Wed 6 Aug 2008
A warning to all who are reading this: This post is intended for all those people who’ve seen the Dark Knight on a regular theater screen (or smaller) and want to know what they might have missed.
In case you didn’t know, the Dark Knight is the first major motion picture shot partially with IMAX cameras. The end result is that some scenes are gorgeous to look at! The term “HD theater”probably describes the IMAX experience best!
One last spoiler warning, the following is a short list of scenes that were shot with an IMAX camera. If you haven’t seen the Dark Knight then read no further as some major plot points are mentioned. You’ve been warned.
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Opening Scene - Clown Bank Robbery (Full Scene) : The entire bank robbery was filmed with the IMAX cameras.
Shot of Bruce’s Penthouse (Very short): A few seconds, barely noticeable.
Shot of Parade (Very short): This is the scene of the parade in which the mayor was supposed to be shot. Also a few seconds, barely noticeable.
Honk Kong criminal abduction: (Partial) Only some outside shots were filmed with an IMAX camera. All of the fighting in the building was filmed with a regular camera. This includes the brief conversation between Fox and Lau.
Convoy Chase Scene (Full scene): Arguably the best action scene in the movie was, of course, displayed in IMAX superiority!
Death of Rachel + Aftermath (Full Scene) Everything from the explosion to the brooding Bruce and the scene clean-up.
Lamborghini / Coleman Reese escape (Partial): Most of the Lamborghini scenes were in IMAX.
Hospital Explosion (Short): Once Joker leaves the hospital with most of it exploding behind him including the scene where he fiddles with the detonator.
Bridge verification (Very Short): A few seconds, barely noticeable.
Building Breach + Fight with Joker (Partial): It went back and forth from an IMAX to a regular camera but the IMAX scenes were considerably lengthy.
End Sequence (Full Scene): After Batman asks Commissioner Gordon to call in the killings and runs away, the rest of the movie is filmed with IMAX cameras all the way to the credits.
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So, was watching it a second time on an IMAX screen worth it? Definitely! Is it a must? In all honesty, no. Just as DVD’s are good enough to watch a movie on, the regular movie screens are good enough as well. The movie is not more brilliant on IMAX, it’s just that about 20 minutes of it looked better. Still, if there’s one movie out there that deserves the IMAX treatment, it’s the Dark Knight.
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August 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
i watched the movie twice, and am a big batman buff, however, i was very dissappointed by how little of the dark knight we actually saw in action. i guess i really enjoyed the character development in “batman begins”, as that is what made it different from the fogie versions of batman, and truer to the comics and cartoon.
and i have to add, much to my husband’s dismay, that yes heath ledger acted well, but the role was only as good as it was written. heath did a way better job than jack nicolason, but that’s because jack sucked. heath ledger is being hailed as the best villian of all time, because he’s dead. personally i think aaron eckhart did the best acting, ever. if u wanna see it for u’r self, watch “thank you for smoking”. as u can see, for people who thought that heath was the best thing since sliced bread, really, was he that great?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
This is the only source I use for reviews on movies.
Please keep up the good work. Btw Christian Bale is a shitty actor.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
You’re CRAZY amber, he was FANTASTIC! And not so gay in this one! Well, he kinda had a hard-on for Batman but it didn’t seem so homo-erotic.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Well Heath Ledger was pretty bad in “The Patriot” and “Four Feathers”. I still loved his performance in “The Dark Knight” but you’re right, Aaron Eckhar also performed superbly. Was he over-looked? Most definitely! Was it because of Ledger’s death? Very possibly although I think he would have still been overlooked had Ledger not died before the release of the movie. Probably not as much as now, but still overlooked.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:18 am
i still don’t think he deserves the title of best villian of all time. and patriot and four feathers were equally suicidal movies. if he was gonna end his career, maybe he should have thought about doing it before making such crap movies.