10 Years Later, Is Dark Knight Still The Best?

[Piff Perkins]

It's an entertaining film driven by a truly remarkable acting performance from Ledger, I enjoyed it in the theater...but repeat viewings made the flaws quite clear. Specifically the writing. The dialogue is often very ham fisted, on the nose, preachy, etc. It often doesn't feel like anything a real person would say. Especially Batman and Dent's lines.

Also I found the climax to be disappointing. Specially the boat shyt. Just...corny.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

12 Angry Men.

I'll always be grateful to my freshman year speech professor for putting me on to that one. I couldn't argue with that pick even if I wanted to

which version?

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

TDK and Winter Soldier are GREAT movies that just so happen to contain comic book characters ... that's why they good.. take away the face paint and costume and TDK is still an excellent movie..

 

[StraxStrax]

which version?

1957 but the remake is decent.

12 Angry Men is my fav. movie but its also a movie I'd liked to see remade every 5 years because its basically a play and can be made cheaply, like a TV special. The script is so good and it would be a good chance to see what actor can really do with dialogue alone. I've twice casted 12 Angry Men.

Spoiler

2013

2016

 

[MartyMcFly]

which version?

Original. She had us watch it as an illustration of persuasive speech.

I then gave a speech on why Spider-Man 2 was the greatest comic book movie ever

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

1957 but the remake is decent.

12 Angry Men is my fav. movie but its also a movie I'd liked to see remade every 5 years because its basically a play and can be made cheaply, like a TV special. The script is so good and it would be a good chance to see what actor can really do with dialogue alone. I've twice casted 12 Angry Men.

Original. She had us watch it as an illustration of persuasive speech.

I then gave a speech on why Spider-Man 2 was the greatest comic book movie ever

the original was just on about 2 weeks ago ... i caught it about half way when the room got hot .... then I searched dish for the replay and NONE..


I know showtime had the one in 1997 ...

I think Netflix or Amazon should do a new version

 

[hex]

It's an entertaining film driven by a truly remarkable acting performance from Ledger, I enjoyed it in the theater...but repeat viewings made the flaws quite clear. Specifically the writing. The dialogue is often very ham fisted, on the nose, preachy, etc. It often doesn't feel like anything a real person would say. Especially Batman and Dent's lines.

Also I found the climax to be disappointing. Specially the boat shyt. Just...corny.

I feel you on that but I don't really care if dialogue isn't "realistic" as long as, for lack of a better word, characters got BARS. I'm trying to hear some next level shyt....I can hear how regular people talk by going to the grocery store.

Fred.

 

[Versa]

The overrating of black panther is ridiculous. shyt ain't even been out a month.

I knew The Dark Knight was special after my second viewing while it was still in theaters. Same thing with Black Panther.

My top 5 is

1. The Dark Knight
2. Black Panther
3. Batman Begins
4. Captain America: Winter Soldier
5. Captain America: Civil War

I've seen TDK countless times and it still holds up, so it's gonna take more than 2 showings of BP for me to budge, but the movie is AMAZING.

The guy who said he hadn't enjoyed a movie as much as BP and wanted to see it again as eagerly since TDK, I feel that cuz it's exactly how I feel to a T.

I think it's overrated. Bale's Batman is hot trash. Heath Ledger carried that movie. I dug the first one more.

If Bale's Batman is trash, then why would you think the movie that focuses solely on him is better

 

[The War Report]

I knew The Dark Knight was special after my second viewing while it was still in theaters. Same thing with Black Panther.

My top 5 is

1. The Dark Knight
2. Black Panther
3. Batman Begins
4. Captain America: Winter Soldier
5. Captain America: Civil War

I've seen TDK countless times and it still holds up, so it's gonna take more than 2 showings of BP for me to budge, but the movie is AMAZING.

The guy who said he hadn't enjoyed a movie as much as BP and wanted to see it again as eagerly since TDK, I feel that cuz it's exactly how I feel to a T.



If Bale's Batman is trash, then why would you think the movie that focuses solely on him is better

It's all relative.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

Logan's the best.

 

[Versa]

Logan's the best.

I thought about replacing Civil War with Logan in my top 5, but as awesome as that film was, I didn't have the same desire to see it again like I did for those other movies.

 

[FlyRy]

Original. She had us watch it as an illustration of persuasive speech.

I then gave a speech on why Spider-Man 2 was the greatest comic book movie ever

I used to use jay-Z album titles for my papers in high school

S2 still top 5 for me

 

[MartyMcFly]

I used to use jay-Z album titles for my papers in high school

S2 still top 5 for me

Vol 2? I'm thinking of all the jay albums and I have no idea what S2 is lol

 

[FlyRy]

Spiderman 2

Vol 2? I'm thinking of all the jay albums and I have no idea what S2 is lol

 

[MartyMcFly]

Spiderman 2

my bad. had me on the jay-z wavelength. Yeah it's still really dope, despite how I feel about Tobey