The Dark Knight (2008)

Posted : 2 months ago at Dec 8 19:29

I knew that The Dark Knight was going to be the best film of 2008 for me because I was so excited about seeing it especially with Heath Ledger's shocking and unexpected yet mysterious death. Before I saw the film, I was watching the trailers over and over again. I even watched them about 5 minutes before the film started. I really love this film to bits! I became obsessed with the trailers and clips of the film especially The Joker. When I saw it at the cinema back in July 2008, I couldn't believe it was a film. It really felt real-life even though Batman is a comic book character. I think only Lord Of The Rings and The Dark Knight have made me feel this way. The Dark Knight is the only non-fantasy/sci fi comic book film that has ever been made. Despite this, there is a taste of fantasy in...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 5 months ago at Sep 11 1:52

Gotham City is falling apart, Bruce Wayne is becoming more distant, chaotic vigilantism is growing more rampant & on top of it all, there's some crazy make-up wearing Joker out there taking advantage of it all.
Heath Ledger in a final performance that marks a high point in his all too short career.






Rating : 9/10

Posted : 9 months, 4 weeks ago at Apr 16 20:11

When the movie started I was sure of that I was watching Heat. Is this a lame try to make a realistic superhero movie? Superhero movies are suppose to be unrealistic, atleast in my world. And who are we suppose to like? Batman is clearly an asshole in this movie. The Joker got likable jokes and dialog, so I guess thats what they try to. Make people like The Joker. But wtf, isnt this a Batman movie? The movie had some good action scenes, and some thrilling scenes, but nothing more. The gadgets was terrible. The mobilephone tracker glasses GPS thing was ridiculous. Why make something so unrealistic into a movie that try hard to be realistic. Well the movie did a good job scare away my braincells, and its to bad that the movie makes it impossible to gain some. 4/10...Read more

Rating : 4/10

Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago at Feb 17 1:51

This movie was awesome. Heath did a really good job acting as the joker. I could watch it a million times. I didn't find it creepy at all, i found it just awesome. There was no mistakes in making the movie, no mess ups, or anything. I just wish that Heath could of played the joker throughout the whole movie.




-Jimmy-

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Dec 21 22:09

this movie was awsome with all the graphis and everything they really didnt mess anything up.
i fell sad for leadger though.


Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Dec 13 8:33

"How comes you gave the Dark Knight 1 out of 10?" Strange. I have been away from the site, today I hear a guy laughing on voice chat in Paltalk, and it reminded me of the Joker in Batman. Then, I tried to recall a site I found through Last.fm. This is not the site, but I realized I haven't been on here in a while. To answer the question, 1 means I haven't seen it. Read the "About me" section in my profile. However, I have seen it since, and it's a 2 which means the same as you probably expected. So, here is my review which will serve as a reply and will be updated if need be. When I was a child, I watched the TV series Batman with Adam West and enjoyed it immensely. My favorite parts were scenes in the batcave. I probably had a WWF appreciation for the fight scenes back ...Read more

Rating : 2/10

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Dec 7 9:08

A large part of Dark Knight goes to Heath Ledger for his "The Joker" portrayal. Every scene in which Ledger appeared was riveting. His speech, mannerisms and his dialog were fantastic. For the latter, I have to commend the screen writers who gave Ledger some great lines! Actually, he and Aaron Eckert, who played "Harvey 'Two Face' Dent," were most of the show, character-wise. Maggie Gyllenhaal was good, too, as "Rachel Dawes," the woman of both Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent's affections. Otherwise, the familiar good guys - Christopher Bale as "Batman," Michael Caine as "Alfred," Gary Oldman as Inspector/Commishoner Gordan" and Morgan Freeman as "Lucius Fox" were okay but all more interesting in the previous film, "Batman Begins." Speaking of Fox, his high-and-mighty attitude toward Wayne'...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Nov 14 2:41

This was a really surprisingly great film. I didn't like the actor that played The Batman but that's a person opinion, regardless it was a good film. I would highly recommend, and it is a definite buy on my list.

