spoiler Alert is for real big spoilers. Avoid those at all costs.

I’m seeing it tomorrow night. I’m very grateful for not reading the spoilers.

THE DARK KNIGHT is old news already—now everybody’s talking about the sequel.

It felt like I was looking in a mirror!

Crap—I hope I didn’t spoil it.

Great movie. Ledger’s Joker is the centerpiece of the film and might, in time, become my favorite movie villain of all time. Not sure yet. But it’s in the top few. One of the reviews said to watch for two one-word line deliveries, as they are perfect and amazing. One is “Yeah,” and the other is “Hi.” RIGHT ON. Those two lines, approximately three hours apart, are brilliantly delivered. Great stuff.

I do think there could have been more story or development, or something. There was no wasted time, not one second, but still… something was missing. Part of the structural problem is that these movies go for the two-villain format rather than one villain. Can you imagine 2h30m spent with Batman vs. Ledger’s Joker? Would have been incredible. Bringing in Two Face was about as well done as the two-villain format will permit, but would have been so much better with just the Joker. Eckhart’s Dent/2Face would have been great in the sequel for 2h30m.

I give this movie an A. Not A+. An A.

I don’t know how you don’t give that movie an A plus. It was just awesome. I agree that Maggie Gyllenhall is the epitome of plain and I can’t imagine Batman being willing to give up his night job for her and Harvey losing his mind over losing her. I mean Bruce Wayne has hot models on his arms at all times and THIS is the one he loves??

Heath Ledger = AWESOME. Great performance, lived up to my incredibly high expectations (partly from the trailers)

Christian Bale is still good, although I appreciated his performance more in batman begins (it was just fresher; little bit old now). Very good though.

The ending is a little bit strange, I thought. SPOILER: Two-face dying seems to make it hard for another movie, which surprised me, with all the hype for Dark Knight.The middle is superb, however, especially the later middle. Didn’t get to see it Imax, unfortunately, although I can see how that would be great. I would give it probably an A.

I just got back. My thoughts.

There were a couple really big missed opportunities:

1 – Two-Face should have killed Gordon’s son. That would have been AMAZING.
2 – The “good” ship should have hit the button and blown itself up.

These are two things that you NEVER see in movies that would really push it as something different and special.

Two-Face should not have died. This was his movie. He was on screen way more than Joker and maybe even more than Batman. We see an entire character arc. And once he became Two-Face he was very strong in the role. Just absolutely brutal in his coin flipping simplicity. Very scary.

Joker was awesome. I think a part of the reason people are flipping out is because this is the first strong portrayal of him. Not to take anything away because he was excellent. It’s sad that he won’t be able to come back because some of his dialog truly showed how much he and the Batman character mean to each other (in terms of story).

The accountant who was going to out Wayne I thought, at one point, could end up being Robin. Doubtful, though.

Also, I think the “Batman on the run” ending was really really lame and definitely took away from the picture. It just did not make much sense. Leave Two-Face alive, ship him to Gotham and now Batman is not a bad guy. It was just weird and left me going ???

Overall, I felt the film was complex, fun and very much worth my time. I have no idea how I would grade it. I don’t think I could give it an “A” because of the end and how Two-Face died. It’s better than a B, too. Somewhere in the A to B range, I guess. I dunno. Mebbe after a day of digesting it will hit harder.

Now Wall-E. A+. No doubt in my mind.

It’s hard for me to remember a movie as tense as this one. Movies don’t get me tense at all. Except for this one. The Joker was legitimately scary. The only other movie villain that I can think of that has been legitimately scary was Hannibal Lecter. And the Joker’s funner than him.

Overall, it was fantastic. There were a couple things I didn’t like and there were a couple things I’m not sure about, but most of it was very good.

I didn’t like that Two-Faced died. At least I think he died. I can see why they did it but I think he should have gotten more time as Two-Face, as opposed to Harvey Dent. I didn’t like the Jigsaw style games that the Joker began playing. Actually, it was mostly the whole thing with the ferries I didn’t like. I can’t even really explain it at the moment. There was just something that didn’t sit right with me there. Though I did enjoy Deebo (or the guy that played Deebo) being on the convict ferry. I also didn’t really like the whole “you can’t spy on people, I’m resigning” thing. It felt like a cheap jab at the current administration. I don’t like cheap jabs. I also felt that he was completely justified with what he did.

Hmm, I can’t think of anything else at the moment. That’s it really. And those were minor problems.

I’m with everyone else as to Heath Ledger’s performance. And I’m really disappointed we won’t get to see him reprise the role. I am happy that Batman showed his smarts a little more in this one. That was one thing that turned one of my friends off of Batman Begins. It didn’t annoy me at all but I’m glad he showed his own thinking ability instead of relying on Morgan Freeman’s character. And, apparently with Freeman’s character resigning, he will be doing even more of it. He did resign, didn’t he? That actually kind of confused me.

Anyways, that’s a poorly written review but I’ve only seen it once and I usually need to see things a couple times or think about it more to come up with something more coherent.

Suffice it to say I thought it was very very good.

I liked it a lot. Heath Ledger was outstanding. I loved the part when he was walking out of the Hospital.

I couldn’t understand why they had Maggie Gyllenhall as Rachel. Katie Holmes was much better (looking, at least), IMO. I guess either Holmes wanted to go in a different direction or Nolan wanted somebody different.

so many different types of ass.

christian bale was quite boring though.