The Dark Knight {Spoilers Abound}

[Langsta]

The Blu-ray covers are badass. Lol, it actually says "Prepare to be Wowed" on the back. The Batpod is cool. Too bad I don't have Blu-ray.

 

[Ice]

I will probably just get the Joker cover.

Me, too.

 

[Langsta]

The Dark Knight has been ranked the 15th greatest film in history on Empire's 2008 list of the "500 Greatest Movies of All Time."

http://www.empireonline.com/500/93.asp

 

[Goodwill]

I'd say that's a pretty good list, too. Although, I'd put Dark Knight in the top ten at least. I like how they put Empire in there on top. That's by far one of the most memorable movies ever. Because of "I'm Your Father".

/digression.

 

[Zombipanda]

Really???? 15th Greatest Film in History?

Fight Club is number 10?

This list is entirely nuts.

 

[Dr.Strangefate]

That List = Insanity. Jaws in the top five? Really? And Casablanca not even in the top ten???

Also: One doesn't put a film on a greatest of all time list until it's been out of theaters for at least a year. If its still considered one of the best, then you put it up there. Honestly, While TDK might go somewhere in the top 100 films of all time, I'm not sure it'd be in the top 50.

 

[Zombipanda]

That List = Insanity.

Also: One doesn't put a film on a greatest of all time list until it's been out of theaters for at least a year. If its still considered one of the best, then you put it up there. Honestly, While TDK might go somewhere in the top 100 films of all time, I'm not sure it'd be in the top 50.

Definitely agreed. I think it's incredibly unlikely it would break the top 50, and it definitely wouldn't hit the top 20.

:roll: It's like Spike TV put out a greatest films list. Sponsored by amp'd energy drink, and hosted by Dane Cook.

And in between the list, they showed slapstick footage from some of the movies shot with monkeys in costumes instead of people.

 

[Dr.Strangefate]

Like, it's a good list... But it seems more like it should be a "Greatest Blockbusters of all time". In which case, I think the rankings fit...

But you have things like Yojimbo and Spirit of the Beehive in the 80's and 90's, and you put Jaws in the top ten? This list is rediculous. Not to mention the fact that Evil Dead 2 is ranked almost 20 spaces ahead of Annie Hall (which is in the high sixties)... Grumble.

 

[Random]

I don't look at any list because most are faulty to begin with. There's no point in them for the most part.

 

[Bass]

I find these lists particularly uninteresting, and this was an extreme example of why.

#493 or something is SUPERMAN RETURNS. SUPERMAN RETURNS is, at best, an okay film. It's not terrible, but it's rather plodding and stupid but with definite charm and a good ensemble cast. The point is, as nice as it is, it shouldn't be in any "GREATEST MOVIES EVER" list. If it is, either you don't know what you're talking about or your list is so big that each individual spot is less considered and thus, less worth knowing.

These lists, I think, should be insightful. You should learn something from it, something ABOUT these films in these selections should REVEAL something to you, otherwise, why know the list at all?

"Greatest Movies Of All Time" is generally rubbish because... have they seen everything ever made? What ACTUALLY makes them great? Do you mean the films you like talking about the most in your film dissertation for uni, or do you mean the films you love to watch again, or the films you have the most respect for? How is GODFATHER a better film than CASABLANCA? What makes it greater?

Bull**** I call to you!

I think a particularly revealing list, one I love to hear, is the "My personal top 10 favourite films" when someone has thought about it. I find these lists revealing about a person in an actually interesting manner. A favourite film is not the film you respect, or the film you have trivia about and can talk about mise-en-scene and what not, no. These films are the films you ADORE. You watch, and everything disappears. For any reason, usually something totally personal and subjective. The film doesn't have to be good. The point is, you get someone to tell you how much they love something. When you consider most publications just either try to teach you jargon to tell your mates to look smart or tell you why a film is rubbish, I'd like more of these lists of pure joy.

So much so, I'm gonna go start a thread 'bout it.

 

[Goodwill]

The Shining should be up there, too. I think that movie's awesome.

 

[Ultimate Houde]

Definitely agreed. I think it's incredibly unlikely it would break the top 50, and it definitely wouldn't hit the top 20.

:roll: It's like Spike TV put out a greatest films list. Sponsored by amp'd energy drink, and hosted by Dane Cook.

And in between the list, they showed slapstick footage from some of the movies shot with monkeys in costumes instead of people.

I wonder what hot chicks will be there.

But this list is full of testosterone.

 

[thee great one]

So the official release date for the DVD and Blu-Ray is December 9th.

It is available for order on Amazon using the UC store.

