The MOVIE REVIEW Thread

[LYCHEE]

HELLBOY II -- one hell of a must-see movie :thumbsupsmiley:

[Insaniac]

Hellboy 2 - much better than the first...

[gumshoe]

an hour ago..trinoma cinema 2

 

the dark knight

~christian bale, heath ledger, michael cane, gary oldman, maggie gyllenhaal, aaron heckart, morgan freeman

 

~what can i say? the theme is as dark as the title depicted it would be. the cinematography was insanely good. but heath ledger was insanely better! and yeah! the oscar nomination hype was foundedly advertised. ledger certainly deserves a nod on this one. he singlehandedly stole the whole movie!

and yeah! t'was that long..i mean the length of the movie. but it was worth it. christopher nolan, i tip my cap off!

 

:goatee: 8)

 

oh! whatever happened to the scarecrow???

 

 

go ahead, heath..clap! it's your show!!!

 

:thumbsupsmiley:

 

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[tobats04]

The dark knight..

 

now I know who killed Heath Ledger ---> Christopher Nolan!!!!

This Director is super genius!!! DC kicks ass off Marvel and they got class!! (although I love Marvel Characters, also)

 

this is an all-star power cast movie that can be a total candidate as best movie for an oscar!

it's like putting a Godfather movie and putting it into a movie adaptation..

 

Heath Ledger is so much a great actor and Christian Bale reciprocates an oscar award acting!!

Aaron Eckart is also great, plus Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman - perfect 10 acting...

Gylenhall justifies Rachel's character by giving more life

and even Eric Roberts and Michael Jai White (Spawn) has great acting!!

 

If there was a movie that will be a candidate for best movie ever, this would be it!!! (no kidding)

consider the storyline, effects, musics, etc., this movie has all the added formula for 1 great movie...

may have topped LOTR, spiderman or the early batman movie with the legendary Jack Nicholson...

 

Christopher Nolan is one freaking genius!!! He gives justice to the death of Heath...

Edited July 18, 2008 by tobats04

[johnnydrama]

^sharing the same sentiments with you Bat-fans above.

 

Yup, gotta admit it, THE DARK KNIGHT seems kinda long but thankfully enough director Chris Nolan is a master at pacing and editing.

 

I much preferred the cowl and cape of the "Begins" Batman but when Bale dons it, his voice register changes...now this is one bad-ass who can kick Leonidas and his 300 Spartans into the pit!!!

 

Great perfos all around...Heath Ledger surely leaves this mortal coil with a Joker to be remembered. Makes Jigsaw from the "Saw" movies look like a pussy.

[rcsikat]

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Edited July 19, 2008 by rcsikat

[rcsikat]

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[gift_of_game]

^

you did this stuff for college or something?

kinda felt that you missed the point of Stardust btw...but that's just me.

 

some unsolicited advice: if you intend to get better at this, reading won't hurt your chances at all.

for one thing, you'd probably lose the amateurish tone and at least appear to have a better grip on what you're reviewing.

for another, you can finally stop apologizing to your readers for not reading enough.

[rcsikat]

^

you did this stuff for college or something?

kinda felt that you missed the point of Stardust btw...but that's just me.

 

some unsolicited advice: if you intend to get better at this, reading won't hurt your chances at all.

for one thing, you'd probably lose the amateurish tone and at least appear to have a better grip on what you're reviewing.

for another, you can finally stop apologizing to your readers for not reading enough.

 

It's just a hobby sir. Thanks for your suggestions. They are very helpful for a novice like me. :thumbsupsmiley:

[sickness]

The Dark Knight - The movie was great and Heath is brilliant!

[Anaheim]

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We saw the film today at the San Miguel-Coca Cola IMAX theater in SM Mall of Asia, the film is in 2D. Oh man, I have been a Batman fan ever since I read the DC comic book when I was in grade school in the late 1960s. The Adam West TV series Batman became one of my favorite TV shows during my childhood years courtesy of Uncle Bob's Channel 7 of the 1960s. Having outgrown the TV series my adoration shifted to Tim Burton's Batman and its 2nd sequel but I found the Joel Schumacher sequels too cartoony just like the TV series (Jim Carrey's Riddler looks stupider than Frank Gorshin's). Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins was several notches higher and made the Batman franchise more than just a kid's film.

 

Lo and behold! The Dark Knight made the Marvel movie franchise (Spider-man, X-men, Ironman, Hulk) too cartoony ! The complex intricacies of the human morals are made into play in the Dark Knight. The Joker (Heath Ledger) is not your ordinary villain here, he doesn't care for money which is the main goal of other villains in moviedom and he doesn't care for his life either. He's a meshed-up schizophrenic with a convoluted personality disorder made courtesy of his sadistic father, he is a fine study to undertake by psychiatrists and can be the subject of numerous debates inside a psychology or psychiatry classroom. The Joker stood on par with Hannibal Lecter in Movie morphology. Heath Ledger's performance shines to greater heights and made the so-called 'method acting' into a new level. He made me laugh when he sarcastically applauded Lt. James Gordon as the new Comissioner. I felt pity for the Joker on what he has become. I won't be surprise if Heath Ledger gets nominated next year for a posthumous Oscar. The more I admire Heath Ledger's superb performance the sadder I become because we won't be seeing his performance again (*sniff*).

 

The performance of Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent aka Two-Face is also outstanding. Harvey Dent's dilemma crosses the boundary between heroic and evil deeds and to decide for those by means of flipping the coin, a case of a complex study in emotional instability courtesy of the Joker's power of persuasion. Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox (like James Bond's Gadget man Q), maker of Batman's hi-tech gadgets also crosses a moral dilemma in the film of which I won't elaborate. Shades of James Bond antics borrowed by Bruce when he presses a button on a gadget without reading the instructions first. Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman also crosses the moral sea of dilemmas.

 

Hong Kong locale specifically Hong Kong island is one of the majestic backdrops in the film made more majestic by the size of an 8 storey building which is the IMAX screen located at the SM Mall of Asia. The Dark Knight is meant to be seen in IMAX format not in some minuscule size cinema you're used to or on your high definition big screen TV with a pirated DVD of a bootlegged The Dark Knight playing on your awesome Blu-Ray player, and that my friend also crosses the boundary of morality hehehe.

 

What's really sad about the film is the part when Joker uttered the lines, something like 'We are meant to be mortal nemesis for life that's why I can't k*ll you and you can't k*ll me', sad because a different actor will play the Joker if ever the Joker will appear again in future sequels. Batman completes the Joker but a Joker without Heath Ledger won't be completed even with the Batman around. Heath Ledger, you are sorely missed

 

My Ratings : 5/5 BISCUITS !

 

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[[TWO]RERO]

DARK KNIGHT the best movie for 2008!!!

if only i watched in IMAX.. (i could only watch a movie in theaters at late night.)

Heath No.1 baby!

[rcsikat]

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