I think Dark Knight is completely overrated and rubbish. I saw it at the theatre and left thinking 'what, is that it?'

It seems like everyone hyped it up because of ledger's death. IMO the movie would have been much improved if they didn't have all the two-face rubbish in it - it really distracted and dragged it down, especially with his ridiculous half-burnt face (which looked extremely fake).

 

I had about the same reaction. I really got excited about Joker from the previews, but was extremely disappointed when I discovered that they had already shown most of the cooler parts in the trailer(I hate when movies do that...).

The whole movie, I was waiting for Joker to do something really violent and twisted, but those moments never came(I downloaded it, so I didn't realize it wasn't rated R). When the movie finished, I didn't really know what to think. I absolutely loved parts of it, but as a whole... I dunno. To me, it just seemed like it tried to be too many things, and lacked focus.

And I won't lie, all the hype about how sick and demented the joker was didn't help. Hell, now that I think about it, symbiote-Spiderman from Spiderman 3 was almost as sadistic as Joker.

That does remind me though... I haven't seen Batman Begins yet. What did you think of it? Is it worth watching?

 

Er... nevermind my last question, I just realized you had a review of Begins up.

 

Yeah, I should have linked to my Batman 1 review, and would have if I were still a real blogger. I just read it to refresh my memory, and it's funny that i said it would have been much improved by an R rating, when that was one of my major reactions to this one. If you're going to have amoral thugs and vicious behavior and bad guys in a movie, it's probably a good idea to make the film with an adult rating, so you can actually do more than hint at those elements? Box office considerations always weigh in, unfortunately, and 13 y/os can't (so easily) go see an R-rated movie 10x during the boring summer.

Batman 1 is a more fun movie, and definitely a better action movie. It's much more compact and cohesive and concentrated on bruce wayne's evolution into Batman, and his learning experience as Batman and his quest to save the crumbling, fallen Gotham city.

Batman 2 is, as I said in this quickie, not trying to be an action movie. It's a morality play, it's a crime thriller, it's a psychological drama, etc. And it's not perfect at any of those things, but it does them all pretty well. Does the total exceed the sum of the parts? I'm not sure yet; my first viewing was so influenced by the hype and expectations I had going in that my evaluation is very suspect and subjective.