I've been trying to think of something to blog about for a while now and I finally came upon a subject that I felt the want to blog about. As you may know, Dark Knight comes out this month and there's been a lot of hype on the movie ever since its release earlier this year. So I think I'll add a little to the noise.
This newest installment into the Batman series based off of the version of comics by Frank Miller (writer of the graphic novel 300) and is the grittiest so far. I find it actually amusing that critics couldn't find anything wrong with the movie so they attacked how Batman talked. I personally think the way he talks if sweet, besides the fact that if he didn't disguise his voice everyone would know it was Bruce Wayne.
This newest installment into the Batman series based off of the version of comics by Frank Miller (writer of the graphic novel 300) and is the grittiest so far. I find it actually amusing that critics couldn't find anything wrong with the movie so they attacked how Batman talked. I personally think the way he talks if sweet, besides the fact that if he didn't disguise his voice everyone would know it was Bruce Wayne.
Anyway, back to the movie itself. This movie has Joker who is essentially the character that made it so big. Coupled with the fact it was Heath Ledgers last performance (thank God in Heaven it wasn't Broke Back Mountain) made the movie a regular record breaker. I won't give away any of the plot because I want you to get the full affect of it. I will tell you though that if you're planning on watching a remake of the first Tim Burton Batman, you're in for a shock. The Joker (and another villian I won't mention in case you haven't heard) is more than ready to kill anyone and everyone. And they both kill a lot of people.
Here is where the movie found its enemies. Parents who must not have seen the first one thought that there was an excessive amount of killing in it with no show of the consequenses, meaning no blood. Now I can understand this, but if they're not taking their to see a movie with violence, but no blood, would they have taken them to see a movie where when Joker stabs a man in the eye with a pencil (which he does) blood sprays everywhere. I don't think so. That's what war movies are for. Also, if they had put blood the movie would have undoubtedly been rated R.
Now me, I don't have a problem with that. An R rated Batman sounds pretty cool. But that's beside the point. The point is would the movie have sent a better message if it was bloody. Uh...NO! So I would rather not hear that side of the spectrum.
Another thing is that people deemed it too dark and disturbing for a PG-13 rating, but if we rewind a decade Poltergeise was only rated PG! So I don't want to hear that either. It's an action movie that give you a warning of it's content. So I suggest we look at the cartoons that are being played on kid's networks. Why don't you count up the kills in those and show me where the consequence of violence is there?
And finally, (are't you glad I'm almost done ranting?) there are those who have gathered an opinion of the movie before it came out. I've read numerous reviews from people who haven't even seen the movie. They say their sources are other reviews from people they don't even know. A review is nothing but an opinion on a movie. You can't judge a movie by five reviews alone. Those reviews that I mentioned were nothing but saying the movie is scary and disturbing and unsettling. I've seen movies that are like that and this is nothing like that. I'll just say that before you make an argument on a subject research both sides. Find a point and a counter point, then I'll believe you.
One of the biggest problems with people is that they always have a preconception on what the movie is like. I know quite a few people who just knew for sure that The Happening, M. Knight's first R movie would have sex and cussing in it. Needless to say it didn't. It wasn't even that gory or bloody. It just dealt with suicide a lot and that's a touchy subject.
Oh well. I give this movie two thumbs way up, as they say.
