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[filkertom]

Batman: The Dark Knight is released today on DVD. If, by chance, you haven't seen it, and you like the Batman mythos at all, go for it. Heath Ledger's Joker is a very different take on the character, and an incredible performance.

You also can get A Colbert Christmas, and so should you.

Anything else cool we should know about released on DVD today?

Comments

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Our copy of Dark Knight was duly delivered yesterday :) I suspect that the seal will be cracked and it will be watched this evening.

[ericcoleman]

I didn't get out to see the newest Mummy movie in the theater ... I'll probably buy it today, just to have the complete set ... seems kinda pointless without Rachel Weisz though ...

hmmm ... looking though, maybe that is next week ...

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

The spectacular documentary Man On Wire, about Philippe Petit walking between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, comes out today. (I just heard him interviewed on the radio, and checked.) Having seen this in the theater, I can tell you it's well worth the time and money. He also wrote a book by the same name (actually wrote it first, and the film came from it). He's signing books and DVDs down at Borders (IIRC) at Wall Street at 1 PM, if you're in NYC.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Borders has issued several coupons today that are good for the next five days...essentially offering buy one get one at half price on everything in the store for members of their Borders Rewards Club.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Shiny. Where can these coupons be found?

[templesofsyrinx.livejournal.com]

I read that The Dark Knight is also being re-released in the theaters, sometime in January.

This rebooted series has been amazing! I saw The Dark Knight 4 times, within the first week of it's release.

[metafrantic.livejournal.com]

I love that you bothered to write out all the "Na"s in the title of this post. Makes me think of the bit in Rocky Horror Picture Show where they're driving at night, in the rain, with the lights on...

Still haven't seen Dark Knight. The perils of being the parent of a 2-year-old means not getting to watch a lot of films for grownups. But I'm sure I'll buy it, I'm too much of a Batman fanatic not to.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Lost season 4 came out today too!

[http://users.livejournal.com/deidre_/]

I put a copy of Colbert Christmas on hold the day it came out (Tuesday before Thanksgiving).

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I got my copy of Colbert Christmas last week, along with the CD. I've been playing it non-stop.

"We have candles!" "What are they?!" "THEY ARE CANDLES!!" never fails to make me laugh.

[msgeek.livejournal.com]

I must be the only person on the planet who couldn't get around the political message of The Dark Knight It really seems to me to be an apologia for the 8 years of the Bush Administration. Heath Ledger's performance is unquestionably brilliant, and seeing the movie was worthwhile for just that, but everything else about the movie rubbed me the wrong way. I will wait for used copies to arrive from rental channels, and then maybe I'll buy the DVD. There are other movies I'd rather have on DVD than The Dark Knight.

[naomi-de-plume.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one... I felt the movie ended at least four times before it was actually over. Was it good? yes, but it wasn't Iron Man, that's for sure.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

>>It really seems to me to be an apologia for the 8 years of the Bush Administration.<<

I'm as repelled by the Bush Régime as anyone, but still, I didn't see this in the film. I'm curious...what made you see it that way? Did you think Ledger's Joker was supposed to represent Bush and his policies? Or was it Batman, Gordon and the government taking excessive measures to stop him? How does this analogy work exactly?

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

I think it was the wiretaps.

Let's get this straight - wiretapping, tight leather, capes, vigilante justice and talking like Alec Baldwin swallowed a porcupine are all better ideas in the fictional world of Gotham than in the real world of real peoples.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I will get a copy of the Dark Knight when I can. But I am more anticipating the DVD that comes on Friday Dec 19th. Given the odd DVD release date, I am hoping people can guess which DVD I mean without my needing to give clues.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

Fred Claus?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Fred Claus? Fred Clause?
Fred Claus? FRED CLAUS?
He doesn't mean that Claus thing,
About which I don't care,
Most movies with Vince Vaughn stink
(Your mileage may var-
Y), it's that famous Blog Sing
With Neil Patrick Harr-
is, Dr. Horrible's DVD
With musical commentary.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

Thank you again for entertaining me to no end :)

[banjoplayinnerd.livejournal.com]

My granddaughter is breathlessly anticipating Mamma Mia, which comes out next Tuesday, IIRC. She's 11 years old, what are ya gonna do.

I have to admit, to the best of my knowledge I'd never seen anything Heath Ledger had done before Dark Knight, and never heard of him before Brokeback Mountain. So I really didn't know what to expect, and I thought his Joker was, well, scary good. Apparently part of his performance was improvised; for instance (MILD SPOILER ALERT) in the scene where everyone in the county lockup was applauding Gordon for being appointed police commissioner, his mocking applause was totally ad-libbed. I don't know whether it's the best performance of the year, and I don't know whether the academy will get over its snobbishness enough to nominate a comic book adaptation for an Academy award, but it was still really, really good.

Oh, and I loved Michael Caine as Alfred.

"You can say I told you so."

"Right now sir, I don't want to." (beat) "But I did bloody well tell you."