Friday, July 18, 2008

Dark Knight at LARGE!


AMC IMAX Theatre
@ Universal Studios
The Dark Knight




The movie was great!! SUPERBBBB The movie scores, the actors and actresses, the many locations shot...it's just amazing!!! We watched it in the IMAX theater, 2D, not 3D. The ratio of the screen varies from time to time through out the whole movie, sometimes it uses up the whole screen, sometime just the usual 16:9 ratio.

Some of the scene makes you go WOW!!! The same kinda WOW you feel when you look over the edge from a tall building!!! These "wow shots" were mostly scenes shot in Hong Kong!! Most of the scene were shot in Chicago, near Jean's school, she got all excited when she saw places she recornized hehe, i know i would!! Apparently almost hlf of the movie was shot in the UK too, and a small part in LA (trying not to be a spoiler here =p )
As you all may know, the screen in IMAX theater are huge, like from the top of the theatre to the floor below you, and there is nothing that can block your view of the Large screen, im talking about how some tall guys in front of you might be in your view throughout the whole movie, not this time.

We had to leave our place early, as we wanted to secure good seats, and in the US, almost all theatres are on first come first serve basis....it sucks i know, but this is the US. By the time we got there, there was already a line waiting outside, and it was about 8am in the morning....was kinda gloomy and chilly but it was all good weather for us to be waiting outside the theatre. Doors opened at 8.30am and everyone was excited to get it, of cause there were FANS wearing batman t-shirt, there was this guy who was reading the comic book and had a tiny batman placed in this chest pocket, talk about fans hehe. I couldn't count the amount of times the people clapped during the entire movie, they even clapped before the movie started, they cheered with joy when the movie begin, and suddenly, you can hear silence then, wow, i don't think we'll get this kinda silence in Msia huh, and no PHONES rang too!!!
THE JOKER - He was really good, his acting, his voice, his lips, just so natural!! The story line is much different compare to the other Batman movies, batman dies this time.........haha, its up to you to believe =Ppp it's just so funny when the people clapped n cheered during the movie haha, but i have to stress that the movie is GOOD! It was nothing like what i've expected, really different and unexpected.

TWO great composers come together to compose scores for this movie?
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard I just love the music they compose for movies, started listening to their scores when i was young, apparently they also worked together for the Batman movie (2005).

Well, i think i didn't really spoil the movie now, have i?
You guys enjoy the movie, cheersss!!!

The movie is dedicated to the late Heath Ledger who did a very good job acting as The Joker.



"Why so serious?"





3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yo dude. damned. i m going to watch this movie soon. :)

Anonymous said...

gosh i wished they showed this in IMAX in Singapore! I watched it on the typical cinema screen. man i'm jealous!

Anonymous said...

This movie is a league.

LB