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Posted: **Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:15 pm**

The IMAX sequences on the Dark Knight Blu-ray disc are excellent with outstanding hi-def picture quality, but they high-light how awful the PQ is on the rest of the disc. How come the scenes shown in the 2nd disc bonus feature have no edge-enhancement whatsoever and yet the main feature is riddled with it, some of the worst seen on a major new release, Blu-Ray or DVD ? One of the main reasons I bought into hi-def was because we were told hi-def eliminated edge-enhancement: what a load of crock that was !

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:55 pm**

THE Joker for his getaway, he has a minion back a school bus into the bank, severely damaging the bank. He loads up the money, drops a smoke grenade and leaves, Scot free. The bus joins a long line of school buses going by and the cops are never the wiser. But I couldn't help but wonder why the bus the joker's bus pulls in front of never seems to have any reaction. WHY NO REACTION???

A swerve perhaps, something to note that "holy crap an indestructible bus just pulled out of the bank."

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:10 pm**

That was the part you found hard to believe?

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:13 pm**

I found it hard to believe someone can't spell "Knight" right.

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:18 pm**

The bus it pulled in front of (and all of the buses perhaps) was driven by one of The Joker's min-wait why am I replying to this?

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:20 pm**

manicsounds wrote:I found it hard to believe someone can't spell "Knight" right.

He spelled it the way Monty Python says it.

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:26 pm**

tishabridges wrote:THE Joker for his getaway, he has a minion back a school bus into the bank, severely damaging the bank. He loads up the money, drops a smoke grenade and leaves, Scot free. The bus joins a long line of school buses going by and the cops are never the wiser. But I couldn't help but wonder why the bus the joker's bus pulls in front of never seems to have any reaction. WHY NO REACTION???

A swerve perhaps, something to note that "holy crap an indestructible bus just pulled out of the bank."

Posted: **Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:42 am**

A little gossipy and only a bit related to the film. But I didn't know where to post it and, uh...wow

Matthew Francis Nolan, the older brother of Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, has been arrested by the FBI in his hometown of Chicago and is now awaiting extradition to Costa Rica to face murder and kidnapping charges.

According to the the bureau's Windy City office, the Violent Crimes Task Force apprehended the 40-year-old Nolan without incident as he was leaving a bankruptcy court hearing yesterday.

Nolan has been wanted in Costa Rica since 2006, when local authorities charged him with the kidnapping and murder of a Florida businessman a year earlier.

According to the FBI complaint, the elder Nolan concocted a Joker-worthy plot to lure the victim, Robert Cohen, to a hotel by pretending to be a multimillionaire jewel merchant hoping to do a business deal. Instead, Nolan intended to recoup $7 million Cohen owed another Florida man. Nolan and an accomplice, Douglas Mejia, allegedly held Cohen ransom in hopes of extracting the money, but when the family failed to meet their demands, they killed him, per the complaint.

Mejia was convicted of kidnapping and murder and is now in prison.

Nolan was collared just as police were probing his role in a separate $700,000 bank-fraud scheme. He's been ordered held without bond until extradition proceedings are completed.

Nolan's 38-year-old sibling, Christopher, broke into Hollywood with the mind-bending thriller Memento and has since gone on to reinvent the Caped Crusader in 2005's Batman Begins and 2008's The Dark Knight. The latter—cowritten by their younger brother, Jonathan—has since become the second-highest grossing film of all time.

Posted: **Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:44 am**

That's some dark shit, no pun intended. You'd think once your brother establishes himself in Hollywood, you don't have to run with jewel thieves... Wow.

Posted: **Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:11 pm**

Jump Cut features two exceptional new readings. The McGowan piece is especially great, perhaps the best I've seen on the film so far.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:43 am**

John Cope wrote:Jump Cut features two exceptional new readings. The McGowan piece is especially great, perhaps the best I've seen on the film so far.

It certainly wasn't going to be long before the Agambenian interpretations of TDK started rolling in.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:57 am**

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:22 pm**

Not necessarily bad, just really predictable.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:45 pm**

Can't wait to find out what these guys have to say about TRANSFORMERS 2 ...

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:07 pm**

I've got a question about the soundtrack. In the middle of "Why So Serious" the music cuts off abruptly but then after thirty seconds or so slowly fades back in. I thought it was intentional, but the visualization on Windows Media Player keeps pulsing away like it's still good. Is this a faulty version of the music or does it play like that intentionally?

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:20 pm**

It's quite intentional, but it's not completely silent. Maybe your sound system have a faluty bass setting or so, cause it's only bass tones for a while, with a very low frequency.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:48 pm**

Any thoughts on the casting of the villains for the next Batman?

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:32 pm**

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Any thoughts on the casting of the villains for the next Batman?

My thoughts are, at least this ends years of people making shit up. Getting tired of all of the insane speculation. If I heard from one other person, who pretended to be 'in-the-know', that Phillip Seymour Hoffman was going to play the Penguin, I was going to stab them with an umbrella.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:10 pm**

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Any thoughts on the casting of the villains for the next Batman?

I suggested some time ago that dream casting for Catwoman was based around how much the speculator wanted to sleep with said guess, in which case Nolan's made a fiiiine choice. I am a little disappointed that we're getting another villain who has been done to death in the movies, but then again, so was the Joker and... As for Bane, eh, I see why Nolan would go for him, but he's not very interesting (though "realism" trumps novelty, understandably)

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:18 pm**

I was crossing my fingers for the Ventriloquist, Baby Dahl, or maybe the Clock King. Sigh.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:19 pm**

Since Nolan could command pretty much any budget, I was unrealistically hoping for Clayface

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:31 pm**

I'll watch Tom Hardy in anything, even a Batman movie.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:27 pm**

I'm wondering how they're going to use an average sized man to play what I gather is supposed to be a seven-foot-tall hulking brute.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:35 pm**

You just lower the camera and have it pointing up at his torso and face during his scenes.

Posted: **Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:26 pm**

He also managed to get near Bane size for Bronson, so that little piece of casting I trust.

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