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[nycgrl99]

[gypsyfish]

Heath Ledger was fantastic - a brilliant performance.

Even better was Gary Oldman. The guy is the best actor of his generation. He is Commissioner Gordon.

Katie Holmes is stupid for not being in the film.

[stevieg4ever]

Rotten tomatoes gives it 95% and that is pretty impressive.

The differences between the jokers can be debated all day but remember there is almost 20 years seperating the 2 films.

I honestly cannot remember being this excited over movie in a long time.

[jkelly80]

So it's playing in IMAX at Yongsan? Anywhere else?

[aarontendo]

Just saw it last night, great movie. Damn long though it was 3 hours heh.

[Freakstar]

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

I thought it was a good film, but I wouldn't exactly call it a masterpiece. I had the same problem with it that I had with Batman Begins-- the whole 'real world' take on it seems more like a shallow concept than an attempt to make a good film, or to do justice to the characters.

I came away from the whole thing with the impression that the director just wanted to prove to everyone that comic book characters can be realistic as opposed to taking the time to create genuinely interesting and sympathetic characters.

I never for a second really cared about anyone in Batman Begins, and really, Michael Keaton was a lot more interesting than Christian Bale. With Michael Keaton, he seemed weird enough and like he had enough going on in his head that I got the impression he was really Bruce Wayne, with Christian Bale all I think is 'it's Christian Bale, he's doing his American accent, and he's delivering his lines really well'.

This film has Nolan taking ideas from a lot of other films and putting them together, except now the lead characters are iconic comic book characters instead of new ones. It's not even that I think the whole 'real world' angle couldn't work, it's just that both of these films have felt really hollow... and for the most part, it seems that the general moviegoing public are so fascinated by the idea of a realistic take on Batman that they come away thinking they've just seen a great film even though there isn't a single character in the series that is actually compelling.

Really, the whole point here is to see 'how they did the Joker' or 'how they did Two-Face', and as long as they did it in a way that doesn't seem as condescending as the crap of recent years, people are satisfied. But nobody really goes in because the Batman from these films is a compelling character... they just want to see the ideas.

[IncognitoHFX]

[postfundie]

[Milwaukiedave]

[Typhoon]

I have to disagree. I think Ledger was great as the joker. He gave it a nice dark twist. I'm not sure if all the hype was deserved, but Ledger was pretty great as the joker...Jack's joker just can't compete.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Geckoman]

English-language movies are always in English with Korean subtitles. They do not dub the English-language movies with Korean but instead use Korean subtitles.

I think it is that way with all non-Korean movies when they are played in the theater.

To find out showtimes and locations of movies currently being played in Korea, as well as instructions on how to get there, just call up the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) hotline at 1330.

1330 provides information in English about living, visiting and traveling in Korea.

They are operated 24 hours a day.

If your calling from a cellphone you just add the area code before 1330.

If you don't know your area code go to this site to find it out:
http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/GK/GK_EN_2_7_1.jsp

You can call them up and ask them what are the show times and showing locations of a movie your interested in. They will be happy to help you with that.

If it's a Korean movie your interested in, they can tell you if a showing has English subtitles or not. While generally Korean movies do not have English subtitles, I do know that the recently released Korean movies "Crossing" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Weird" did have some showings that had English subtitles. I do not know if that is the case now. Just call 1330 to find out.

Pass the info about 1330 to other foreigners. It's good to know. 1330 is very helpful.

Here's the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) website about 1330:
http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/GK/GK_EN_2_7_1.jsp

Here's the official Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) website:
http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/intro.html

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Yaya]