the dark knight premiere
Well, my Batman haiku contest was a smash hit; at least I think so anyway.
Thanks to Nokia (M) (and Text100 (M) of course 
Libby I love you), I had a ticket for myself and 6 very beautiful and lucky readers to watch The Dark Knight yesterday evening at the GSC Signature cinema.
6?! WTF? Heh, well, initially I had two. Then I received another 2. Then at the very last minute I received another 2. If you didn’t win, well there were a LOT of good entries 
I think the best one was submitted by Sashi:
Fog covers the night
As she tucks herself in bed
The clown prince cackles
Screams kill the silence
The world holds its breath, as the
dark knight is summoned
She is saved, but just
The bat and the joker in battle
Blood will spill tonight.
Unfortunately I was being kiamsiap and was giving the tickets out in singles and Sashi didn’t want to go by himself. On hindsight I should have given him the two last minute tickets, but it slipped my mind. Sorry love. I got him to pick 2 winners though, and he chose Heng Woon and Tiffany. Heng Woon’s entry made me LOL so hard, I have to post it here:
batman is so cool
with robin oh them lovefools
brokeback mountain 2
The rest were Zewt, Izad, PY and Amelia. Was more than lovely to finally meet Zewt and Izad in person after stalking their blogs for ages.
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At the entrance where I posed with the two Jokers.
Me with Heng Woon and Bob! Click for a larger version
I thought Bob or Ringo was going to clinch the contest, until we saw KlubbKidd in his splendiferous Joker outfit (complete with a Joker card!). Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to snap a photo, but I’m sure they will be floating around soon.
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I am still taking in the movie. Didn’t watch Batman Begins (too much talking, I was in a foul mood and couldn’t stand the yakety yak but yes someday I shall watch the entire movie) but I LOVED The Prestige. Uh, so my thoughts, eyeris-style:
- Maggie Gyllenhaal was a bit blah
- Unfortunately Christian Bale was also a bit blah though less blah than Morgan Freeman, and it pains me to say that because I think the world of his acting (in other movies). Well I guess he’s rather limited in this role in this particular Batman movie, and he did his best considering the limitations. But that’s just me lah.
- Gary Oldman FTW! Michael Caine for the second win!
- Hahaha Edison Chen wtf!
- Woah, that batpod is too awesome for words… it can do *that*!
- After watching Hellboy2 and Wanted last weekend, I think TDK is a real movie. Hellboy2 left me a bit empty because a lot of things were just so abrupt (love the director though) and I hate the kind of ending in Wanted. TDK reminds me of the good old days of movies - proper beginning, proper plot, proper ending. You’ll have to be on the same wavelength as me to understand this, even if you disagree.
- There are some movies you can’t miss on the big screen. TDK is one of them. Sex & The City, The Happening and X-Files are not.
- It was a long movie. 2.5 hours not including trailers and ads. I only realised this after my bladder nearly ruptured at the end credits.
- That was why I did not see the tribute/ credit to Heath at the end of the movie. Because you know, trying to save my bladder…
- I don’t know what to make of Aaron Eckhart’s character.
- Overall TDK was a great, badass movie. Loved it x1000. The buzz surrounding it for months was more than justified.
- Heath Ledger IS The Joker. Not saying this just because he’s dead (because some dead people become more (in)famous after, uhm, their deaths) but because…
You’ll have to watch it to find out. Words fail me when it comes to his brilliance.
Then you’ll agree with me, perhaps more fluently than my lame attempt at being coherent.
I wasn’t really trying.
Tags: batman, TDK, the dark knight
OMG I love Prestige too! TWINSIES! you can borrow the original DVD from me if you want later.
“I had a ticket for myself and 6 very beautiful and lucky readers ”
I said I was pretty.. not beautiful!
sounds good. a 2 hr 45 min action movie. the reviews are looking good. the company’s booked out the imax cinema for the event. can’t wait for friday to watch it
Thanks for coming. Aiyah…tell me lah that Sashi wants, then I find some more for him.
izad: everyone is beautiful… except the really ugly ones
howshouse: hehe have fun!!! imax sial good luck
davidlian: aiks. shhhh i hope he’s not reading this
Eh, but you gotta admit that Jack Nicholson is SO the Joker, no?
