The Dark Knight

[Lord Il]

Just saw The Dark Knight at IMAX a few hours ago and was positively 'wowed' like I knew I would. This movie may break box office history as the hype over Heath Ledger's performance was more than warranted - Seems everyone is more than a bit curious to see his last movie role. IMO, he really was that good. One of the more scarier incarnations of The Joker.


Oh heck, can't take away anything from Mark Hamill's Joker in the animated series!
And Cesar Romero is certainly not to be forgotten either from the '60s television show.

But just for sh*ts and giggles, how would you compare Jack Nicholson's Joker with Heath Ledger's? Who do you like better?
A vid to compare somewhat.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAvubu70Yc


[spoiler warning!]
Still recovering from from Joker's disappearing pencil magic trick. I'm becoming very sick as to laugh at such a scene. lol! That was just.... Wow...  :e_shocked:[/spoiler warning!]

[Poey]

El Tigre and I are seeing it tomorrow night.

[Soske]

Fantastic movie.  After all the hype, I was expecting Heath's performance to be great, but I never expected

[Spoiler]Ekhart's Two-Face to be so well done.[End Spoiler]

[Necrominion]

Still a shame about Heath dying and all

[Foggle]

Amazing film.  It's not one of my favorites, but it's damn close, and I've always been a fan of Batman.  Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart gave amazing performances as two of my favorite villains, and Ledger's Joker was much better than Nicholson's (which is still a classic performance).

[exckilla]

Who does Aaron Eckhart, play in the film then.

[Poey]

Saw it... holy shit.

[Lord Il]

Who does Aaron Eckhart, play in the film then.

Two Face.

And omg... the CGI work they did on his face was so good it was uncanny. Damn scary. O_O

It makes the make-up job they did for Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever look laughable.

[Sweeney_Todd]

Who else was rooting for the Joker?

[HA1L ILPALLAZZO]

Who does Aaron Eckhart, play in the film then.

Two Face.

And omg... the CGI work they did on his face was so good it was uncanny. Damn scary. O_O

It makes the make-up job they did for Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever look laughable.

i'm sorry but any two face must be better then Tommy Lee Jones (he's a good actor and shouldn't have played a comedic two face ) . if they did Forever like the first 2 then i would have liked.

[exckilla]

Going see it tomorrow

[Uncreativity]

Honestly, I didn't like it all that much. Objectively it was a good movie, but it definitely wasn't the movie I wanted to see. Far too srs business. Joker wasn't funny.

[ElricJC]

The Joker isn't meant to be haha funny or whimsical - he's a sociopathic murderer, not a comedian.  Frankly it's the most true-to-form portrayal of the Joker to date.

[Turbam!!!]

Saw it... holy shit.

Yeah, I thought the same thing...

[Uncreativity]

The Joker isn't meant to be haha funny or whimsical - he's a sociopathic murderer, not a comedian.  Frankly it's the most true-to-form portrayal of the Joker to date.

"Dark" Batman isn't any more valid an interpretation than "campy" Batman. You don't have to like both versions (I certainly don't), but they've both got a pretty extensive history. I don't think you can really claim that one version is more "true-to-form" than the other.

Besides, you can be a sociopathic murderer and a comedian.

On the other hand, though, I can't deny that it was stupid of me to go to the Dark Knight knowing that I only like campy Batman. I was swayed by everyone I know loving this movie.