Once again, that just feels like someone seeing a couple of people saying that online and being like “Well that must be how it is” and wrote that long-ass tweet.
I'm with Grimace but several of my friends were like that about Dark Knight. Obviously the generations after will never feel as strongly about a peace of art as the one it belongs to.
i'll always have a soft spot for The Dark Knight, but i also kinda like that comic book movies have gotten more comic-book-y. i enjoy The Batman and Penguin, of course, but i appreciate the escapism the less grounded ones have to offer. a bad comic book movie is still a bad movie tho. i'm hoping the new Superman brings back the optimistic worldview that should come with seeing flying men in tights. Clark isn't even my favorite dc character. we've gotten enough versions that are broody (Man of Steel) or just plain evil (Injustice and Suicide Squad games, Invincible and The Boys)
The problem was always that it wanted to be A Very Important Movie but when you began analyzing it as such (the weird copout with The PATRIOT Act, the boat scene) people would get mad. Near the end of that trilogy people were starting to say they were glad the other superhero movies were lighter, so you are never going to please that crowd.
I feel like loving The Dark Knight is a very… uh, “normie” opinion to have? Idk, “normie” is an annoying way to talk lol, but I don’t mean it condescendingly or whatever. Feels like the best word for it. My opinion of the Nolan Batmans (compared to other cinematic Batman takes) has really declined over the years. But, that’s because I tend to want my Batman to feel a bit more heightened, whether pulpy or campy or overwrought or whatever. Also, it’s the straightest Batman, lol.
Most of the love for The Dark Knight in particular is really just because of Heath Ledger’s Joker depiction and the fact that Ledger died before he was able to see any of the acclaim for the role
I still love Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Both have their faults, but man, I love Nolan just having fun directing a popcorn movie. I think the Dark Knight Rises is ass though.
You cant have woke Batman. Batman at its core an outdated bad premise. In a world with too much crime the answer is to build weapons to fight the mentally ill. Hes a billionaire punching poor people. Every Bat movie has to have a problem where the solution is for the billionaire to punch it with his crazy weapons.
In the movie, Batman builds a giant network that spies on everyone's phones. He reveals it to Morgan Freeman and says that its use is to catch the Joker. Freeman is disgusted by it but says he will use it just one time before resigning. Of course, it helps them catch The Joker and when Freeman puts in the special password, the thing self destructs, which lets everyone completely off the hook about the morality of spying on the entire city without a warrant or cause. The Joker was going to blow up both boats since they didn't do it, so in the films logic spying was a good thing and the people doing it won't abuse it. If Bush hadn't been term limited in 2008 you would have thought it was a campaign commercial.
I disagree with Batman being “bad” and “outdated.” This borders on those old recurring Twitter takes that Bruce Wayne should just use his money to make Gotham better or whatever. It’s a fantasy. It’s the Shadow with a preteen circus performer partner tackling bombastic Dick Tracy villains. I’m not gonna say it has to stay “for children” to work ‘cause thrilling tales for adults have always been a thing, lol, but it does need kept at arms length from “grounded” “realism.” Only when people try to take him too “literally” or whatever do you get those bad implications.
Boiling hot day today, so what are some film suggestions on a day like today for films that feel hot? Stuff like Do the Right Thing, Texas Chainsaw, Wake in Fright, Sexy Beast - Sweaty, humid stultifying etc, where you can feel the heat in the air.
idk if this is exactly what you're looking for but Fear Street part two and The Babysitter 2 were the first things to come to mind
Ciaran Hinds is probably my favorite to see pop up. He is probably most famous for being The King Beyond the Wall in Game of Thrones, but he has been in so many other things. His face exudes empathy, the kind you get when you have seen so many things and have wisdom to impart.
I'm not going to attack people for liking batman but if you disagree with my point you need to argue that the premise is good and relevant today. Jacked dude whering a bat costume can be fun but it's best yes I was just adding to tetras point about the dark knight, that the issues with it are inherent to taking Batman seriously.
Started Orphan Black for the first time last night. Good first episode! I put it on late and thought I'd get 15 minutes in and start falling asleep like usual, but I was hooked pretty quickly.
Was surprised to see Duster didn't have its own thread and barely even a mention in the previous general thread. Show is a whole mess of fun.