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Why "The Dark Knight" Sucks…

tdksucks — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:31:08 +0000

If you haven’t already figured out, this site is focused on explaining why the movie “The Dark Knight” (2008) sucks. Part of the reason for putting this site together was to counter the seemingly unquestionable hype surrounding the movie. The viral marketing campaigns, the massive buildup, the fanboys… all leading so many movie-goers to pause critical reasoning and tout the movie as some kind of masterpiece. Further, whenever a dissenting voice is heard to even question such blind praise, it’s as if a blasphemy has been uttered.

Each article posted here will point out a specific problem with the movie. Suggestions for additional articles can be submitted to the suggestions page.

Only ONE Gripe?

tdksucks — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:35:27 +0000

On Yahoo’s homepage today, there is a news article from the Associated Press titled “Biggest ‘Dark Knight’ Gripe” with a subtitle of “Batman’s Flaw” which leads to the article titled “Monday Movie Buzz: Bale’s Batman voice too much?“ All it talks about is Bale’s voice.

There’s no contact information for the article, unclear who wrote it, so could someone out there somewhere PLEASE find a way to contact that writer or the AP or even Yahoo’s Entertainment News & Gossip section and point them here? If not successful with Yahoo, possibly the Associated Press at www.ap.org.

Alfred's Role in Mystic River

tdksucks — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:01:58 +0000

Believe it or not, Alfred, played by Michael Caine, had a role in “Mystic River”: in the end, he’s in drag (or was that Laura Linney?) and gives the same sort of speech to Sean Penn that he gave to Bruce Wayne, played by Christian Bale, repeatedly throughout his brief cameo walk-ins for “The Dark Knight”. His repeated “you’re the king” style speech was in stark contrast to his constant disturbance over Bruce’s crime-fighting obsession all throughout “Batman Begins”. That is, until the end when he gives him the “What do we do when we fall?” inspiration.

Really, Alfred’s entire role in TDK was to keep telling Bruce to go out there and do whatever shit he needs to get the job done, even if it means not being such a good guy when doing it. So not only are his morals somewhat shifted from BB, but he actually is now encouraging Bruce to dive head first into probable bodily harm and possible death. And when he finally gives the “we burned the whole forrest” line in his final speech to Bruce, what was the point of it? No symbolic action of the sort was taken by Batman at all that he wasn’t already doing or hadn’t already set in motion. The symbolism of that ended up being meaningless.

Release The Hounds

tdksucks — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:55:15 +0000

In “Batman Begins”, Christian Bale is shown to be skillful and powerful enough to hold his own against multiple dangerous opponents, including skilled ninja-types. Although the fight scenes could have been more clear in BB, they were still engaging and entertaining. So how come in “The Dark Knight” all it takes to bring Batman down so that The Joker can pound on him (with, I believe, a piece of wood of all things) are a couple of rottweilers?

“Smithers…”

Apparently Batman Gargles Rocks

tdksucks — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:16:42 +0000

I loved “Batman Begins”, it was an excellent reboot of a series that seriously needed it. I remember when I was a teenager and went to see the first Tim Burton Batman movie, I was floored at how good it was, and it didn’t get unseated until “Batman Begins”.

When Christian Bale roughed his voice a bit in his scenes as Batman in “Batman Begins”, it was authentically cool because he didn’t take it over the top. He did it just rough enough so as to disguise his voice and add a menacing appeal. When he did it in The Dark Night, however, it transitioned into the realm of the ludicrous.

I swear at some moments it was so try-hard that I saw spit coming out of his mouth. If hiding his voice was so key, why not introduce a device into his costume, perhaps around his neck, which would help mask his voice? The writers seemed perfectly OK to introduce the notion of 30 million cell phones all of a sudden becoming real-time 3D sonar devices, why not make the need for a rediculous raspy voice moot by introducing a device to handle it?