At the Marbles Kid Museum in Raleigh. That’s three times now that I’ve seen The Dark Knight.
So I guess there really is no excuse anymore for not having a review up already, is there? 🙂
Think I finally “get” this film now. Write-up coming later today....
Still working on my review of The Dark Knight, but it should be up later today. Part of the reason for the delay was that I’ve been so gosh-darned busy since it came out, what with crossing the country (and I didn’t even see The Dark Knight in my own, mind ya). And also ‘cuz I needed some time to really “suss” things out about this movie.
In the meantime though, I cast your attention to Andrew Klavan, writing for The Wall Street Journal, and he asserts that The Dark Knight proves that Batman and George W. Bush are practically one and the same. In short…
...“The Dark Knight,” then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year’s “300,” “The Dark Knight” is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for
Just days before The Dark Knight opens in theaters, now comes word that none other than Michael Bay wrote a script for the sequel to 2005’s hit movie Batman Begins. However as everyone no doubt knows, it was rejected by Warner Brothers. How would The Joker have been treated in Bay’s hands? Check out the leaked pages on The Spill.com!
And special thanks to Nathan for passing it along 🙂...
In the words of Geoff Gentry who first passed along word of this: “Get your debit card ready.”
iTunes has just added the DC Comics Collection to its vast video library. You can now purchase and download the first several episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond and Superman: The Animated Series. It’s also got Max Fleischer’s animated Superman shorts from the 1940s, the first season of The Adventures of Superman starring George Reeve, the first season of Super Friends and the complete 2008 Aquaman series. Geoff adds that hopefully iTunes will soon add Justice League and I heartily concur.
But in the meantime, if you’ve never watched “Heart of Ice”, the episode that first hurtled Batman: The Animated Series to critical acclaim, you can now enjoy it for two bucks via iTunes. And as soon as they make “Apokolips… Now!” Parts 1 and 2 from Superman: ...
This may be the greatest trailer for a comic book movie ever. I’ve never seen two and a half minutes of live footage so perfectly capture the tone and essence of a graphic novel.
Not much more to say about it, other than click here for the new The Dark Knight trailer.
Thanks to Phillip Arthur for the heads-up!
EDIT 1:10 p.m. EST: I would never have believed it, but they actually put Harvey Dent after his transformation into Two-Face in this trailer. You see it at 2:03 into the thing. Here’s a pic…
You can barely see some grisly scarring on the left side of his face, and looks like his suit is radically different on that side also....
Before I go into the main topic of this post, I’ve just got to say that this…
…even without knowing any of the context, is already the most disturbing image I’ve ever seen connected to a comic book movie.
The word came out last week that The Dark Knight, the follow-up to 2005’s hit Batman Begins, has started screening to test audiences. And there’s one scene in there that’s extremely upsetting in the wake of the death of Heath Ledger, who plays Batman’s nemesis the Joker in the film. Apparently the scene involves (SPOILER: highlight with mouse to read) the Joker “playing dead” and laying in a body bag (END SPOILER). The scene in question is reportedly so disturbing to watch, that Warner execs had seriously been considering having it cut from the final movie entirely. It’s now being reported by Moviehole.net that Ledger’s scene will...
Merry Christmas y’all! We’re having a great time here at the Knight homestead today! Last night I deep-fried up some turkeys, have hooked up with a lot of family and friends, and Santa brought all kinds of good loot this year! More on that in the next few days.
Anyhoo, here’s something that I found on YouTube, that I thought was too good not to share here during Christmas. Here is, “‘Twas the Dark Knight Before Christmas”…
Well, looks like I get to go out on a good note tonight after all!
Check out this incredible still of Heath Ledger as the Joker from The Dark Knight…
(from The Dark Knight teaser)
And there’s a dozen more or so floating around out there right now. Here’s where I first found them on Ain’t It Cool News but if they get hit with a cease & desist then you’ll know what to look for ‘cuz it’s all over the blogosphere tonight anyway 🙂...
You won’t buh-leeeve what it took an army of geeks – both online and in the real world at Comic-Con in San Diego – to find that image. Read this article and the associated talkback on Ain’t It Cool News for an idea of what went down in the last little while.
Other than the fact that it looks like the whiteface is painted on instead of his skin being bleached white, I really like this look for Heath Ledger as the Joker. So far, it’s looking good for next summer’s The Dark Knight.
Oh and I might be able to post a link to a Quicktime teaser for the movie soon too … if I can find the right link.
EDIT 12:36 a.m. 07-28-2007: The teaser is up at whysoserious.com, the link that started this twisted scavenger hunt. Thanks to Phillip Arthur for spotting it!...
About 36 hours ago on Friday night I posted about some of the developments that came out this past week about The Dark Knight: next year’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins. One of the things I posted was that great “Harvey Dent for District Attorney” graphic. And I closed out the post by saying “Now if only a really good picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker could turn up somewhere…”
I had no idea this was coming. Honest, folks. It was a crazy coincidence…
…’cuz this past day or so the publicity gang for The Dark Knight has been doing something very, very crafty. Yesterday another website turned up at ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com. When that page loaded, this is what you got:
And after a few seconds, that graphic started “peeling away” pixel by pixel, like so:
The page has fill-in forms where you enter your e-mail address ...