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Oct 21 22:36

I wish I could go higher than 10/10. After all the waiting, all the hype, all the rumors....it met and exceeded my expectations. And I can't get enough of it. I've seen it 6 times (so far) and it's like the first time, every time. Every time the Joker laughs, I get chills down my spine. Every time there's even the slightest hint to anything else in the Bat Universe, I get excited all over again.
I've been a Batman fan since I was 2 years old and this was the movie I've been waiting my whole life to see. Everyone did a fantastic job, Heath especially. The Joker jumped right off the comic pages into the movie. He is amazing.

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Aug 17 3:44

''Why SO serious?'' Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly. Christian Bale: Bruce Wayne / Batman Heath Ledger: The Joker When we think back to truly worthy sequels, sequels which surpass even their original predecessors, many of us would proclaim such masterpieces as Aliens, Godfather II, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2...So with the coming of 2008 yet another sequel will be honoured enough to take it's place among these glorified masterpieces. Undoubtedly, English Director Christopher Nolan begins to resemble the mythical King Midas, in the sense that every film project he breathes life ...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Aug 13 23:19

If we're focusing on the script alone, then The Dark Knight is a little more than a touch overrated. Certain story lines are either not explained or simply forgotten, and while there is a sequel involved, it left little to be called a movie. However, if we're looking at the acting, then kudos to Christopher Nolan for choosing an excellent cast. Maggie Gyllenhaal shines wonders over Katie Holmes, adopting a stronger personality and fierce character (although I was still disappointed by how little the women in this film do, especially Rachel). Heath Ledger managed to bring this drawn-out movie its life, but he isn't seen nearly enough as he should have been in the film. Christian Bale's Batman voice is enough to make anyone cringe, turning a supposed-to-be vicious seeming hero into a...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Aug 8 6:19

Dark, haunting and energetic but not as deep as the hype would like you to believe. A great comic book adaptation, good action movie and half-decent crime thriller. Oldman is still the best actor on show, never does Gordon feel like Oldman playing Gordon. I can't say that about the rest of the cast, but I can see why the public are hyped for the leading roles.

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 31 14:01

Well I think it was a great movie. All the hype about Heth's death and last performance was right on it was great. It is alot darker then Batman Begins. I liked the way it went into the psycology of the characters. What i mean is it showed what the characters were thinking and the plot also effected how the characters minds. It was and overall great movie. On opening weekend it pushed the total record to 158.4 million dollars.

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 31 8:44

The scenes with the Joker dressed as a nurse live longest in my mind. Posthumous Oscar? Whatever. The movie's a corker no matter what.

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 27 10:15

It has been almost impossible to avoid the hype surrounding The Dark Knight, a film that is guaranteed to be this years biggest summer blockbuster. My own anticipation for this film reached almost unrestrained proportions in the build up to its release in the same manner that it had back in the day when The Matrix: Reloaded was first showcased. Thankfully this film didn't build me up and then throw me back down to Earth with a bump in the same disappointing way that The Matrix managed. With the internet a minefield of spoilers and the incremental release of the film across the world guaranteeing that some American, somewhere, would probably carelessly divulge a huge plot twist before I got to see it for myself, I took the necessary precautions and shut myself away from all media links, rev...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 22 19:18

as you all know the Dark Knight is a sequel to last summers Batman Begins and has recieved twice as much hype as the first movie. The Dark Knight is really more of the same with Heath Ledger Providing one awesome performance as the JOker who sets the bar higher than Liam Neeson's Henri Ducard/Ra's Al Ghul the one spirited man who used two bodies to foil with batman. the Dark knight like it's predecessor has one hell of a cast which includes Gary Oldman(Lt. Jim Gordon),Aaron Eckhart(Harvey Dent), Maggie Gyllenhaal(Rachel Dawes), Morgan Freeman(Lucius Fox),Eric Roberts(salvatore Maroni),Michael Caine (alfred Pennyworth) and cillian Murphy as the scarecrow. The Dark knight which is just as long as Batman Begins, a whole two and a half hours, is action packed from the begginning wich ha...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 19 2:56

