Post by gamedave on Jul 20, 2008 8:57:22 GMT -5
Jeff and I went to see Batman: The Dark Knight Saturday.
I can't understand how anyone could think this was a good movie. I mean, they actually spent time on character development for the villains, made Two-Face seem sympathetic, and Batman's ultimate arch-enemy, the Bat Vigilante Squad, was barely even in the movie. Worst superhero movie ever.
I kid. ;D
Seriously, meh. I really preferred Batman Begins. Dark Knight just seemed to never end. The pacing and editing were poor - at least once in the movie, for several minutes, I seriously thought the projectionist had accidentally skipped a reel. The shoot-out at the police commissioner's funeral just abruptly has been over, with all of the characters off doing other things. And how did Batman know where Harvey Dent went? This was the worst, but there were several other "transitions" which just seemed confusingly abrupt.
And at several points in the movie, I felt like I was watching a film that had been (badly) edited for TV - maybe it had been edited for violence at the last minute to get a lower rating? There are several characters (the black gangster, the Chinese money launderer, and others) that I guess we just have to assume were killed. I don't need to see blood and gore, I'm fine with a tasteful cut-away, but these didn't seem so much designed cut-aways as choppy edits.
And the movie. Just. Seemed. To. Go. On. And. On. And. On.
It wasn't bad, exactly. It just wasn't all that great.
I can't understand how anyone could think this was a good movie. I mean, they actually spent time on character development for the villains, made Two-Face seem sympathetic, and Batman's ultimate arch-enemy, the Bat Vigilante Squad, was barely even in the movie. Worst superhero movie ever.
I kid. ;D
Seriously, meh. I really preferred Batman Begins. Dark Knight just seemed to never end. The pacing and editing were poor - at least once in the movie, for several minutes, I seriously thought the projectionist had accidentally skipped a reel. The shoot-out at the police commissioner's funeral just abruptly has been over, with all of the characters off doing other things. And how did Batman know where Harvey Dent went? This was the worst, but there were several other "transitions" which just seemed confusingly abrupt.
And at several points in the movie, I felt like I was watching a film that had been (badly) edited for TV - maybe it had been edited for violence at the last minute to get a lower rating? There are several characters (the black gangster, the Chinese money launderer, and others) that I guess we just have to assume were killed. I don't need to see blood and gore, I'm fine with a tasteful cut-away, but these didn't seem so much designed cut-aways as choppy edits.
And the movie. Just. Seemed. To. Go. On. And. On. And. On.
It wasn't bad, exactly. It just wasn't all that great.