Supermallet

To each his own. I personally wanted to see some Batman on Ninja action.

coli

I have been trying to avoid spoilers, as I am pumped for this movie, and I think Nolan is going to transcend the Comic Book movie genre. I feel most comic book movies are by the book and really don't offer much other then to please the CGI/Action crowd as they are usually lame on story & character development. Nolan talks in an interview about NOT using CGI, and having real locations & sets, and focusing on the Jokers/Batman struggles to be who they are and how they are outcasts. Can't wait til July 18th.

Double_Oh_7

According to Dean Richards of WGN-TV here in Chicago, "they should just start handing out the Oscars now to this amazing movie." A glowing preview. Can't wait to see it.

stingermck

Exactly. If Ray Parks can do everything he did under Maul's makeup and suit, than a martial arts stuntman could go crazy in the bat suit. I just want to see Batman as one of the best fighters in the world, take on 20-30 guys at once, like a HK movie.

JPRaup

http://movies.ign.com/articles/884/884876p1.html

10/10

Matthew Ackerly

"Meanwhile, the violence is quite possibly the most intense I have ever seen in a PG-13 film, leaving myself and others wondering how The Dark Knight avoided an R."



This statement makes my day.

Michael Corvin

Where I come from face make-up and a robe are not quite the same as a 100lb constricting rubber suit. Especially since no Bat costume has allowed the wearer to move their neck until TDK.

RichC2

That would be horrible in movies like these. There's a time and place for elaborate fight scenes, this isn't it.

Doc MacGyver

I can't f-ing take this anymore. Seriously, it's too much, and it's still June 30th. I've been thinking and I'm going to head up to the mountains with my friend Leopold and have him freeze me in the snow. Then on the 17th, he'll thaw me out. It's the only way I can endure the wait.


-Doc

JPRaup

I'm going to Maine on vacation for a week, so hopefully it takes my mind off it. I've tried to not pay any attention to it except for watching the trailers. It's worked pretty well, but the wait is just now getting unbearable.

HN

From Moriarty's writeup on AICN:
"This movie pushed the PG-13 to the breaking point, and I’m not sure how Warner Bros. pulled it off."

But this one makes my day:
"The score by James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer is one of the year’s best..."

Doc MacGyver

Alas, no such trip is available to me. I forsee a lot of drinking (my own personal type of "Staycation". This will do two things: Speed up time (in the same sort of, "it's all relative" way black holes do, or the "Schrödinger's cat" deal... When the ball rolls behind the couch it ceases to exist, and if I can't remember a stretch of time, then it passed instantaneously. (My apologies to Messieurs Einstein, Schrödinger, Hawkins, DeGrass-Tyson et all for completely misinterpruting your work to make my countdown to The Dark Knight survivable and to explain away a sudden and drastic alcoholism).


-Doc

Cornelius1047

Cheers!

K

Doc MacGyver

And to you as well, lad!

Although you have made me aware of a potentially fatal flaw in my plan. I'm going to have to make the roommates remind me to pull the cord on the morning of the 17th, otherwise it's entirely possible I'll show up to the midnight show three-sheets-to-the-wind, dancing in a giant bananaman costume until I either A - fall over, B - puke, or C - fall over and puke.



-Doc

JPRaup

I was listening to Opie and Anthony today and they said that at some IMAX theater in NYC every showing of TDK was sold out for 3 weeks!

Deftones

All these glowing reviews makes me giddy like a school girl. Not that I had any doubts after Batman Begins, but this just solidifies it.

Double_Oh_7

Another glowing review...

http://www.newsarama.com/film/080630...ht-review.html

Looks like not only is it a masterpiece in the genre, but just a masterpiece period.

My Other Self

If this garnishes a 100% on RT I'll shit my pants.

Doc MacGyver

If it's this good and it doesn't, I'll shit in Mr. .01's pants.



-Doc

Deftones

Seems like every review so far has been glowing. Obviously that can change, but I can't see how this will get lower than about a 97 or 98% there.

JPRaup

I can guarantee it won't. There are too many dicks out there.

My Other Self

Unfortuantely, I think you're right.

How many films DO have a 100%?

JPRaup

Taxi to the Dark Side
Surfwise

those are some recent ones I've found



a TON of older ones, because there aren't enough reviews so people just send in positive ones.

TheMovieman

But I think it should beat Iron Man's 93%, though the dark nature could easily turn off many more, so who knows...

BBEANLPHIE

HmM take a sick day to watch a movie? Yes or no?