Comments on: Batman – The Dark Knight (Imax, the hype and the plot)

By: armando

armando — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:37:12 +0000

Even the 3 family member I went with to see this movie did not hated it, they didn’t loved it either, the whole theater was like said in thedarkknightsucks.com: they reacted like in a monday morning, preparing to go to work.

Would you rate my many comments on this movie.

By: armando

armando — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:33:14 +0000

Harvey Dent for example, while being good, he and the police department and Batman, could not do a single thing to stop the joker, as result of that his girlfriend is murdered and half his face is burned. But as soon he became evil, he suddenly can find people wherever they are in Gotham and can even survive and impressive car crash.
and the whole movie is like that, Nolan and his brother help the bad guys and make them do impossible things while Batman keeps realistic.

Even Rambo is a lot more of a morality tale than this movie, in Rambo the bad guys are shown clearly evil (this could be racism or xenophobia, but still is more moralistic than “the dark knight”). and people want to be like Rambo, not like in “the dark knight” which was made to make people thing: “wow, this batman guy is a loser, he can’t do anything right”.

By: armando

armando — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:17:49 +0000

And that’s the part where the fans of this movie start saying: “No, Nolan didn’t want to give that message or any message, he simply made a movie, you know, something to see for a couple hours while eating popcorn”.
Considering thay are the ones who claimed it a “master piece” and analyze it as if it were the Bible.

By: armando

armando — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:14:23 +0000

There are parts terribly wrong, for example when Batman prefers to crash and get unconscious so the Joker can kill him, rather than run over the joker, because killing is wrong.
Or in the boats, when the passenger gives up pressing the button and a woman with two small kids simply resigns to the fact that if any of the hundreds of criminals in the other boat press their button they will die, because killing is wrong. So, don’t mothers want their kids to grow up and go to college and marry and give them a lot of grandchildren.
For the other side, the Joker constantly kills innocent people, and also his own henchman and also kills the only criminal boss who supported him all along, and nothing happens to him, the joker is every time more successful
So, one thing is that you don’t want yourself or a loved one to became an angry person, completely obsessed with revenge, who only lives with the desire of killing criminals. But that’s not the message of this movie the message of this movie is that if you are a good person, you practically have to commit suicide in order not to kill the criminal who wants to kill you, because “killing is wrong”, but if you are a criminal, the more you kill and betray the more successful you will be.

By: armando

armando — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:16:31 +0000

I agree with this blog. This is not for minors. But i think the most creepy for a kid is the joker, which is totally repulsive, specially the videos he sends to the police. And other example, Rachel’s death, could not Nolan show us that she was going to die, No, he has to shock us as well as Batman.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:57:24 +0000

“The crowds leaving the theater, obviously confused, let-down and wondering if one should speak up to another and actually say, what the hell was that?”

I don’t know anyone who considered himself letdown by this movie. While each has his or her own improvements to add, none were letdown.

FAIL.

But thanks for trying to be different!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:28:09 +0000

Yes, I expected a reverb of counter-critics, my own son disagrees. Tonight a commercial for Gogurt (I think) was on tv, kids around 8 – 10, laughing and promoting the Batman movie contest. I still cannot fathom what parent or corporate guardian thinks a kid should “embrace” this movie. Hell, let them watch Rambo 2008 if that’s any indication of the ratings system of the movie industry…

While I cannot intelligently dispute the historical background of Batman (I am a Batman fan btw), the rating let me down. The acting let me down and well, the unintelligible gibberish of a plot wrecked it for me.

By: Kureb

Kureb — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:15:31 +0000

You need more background in the Batman´s history to write a consistent critic.

As the last comment upside, I do the same recommendations:
The Killing Joke, Long Halloween or any of Frank Miller’s books.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:59:39 +0000

While I understand some of your complaints and deem some of them valid from an objective film goer, you also must understand this a Batman film and made for Batman fans. As a Batman fan, I found it the most satisfying Batman film to date, followed closely by Burton ’89.

Maybe check out a few of the greater Batman graphic novels and give it another go and it may ring more true for you…I recommend The Killing Joke, Long Halloween or any of Frank Miller’s books.