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[Dot50Cal]

I saw the Dark Knight finally, but I guess I expected too much from the movie? I went in expecting some epic crime drama with "teh best villain evars". But the film was just boring. The opening scene was interesting, but it was all down hill from there. Maybe it was Ledgers character, but I just didn't see the Joker as a great villain. He seemed like some wimpy guy who managed to con some people to work for him through various means. I guess thats supposed to make him some epic villain?

The story dragged on far too much. I can't even really recall what the movie was about besides Joker constantly escaping police custody, or just harassing certain members of the public while Batman tries to stop him. When do the interesting parts start? There wasn't any kind of drama, and the Batmans love interest storyline was so hard to swallow with her eye bags and generally older looking appearance. There wasn't any clever back and forth between Joker and Batman. Joker was just some insane guy who wanted to see the world burn. That doesn't make for a very interesting villain imo.

I read a critic review that compared the movie to Heat, on that same level of a crime drama. But holy cow, how wrong they are. This was just boring all throughout.

[Trent]

The Joker's character in The Dark Knight portrayed a psychopathic, deranged, unstable and complex individual with a genius master plan. To be honest I think you did not fully understand his character. In my opinion it was this character that really raised the movie and gave it all the praise we see. Without the Joker's presence, the movie would not have become this popular. And if you missed the idea of the Joker, the movie would be pretty much boring, I think as you have come to experience.

*The following might contain spoilers*

What makes The Joker the epic villain is that he is the master planer, he got us all fooled. He spoke of the unnecessity of plans, that he is not a planer, that he is a simple person wishing to create anarchy. As a matter of fact, almost the entire film was The Joker's plan. It was his plan to run away with millions of dollars (in that sense it was his plan to control all the villains), it was his plan to get arrested by the police, it was his plan to convert Harvey Dent and it was his plan to misguide the Batman. The idea behind The Joker was anarchy, destruction, harassments and so on. This was also a big part of the idea behind the movie. All of this added to simple character details (The Joker's voice, laughing, licking lips etc.) to The Joker executed an excellent and very entertaining performance.

The Dark Knight was actually inspired by Heat, this was stated by Christopher Nolan.

[Scream]

Meh, it was alright. I didn't like all the politically correct crap, Morgan Freeman's character saying he will quit just because he has to work with that phone machine, boohoo cry me a river. And Batman can't even kill anyone, that's kinda dumb. It makes me wonder what the point of Batman's mission is, it just doesn't make sense to me. There's no way he can change anything without some sort of massive revolution or lots of destruction like those ninja guys were trying to do in the first one.

Batman is confused - but it's a good movie nonetheless...

[Dot50Cal]

That part disappointed me too. They could have explored his struggle with not wanting to kill the Joker. During the
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bike chase scene, Joker (on foot) shoots a burst into a car windshield, probably killing someone, just as Batman is barreling down on him.

And he didn't want to kill him after that? Cmon..

[DXP]

i ain't seen this yet and don't intend too for some reason, really wanted too see it but really can't be bothered now , i have recently started watching from duck till dawn and really getting into it, its one of them unique films i suppose.

[Project Omega]

The last movies I've seen are:

Pinapple Express (hillarious)
Step Brothers (also hillarious)
High Crimes (<3 Morgan Freedman)
Alone in the Dark (horrible ending, although the action was alright but everyone had the IQ of a sponge... I know it sucked, but had to witness it for myself.)

[Trent]

Pinapple Express (hillarious)
Step Brothers (also hillarious)

These should be some fun comedy, can't wait for them!

I recently watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", a 1975 classic by Milos Forman. It was a powerful film and Mr. Nicholson definitely deserved the Oscar.

[Nomad9026]

Watched Tropic thunder today, damn this movie made me laugh like an idiot. But damn the translation was bad, I would give a lot to watch it without any translation in english.

[Trent]

Haha, I actually saw an advertisement on Tropic Thunder the other day. Oh God, Ben Stiller is hilarious. I can only imagine how he would be on this film.

[Scream]

Been watching some movies on Blu-ray...

Con Air - Great step-up from the DVD, PQ very detailed, noticed a lot of new things.
Face/Off - PQ not as great as Con Air but good enough improvement. Good movie.
Shrooms - Cheap horror movie some parts are just awful.. just a bit of fun really.
Vacancy - Good idea but badly thought out. Crappy ending (or maybe it was just too short).
Casino Royale - Didn't really like it even though I saw it before, it really dragged on towards the end.

Gonna start watching the Resident Evil trilogy on BD tonight.

[Stars1356]

Just saw Robcop 2 again and will probably watch the 3rd one tomorrow, well actually today. I heard they were making a new one.

[Nomad9026]

Yep, a new robocop was anounsed, but there are almost no info about this progect.

