My thoughts on The Dark Knight
I'm in the process of breaking myself out of a nocturnal sleeping pattern. Thursday I went to bed at 2PM and woke up at 11PM. Then I forced myself to stay up all day Friday and went to sleep at 7PM and I've just woken up now.
Friday during the day I needed something to kill time so I conned my way into a movie theater by saying to the ticket taker "I just need to come back in and use the bathroom" to which he replied "sure".
So I'm in the theater. I have no idea what movies are playing or at what times, so I look at the signs above the doors and go into the first movie I see that's about to start which is one called "Not Easily Broken". From the name of this movie I assumed it must be some manly action movie (which I wasn't necessarily excited about) but it was actually a romantic drama (and not a very good one) so after about thirty minutes I walked back out into the hall and happened apon The Dark Knight which was about to start so I went in.
The Dark Knight is supposedly one of the biggest box office successes ever. I've heard several good things about it, and just from the way the phrase "why so serious?" got so popular I thought this movie must be good.
Before I get into this I have to point out that my reception of the movie may have been influenced by the fact that I was tired, but I didn't think The Dark Knight was very good. It was a long, chaotic mess of a movie. It seemed like nothing more than three hours of stylized, unrelated violence and explosions. I'm not a fan of violence in the first place, but The Dark Knight conformed to a PG-13 rating in order to increase sales but still tried to make it violent so the result is this ridiculous never ending barrage of non-bloody shootings, stabbings, and fist fights. Honestly, I had no idea what was going on throughout the majority of the movie. It was like "oh, ok, these people are shooting at these people..hmm..now this building is blowing up ok...now there's a chase scene..WHY Is all this happening?" I mean I grasp the plot of the movie, the Joker is terrorizing Gotham City and Batman has to stop him, but the way scenes unfold and just the way the movie is put together isn't very logical. It doesn't seem like the people who made this were interested in telling a story.
Christian Bale's voice of Batman was absolutely repulsive. As Batman he talks in this stupid husky growl. The first moment I heard Batman speak I was just like "What?! Please don't tell me we have to listen to that unintelligible barking the whole movie." That's not how Batman is supposed to sound.
I've never really been a fan of Batman or any comic book based movie. I still remember when the first two Batman films came out. Batman and Batman Returns which was the one with the Penguin. Even growing up as a kid I never really liked those movies but they were ones I watched on several occasions with other people just because they were so popular and ubiquitous. As much as those ones sucked I still think they were A LOT better than this most recent incarnation. Compared to The Dark Knight, Batman Returns is a cinematic masterpiece.
My final verdict for The Dark Knight: 4 out of 10.
Friday during the day I needed something to kill time so I conned my way into a movie theater by saying to the ticket taker "I just need to come back in and use the bathroom" to which he replied "sure".
So I'm in the theater. I have no idea what movies are playing or at what times, so I look at the signs above the doors and go into the first movie I see that's about to start which is one called "Not Easily Broken". From the name of this movie I assumed it must be some manly action movie (which I wasn't necessarily excited about) but it was actually a romantic drama (and not a very good one) so after about thirty minutes I walked back out into the hall and happened apon The Dark Knight which was about to start so I went in.
The Dark Knight is supposedly one of the biggest box office successes ever. I've heard several good things about it, and just from the way the phrase "why so serious?" got so popular I thought this movie must be good.
Before I get into this I have to point out that my reception of the movie may have been influenced by the fact that I was tired, but I didn't think The Dark Knight was very good. It was a long, chaotic mess of a movie. It seemed like nothing more than three hours of stylized, unrelated violence and explosions. I'm not a fan of violence in the first place, but The Dark Knight conformed to a PG-13 rating in order to increase sales but still tried to make it violent so the result is this ridiculous never ending barrage of non-bloody shootings, stabbings, and fist fights. Honestly, I had no idea what was going on throughout the majority of the movie. It was like "oh, ok, these people are shooting at these people..hmm..now this building is blowing up ok...now there's a chase scene..WHY Is all this happening?" I mean I grasp the plot of the movie, the Joker is terrorizing Gotham City and Batman has to stop him, but the way scenes unfold and just the way the movie is put together isn't very logical. It doesn't seem like the people who made this were interested in telling a story.
Christian Bale's voice of Batman was absolutely repulsive. As Batman he talks in this stupid husky growl. The first moment I heard Batman speak I was just like "What?! Please don't tell me we have to listen to that unintelligible barking the whole movie." That's not how Batman is supposed to sound.
I've never really been a fan of Batman or any comic book based movie. I still remember when the first two Batman films came out. Batman and Batman Returns which was the one with the Penguin. Even growing up as a kid I never really liked those movies but they were ones I watched on several occasions with other people just because they were so popular and ubiquitous. As much as those ones sucked I still think they were A LOT better than this most recent incarnation. Compared to The Dark Knight, Batman Returns is a cinematic masterpiece.
My final verdict for The Dark Knight: 4 out of 10.