This Post is an elaboration on a comment I made AT Justin’s Blog.

Just about everyone’s grandma has seen this movie by this point, but if I recall correctly people were clamoring for Heath Ledger to have a posthumous Oscar nomination well before the The Dark Knight was even released with a great number of fanboys exalting it as the best film ever without even seeing it. So who has won a posthumous Oscar?

There was Peter Finch who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar with Network. However that was a ’serious’ film with Sidney Lumet at the helm, who already had two Oscar nominations for best director prior to it. It was a prestige film and damn it there isn’t a doubt in my mind that Finch would have won that Oscar dead or alive.

I may have said even in my own review that Ledger deserved an Oscar for the Joker, and I won’t admit to being caught up in hype (my review score still stands mind you) but upon retrospection his character doesn’t exactly have an arc. He’s powerfully written as a tour de force and Ledger does the job. But he does not have an arc. He’s like Emperor Palpatine. Just flat out bad. Aaron Eckhart’s Dent is more likely or at least deserving of an Oscar  nomination(by comparison) since his performance actually went places, going from Gotham’s White Knight to Two Face during the film’s running time.

Also most people who have been part of these discussions forget we haven’t even gotten to the Oscar movie season yet. If anyone remembers Road to Perdition it got screwed out of many awards because A. It was based on a graphic novel and B. It was released in the Summer. Most Oscar voters suffer from severe Alzheimer, so forgive them if they forget every movie released prior to September.

I don’t think it’s impossible for genre movies to win Oscars. Just look at Titanic(disaster movie with a poorly written love story) and Return of the King. Mind you Return of the King did not get a single nomination for acting. They tried to get Gollum a nomination… and he had a personal arc.

If only they had said that the Joker was retarded( a noble one) then he’d be a shoo-in.

I saw The Dark Knight for the second time this weekend with the Mrs. I personally don’t have a problem with Batman’s dialogue but this spoof none the less made me laugh. I actually realized why the breathy deep dialogue does not bother me like it has irked others. When reading the Batman Begins script it actually mentioned a voice modulator as a part of his helmet. Yes I am a sad sad man.

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2008, acronym(a poor one) for a piece of procrastination. An article, be that a game, a video, or website, that distracts the user from participating in more critical acts of being such as having a life.

The Dark Knight (2008) Director Christopher Nolan Writer Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (screenplay) Actors Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne Heath Ledger - The Joker Aaron Eckhart - Harvey Dent Michael Caine - Alfred Pennyworth Maggie Gyllenhaal - Rachel Dawes Gary Oldman - Lt. James Gordon Morgan Freeman - Lucius Fox

The Dark Knight (2008)

When I saw Batman Begins for the first time there were not a lot of surprises for me. Christopher Nolan is one of very few directors I can name where I feel guaranteed that I am going to enjoy their work. Not to mention I also had read the David Goyer script a good year before the release and was telling everyone I knew how brilliant a reboot it was going to be. Most ,if not all, did not believe me at the time. Of course after seeing Batman Begins I think most people will be going into The Dark Knight with lofty expectations.

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2008, acronym(a poor one) for a piece of procrastination. An article, be that a game, a video, or website, that distracts the user from participating in more critical acts of being such as having a life.

Well if you are at all like myself and can’t stand Will Smith (which looking at this weekend’s box office puts you in a very small majority) you probably won’t see the Joker prologue in front of Imax copies of I Am Legend.

Lucky for you and I there is a leaked copy of the prologue on youtube. Sure the quality is abysmal and the audio way off, but that definitely is a better option than having to watch Will Smith claim to be an actor. You can definately see where Nolan was coming from when he claimed to draw inspiration from Michael Mann’s Heat.