Re: Sweet 16! OS Movie Madness DARK KNIGHT v EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
I'm sorry, but I didn't buy into the early hype of the movie, so don't assume this for everybody. I'm not at all a Batman fan outside of these movies (if anyone recalls, it took me months to entire the TDK thread because I didn't know that "The Dark Knight" was one of Batman's nicknames). I always knew that Two-Face was a villain of somebody's, but never knew that it was a man originally named Harvey Dent, and while Batman would have been my first guess I never knew for sure.
As for Ledger, I didn't know the guy too much. I knew that he was in Brokeback Mountain, I saw him in A Knight's Tale and 10 Things I Hate About You, but again, I had no feel for his death other than my initial interpretation of it being a suicide.
Again, I didn't buy into the hype like everyone else did. Before this movie, Christopher Nolan was already my favorite director (and IMO this is his worst directed movie of the five of his that I have seen) and Christian Bale was already my favorite actor. Combine that with how great Batman Begins was and the epic performance of Heath Ledger (again, didn't care before the movie, but I was floored after), I nearly shat myself at how great the movie was.
If I wanted to be "cool," I would love movies like Terminator, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars (speaking of which), and The Godfather. Sorry, there's nothing about these that make me think anything else about them other than they're simply "good" movies. I think The Godfather is possibly the best made movie in the 20th century, but I don't really like it that much.
So you can go on and assume what you must about people's views towards this movie, but IMO this movie would get 15/10 if Ledger were still alive (because it would work great for a sequel), so IMO his death hindered the rating of this movie for me. I don't know why people would like a movie more/go see a movie more because somebody died, but I would understand people hoping for a Posthumous award for him (not saying he'd deserve it necessarily, just that people would hope this is one's last chance and that they can prosper in the end).
Anyway, The Dark Knight is my favorite movie of all time. Preceding that was Lucky Number Slevin, then Saw, then Spider-Man 2, then Ocean's Eleven, then The Matrix... you see? I don't necessarily have my favorite movie as the "coolest" thing around (sometimes more than others), and I definitely won't let somebody talk me down into thinking otherwise about a movie. Say what you will, but know that you're not speaking for everybody in this poll.
I'm sorry, but I didn't buy into the early hype of the movie, so don't assume this for everybody. I'm not at all a Batman fan outside of these movies (if anyone recalls, it took me months to entire the TDK thread because I didn't know that "The Dark Knight" was one of Batman's nicknames). I always knew that Two-Face was a villain of somebody's, but never knew that it was a man originally named Harvey Dent, and while Batman would have been my first guess I never knew for sure.
As for Ledger, I didn't know the guy too much. I knew that he was in Brokeback Mountain, I saw him in A Knight's Tale and 10 Things I Hate About You, but again, I had no feel for his death other than my initial interpretation of it being a suicide.
Again, I didn't buy into the hype like everyone else did. Before this movie, Christopher Nolan was already my favorite director (and IMO this is his worst directed movie of the five of his that I have seen) and Christian Bale was already my favorite actor. Combine that with how great Batman Begins was and the epic performance of Heath Ledger (again, didn't care before the movie, but I was floored after), I nearly shat myself at how great the movie was.
If I wanted to be "cool," I would love movies like Terminator, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars (speaking of which), and The Godfather. Sorry, there's nothing about these that make me think anything else about them other than they're simply "good" movies. I think The Godfather is possibly the best made movie in the 20th century, but I don't really like it that much.
So you can go on and assume what you must about people's views towards this movie, but IMO this movie would get 15/10 if Ledger were still alive (because it would work great for a sequel), so IMO his death hindered the rating of this movie for me. I don't know why people would like a movie more/go see a movie more because somebody died, but I would understand people hoping for a Posthumous award for him (not saying he'd deserve it necessarily, just that people would hope this is one's last chance and that they can prosper in the end).
Anyway, The Dark Knight is my favorite movie of all time. Preceding that was Lucky Number Slevin, then Saw, then Spider-Man 2, then Ocean's Eleven, then The Matrix... you see? I don't necessarily have my favorite movie as the "coolest" thing around (sometimes more than others), and I definitely won't let somebody talk me down into thinking otherwise about a movie. Say what you will, but know that you're not speaking for everybody in this poll.
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