"The Dark Knight", as expected, is very good and is considerably better than "Batman Begins". As we've all already heard, Heath Ledger was great as the Joker. Actually, all 3 of the live-action Jokers have been amazing (Romero, Nicholson and now Ledger). Ledger's is just a bit different than the other two. He's much darker and doesn't audibly sound like the prior editions, but he's amazing in his own right. It's a little early to say that Ledger deserves the Oscar nod, but if he does get the nomination (I imagine it would be for Best Supporting Actor), I think he lands it in the interrogation room at the station. It's the best, most intense scene in the movie. Much like Brandon Lee as The Crow, Ledger left us with a defining performance that we'll appreciate and enjoy for many...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 19 0:56

Honestly, I tried to stay away from the hype of The Dark KNight as much as possible. So basically all I knew about it was there was a bank robbery and The Joker was played by Heath Ledger. Oh, and Batman had a motorcycle. That was it, and I went to see it based solely on that. Good thing it kicked ass then, huh. Yes, Heath Ledger rocked the shit out of The Joker. Yeah, he's getting a lot of buzz because this was, effectively, his last film ever. Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon was just as good. Hell, everyone in the film was golden. But, yes there's a but, there's a very good reason I and many others are comparing everyone else to him in this movie and that's because he, The Joker, brought this movie, this world, full circle. A world without Joker, but Batman is not a world I would c...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 18 23:40

Any words I try to put down will sound banal. Just a few thoughts then:

1) Set up for a third movie.
2) My favourite Star Wars movie is Empire.
3) Heath Ledger, I mourn you today. You were one awesome f**king actor.
4) How did the studio let this movie get made?

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 18 14:20

It is finally here, THE DARK KNIGHT. After so much anticipation, the wait wasn't for nothing. This is simply a grand-multi-characters-crime-opera for the ages. A solid cast, a solid screenplay, a solid director can't go wrong. For over 2 hours, you will be wanting to see more, to hear more and at the end (and what a brillant ending)you will leave satisfy. All the characters in this story are well shaped and aren't easy to resume in a few lines. But the one who's getting all the attention (and of course he deserve it) it's the TOUR-DE-FORCE performance by the late Heath Ledger. Everytime he appeared on the screen, everybody in the theater was so quiet trying to not miss any words, sounds or laughs coming from the Joker. This is one give-him-the-oscar-right-away role that will be cherish ...Read more

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 17 4:04

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” The Dark Knight was a film that I had extremely high expectations set for. As my most anticipated film of 2008, with one of the most talented actors ever – Heath Ledger – in his last completed performance, and a convincing take on the Batman franchise with director Christopher Nolan’s first Batman film, Batman Begins in 2005; this could have easily gone either way. I have been extremely disappointed before with films like this that have had my excitement ever since they have been announced, but The Dark Knight has proven to be one that I am incredibly happy with. Astoundingly happy with in fact; it has proven to be an absolute masterpiece and did not disappoint me in any way at all. The Dark...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Jul 16 9:07

"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair." The Dark Knight easily establishes itself as the greatest movie of 2008 thus far. Considering the unfathomable hype surrounding the production one would think that the set expectations would be absolutely impossible to fulfil. After all, director Christopher Nolan had some serious shoes to fill with the quality of the preceding Batman adventures taken into consideration. Personally, Tim Burton's 1989 masterpiece Batman is a film I cherish very dearly. Through my eyes Burton's original film was the best Batman movie of all time and it's too perfect to be surpassed. However, Nolan has achieved an unprecedented feat with The Dark...Read more