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- » ^new! Geezers Rip Knight by Jeffrey Wells (Blog: Hollywood Elsewhere, July 30, 2008)
- » ^new! 'The Dark Knight' gets shock therapy by Patrick Goldstein (Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2008)
- » ^new! Ten Reasons Why the new Batman Movie is Overhyped (and won’t stand the test of time) by brightviolet (Blog: Reveries of a Solitary Walker, July 29, 2008)
- » ^new! The Dark Knight = A Negative Batman Review? WTF?! by Dylon Whyte (Blog: Dylon Whyte's Current Thoughts, July 27, 2008)
- » ^recent Cluttered Dark Knight Irony by Sonny Wilkins (Blog: The Sonny Wilkins Chronicle, July 27, 2008)
- » ^recent The Dark Knight Deserves a Jousting Lance to the Throat by Tom Houseman (Blog: Tom Houseman Hates Movies, July 25, 2008)
- » ^recent Is The Dark Knight really the best film ever made? by Steve Rose (The Guardian UK, July 24, 2008)
- » This Knight is too Dark (and long) for me by Chris Tookey (Mail Online, July 24, 2008)
- » Batman - The Dark Knight, revealed by Derek Gendron (Blog: The Derek Gendron weblog, July 24, 2008)
- » The Dark Knight Sucks? (Blog: Absolutely Ridiculous, July 23, 2008)
- » The Dark Knight Was Somewhat Underwhelming (Blog: ToxicVirus, July 22, 2008)
- » The Dark Knight is the Worst Movie of the Year: An Honest Critique by Nathan Fisher (Blog: collected bloggings., July 21, 2008)
- » Past Shock: "The Dark Knight and "WALL-E" by David Denby (The New Yorker, July 21, 2008)
- » Trickster Heaven, Two-Faced Hell: The Dark Knight by Keith Uhlich (Blog: The House Next Door, July 19, 2008)
- » The Dark Knight Movie Sucks by Lila (Forum: Alberta Stars, July 19, 2008)
- » Dark Knight overload (Blog: Behind My Byline, July 18, 2008)
- » The Dark Knight by Mark Savlov (The Austin Chronicle, July 18, 2008)
- » No joke: Batman's latest plods toward predictability by Michael Sragow (Baltimore Sun, July 17, 2008)
- » Movie review: "The Dark Knight" by Stephanie Zacharek (Salon.com, July 17, 2008)
- » This Batman’s weighed down by gravitas by Robert McKay (The Times, July 15, 2008)
- » The Dark Knight by David Fear (TimeOut New York, July 15, 2008)
- » Bat Out of Hell - They don’t make superhero franchises much darker than this. by David Edelstein (New York Magazine, July 12, 2008)
- » The Devin'S Advocate: Holy Hyperbole, Batman by Devin Faraci (Chud.com, June 27, 2008)
- » Christopher Nolan panders to hip, nihilistic tendencies, forgetting that superheroes are also meant to inspire hope by Armond White (New York Press)
- » The Dark Knight by Marshall Fine (Star Magazine)
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Beam Everyone Out of the Hospital, Scotty

Posted on July 25th, 2008 by tdksucks

Let’s look a little closer at yet another aspect of Nolan’s “ultra-real” superhero movie:
The time period of the hospital evacuation segment is implied as being enough time to evacuate an entire hospital. The initial moments of The Joker’s threat hitting the airwaves, Gordon is heard shouting to various police crew to evacuate Gotham General Hospital [...]

Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: evacuation, Gary Wallace, gotham, hospital, Nolan, The Joker, Weird Science | 38 Comments »

Gotham is a District of Chicago

Posted on July 20th, 2008 by tdksucks

Tim Burton’s Gotham from his first Batman movie was epic. None too realistic, but so immersing and cinematic that it filled the role. It was literally one of the characters. I recall some commentary about how the set design was planned and one of the designers stated, I believe, that they considered what New York [...]

Filed under: Writing/Direction Tags: chicago, gotham, gotham city | 16 Comments »