 

[DIrishB]

Definitely agreed. I think it's incredibly unlikely it would break the top 50, and it definitely wouldn't hit the top 20.

:roll: It's like Spike TV put out a greatest films list. Sponsored by amp'd energy drink, and hosted by Dane Cook.

And in between the list, they showed slapstick footage from some of the movies shot with monkeys in costumes instead of people.

:lol:

Satire is your forte.

 

[Langsta]

Three things. From imdb's trivia and FAQ.

1) This movie made more money than Batman Begins' entire domestic run in only 6 days of release.
2) The 9-minute suite composed for the Joker is based around two notes - D and C.
3) When Batman is analyzing the fingerprints in his lab, he narrows it down to four names and eventually chooses Melvin White. Melvin White is not seen in the film, but his address was on the procession route for the funeral march. White is originally believed to be the Joker's civilian identity, until Bruce arrives at his apartment and finds the Joker's trap (he thought that the Joker must have pulled the trigger when he was analyzing the fingerprints on the bullets). So Melvin White must have been one of the Joker's henchmen?

 

[Planet-man]

2) The 9-minute suite composed for the Joker is based around two notes - D and C.

Most pieces like that are, aren't they?

Melvin White is actually a really good name for this version of the Joker. I was kind of disappointed when they debunked that. Also, though.... couldn't they have just immeadiately ran the prints and brought up the guy's mugshot and seen he wasn't the Joker? Plothole?

 

[Random]

No score nominations for TDK. I don't see how the number of names makes a difference, doesn't that only mean a few more people standing their during the acceptance?

In other news TDK isa playing at my school this weekend. **** yeah!

:rockon:

:rockon:

:rockon:

 

[Bass]

How rubbish. This is like Johnny Greenwood not getting the oscar for his score to THERE WILL BE BLOOD. He used some riffs from previous music he himself wrote. That's like denying a best screenplay oscar on the basis that the writer has a character with the same name or say the same line. Bull****.

 

[Langsta]

He used some riffs from previous music he himself wrote.

Same thing happened to Nino Rota, who scored the original Godfather. His score was removed at the last minute from the list of nominees when it was discovered that he had used the same theme in Eduardo de Filippo's 1958 comedy, Fortunella. Fortunella's theme had the same melody as Godfather's "love theme," though it was played in a brisk, staccato, comedic style. Thus, it was deemed ineligible for an Oscar in 1972.

Nevertheless, Part II won an Oscar for "Best Original Score" in 1974, even though it featured the same love theme that made the 1972 score ineligible.

 

[Random]

Still awesome

 

[Gothamite]

Don't really care that much about The Dark Knight score, to be honest. The Joker's theme obviously ruled the school, but everything else was pretty standard. Batman's theme is amazing also, but it was under-used and that's from the first movie, anyway.

The Batman Begins theme easily deserved an Oscar as it was the most ambitious and radical superhero score since Superman.

 

[Planet-man]

I agree that the BB score deserved at least a nomination, but in lieu of it I'd have really liked this one to get nominated. I've actually gone and listened to the soundtrack a fair bit, and.... it still deserves a nomination. Ironically, I think my only gripe is that the Joker's theme, while good, should've been more interesting. It was a reversal of the main Batman theme, but the Batman theme is always so exciting while the Joker one just took forever.

 

[Fredrik Martinsson]

On November 7th, 2008, Batman Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan began looking into legal possibilities toward suing Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and Warner Bros., distributor of the films, for naming infringement and "placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film's success has had on the city's inhabitants."

....Idiots!

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman,_Turkey
http://www.variety.com/VR1117995653.html

 

[Dr.Strangefate]

The best part is that Batman, Turkey wasn't properly established until 1955, a full sixteen years after the first appearance of the real Batman....

So they REALLY have nothing here.

 

[Bass]

:arrgh:

 

[Planet-man]

:arrgh:

Hey, don't take it too hard. America foils you foreigners all the time. I'm sure you guys'll have cooked up a new scheme soon enough.:wink:

:shifty:

 

[DARKKNIGHT]

Hey, don't take it too hard. America foils you foreigners all the time. I'm sure you guys'll have cooked up a new scheme soon enough.:wink:

:shifty:

haha. god damn foreigners. :lol:

 

[Bass]

Hey, don't take it too hard. America foils you foreigners all the time. I'm sure you guys'll have cooked up a new scheme soon enough.:wink:

:shifty:

haha. god damn foreigners. :lol:

When did you guys become Cartman?! :lol:

 

[DIrishB]

When did you guys become Cartman?! :lol:

:lol:

I can totally picture him delivering those lines.

:lol:

 

[Gothamite]