Comments on: Batman: The Dark Knight

By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:34:27 +0000

I’m looking forward to the movie as well and Christian Bale is definitely the best Batman… riiight after Michael Keaton. What can I say, I loved the Tim Burton version of Batman. Batman and Batman Returns were the best ones, but Batman Begins is right up there as well, possibly somewhere in between those two The rest, I just want to forget.

I’ve seen some of the leaked test shots of Heath Ledger as the Joker and dude looks creepy which is good. I can’t wait. But he seriously has to bring his A game if he wants to beat Jack Nicholson.

By: Lee Cummings

Lee Cummings — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:40:55 +0000

This movie totally fricken rocked! Although Speed Racer and HeMan should kick it’s Butt. But God “Stephen Speilberg” will speak very soon and there will be no Pirates to echo Arrrgh Matey!

By: weapons of massdistraction

weapons of massdistraction — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:32:07 +0000

[...] Bonus: Happy movie news abounds. I hadn’t been following the unfolding of Batman/The Dark Knight, but Veronica has an excellent summary. The movie doesn’t come out until 2008 but there’s already a Harvey Dent campaign site, and a similar one, hacked by The Joker. Also? The Golden Compass trailer is now up. As usual, with my favorite books turned into movies, I am a wee bit wary yet compelled. Plus: Catching up at More Cowbell made me realize…I missed The Clientele show last Thursday night. I kinda forgot about it, but likely couldn’t have made it anyhow. Part of the Sharyn-can’t-do-it-all reality. But I can make it to the kid-friendly shows. Until this morning I’d never heard of Pershing Park in Minneapolis. But it turns out that Harry and the Potters are playing at the park on July 16th. We’ll be there. And: Miss Amanda is alive and well in Alaska…and leaving bras behind on her travels. The sure sign of an excellent journey. [...]

By: C Lee

C Lee — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:13:33 +0000

When I first heard that they were doing another Batman movie (Batman Begins), I was not thrilled, but I really enjoyed Batman Begins, the movie really brought out the true “Dark Knight” Batman as portrayed in the comics. I also think Christian Bale is a great Bruce Wayne, I wonder who is going to play Cat Woman…

As for the first series of batman movies, I though Tim Burton did a decent job, but Joel Schumacher ruined the series, Batman and Robin was horrible.

I am interested to see how they do the Joker, if they do portray a serious Joker, that will be really scary. They could do a entire Horror movie around the Joker.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:21:48 +0000

Hey I’m glad you finally got convinced to check out Bale as Batman. Very cool movie, also loved him in “Equilibrium” I have to say i was very disappointed in Spidey 3, so many things wrong with it…What I want to know is where is the 2nd “League of Extraordinary Gentelman” coming out?!?
Also: Transformers Roll Out!!!

By: Olav

Olav — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:16:15 +0000

The first Batman that Tim Burton did is a great movie. The rest is crap.

By: Parrotheader

Parrotheader — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:09:51 +0000

My money is on Anthony Michael Hall being Clayface. I know it’s been 20 years but I’m still amazed at how he’s grown up since the old 80s films. He went from being the quintessential geek character to the guy my wife now has a huge crush on in The Dead Zone (which starts up again in a couple weeks, along with the 4400.)

Heath Ledger’s a good actor and I’m sure will do a fine job, but it’ll be hard to top the performance (and the overall style) of Nicholson in the first film.

By: Clintus McGintus

Clintus McGintus — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:17:45 +0000

Yes, very stoked for the new Batman. I was feeling the same way about the previous flicks. Batman and Robin was pitiful. But Begins was fantastic and really brought life back to…. The Dark Knight.

By: Googleman

Googleman — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:24:00 +0000

kinda wondering how batman can be the prefect… http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prefect. oh and by the way the old batman movies will always be the best! one and two are by far better than the candy colored “sequels”. and batman begins is some sort of ninja stuff with like 20 minutes of the actual batman in a 2 hour movie or something… just my humble oppinion.

By: miss_lain

miss_lain — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:21:07 +0000

Loved Batman Begins. It was good to see how his inner demons turned the man into Batman. I also loved the Batman Begins film soundtrack. The music to a film is immensely important for adding emotional impact to the visuals. Christian Bale is a fine actor. Any guy or gal willing to lose or gain mass pounds of body weight (muscle included), all in the spirit of acting and fitting into the part, gets kudos from me. I don’t recommend this acting method for health reasons, however. The Scarecrow character in the last movie was okay, but it didn’t blow me away by any means. A favorite Batman villain that come to mind is Danny DeVito as The Penguin. He was made for the role. If they can find a villain/actor of that high caliber for the next movie, it should be even better.

By: John B.

John B. — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:16:41 +0000

Maybe he meant Emperor? As in tortured and moody emperors?

By: Veronica

Veronica — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:55:43 +0000

@Feenwager – Define “Roman empire” bits?

By: Feenwager

Feenwager — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:23:01 +0000

I’m confused…I didn’t pick up on the Roman Empire bits that you seem to feel Christian Bale brought to his role as Batman. I felt he played it pretty straight, with a dash of Frank Miller thrown in.

Or perhaps you thought that he played Batman with a touch of Arthur Dent’s good friend? Not sure I see that either.

Ahhh whatever…I thought the movie was great too.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:31:13 +0000

I’m more surprised you read Pink Is The New Blog. Gossip blogs ftw!

By: John B.

John B. — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:35:01 +0000

I really liked Christian Bale in Batman Begins… I only hope, as you do the series continues to be excellent. (I still think Michael Keaton was the best Batman, though!)

By: Frank L

Frank L — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:49:57 +0000

Update: Trailer in December!

http://www.filmwad.com/batman-trailer-coming-in-december–2481-p.html

I checked out the page. Just hit Ctrl+A and it all shows up. Brilliant!!

By: Evorgleb

Evorgleb — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:33:50 +0000

We've been talking about Heath Ledger's Joker at Highbrid Nation. I'm usually a traditionalist but I think I like the direction they are going in. Though some are saying the recent pic is fake. I honestly beleive it is real.

By: Nick Schmidt

Nick Schmidt — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:06:57 +0000

word. It has been a long time.. sorry for not commenting for a while..

anyway.. i agree with the concern of the Joker character. I can’t help get him out of my mind of him playing medieval knight with the “queen” music background…I forgot the name of that movie, but I’m sure you remember..

By: Kato

Kato — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:51:36 +0000

1) Batman Begins was awesome. Dark Knight will also be awesome.
2) Excellent picture caption.
3) Good news on the no-lips Optimus, thanks for bringing that to my attention [breathes sigh of relief]
4) Anthony Michael Hall…. hmm, maybe another villain like The Riddler or The Mad Hatter? Maybe a member of the Falcone crime family? Or serial killer Victor Zsasz who makes a cameo in Batman Begins?

By: Frank L

Frank L — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:03:29 +0000

Yeah I love these pages, and I’ve been excited about HL as the Joker ever since it was announced. I wish they had done this good of a job on Superman, but all is well if this Batman is as good as the first…
http://thesoftlounge.com/blog/?p=187

As for Anthony Michael Hall, if he’s not talking…well that is a mystery isn’t it?

Or, maybe, it’s more of a….riddle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddler