It's about Bat-time for some Bat-links, y'all:
1) Here are my collected reviews of every Batman movie up to and including The Dark Knight at Tor.com.
2) My non-spoiler review of The Dark Knight Rises, which says pretty much all I've got to say; you want to fight about particular elements in it that “don't make sense,” I'm not your guy. Besides, I already ripped whiny bullshit fan reactions the other day.
3) My piece in The Atlantic about where both Christopher Nolan and Batman stand at present.
Happy Monday, kids!
Danny, thanks for your coverage and your consideration for your audience. I'm glad I didn't read anything about the film before my bro and I saw it last night. Enhanced my enjoyment tremendously. I now wish I hadn't read anything AFTER I saw the film, either, because most critics can't help pointing out all the inconsistencies (i.e. the prison is WHERE, again? Who's running it? How did B. have time to drop B. there? etc). And that makes one re-evaluate one's experience, to some extent. I suppose I could just try to hearken back to my original experience, but that fades over time. After I saw the film, I didn't want to listen to anything on my iPod because I had Hans Zimmer's score in my head and was enjoying being in that TDKR "mindset." Now all I can think about is what didn't work. Is this a personal thing, or a larger problem?
ReplyDeleteIt helps to remember that they're not naturalistic movies, and thus real-world "inconsistencies" aren't necessarily that. The 15 nitpicks list on /Film was pretty egregious on that count, as a full 14 of them were completely irrelevant and the 1 that actually almost was an argument was subjective. Though, to be fair, they phrased it as things that "bothered" them, not problems.
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