Well Batman doesn’t change who he is and Joker doesn’t change who he is, but somebody needed to have an arc.

everything about Joker just works in TDK, but the part that really gets me is the noisy hum in the music whenever he’s on screen, it’s unnatural and a bit disturbing. in the theater I was just about squirming in my seat when was at the party mid way through the film becuase his presence on screen was just so…

That little shuffle away from the hospital! So good.

I gotta be honest; I’ve never really been convinced by this kind of deconstruction. I mean, I get why people do it, why people feel the need to dig into characters like Batman and see what makes then tick and question them. But frankly, questioning whether Gotham City really needs Batman or whether he does more harm…

Heath Ledger delivers a really great performance, but the Joker also makes the biggest impression because it seems like he’s pranking the self serious movie around him. It’s a clever touch, like having Bugs Bunny show up every few minutes.

He was doing the voice in Batman Begins - plenty of people were making fun of it in 2005 ("SWEAR TO MEEEE!"). 

The Dark Knight is no more responsible for crap like the Snyderverse (come at me) than Star Wars is for the glut of tiresome imitator space movies from the 1980s, or Nirvana is for the entirety of late 90s rock. Innovators are not responsible for imitators.

It’s not Nolan’s fault the DC universe failed.

After 13 years of memes and bad impressions, we should all be sick of him.

As is pointed out in the article, the MCU went with a different tone from The Dark Knight and was hugely successful.

I recently rewatched ‘The Dark Knight’, and even prepared myself to think that nostalgia and hype had done its work on me and I wouldn’t enjoy Ledger’s Joker as much. Nope. It really is a great example of a director and actor absolutely getting a character. The scariness, the gleeful chaos, the unpredictability that…

the close-quarters fight scenes in last year’s Tenet might be the first truly effective ones that Nolan has ever staged.

I think Crystal Skull’s problem is that it’s kind of forgettable compared to the other three movies. Like, Temple of Doom has Indy basically survive jumping out of an airplane by sledding down the Himalayas in a life raft, that entire dinner sequence, and Mola Ram ripping out a dude’s heart while he’s still alive…

Crystal Skull is the kind of movie that works gangbusters in the theater when you first see it, but curdles in memory. Our theater, too, cheered and laughed at all the expected places (including me!) but the more I thought about the movie afterward, the more hollow it seemed.

I think one thing that I like is the main theme where it asks wether or not a vigilante like Batman is something Gotham really needs and, more or less, admits that he really shouldn’t be.

if this was a real opera (meaning; a 3 hour opera), most people know their stuff and it takes like 3 years to put an opera on, so if someone gets sick and comes in to sing the role it’s considered amazing that they can “learn” the material quickly/within a week or whatever. This is just a song cycle for the most part.…

My wife is terrible for snooping on my phone. I’ve never done anything to even remotely suggest I’m up to no good; rather, she doesn’t trust other people. So she looks on my phone to see if I’ve had messages from other women looking to get lucky. Yeah, I know. Honestly, her logic utterly escapes me.

Savage Nobody probably would have been really into the idea of colorblindness if he had been exposed to it at a certain age as he is mixed half-white half-asian with a rather ambiguous* skin tone and got a lot of “what race are you?” questions when he was younger that led to him questioning how others perceived him…

I also haven’t been a fan of the way Dan frames it as the snooping becoming “retroactively justified.” It’s a violation whether or not the snooper finds something. It’s just that when they find something, that something is almost always a far greater violation that blows up the relationship, which makes the lesser…

This reminds me of those letters about people who caught their partner masturbating or found out they had a one night stand years earlier, in that, absent any other red flags, the thing you probably want to examine is why you’re so concerned about it.