The Dark Knight review (long analysis)
The Dark Knight is the most overrated "superhero" film of all time.
I can't believe the incredibly overblown, unjustified hype this film is getting.
I say "superhero" because TDK is quite simply, a super-spy film/crime drama. They basically turned the genre into The Bourne Identity. Lots of people plotting and double-crossing and out-guessing the out ( Read more... )
I can't believe the incredibly overblown, unjustified hype this film is getting.
I say "superhero" because TDK is quite simply, a super-spy film/crime drama. They basically turned the genre into The Bourne Identity. Lots of people plotting and double-crossing and out-guessing the out ( Read more... )
And, I notice that you don't hold the same scrutiny to Iron Man, which doe have plot holes as well. Right off the bat I can think of two major ones:
1) Why would Tony Stark, famous WESTERN industrialist playboy, venture to war-torn Afghanistan with TOP US brass to demonstrate a weapon that could be just as easily demonstrated in the desert of Nevada? Surely, the US government would have at least surrounded the man with an equivalent amount of security John McCain received when he strolled through Baghdad, yet Mr. Stark is placed in an UNARMORED humvee without wearing so much as a bullet resistant vest!?
2)So, while Mr. Stark is stuck in Afghanistan he fashions the world's first suit of powered armor. Something that Berkeley, DARPA, and roboticists in Japan are all currently trying to do in our world. Yet, the man leaves this invention in the middle of nowhere, where Stane (with the help of the terrorists) stroll over and pick it up. Gee, maybe it should have occurred to Stark or the US Military to recover this piece of military hardware, if not to study it, then at least so it wouldn't be used against them...whoops too late for that.
Honestly, there's always various justifications to explain away plot holes, but the easiest response is that these are comic book movies, or action movies, or to use the most general term, popcorn movies. You aren't supposed to think.
If you really wanted to use your amazing powers of scrutiny and deduction on film I would recommend watching Taxi Driver to assess if the final scene is a dream, or Once Upon a Time in America to decide if most of the movie was an opium induced haze, or maybe even finally determine if Deckard in Blade Runner was a meatbag or an Rep.
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As for Iron Man "problems", here's direct responses to the lame ones offered (I still haven't read this "ton of problems" that interfere with the plot)
1) a) I'm sure US airspace kinda restricts weapons testing to a degree that a corporation might not want to have to deal with those restrictions, so it chooses to test them in a foreign desert.
b) The demonstration was closer to some of STARK Industries' customers by doing it out there (he's selling to the Mid East, etc).
c) Maybe you (and many others) didn't notice that later in the movie, it was revealed that Obadiah set Stark up - it was an ambush, engineered by Stane trying to get Tony killed.
2) You missed the main conceit in the movie : Stark is a GENIUS.
That is his superpower, really.
He invents shit.
To point out that there's a problem in the movie if DARPA can't make the suit but Tony can in a cave is pretty laughable, considering that the movie itself made that point in one scene.
And you must have missed the multiple scenes in Iron Man where the SHIELD agent repeatedly implored Tony (and Potts) to debrief the government about how he got away. They obviously were worried about any of his technology or secrets falling into terrorist hands, but the entire existence of the suit was a secret known only to Tony Stark!
If you're point is that Tony should have done something about it, well the armor is useless without a power source. The only power source was the one HE made. Noone could replicate it. He kept it in his chest, and trusted Potts to discard the other.
No massive amounts of plot holes here. Realistic character failings, perhaps, but not the endless list of issues that I (and other) have detailed with Batman.
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