darealvelle
Real Talk
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What were you thinking/feeling the first time you watched "The Dark Knight"??
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darealvelle
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I was in fukking awe at how BRILLIANT it was a film, not just a Batman movie. Heath Ledger really gave the performance of a lifetime, not even butter-faced Maggie Gyllenhall could bring down the greatness of this film experience.
One of my all time favorite movie watching experiences is the moment where Batman is chasing Joker on the bat-cycle and does that FLIP off the wall. The WHOLE crowd in unison had theface it was THE perfect movie moment.
Bruh i promise you, i stood the fukk right up my seat and saluted the screen after that piff wall flip happened. nikkas was dapping each other after that scene lol. That movie experience was such surreal.
i was 
the whole time
by the last third of the movie i was low-key trying to capture ledgers joker voice to use in impersonations
used to freak people the fukk out with that shyt
why they so serious though?
the whole timeby the last third of the movie i was low-key trying to capture ledgers joker voice to use in impersonations
used to freak people the fukk out with that shyt
why they so serious though?
CarbonBraddock
You will be trolled
Thought Batman Begins was 
at the time, but went to see every comic movie with a friend and his brother. Hadn't seen anything about TDK. When we got there, the line was like 3 blocks long and we waited in line for a good hour. There was people there dressed up like batman and some phaggot in front of us was painted up like the joker and i was like wtf is this retard supposed to be? Movie was all the way off the chain brehs. When that final monologue went off, i sat there staring at the screen. Everyone was clapping and shyt, but that shyt completely blew my mind.
at the time, but went to see every comic movie with a friend and his brother. Hadn't seen anything about TDK. When we got there, the line was like 3 blocks long and we waited in line for a good hour. There was people there dressed up like batman and some phaggot in front of us was painted up like the joker and i was like wtf is this retard supposed to be? Movie was all the way off the chain brehs. When that final monologue went off, i sat there staring at the screen. Everyone was clapping and shyt, but that shyt completely blew my mind.
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Me and my cousin were hardcore fans of the 89 batman so we saw that flick anytime we could
Yaboysix
That nikka
How the fukk joker pays his henchmen ...when he isn't killing them of course ..the nikka Burns comas!! The fukk!!
Killigraphy
Banned
At Bale's killing of Batman via growling like a mad dog. As for Ledgers Joker? meh, it felt more like the Anarchist than it did the Joker, Nolan missed the whole point of having the Joker wear makeup and being the only clean looking motherfukker in that universe. Still a great fukking film, dovetailing off of Batman Returns, to be fair, it seemed like Nolan was really just phoning it in. It was never his wheelhouse, but the fact that he made a trilogy that bad ass was enough for me accept his "Nolanverse" changes.
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
he was serious with his approach to the franchise he wanted to show how someone like that could really exist, Joker was clean with his swag custom made (now if the coat, the vest the pants and the socks were all black id wear that sh1t
),but at the end of the day that is joker, hes there to spread anarchy and fukk with peoples minds like the devil, he talked his way out of harvey dent killing his ass. (not only that he was responsible for successfully driving him insane, like the joker tried to do in the killing joke with gordon)His goons were former inmates of arkham, loony and unstable, a bunch of potato heads from a funny farm, he just knew how to manipulate them into doing his bidding, "The boss said he'd take away the voices and replace them with bright lights! Like Christmas!"
Killigraphy
Banned
he was serious with his approach to the franchise he wanted to show how someone like that could really exist, Joker was clean with his swag custom made (now if the coat, the vest the pants and the socks were all black id wear that sh1t
His goons were former inmates of arkham, loony and unstable, a bunch of potato heads from a funny farm, he just knew how to manipulate them into doing his bidding, "The boss said he'd take away the voices and replace them with bright lights! Like Christmas!"
Except that its a fictional universe with over the top characters. You can't halfway step into the supernatural aspect (blue rose) and then step right back out and expect the audience to believe that you want a "realistic" take on it. Bane was super powered (punches through a stone column) yet you want us to believe that its all grounded in a tinge of reality? No thank you, either stick to your guns and make it all grounded or leave the supernatural alone. Truth is, he doesn't like doing monsters/magic, he's said this himself, so tacking on universe with a character like Bane was pretty dumb.
Its like he tried to appease the fans by adding a somewhat quasi supernatural feel to characters like Scarecrow, Bane, Ra's, but takes a hard turn into the Nolanverse, which is fine for some aspects, but that was no Joker. More like The Anarchist. The Joker is the Yin to Batmans Yang, while Bruce loves anything dark, and brooding, the joker represents color and humor. Nolans color themes of "always gray" was lost on the Joker, he made him an anarchist with a bad makeup job, as opposed to a calculating walking piece of Gotham's irony.
No one would like the Joker could ever exist, Nolan can try and peddle that notion off, but its just not feasible in the universe he decided to direct. Nothing and no one is grounded. They're super-villains, he sold the audience terrorists.
Dr. Narcisse
Veteran
I thought it was great. Very layered.
But still felt unsatisfied with how rushed the Two Face plot line was.
Also, felt that I watched one of the greatest performances ever by an actor(Heath Ledger), but still wasnt sure if that was "The Joker"
But still felt unsatisfied with how rushed the Two Face plot line was.
Also, felt that I watched one of the greatest performances ever by an actor(Heath Ledger), but still wasnt sure if that was "The Joker"
I went after the day it came out the day it did come out cars outside the movie theater was packed i 
when Joker told Gordon "does it depress you to know just how alone you really are" that line made the movie for me
when Joker told Gordon "does it depress you to know just how alone you really are" that line made the movie for me
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
luckily in the new arkham game, it just isnt two faces bad side talking the whole time, he has a split personality , he has his harvey dent voice and his two face voice
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Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
that's my city
why bale taking like that when he batman
this movie dopestill think Jack was better but
@ heaths performance
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
its heightened reality like what he did with the prestige, banes seige on gotham was like watching genghis khan, the blue rose emits a toxic fear inducing hallucinagen which later becomes more science fiction than supernatural, Bruce doesn't enjoy brooding or the dark atmosphere he just knows its a world he was thrust into the moment his parents were killed, he chooses the dark because no one else will. How was The joker never about anarchy? for all we know he could have been a good man once like in the killing joke, he alludes to the idea that all it takes is one bad day to drive the sanest man alive into a maniac, the irony is that he tells the truth even when he lies, and nobody ever wants to accept the cold hard truth, because its actually frightening and cruel, thats how the joker see's the world and wonders why we dont see it and why we arent laughing or "getting the joke", he doesnt break it down for us in simpler terms because thats like having to explain a joke and when you do that the joke is never funny. Comedians are always about the truth, because they show us how fukked up shyt is.
your saying the heath ledger joker isnt capable of doing this like in the comics?
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