The Dark Knight Discussion **CONTAINS SPOILERS**

[Salhus]

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Well, recently the Academy have favored more entertaining movies over the typical "Academy" movies.

Ex. Departed-LOTR-Crash-No Country

[Miles_Yuhas]

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Well, recently the Academy have favored more entertaining movies over the typical "Academy" movies.

Ex. Departed-LOTR-Crash-No Country

LOTR I think is the only one of that list that you can compare The Dark Knight at the Oscars. The Departed, Crash, and No Country for Old Men are all real world dramas that do win oscars.

Unfortunatly, I don't think that The Dark Knight has a chance to win best picture. Personally, I think its the best movie of the year that I have seen, but its a comic book movie, and those movies just don't win oscars. I think its possible that we see a nomination though.

I think Heath Ledger has a very good shot at winning for supporting actor however.

[jmood88]

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The reason comic book movies don't win awards is because they usually aren't that good, not because of some bias towards that type of movie.

[dossier]

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However the Academy has always looked more into real world dramas.

But my counter argument to that is the new Batman series has done a great job of making these movies so incredibly realistic. There really isn't a scene in each movie that I think couldn't be done by the guy next to me.

[Salhus]

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The reason comic book movies don't win awards is because they usually aren't that good, not because of some bias towards that type of movie.

Well put

[Miles_Yuhas]

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The reason comic book movies don't win awards is because they usually aren't that good, not because of some bias towards that type of movie.

I think the academy looks at real world dramas more, not saying they should but i think they do, but you right it also has something to do with the quality of the films.

The thing that The Dark Knight has to its advantage is that it doesn't feel like a comic book movie by any means.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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[Salhus]

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Wow

[Jukeman]

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LOL boy do I miss NES

[ThreeKing]

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Just saw this movie last night for the first time.

It is ****ing incredible.

[thaima1shu]

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Just saw this movie last night for the first time.

It is ****ing incredible.

Yup.

[Blzer]

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By the way, I never did get back to commenting about re-seeing it in IMAX.

It turns out that I noticed the "edge-enhancement" for the 35mm shots on the IMAX screen too, which leads me to believe that it was something they did so it didn't look so blurry on the screen. It all makes sense now, and I no longer blame Warner for "messing up the Blu-ray."

I do however still claim EE, and hope that a BD re-release makes it so the non-IMAX shots are of the same source they used for regular movie theaters. That way it's a clean picture, untouched from the beginning.

[MattUMD224]

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i just watched the movie for the 1000000000000000 time and it finally has pissed me off on how the background and locations and the city are completely different from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, it bother me at first but more i watch it it pisses me off but it still my favorite movie

I just read The Long Halloween to, everyone should read this book as it is what The Dark Knight is made after

[Blzer]

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The thing about the background is it's a completely different part of Gotham City. You even see in Batman Begins in that one shot that shows all of Gotham (isn't it when Wayne is flying home?) that it is indeed the same city, which is Chicago... but the part that we're focused on in BB is in the Narrows and at Wayne Manor. We don't really get too many shots of deep in the city. However, I will give you that there are some differences, such as no monorail and Wayne Tower being in a different building.

At the same time, I didn't like the CG looks of the Narrows and such, as well as the dark, foggy look on the ground. I just prefer how it is in TDK, especially since we get shots of a normal city like Hong Kong. It would be a weird transition going from that one look to another.

And funny, I was actually going to bump this thread and say that this movie is on HBO now (I don't mean this second, but it's now aired on the package). According to Comcast's schedule, it will at least be on there until the end of the month.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Already seen it twice on HBO

One of the rare flicks I can watch over and over