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“The Dark Knight”: Let the Controversy Begin
By Kyle | July 15, 2008
I’ve just written my review of “The Dark Knight,” in a two-hour sprint, and while I await editorial input I glance at other reviews.
There is plenty here for critics to bat away at: David Edelstein calls the film “noisy and sadistic,” David Fear of Time Out calls it a “padded popcorn flick,” and David Denby has drawn 479 (!) comments by saying “it isn’t shaped coherently and it goes on forever.” Still, it’s at 88 percent at Rotten Tomatoes. There will be more negative reviews when it opens, I suspect. It’s a movie that ventures into the political shadowlands, but that’s not the only reason some won’t like it. It is a bit jumbled (some strands don’t seem to go anywhere), it has some clunky one-liners and it has an awful lot of absurdly complicated criminal schemes.
As for the things it gets right, see my review above.
Topics: Comic Books, Movies |
July 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I’m sure all 479 people who carpet bombed David Denby with comments saw the film already, right?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
If Heath Ledger were alive today, all this controversy would not be an issue. People wouldn’t care if the movie was criticized it would be just another action flick.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
“If Heath Ledger were alive today, all this controversy would not be an issue. People wouldn’t care if the movie was criticized it would be just another action flick.”
In that case, who died when they were making *Wall-E*?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
The world died, Wall-E cried.