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Rating: 8.5 stars

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All movies seen on 07/07/2020

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The Dark Knight (2008)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Action | Crime | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, GMOM65, ashe5k, jeneot33, lordofthemovies, SIxBORG, phixed, Javitron, seanCduregger, themarc

Overview

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Rated PG-13 | Length 152 minutes

Actors

Christian Bale | Heath Ledger | Aaron Eckhart | Michael Caine | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Gary Oldman | Morgan Freeman | Monique Gabriela Curnen | Ron Dean | Cillian Murphy | Chin Han | Nestor Carbonell | Eric Roberts | Ritchie Coster | Anthony Michael Hall | Keith Szarabajka | Colin McFarlane | Joshua Harto | Melinda McGraw | Nathan Gamble | Michael Vieau | Michael Stoyanov | William Smillie | Danny Goldring | Michael Jai White | Matthew O'Neill | William Fichtner | Olumiji Olawumi | Greg Beam | Erik Hellman | Beatrice Rosen | Vincenzo Nicoli | Edison Chen | Nydia Rodriguez Terracina | Andy Luther | James Farruggio | Tom McElroy | Will Zahrn | James Fierro | Patrick Leahy | Sam Derence | Jennifer Knox | Patrick Clear | Sarah Jayne Dunn | Charles Venn | Winston G. Ellis | David Dastmalchian | Sophia Hinshelwood | Keith Kupferer | Joseph Luis Caballero | Richard Dillane | Daryl Satcher | Chris Petschler | Aidan Feore | Philip Bulcock | Paul Birchard | Walter Lewis | Vincent Riotta | Nancy Crane | K. Todd Freeman | Matt Shallenberger | Michael Andrew Gorman | Lanny Lutz | Peter DeFaria | Matt Rippy | Andrew Bicknell | Ariyon Bakare | Doug Ballard | Helene Wilson | Tommy Campbell | Craig Heaney | Lorna Gayle | Lisa McAllister | Peter Brooke | Joshua Rollins | Dale Rivera | Matthew Leitch | Tom Lister Jr. | Thomas Gaitsch | William Armstrong | Adam Kalesperis | Tristan Tait | Bronson Webb | David Ajala | Gertrude Kyles | Jonathan Ryland | James Scales | Nigel Carrington | Ian Pirie | Lateef Lovejoy | Grahame Edwards | Roger Monk | Ronan Summers | Wai Wong | Michael Corey Foster | Hannah Gunn | Brandon Lambdin | Matt Skiba | Jon Lee Brody | Debbi Burns | Maritza Cabrera | Shirin Caiola | Laura Chernicky | Henry Milton Chu | Kelli Clevenger | Richard Divizio | Tony Domino | David Fultz | Natalie Hallam | Jordon Hodges | Erron Jay | Nicky Katt | Thomas Kosik | Don Kress | Tim Krueger | Dan Latham | Tom McComas | James Mellor | Joseph Oliveira | Buster Reeves | Peter Rnic | Amit Shah | Michelle Shields | Sofiya Smirnova | Bruce Spielbauer | Robert Patrick Stern | Robert Stone | Richard Strobel | Tom Townsend | John Turk | John Warman | Chris Wilson | Kevin Zaideman | Rob Clark | Craig Braginsky | Mike Whyte | Tina Simmons | Rick Avery

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

Back at York Theatre in Elmhurst for this on the new XQ Laser projection screen. Free screening, too, since I used my Classic Cinemas card I got last week. Curious if my opinion will improve seeing this a decade later.

Note: including me there are 3 ppl in this theater. Two are together sitting 3 rows in front of me (these are deep rows due to the recliners; probably 4ft from my legs to the seat in front of me). Ideal situation for me but probably not the cinema.*

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So many thoughts about this but the one that stood out the most is how awesome it is to see downtown Chicago on the big screen in this movie after having worked in the Loop recently for 4 years. This is the first time I’ve viewed this movie since then and it’s just wild to recognize so many familiar spots like the semi truck setpiece on LaSalle with Batman driving up the Board of Trade to turn his motorbike (BoT is no longer Wayne Enterprises in this movie which was odd). Wayne’s penthouse is where we hosted a private conference for our clients so that was neat to see (was Hilton now Royal Sonesta). So many things like that.

I still dislike the 4th and 5th acts. Which sours so much of the good stuff before it. Love the opening and all the supporting players. Forgot how much of a meaty role Eric Roberts has (yes, adding this to my ERITFM project). For some reason I always thought the Joker died. What happened to him?

Yeah that fifth act ferry shenanigans is terrible. The epilogue that follows is terrible.  But Heath Ledger is at another level. A fucking tragedy we lost him so young.

* update: got home and read that Classic Cinemas is closing in two days bc this model is unsustainable given the costs to maintain the theaters with no new movies releases. I’m not surprised by this bc 1) ppl are not flocking to theater to see these titles (Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, ET, etc) and 2) there’s often more employees at the theater than patrons (from my visits). Like I mentioned before, the situation was ideal for me, having a whole theater to myself, but not ideal for the cinema. Ah well. It was nice to see a few films and not stress about the virus.

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