Comments on: For Your Consideration: The Dark Knight

By: Happy Harry Potter Day Muggles! - Screen Rant

Happy Harry Potter Day Muggles! - Screen Rant — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:25 +0000

[...] even floating the notion that the film is worthy an Oscar Nom for Best Picture. Of course many said the same thing about The Dark Knight around this time last year – but now that the Academy has widened the Best [...]

By: 2009 Oscar Nominations & The Dark Knight - Screen Rant

2009 Oscar Nominations & The Dark Knight - Screen Rant — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:47:28 +0000

[...] the nominations seasons, Warner Brothers made a strong effort to market The Dark Knight for a big push at the Oscars – for 28 people in 15 different categories to be precise. While they [...]

By: Golden Globe Nominations: Little Love For The Dark Knight - Screen Rant

Golden Globe Nominations: Little Love For The Dark Knight - Screen Rant — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:35:30 +0000

[...] of the little gold guy, what do you think about The Dark Knight’s chances at the 2009 Academy Awards, now that you’ve seen the Golden Globe nominations? Do you agree with the list of nominees, [...]

By: High Kalibur

High Kalibur — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:49:33 +0000

@ Oscar!

Finally, someone agrees!

I think Bale is the best Bruce Wayne but not Batman. I must say Keaton was the best Batman. Just my opinion, believe me I know few agree.

By: High Kalibur

High Kalibur — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:45:04 +0000

Oh, I forgot, the Screenplay is also deserving of a nomination at least. It is awesome.

By: High Kalibur

High Kalibur — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:44:07 +0000

–Best Actor–

Wow, Bale is my favorite actor — He definitely does not deserve an Oscar for The Dark Knight. He was amazing in The Dark Knight and is an extremely gifted actor but this movie, by far, did not demand more from him then we’ve already seen. Where was the Bale Best Actor bandwagon for The Machinist or Rescue Dawn?

***I would like to point out that anyone advocating a win for him needs to see those films***

Heath Ledger? He deserves Best Actor hands down.

Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart should also be nominated in my opinion.

–Best Film–

A win? That would be awesome but it won’t happen.

If it is not nominated I will be baffled.

–Special Effects–

No… why?

–Music–

I too saw it in IMAX, the sound quality was unbridled. The music was like a frame, casing an already miraculous picture.

I have heard no better score this season. Anyone else? Glad it is back in the running. Iron Man and Hulk music were good though.

–Cinematography–

Why not? It is a visual masterpiece. Throw in the IMAX scenes, which is just a cherry on top.

Obviously, this is one of the important films ever. To not be nominated for a slew of awards would be ridiculous.

By: For Your Consideration: Robert Downey Jr. In Iron Man - Screen Rant

For Your Consideration: Robert Downey Jr. In Iron Man - Screen Rant — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:02:23 +0000

[...] The Dark Knight, by Christopher Nolan, deserves as many Oscar noms as possible, and if nothing else, Heath Ledger should win as one of the greatest villains in film [...]

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:24:55 +0000

I love Equilibrium, but I don’t think it’s as good as some of his other work. Still a great movie though.

By: Doom3524

Doom3524 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:58:10 +0000

All the Bale movies and nobody mentioned Equilibrium? That is probably my favorite role for him. That was a great movie! I do like most of the roles mentioned above.

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:13:40 +0000

I think there is a laundry list of actors that could of done a better job. The only scene I thought he did really well in was the scene with out any sound when he sees the coin and is clearly screaming in emotional agony. The rest of his performance was very dry. I wouldn’t even put him in the top 4 performances. I didn’t find him very believable, emotionally or engaging. I’m a big two face fan and I really wanted to be invested in his character, but I couldn’t get in to it because there was nothing from Eckharts performance that dragged me in except for a quick one minute soundless shot. I’m not saying he was awful , but I wouldn’t call him good by any definition of the word. Just barely coming in at an average ok performance. I think the casting choice of him was one of the very few things that held the movie back and I actually supported him before I saw the film a lot more than I supported Ledger.