Aiyoh, won’t the ‘Batman and Robin are gay’ thing ever die??
“In his 1955 best-seller Seducation of the Innocent, psychologist Fredric Wertham took up the idea that Batman and Robin have an unhealthy homoerotic subtext. In a much noted passage, Wertham wrote, “Sometimes Batman ends up in bed injured and young Robin is shown sitting next to him. At home they lead an idyllic life. … They live in sumptuous quarters, with beautiful flowers in large vases, and have a butler, Alfred. Batman is sometimes shown in a dressing gown. … [I]t is like a wish dream of two homosexuals living together.” For this reason, “only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and psychopathology of sex can fail to realize the subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures.”"
I wonder if that guy drove in that costume to Gardens… will be interesting at the road blocks.
oOO Suertes, Heath’s Joker IS THE JOKER now! The best movie I’ve watched this year, really.
Dammit I wanted to be there as the Joker. I even had my hawaiian shirt and shorts and camera all ready to go as the Killing Joke Joker.
Suertes: Next the Ledger’s Joker, Jack Nicholson now looks more like he just came out of an Adam West Batman episode.
EDISON CHEN!??!?! WHERE?!?!?!?!?
had stomach ache from food poisoning. 2.5 hours was way too long no matter how awesome the movie was.
suertes: i don’t think so. admittedly he was a fine joker, but in a more comical way. heath ledger (most possibly via the direction of nolan’s new take on batman as well) as the joker came across as tyrannical, sadistic, twisted, vile, wicked, convoluted… it’s a different thing altogether.
regarding batman and robin… if you’d remember frodo and sam, apparently when tolkien wrote about them, he referred to the r/s between a captain and his officer, drawn from his experience at war. i think batman & robin is somewhat like that, with robin a lot more defiant being a young ciku. a teacher/ student thing. a lot of people are just uneasy with the idea or portrayal or presentation of 2 men being close together.
zewt: of course he did! hehahehaee check out his blog
ky: kite runner leh?
eyeris: yah but amsterdam is more worth it, no?
fa: when he was talking to morgan freeman in hong kong
But, did my Haiku win me a GF????
Edison got his face blurred out. Hahahahaha….shoulda thought of that when taking pics.
i personally don’t think batman and robin are gay. the haiku was written in jest, picking up on the homosexual notions that seems to have sprung from batman being so close fighting crime together with robin the underwear-outside-red-yellow-costume-guy in the b/r cartoons, plus a hint of heath ledger tribute.
and heath should certainly win an oscar (non-sympathy) for his brilliant job in TDK. The movie wouldn’t be half as good if it weren’t for him.
i felt the movie could have gone a bit longer but that’s just me =) wasn’t heath brilliant?
you must catch wall.e absolutely adorable
Aww, thanks for this bit of rare publicity…
Sorry to have to turn down the prize, though. Next contest perhaps…
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when the credits started to roll, i looked at my watch and was shocked. 2.5hrs?! boy, did the time fly! but during the movie, i kept thinking…let this madness end…let it end…oh goodness no…
loved it. wanna watch it again. now i’m REALLY sad that heath is dead. sigh. =(
dabs: sorry mate
davidlian: eh? i saw his scene, clearly
hw: i just thought it was funny, no hidden meanings
heath should be nominated at least. come next march they would have forgotten him.
reta: well that’s because your bladder was not about to burst!
am looking forward to wall.e
sashi: hehe cheers
lishun: yes i want to watch it again too! imax?
suanie : thanks for the mention. LOL! i dozed off THRICE! izad had to bump me when i started snoring. LOL! loved the movie especially heath - and nice meeting you…
zewt : you should have seen the looks I got. LOL! an auntie jumped when she saw me in the carpark as i was making for the lifts. LOL!