Dark Night Review: Short Version - "Pants"

Jul 26, 2008 01:46

Review of one of the most surprising let downs follows. There are no spoilers, the film spoils itself enough ( Read more... )

batman begins the dark night

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he_man_is_cool July 26 2008, 20:03:54 UTC
ooooh get you mr. johnathan ross ;)

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wordmongerer July 26 2008, 22:35:34 UTC
Film and TV are my passions - I think about them a lot. Plus it is said that Jonathan Ross has a massive cock, so thanks!

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he_man_is_cool July 26 2008, 23:09:15 UTC
i won't tell you what i mainly think about.but,i don't think people would wanna read 'bout it.hehe. what's the worst film you've ever saw?

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wordmongerer July 27 2008, 11:33:10 UTC
Well you're a man so you many think about sexy, sexy nastiness! Which (as a man) is ALWAYS worth reading about!

Worst film I ever saw? Hmmm. You say there's awful films that I like that are so awful that I end up splitting my sides watching (like Dungeons and Dragons, Runaway Car, Batman and Robin), then there's the just plain awful, no redeeming features films like Final Destination, King Kong, etc. I can definitely get quite angry talking about Peter Jackson's King Kong but I don't think it's the worst film I've ever seen. Let me have a think about it...

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spiderfan2099 July 27 2008, 04:49:35 UTC
I have to disagree, I thought this was one of, if not the, best film I have seen in a very, very long time. Also, Two-Face is my favourite villain, in anything, ever. And I have to say I liked Two-Face in this film, he was well done and had a good motivation. There were also pre-cursors to his derangement elsewhere in the film.

The only bit I found a bit stupid was the new bat-suit. Sure it looks cool but look at it from a more logical perspective.

Batman "I got bitten by a dog, I obviously need to change the armour that seems to be stopping me getting shot and stabbed to incorporate anti-dog shielding somehow."
Fox: "This suit may be better against dogs, which seem to be your Kryptonite, but they will be pretty much shit against guns and knives."
Batman: "So dogs can wound me enough that I will need a few stitches, and bullets and knives can very easily kill me. Hmmm... I think I will go with the dog-proof one."

EH!?!?

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wordmongerer July 27 2008, 11:29:28 UTC
The thing is the whole 2 face thing felt very much like a 15 minute film sort of bolted on at the end, which seemed to consist of a lot of Dawson's Creek-ish speechifying about purity and white knights and the such. It aslo culminated with Batman not being able to control a fall from about 20 metres up whereas earlier he'd managed to fall off a sky scraper and smash into a car without any problems whatsoever. There's a bit as well where he could have just let the Joker die without actually having to deliver the killing blow and breaking his one rule, but he doesn't and the only point of that appears to have been in order for the Joker to reveal the Two-Face plot. Which is what I sort of mean about the film being very "written," there's too much lazy and convenient writing in this film. I though Batman Begins was surprisingly subtle, but this one laid it on too thick. I couldn't say that I hated TDK but for me it was a massive non-event movie, that never really got going.

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