OT- The Dark Knight

[Reeferhead]

Saw it at midnight on Thursday. Best comic book movie I've ever seen, one of the best crime dramas ever, and easily in my top ten of all time. Ledger was crazy sadistic, he should get an Oscar.

 

[breutus]

Can you get an Oscar once your dead??? don't they just do a tribute?

 

[capncapo]

Yes, you can.

1. Sidney Howard (Oscar in 1940)

Sidney Howard, the playwright and screenwriter, receives the first-ever Oscar awarded to a dead person. He wins it for Gone with the Wind , shortly after being crushed to death by a tractor on his hobby farm.

2. Peter Finch (1977)

The late Peter Finch is named Best Actor for his barnstorming performance as a TV news anchorman in Network (pictured above). He is the first performer ever to be Oscar-honoured after his death (by heart attack, two months before the awards ceremony).

3. Conrad L Hall (2003)

Cameraman Conrad L Hall becomes the Academy's latest posthumous honoree, and the last to date, winning the Best Cinematography Oscar for The Road to Perdition .

4. Those who came close

Actress Jeanne Eagels died of substance abuse, aged 35, before becoming the first-ever posthumous Oscar nominee in 1930, named for Best Supporting Actress in The Letter (1929). In 1955, James Dean (pictured below, in Giant) died in a car crash before being nominated as Best Actor in two successive years, 1956 and 1957, for East of Eden (1955) and Giant ( 1956). Spencer Tracy was favourite to win Best Actor in 1968, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) , despite - or sentimentally because of - the illness-ravaged star's death after the film's completion.

5. Heath Ledger (2009?)

Heath Ledger mania begins, ensured a long run since The Dark Knight opens some seven months ahead of Hollywood's envelope-opening hoopla. In a role darkened by the shadow of Jack Nicholson (the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman ), Ledger receives effulgent praise from the media and even Dark Knight co-actors.

 

[breutus]

thank you capo, and in that case I hope he does it is certianly well deserved for that role!

 

[maxxII]

Seriously amazing movie. My wife loved it, Ledger was AWESOME as the Joker. I think he's probably going to take best supporting actor for this role.

Nick

 

[Nanook]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12980225#post12980225 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Markk96
You are old and crusty and sound just like my father used to.

Thanks for the compliment

 

[Nanook]

Page 2 Baby

 

[Markk96]

no problem.

 

[kimsie]

WOW - ok - I just saw The Dark Knight last night and I think it may just be the best movie ever made... Ledger was unbelievable - but so was Christian Bale!!!

Just great all around - I can't wait to go see it again! They play it at the Imax? I'm going to have to check that out!

 

[Nanook]

I thought Ledger's performance was astounding. Unfortunately, the rest of the acting paled in comparison The movie kind of gets lost along the way and lacks cohesiveness, I was getting bored towards the end wondering when it would be over.

Granted, I am older than the average people seeing the movie were though

 

[logiktest]

I thought the performance given by Aaron Eckhart was noteworthy. I also had a hard time trying to figure out when the movie was in full climax. I thought it all meshed together well though, being such a long movie (150 minutes?). I would love to see it again soon.

 

[maxxII]

I was getting bored towards the end wondering when it would be over.

I think you have attention defic.....ohhh look a bird!

*runs off*

Nick

 

[Nanook]

My friend thought the same as I did

 

[chadfarmer]

we went and seen it I thought it was a great movie

I have to go see it again. I know I missed a part

 

[Reefer Wannabe]

I loved the movie, but was anyone else annoyed by Batman's "tough guy" voice?

 

[levon15]

I had notcied that during the movie but put it behind me until you mentioned it.

HAs Batman always changed his voice to something scruffy while wearing the suit?

 

[logiktest]

Yes... Well at least in the Tim Burton version.