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Kumicho wrote:
I'm going to go ahead and say this will probably be better than Iron Man, long runtime and all...

And I think several people would agree with you, A... here's all the advance reviews I could round up thus far, all of them positively glowing:

Rolling Stone (3.5 out of 4)
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/mov ... ark_knight

AICN #1
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37214

Filmfocus.nl(5 out of 5 stars)
http://www.filmfocus.nl/specials/item3.php?id=10309

MovieBlog(8.5 out of 10)
http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/06/the ... ght-review

MovieBlog's Video Review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3MaCvXE5KA

AP Press-David Germain
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_ ... first_look

KTLA.com
http://blogs.ktla.com/ktlamorningnews/2 ... m-sam.html

MTV
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles ... tory.jhtml

Collider.com
http://www.collider.com/entertainment/n ... 335/tcid/1

Emmanuellevy.com (Rated A)
http://emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=10176

Rope of Silicon
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/dark ... review/655

Comic Book Resources
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=17013

Melbourne Herald Sun
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 02,00.html

Kevin Smith's Blog
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/29/kev ... iri-photo/

AICN #2 (Moriarity's Review - Beware Spoilers in the later paragraphs)
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37285

IGN(5/5 or 10/10)
http://movies.ign.com/articles/884/884876p1.html

Acidic Insight
http://sans777.wordpress.com/

Newsarama
http://www.newsarama.com/film/080630-da ... eview.html

Garth Franklin at Dark Horizons can't post a review yet, but he did say that the movie was a masterpiece.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080630j.php

http://www.batman-on-film.com/batmovienews.html
"My friends -- my Batman brethren -- it’s a classic. I was flat-out speechless during the entire closing credits and I wasn’t the only one who lost their capacity to talk.
Props to ALL involved. But I've got to give out a "Hell Yeah!" to Jonah Nolan, David Goyer, and Chris Nolan for writing one HELL of a story and script.
My review is forthcoming, so stay tuned. But I will say that THE DARK KNIGHT moved me -- as a Batman fan -- in a way that I’ve never experienced in my life.
My eyes welled up and y’all can laugh if you want. But your’s will too very soon…"- Jett

-Thanks go to the original posters!

A consistent theme among the reviews is at the very least a posthumous Oscar nomination for Ledger. More than one or two of the reviews consider the film comparable to Heat in its hard-boiled action. Did I mention July 18th can't come soon enough? :D

This all sounds great! I'm stoked! And I'm not one to EVER use the word stoked! Here's a story on Leger run by the AP on Yahoo. Not sure if it goes right to it but click on his pic on the right and it'll take ya there.

In it you get a glimpse at how Harvey becomes Two-Face. Don't blink though!

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/8588877

Let's add another, shall we? This is yet another one that invokes the word "masterpiece".

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/01/ ... evolution/

"Not since Lord of the Rings: Return of the King five years ago in December of 2003, did I walk out of the theater so moved, so amazed, and so extraordinarily impacted by the movie I had just watched."

-Funny, b/c LOTR: ROTK was the last movie I saw in the theater that absolutely blew me away and it has since become my favorite movie of all time - neck and neck with The Godfather.

I'm getting giddy...

Well....no offense Ne0....I love ya man but I hope this isn't anything like those LoTR's movies. Those movies are a cure for insomnia for me. I think I'm a minority of one on that but man were those movies boring. Maybe if I grew up reading the books I'd like em more.

darklighter1 wrote:Well....no offense Ne0....I love ya man but I hope this isn't anything like those LoTR's movies. Those movies are a cure for insomnia for me. I think I'm a minority of one on that but man were those movies boring. Maybe if I grew up reading the books I'd like em more.

None taken, dark! :) I realize they're not for everybody.. but I love my movies long, epic, and visually stunning. I'm sure TDK will be a completely different type of epic though.

Just out of curiosity Jig, what issues did you have with Batman Begins..? Considering what the franchise was prior to, I found it hard to find fault in it, lol...