Posted on August 1st, 2008 by tdksucks
What was with the lovey-dove eyes Bruce Wayne was giving Harvey Dent when running into him and Rachel Dawes having dinner? Clearly Bruce had determined where Harvey would be so he could casually bump into them while on a date with the Russian Ballerina, and then coordinated to join their table. The purpose of that [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound, Subpar Acting, Writing/Direction Tags: Bruce Wayne, crush, gay, Harvey Dent, homosexual, nipples, Rachel Dawes, robin | 30 Comments »
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by tdksucks
In addition to the large number of major story, logic, writing, direction, and other issues documented on The Dark Knight Sucks web sites, the Movie Mistakes web site currently has 21 “bloopers” listed for the movie, and the list is growing. Bloopers are primarily continuity goofs or unintended editing mistakes.
Filed under: Editing/Sound, Entertainment, Goofs & Flubs Tags: bloopers, Entertainment, goofs, mistakes, movie mistakes, TDK, the dark knight | 31 Comments »
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by tdksucks
There’s a notion when watching/reading fictional movies/stories, and it’s called “suspension of disbelief”. Most contemporary movies, even if they are based within reality, require the audience to maintain at least SOME suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief is [from Wikipedia] “the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound, Makeup/Custume, Story/Plot Problems, Subpar Acting, Visuals/Effects, Writing/Direction Tags: believability, Chris Nolan, fiction, plausible, realism, reality, suspension of disbelief | 27 Comments »
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by tdksucks
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 [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound Tags: batman, batman begins, Chris Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Gary Oldman, James Gordon, Lieutenant Gordon, music score, the dark knight | 9 Comments »
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by tdksucks
Bruce wayne is temporarily living in a penthouse in Chicago (I mean Gotham) and the penthouse has huge windows overlooking the city, with endless buildings around him. He chooses at one moment to sit in his batsuit, minus mask, facing 2 windows where any one of thousands of people in nearby buildings could decide to look out [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound, Makeup/Custume, Writing/Direction Tags: alfred, batman, costume, makeup, penthouse | 27 Comments »
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by tdksucks
Harvey & Rachel get kidnapped. Harvey is shown kidnapping Gordon’s family, Harvey is shown kidnapping Joker’s henchman. So clearly when secondary characters are kidnapped it’s important to show their kidnappings. However, apparently, when major characters are kidnapped, it’s not important to show it because the audience is supposed to presume that The Joker is omnipotent, all-powerful, and kidnaps [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound, Writing/Direction Tags: editing issues, kidnap, kidnapping, The Joker | 20 Comments »
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by tdksucks
The sloppy editing starts to get unnerving. Perhaps the reason for it is that the original cut went well past 3 hours, or perhaps some scenes needed editing to avoid an “R” rating, but nonetheless the result was a number of places in the movie which suffered from poor or mis-timed editing.
Here’s one:
The Joker crashes [...]
Filed under: Editing/Sound Tags: editing, scenes | 73 Comments »