[aris13]

I saw the Dark Knight finally, but I guess I expected too much from the movie? I went in expecting some epic crime drama with "teh best villain evars". But the film was just boring. The opening scene was interesting, but it was all down hill from there. Maybe it was Ledgers character, but I just didn't see the Joker as a great villain. He seemed like some wimpy guy who managed to con some people to work for him through various means. I guess thats supposed to make him some epic villain?

The story dragged on far too much. I can't even really recall what the movie was about besides Joker constantly escaping police custody, or just harassing certain members of the public while Batman tries to stop him. When do the interesting parts start? There wasn't any kind of drama, and the Batmans love interest storyline was so hard to swallow with her eye bags and generally older looking appearance. There wasn't any clever back and forth between Joker and Batman. Joker was just some insane guy who wanted to see the world burn. That doesn't make for a very interesting villain imo.

I read a critic review that compared the movie to Heat, on that same level of a crime drama. But holy cow, how wrong they are. This was just boring all throughout.

Believe it the dark knight is overrated - And Chris Nolan the director cites the film Heat as a major influence on this movie. William Fichtner (the bank manager ) played in Heat and in the scene in The Dark Knight that was obviously inspired by Heat.

Of course Heat is far surperior than the dark knight in terms of crime drama

[Mr. Spencer]

Yep, a new robocop was anounsed, but there are almost no info about this progect.

What the hell are they doing? The third film was terrible. Robocop was something for the 1980s. Leave it there, that's where it belongs. It's happy there.

[kevstah2004]

Been watching some movies on Blu-ray...

Con Air - Great step-up from the DVD, PQ very detailed, noticed a lot of new things.
Face/Off - PQ not as great as Con Air but good enough improvement. Good movie.
Shrooms - Cheap horror movie some parts are just awful.. just a bit of fun really.
Vacancy - Good idea but badly thought out. Crappy ending (or maybe it was just too short).
Casino Royale - Didn't really like it even though I saw it before, it really dragged on towards the end.

Gonna start watching the Resident Evil trilogy on BD tonight.

I think they cut a lot of the action scenes leaving the film dragging on for ages "the casino scene made me want to fall asleep" people where complaining that Daniel Craig was too much like Action Man early on in production, Bond was never to be ripped etc.
Sean Connery is Bond simple as .
Timothy Dalton was the worst Bond ever imo even though I hated Roger Moore too he tried too much to be like Sean and his sense of humor is awful.
First to last:
Sean Connery
Pierce Brosnan
Daniel Craig
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Good to see people aren't dick riding Dark Knight just because of a dead actor, I haven't it fully yet but from what I seen so far I prefer Batman Begins I don't like his batman voice either sounds like he's got throat cancer Michael Keaton was much better.

[Mr. Spencer]

Foolishness, my boy!

Dalton brought a certain grittiness to the character that was more in line with the Bond of the novels, and a welcome change from the campness we got with the post-Connery actors. Daniel Craig is doing now what Dalton did back in the 80s, except that people welcome the change today.

You keep it...old buddy.

[Nomad9026]

What the hell are they doing? The third film was terrible. Robocop was something for the 1980s. Leave it there, that's where it belongs. It's happy there.

They are making a remake, so a new variation of "the dead cop returned as the killing machine" story is going to be made. But who knows maybe they wil make something good, everybody said that Batman was dead after Batman and Robin, but then Begins and Dark Knight apeared, so, who knows.

[Scream]

The casino scene was alright, it was the parts after that dragged on like when they were on the beach, the bank transfer etc., it was god damn boring. I wanted to turn it off. I don't really think much of Craig as Bond either, I think it's something to do with his attitude and personality in the film.

I saw RE Extinction on Blu-ray last night. It seemed better than the first time I saw it but the Alice is god parts really sucked. I saw the deleted scenes too.. "Everyone is telling stories about you Alice".. what were they thinking, really...

[Ryler]

The recent films I saw was Wall-E and The Mummy 3 w/c both disappoint me.

[Mr. Spencer]

They are making a remake, so a new variation of "the dead cop returned as the killing machine" story is going to be made. But who knows maybe they wil make something good, everybody said that Batman was dead after Batman and Robin, but then Begins and Dark Knight apeared, so, who knows.

See, the reason why Robocop worked so well was not only because of its themes (corporate greed, the loss of humanity and the transition of man to machine), but chiefly because the entire film was a social commentary on the 1980s. I don't think that same thing can work in this day and age, unless they go down a completely different route and throw a whole new spin on things. Regardless, it just won't feel the same, won't give the same vibe as the original. It's also kind of interesting to know that Robocop has all the traits of cyberpunk, yet it never sold itself as such, unlike a certain other film that got overhyped and praised too much for being something it wasn't.