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Permalink Reply by Leadpipe on July 20, 2008 at 8:23am

Much agreed. I've had to go out of my way to find a bad review of it.
Christopher Nolan is the sort of cat you can trust with a $150 million budget. You know it's coming back in spades.

It is an incredible movie. I think it has to do with the precarious moral dilemma that everyone is put in. As well, you understand in a deep and significant way why the villains act the way they do. It isn't a single event and they turn on a dime, the movie shows you how these villains think they're right.

Beautiful movie.

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Permalink Reply by Ron C on July 20, 2008 at 8:41am

Yea you nailed it. Just done on the money, even if you were not a Batman fan, you would be after theses 2 moivies. They are really taking the Dark night Batman CB and making come to life, and not making all goofy like the past movies.

Yes the Villains thinking. Your not kidding...

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Permalink Reply by MosesMonster on July 20, 2008 at 10:33pm

Agreed Agreed AGREED! This movie gets under your skin because it presents itself as a serious noir crime drama instead of your typical Comic-Book Movie. It takes the franchise in a new direction that is much appriciated by its fans and the new comers who know nothing about the characters. Its a hit on the nail for everyone I believe and will stand the test of time.

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Permalink Reply by thwipp on July 21, 2008 at 3:23am

haven't seen it yet but i thought 'batman begins' pretty much blew goats, deluxe. bale's been the best bruce wayne but other than him playing 'bruce wayne' (not batman), i thought the rest pretty much sucked. i will say this new one intrigued me when i saw pix and clips of the joker. very creepy but in a cool way.

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Permalink Reply by mr. dobbers on July 21, 2008 at 1:04pm

Watchmen will be 10 times better.

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Permalink Reply by Leadpipe on July 21, 2008 at 1:57pm

I hope you're right.

I don't think you will be, but I hope you're right.

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Permalink Reply by Ron C on July 21, 2008 at 2:33pm

What is that about?

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Permalink Reply by Leadpipe on July 21, 2008 at 3:13pm

The Watchmen is probably the best graphic novel of all time. Written by Alan Moore (V for Vendetta) and drawn by Dave Gibbons.

Though Alan Moore has had his name removed from the project. It still looks wicked sweet.

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Permalink Reply by I'll-turn-native on July 21, 2008 at 1:29pm

I just saw the movie two nights ago and I am still going through debates of moral ambiguity in my head. Although I can say that it is the Batman film that I like the best, it is taking the francise to a new level of realism that the others never came close to. The way I see it, the older Batman movies were on a different level and could not seriously be compared to this one in its depth, in the same sense that the new Bond films are very different from the classy-but-hokey Sean Connery originals.

I can say that there was a lot of alliteration to what is going on in the US today politically. Without giving too much a spoiler, questions of torture, illegal wiretapping, terrorism (who is the terrorist?), serveillance, suspension of freedoms, and even globalization and international accountability and soverignty were addressed.

I did find it funny the question of the joker, a soldier dies in Iraq, a child starves in the streets, that is all part of the status quo; but murder an elite at home, and everybody goes crazy. I wonder why that is.

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