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Hans Van Harken @AlmightyHans

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The Dark Knight Sucked: Part 2

Posted by AlmightyHans - December 16th, 2008


Visually, It saddens me that the colorful, vivid world of Gotham city was so downgraded in the new Batman movies.

Don't you remember the Gothic/Art Deco skyline crawling up to the sky with flickering lights. The Gargoyles, the alleys, the bridges... A city that really looked like it needed a big hand in Vigilante duties. A bold yet broken world, barely holding itself up from the terrible abnormal criminals that haunt its people. Cast in shadows, rain, snow or fog constantly...

Instead, Gotham city is now Chicago.

All of the visual charms of Gotham City, the character designs, imagination, and creativity of the world of Batman are gone.

Batman had this beautiful mixture of Pulp Fiction (and I don't mean the movie), Art Deco, Gothic Architecture, and old school sci fi.

Batman himself had the Bad ass of a cowboy, the slick and classy of James Bond, the poetic danger of Dracula, and the smarts and clever of the sherlock holmes. All these things, plus a disturbing past and psychology, and internal conflict.

Now, to me, these are incredible ingredients. And for nearly a century they have been slowly shaping to form the wonderful thing that is Batman. Why change it? I understand and admire seeing new things. I admire seeing Christopher Nolan's approach to the world. But there are certain aspects of batman that cannot be changed, for it makes it what it is. People claim that the reason why the new Batman movies are cool are because they are more realistic, and this works because batman doesn't have super powers. This all sounds good on the surface, but to me, there are numerous things in the core of the batman universe that make it fictional enough so that putting it in a real world setting won't work. The new batman movies are proof of that if you look at it deep enough.

I always thought Morgan Freeman's character in the new movies was basically pointless. people thought that it was cool to know where he gets his equipment from, and it is, but not important enough to entitle an entire character, basically an Alfred #2. When you try to explain so many things in a story it becomes sloppy, and it's pointless. What's most important is getting the basics focused. And Batman movies are just about Batman and his Rival, whoever that might be.

But The Dark Knight had too many protagonists, too many antagonists, protagonists turning into antagonists, making a big build up, cutting off their conclusion, switching from one to the other and back and not paying enough time or focus on the main character... so on and so forth. It started off good and just fell apart.

The New Batman lost every charm that batman ever had to me.

also, 'lol' at the pic below.

The Dark Knight Sucked: Part 2


Comments

yea the dark knight sucked.....
also wtf to the pic!

i enjoyed the fearlessness of the dark knight but now that you mention it, i guess it has lost its originality..damn

Hey, we still have Iron Man.
Big ups 2 Marvel!

dude, Iron man to me is one the top 5 best super hero movies of all time. It's up there with Spiderman 2, Batman/Batman Returns. I really Enjoyed that movie.

Warner Brothers Pictures presents...

...The Dark Negro...

Why so serious mutha fuckaaaaa?!

I agree entirely, except for one part: the ending.
The ending wasn't supposed to be the one shown in the movie, they had to change it entirely.
Ledger, the guy who played as joker, died in the making of the movie. Due to this, they couldn't very well have him in the ending.
Thus, the ending left most people wanting.

ledger died after the film was done. Ledger died during the filming of Terry Gilliam's 'Dr. Parnassus'

Me and my friend, who hasn't actually seen the dark knight yet, wanted to walk into a comic store and yell THE DARK KNIGHT IS SHIT!

Didn't we have a long discussion about this at london meet? Where I argued that people only saw it for the Joker aswell.

I'm just waiting on the avengers movie, should be like "A marvel christmas".

I totally agree with you. Dark Knight doesn't really remind me of Batman. And I hate how they say they try to make it more realistic, because that is BS. No billionare will never dress up as a bat, shoot grappling hooks and glide to go place to place.

Not only that, but that tank they call a Batmobile in the movies are NOT realistic. There's no way something that large can fly across buldings like they way it is in the movies.

And, although Joker was a good actor, that was NOT Joker. I like the original Joker from the 1989 Batman movie. That was the corny Joker, that had lauging gas, fell into the acid, and said all those corny jokes. This new Joker was an insane, scary, scared, pure evil Joker. His backstory was so off in the movie. They never explained the Acid insident nor his history in the mob.

Dark Knight is an overated movie for a fact.

Jack nicholson was great. Because that guy is geniually insane and funny. When he laughs, he means it. The only thing that wasn't perfect for his role was his body type. But that isn't really too important. And i don't mind people taking creative freedoms with retelling characters, but i believe there are essentials to stay true to them because something that's been being fleshed out for so many years essentially becomes a very defined and workable character. why get rid of those essentials that make them who they are?

You look kind o JAck Black to me... only cooler.

lol