Everyone Was Kung Foo Fightin
Just about all the fight scenes with Batman in them were too confusing, dark, and too closely shot. This was one of the only drawbacks of the first film, but seemed to get significantly worse in TDK. Stuff like this works in horror or suspense files like Alien, but for action movies they are crap. It’s not like we don’t know what Batman looks like. We want to see the fighting. We want to get a sense of where things are happening. We want to have a 3D sense of a scene. We don’t want to see close-ups of arms flailing and occasionally blocking punches or bodies tumbling around with lots of hitting sounds. And dark, oh so dark… Yeah, we get it, it’s NIGHT, it’s DARK, and it’s the DARK KNIGHT, but we don’t need to have some of the most enticing visual parts of the movie so obscured that all we can muster is “I’m pretty sure Batman is kicking some ass because, well, I can hear things being smacked around, there’s his blurry head and bat ears and, oh wait, I think I just saw a flash of his bat ninja thingies fly by…”
Filed under: Writing/Direction Tags: fight scenes
