Posted on 07/28/2012 1:19:19 PM PDT by Bratch
In the wake of the awful massacre in Aurora, Colorado, we're reading al lot of criticism directed at Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," the second feature in the director's trilogy and the one with the memorable "Joker" character that apparently inspired the alleged movie theatre shooter. The problem with much of this criticism, however, is that it portrays the movie as the exact opposite of what it really is.
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If I had to choose the most inexpressibly moving and inspiring moment of humanity of any film released over the least five years, it would be the sequence in "The Dark Knight" when Joker is truly foiled.
In this unforgettable sequence, one ferry carries everyday citizens, another carries hardened criminals. Joker has rigged both to explode and will only save the passengers on the ferry who choose to blow up the other. In the end, both sets of passengers choose to die rather than commit murder.
Whatever drove that evil in Aurora, Colorado -- it was someone who missed the entire point of "The Dark Knight."
And that's not on Christopher Nolan.
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One of the best trilogies next to Lord of the Rings. I won’t give away the third episode but I think Batman came to appreciate Cat Woman’s view on guns.
Yes, Nolan knows how to make a movie. Epics that focus more on character than “mindless”action. Gary Oldman is as much a star of this last film as Bale. And believe it or not, he makes a heavy a sympathetic character.
Yes, Nolan knows how to make a movie. Epics that focus more on character than “mindless”action. Gary Oldman is as much a star of this last film as Bale. And believe it or not, he makes a heavy a sympathetic character.
Bruce Wayne’s parent’s murderer used a gun to kill them. So he will never kill or use a gun. Actually I didn’t like that ending, because it kind of cheapens Batman’s moral rules.
Caption for the Joker Photo: You have the right to remain Psycho
Maybe...maybe not. Maybe it was this one.
It's funny, I saw maybe seven trailers, and with the exception of one (dumb) comedy, they were all one explosion/gunfire/explosion/car chase after another. The only one that stood out was "Expendables 2" for the names. I thought, wow, if I could show my trailer (which I'm sending you in Freepmail), I think it would be the only one remembered.
What I hated about the Batman trilogy most was Bale’s Batman voice. That he was opposed to guns was a bit hypocritical when you consider all of the other weapons he used. Also you had to suspend your belief of physics with a motorcycle that should not have been able to turn and a helicopter with a blade on the bottom. But otherwise I liked the suggestion that the 1% take it upon themselves to help the poor without the government having to twist their arms to do so. But I’ll leave you with a question my niece had about the movies: Who’d want to live in Gotham City?
Other than that, people spend $20 on a movie and then they defend their choice, just like they'd depend buying a Yugo automobile, nothing new in that. To say that a violent horror entertainment vehicle product in Hollywood parlance is conservative, is stretching the excuses for putting money in the pockets of donors to the Obama campaign.
Oh... so she tells him she likes big guns ?
Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ: “The people in the theater were jumpy, getting up and going out the exit, coming back. The movie itself is dark—murders, massacres, torture, weird sinister chanting, foreboding music. There’s some sort of revolt, and Gotham is taken over by a small army led by a monster. They shoot up the floor of the stock exchange. The homes of the wealthy are ransacked. The thinking or motivation of the monster-leader, Bane, is never made clear.”
Seriously. Or texting the entire time.
Good grief! It’s an F’in movie for God’s sake! Man, people need to grow up. Life is NOT a fantasy in Hollyweird! I’ve never watch any of these P’sOS. You’d have to be insane to go.
None of what she described happened? How’s your Yugo?
Or this one.
Or this one.
Or this one.
Did you see the movie?
Best Joker ever, the one played by Jack Nicholson. He brought edge to it.
Srsly! That IS who he reminded me of! That’s great! Thanks for posting!
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