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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.

Gordon Drowned… by Music Score

tdksucks — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:35:40 +0000

At times when Lieutenant Gordon, played by Gary Oldman, was talking, he could barely be heard due to being drowned out by the music score. Music in movies at times can be great, especially when it enhances the story-telling and helps drive an emotion home. There are instances in TDK where the score is so overwhelming as to actually make it hard to understand what Gordon is saying.

Some moments in the movie, the score worked great, in others it distracted. The disjointed execution of the music scoring was mediocre, which is easy enough to ignore when trying to enjoy a movie, but there were moments that it was simply done so wrong as to be distracting.

Maybe sub-titling could have helped.

Pick One: Realistic or Idealistic?

tdksucks — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:24:09 +0000

Clearly the goal of the movie was to be realistic and therefore have storylines and themes that could be plausible in reality. Nevermind that it’s a movie based on a comic book character and doesn’t need to qualify itself that way to be entertaining, it’s clear that’s what the intention is and if that’s the case then it will end up contradicting itself when moments of totally unrealistic idealism are shown.

Such is the case with the people on the 2 ferries loaded with explosives. In reality, it would take all of 30 seconds for someone on one boat or the other to turn the key on the trigger to blow up the other boat. The Milgram Experiment proves this.

Someone also mentioned: “The power gets shut off of the ferry boats and they sit in the water for an hour… yet no rescue boats come and ask what’s up. In real life a rescue boat or coast guard [or other form of patrol] would show up in 10 minutes.”

BTW, is Tommy “Tiny” Lister wearing the same orange jumpsuit from “Next Friday” (1999)?