late to the train, but i saw this movie yesterday, took my dad.
everyone who loved it is a total fucking fggt. Everytime all this hype surrounds anything there is always this little part of me that actually has faith in humanity and think that maybe there is a chance that the hype is real, maybe this movie is decent… maybe they got it right.
then you read all these reviews and everyone and their father’s pet dog has nothing but amazing things to say about it. People change their facebook status’s and MSN titles to “OMG DARK KNIGHT KILLS”, they buy Dark Knight memorabilia… Yahoo, Windows Live they all have interesting semi-related to Dark Knight stories playing on your hotmail homepage… “Who’s the best batman?”… “what does Christian Bale eat for dinner?”… “what do his balls taste like?”
then someone with more than half a brain walks in and sees it… i’ve heard only two people give this movie less than perfect reviews. My brother and my buddy’s friend who is an apparent comic book aficianado… so i still held out thinking that maybe it didnt suck.
but nope…it sucked.
worst still is that Christoher Nolan, who did make a good movie once, uses all the typical Hollywood ploys to hyper-confuse you fucking morons into accepting the most rediculous shit as something that should sort of resemble a story line.
The pace of the movie is such that you don’t even get 15 seconds to sit there and think… “WTF was that shit?” before the Joker has you off to the other side of the city fucking with the other subplot… so you’re sitting there “oh okay, i guess that must have made sense, what’s happening now?”…
the stuff that didnt suck… they obviously paid some decent writers to write some, not all, of the dialogue but you can tell how hard they are trying in alot of scenes… especially with the Joker’s soliloquy’s. Very laboured at times. In the hospital in particular.
Now, whether a movie exists in the middle of a series is irrelevant, there must be logical and reasonable transition between segments and some degree of closure or acceptance from a series of segments or the feature as a whole… this movie doesnt do that, it doesnt even try and it’s arrogant in that it knows you’ll pay to see it and rent the video whether it does or not.
Every action scene was a let down, every fight scene was even worse. I think it’s because you / me / we just don’t give a shit about batman. dude in a suit, fuck you. you care more about gary oldman and michael caine for some reason. Like in the Bourne movies when Matt Damon is fucking up the dude in a totally badass fight scene you’re on the edge of your seat like “SHIT YEAH DAMON AIN’T NO PUSSY… FUCK THAT SHIT UP YO!!”
but when batman is yelling all raspy and throwing Heath around i’m totally disinterested. I just want to see what happens next really. Where as i would much rather skip the conclusion of the Bourne movies and just watch another 20 minutes of the fight scenes.
Fuck, i am sure most people want the Joker to win anyways… shows how good a job Bale is doing vs. Ledger. Btw, Ledger was solid, no doubt, but so was Nicholson which leads me to beleive it’s the role itself that is awesome and then the fact that by comparison it’s hard not to suck around batman. I want Bale to fight without the costume and the voice.
anyways… fuck batman.
it was better than batman begins though… that shit was horrid. I rented it a few weeks ago to get caught up… i rolled my eyes 5 minutes in and couldnt pay attention afterwards. One of the silliest and stupidest movies in recent memory. Mind you i dont watch too many anymore because they all pretty much suck these days.