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More Dark Knight love

Mike — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:04:59 +0000

I wrote yesterday about the Producers Guild of America including The Dark Knight in their top-give for Best Picture of the year, and now the momentum for TDK is pushing forward.

Following suit, the Director’s Guild Awards has also seen fit to include the Caped Crusader in their top five. As is normal with both the PGA and DGA, as well as the Oscars…both have the same nominations:

Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon and Milk to go with The Dark Knight.

I’ve seen Slumdog, it deserves to be up there. I still want to see Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon before the Academy Awards.

Anyways…more love for TDK. You may ask why I care or even want to write about it. I just think it’s high time a super hero movie proves to be more than just fluff in the eyes of these award shows. And TDK was not only a super hero movie, but also a great, great film.

Dark Knight for Best Picture?

Mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:16:58 +0000

When I first saw The Dark Knight last year, I said two things when I left the theater: Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor and just MAYBE the movie itself for Best Picture. I’m talking Oscars of course.

No comic book movie has ever won Best Picture, and I’m not even sure how many have been nominated. But it just seemed that if it was ever to happen, this movie would do it.

It would certainly make the Oscars a lot more fun to watch with Ledger and The Dark Knight up for awards. I’d be pulling for them big time.

Well, suddenly the idea of a Best Picture award isn’t too far-fetched. Here’s the scoop from IMDB:

The Dark Knight, the most successful movie at the box office in 2008, may have been passed over by virtually all the critics groups for best film, but it did receive recognition from a group that really counts — the Producers Guild of America. The PGA announced that Knight was one of five films nominated for its top award, the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, due to be presented on Jan. 24. The others are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, and Slumdog Millionaire. The Guild’s nominees often mirror those chosen by Oscar voters, and the winner usually takes the best-film Oscar.

That is interesting. We’ll see how things play out, but I’m hopeful now.

Source: IMDB

The Dark Knight blows away Blu-Ray records

Mike — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:55:37 +0000

I don’t have my copy yet, but I pre-ordered The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray this past weekend and it’s now sitting at Best Buy waiting for me to pick it up.

Seems like I wasn’t the only one interesting in grabbing a copy. On the day it was released (Tuesday, the 9th), there were 600,000 Blu-Ray discs sold. That smashed the old record by Iron Man of 250,000.

Most of you know that I made one final “Mike” purchase before Lyla was born and that was a Playstation 3, which has a Blu-Ray player. I highly recommend this as the method to switch to Blu-Ray. It’s a great gaming system, the player is always one of the top rated out there, plus it has another cool feature called a web browser.

I usually don’t like watching shows on my laptop, because it’s small and means I’m probably sitting at a table somewhere, not on my comfy couch. But just recently I realized my PS3 has a web browser. So the other day, I went to Hulu.com and brought up episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, went to full screen and BAM! I was watching streaming video from Hulu right there on my TV.

Very awesome. It makes a PS3 a triple threat in a way. Gaming, Blu-Ray and streaming video.

Seems like Blu-Ray is catching on, so maybe this Christmas is the time to jump in?

Also, if you haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet, we’ll be having a viewing party sometime I’m sure