By: Carl Lee

Carl Lee — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:42:12 +0000

@Daniel, JessSayin’

I thought Aaron Eckhart did a great job. I believe his performance is reasonably overshadowed by Heath Ledger. His “turn” during the course of the film is the emotional backbone of the story. It resonates far better than that of a billionaire playboy who can’t be with the one he loves because (a) he moonlights as a Bat and (b) he kills her. Harvey “Two Face” loses everything and his threats and rage during the latter acts is a splitting contrast to his gentle and assured personality at the beginning.

Who do you think would have done a better job?

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:06:39 +0000

Nice to see someone else list 3:10 there was so much depth to his character and he was so amazing in it.

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:58:25 +0000

As for Christian Bale, I belive he is a phenomal actor, my personal favs are American Psyco (the killing that takes place while Patrick is talking about Huey Lewis, cracks me up evertime. Sadisitic, I know), Empire of The Sun and 3:10 to Yuma

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:54:17 +0000

One thing that drives me nuts about different portryals of charactors, in particular The Joker. I don’t think that you can compare the two, as they are two different interprtations, as well, they take place in two seperate worlds. I believe that the only time you would be able to compare, would be if they recast the part and it was portryed in the same world, which Nolan has created.
I belive they both performed The Joker perfectly, both for the time period that the are in and as well, the world which the writers and directors placed them in.

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:46:05 +0000

Bale is an excellent actor and I disagree that the Machinest was his best. I found him to be at his best in 3:10 to Yuma, The Prestiege and Rescue Dawn.

I can’t believe anyone actually thought Jack Nicolson was better than Heath. Hell I thought Jack was pretty bad when I first saw the film as a child.

By: Oscar!

Oscar! — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:39:25 +0000

Bale played a good Bruce Wayne, but a horrible Batman imo.

By: Laua

Laua — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:25:24 +0000

Christian bale is well-deserved for the nomination. He did a great job in TDK

By: Dave Fernandes

Dave Fernandes — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:11:39 +0000

Bale’s best performance was the Mechanic. I was entirely hooked onto the role and the film. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget. Sadly he got little recognition for that amazing performance.

By: FRED

FRED — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:52:15 +0000

Well put. Christian Bale however did have the harder job in the Dark Knight when compared to Heath Ledger. All Heath Ledger did was just put up a phenomenal acting performance-which is all well and good. But only had the one personality to redifine-the demonic, psychotic Joker. But Christian Bale had to balance out three personalities-Bruce wayne the playboy Billionaire,Bruce Wayne the lonely, dedicated guy(the true personality of Bruce Wayne)- which only Alfred and Fox got to see and then there is Batman-his alter ego that represents his outlet of rage and his means of war on the criminals. To top it of , he had to do all his own stunts. But balancing out these personalities and making sure that Batman was the dominant personality would have been a very had job due to Nolan looking for exactly the right thing as per the comic books. There is a good reason why Nolan picked Bale for the role of Batman. And Bale should be noted for redefining the Characters of Wayne and Batman. Heath’s performance was more entertaining and he was the glue and got 11 mins more screen time compared to both characters of Bruce Wayne and Batman.
But Ledger is a champion, sad to see him go the way he did. and Bale is seriously underated. His caliber of acting almost comes close to Tom Cruise’s acting caliber.

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:57 +0000

@huttthejest
I believe that Bale will follow in the same footsteps as his costar Gary Oldman, he will many great and oscar worthy Oscar performances, but always be jilted by the Academy.

It is this mans opinion, that the Oscars only pay attention to Big Names, and Big movies. Though the Dark Knight is a Big movie and will for sure be nominated in many catagories, the only actor I feel that would be nominated for anything, would be Mr.Ledger (which deserves anyways). So sadly, I hate the Oscars, and find them way overrated, and i have said it already before, until they branch out to more catagories (Best Comedy, Best Comedic Performance, Etc.) they are a bunch prissy snobs.