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| Christmas came earlySome anonymous donor out there knew what I needed and provided it. Whoever you are, I am touched and exceedingly grateful. And if you are who I think you are, do you realize the irony of this gift?
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| A PSA for the ladiesIf you say to a man, "You look like my nephew. Because you look young. It's a compliment," it's not a compliment. No part of that is...complimentary.
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| The Dark KnightOverall I liked The Dark Knight, but there were some instances of
extremely poor cutting, poor writing, and really bad plot conceptions.
Let's go through them.
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When Rachel Dawes is threatened by the Joker, District Attorney Harvey Dent asks her who she trusts, and she replies, "Bruce. His mansion is probably the safest place in Gotham." Now this hearkened back to a very poorly edited scene earlier in the film in which Bruce Wayne is holding a fundraising party for Dent. The Joker easily crashes this party and...I don't know...presumably kills everyone at the party after Dent, Wayne, and Dawes escape. The movie completely ignores the aftermath of the invasion. It is this incredibly lousy scene that ruins Dawes' line about the safety of Wayne Manor. Do you call that security? I can only assume that the party was not held at Wayne Manor, but the film didn't do a very good job of letting me know exactly where they were at the time. I mean, hell, there was a helicopter pad AND trap doors for Bruce to escape into and change into Batman. Wasn't that Wayne Manor?
It was apparently central to the Joker's plot to be in prison and then escape from prison. Jim Gordon, while questioning the Joker in the interrogation room, decides he wants to play good cop-bad cop and for some reason this necessitates removing the Joker's handcuffs. Now, I'll allow for this because it does produce an intimidating effect, but what I won't allow for is the incredibly stupid decision of putting a cop in the interrogation room with the Joker after Batman beats the shit out of him. What kind of moronic police force would do that? Had they never heard of locking the door? Director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan wrote this in just to provide a hostage for the Joker's escape.
I accept that the Joker is some kind of criminal genius and is able to be in so many places without...*ahem*...being noticed, but Harvey Dent is not a criminal genius. And yet, once he turns into Two-Face, he can seemingly pull off the same random appearances that the Joker does-- again-- without being noticed. *cough* Showing up randomly in a bar, lucky enough to find his victim there even though throngs of Gotham's citizens are amassed together like herds of buffalo? Wow, able to sneak into Maroni's car without Moroni's driver noticing? Able to survive the car accident after he shoots the driver? Wow. Oh, and he comes up with this moronic thing about chance with his lucky two-head coin. It looks like something he got out of a collector's edition of Monopoly. So he's in a hospital bed and he sees his shiny coin looks fine after the fire and he's happy until he flips it over and sees the other side is messed up. So he starts wailing like a baby. Now let me be fair; I understand this isn't an easy thing to write for, so Nolan did one very smart thing and that was cut out the sound during this scene, cuz otherwise I would've rolled my eyes so far around I'd've gone blind and missed the rest of the movie.
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There's a little more I could talk about I guess but I'll stop the negatives here. A couple things done correctly:
1) replacement of Katie Holmes with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who looked crazy-adorable, 2) the end of the chase scene which looked like an homage to Tim Burton's Batman, 3) Heath Ledger's light touch on the Joker, and 4) the overall message and theme of the film, which gave The Dark Knight its title.
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| All relative"4 teens, all good students and athletes." / "...star students and football players."
A statement like that might make some people wonder aloud at the thought of a violent crime. But if you've ever been to high school and aren't delusional, you should know that a "star student" has a B average and "athlete" is also known as "prick."
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