The Dark Knight Sucks

In the world of super-realistic Batman, if you get half your face melted off, you are endowed with the following amazing super powers:

A magic eyeball that is impervious to harm, even if every piece of flesh around it is burned beyond recognition.  You will no longer need to fear death because your eyeball will live [...]

Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Visuals/Effects, Writing/Direction Tags: car crash, Entertainment, eye, eyeball, Two-Face | 40 Comments »

As I reported a few days ago, this site was climbing up WordPress.com’s “blog of the day” page which is updated daily.  It’s been on their BOTD pages for over a week and it’s now reached #15 globally and #8 for “English” language blogs (sorry I don’t have a permanent link for that).  The WordPress.com [...]

Filed under: Entertainment Tags: blog of the day, botd, Entertainment, top blog, top blogs, wordpress | 9 Comments »

I am in no way a fan of things based on idolizing characters or brands or companies.  I like things I can perceive as having quality and that are entertaining and positive to me, regardless of who brings it to me, or what “icon” it represents.  I state this because if I don’t then people [...]

Filed under: Entertainment, Uncategorized Tags: applause, audience, cheering, clapping, Entertainment, iron man, ironman, movie theater, movies, myth, the dark knight, theater | 48 Comments »

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 »

I would bet that most people who’ve seen “Idiocracy” (2006) and loved it, are probably not in the crowd who believes “The Dark Knight” is “OMGZ the best movie ever!”  If you haven’t seen Idiocracy, check it out – it’s building up a cult following and for a reason: It’s a biting satire of what [...]

Filed under: Entertainment, Uncategorized Tags: balls, Brawndo, celebrity, comedy, corporate brands, cult, electrolytes, Entertainment, future, idiocracy, ow my balls, society, stupid, TDK, the dark knight | 40 Comments »

OK, this was visually well-crafted. Executed perfectly. Visually well-blended. Impressive.
So how come he ended up looking like half an alien from “Mars Attacks”?
It was “too perfect”.  I used to do 3D rendering and animation.  I pay attention.  The problem with a lot of 3D animation (many times referred to as CGI, or Computer Graphics Imaging) [...]

Filed under: Visuals/Effects Tags: burns, cgi, effects, graphics, Harvey Dent, mars attacks, Two-Face | 5 Comments »

When many people think of Heath Ledger, I would gather the following words come to mind: sympathy, sadness, good actor, gay cowboy. He’s played: a patriot, a drug addict, Casanova, a surfer, a knight, and most recently a deranged psychotic. Regardless of how mediocre “The Dark Knight” was overall, he did succeed in out-shining all [...]

Filed under: Subpar Acting Tags: acting, Borat, dead, gay cowboy, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, knight, Oscar, poll, psychotic, The Joker | 51 Comments »

How in the world can a big yellow school bus crash through a bank and nobody on the street seems to notice?  Further, after the bak robbery, the bus COINCIDENTALLY pulls out of the bank and into the middle of a line of other school buses in broad daylight, with cops right up the street and [...]

Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: bank, school bus, short bus, smash, TDK, the dark knight, The Joker | 19 Comments »

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 »

The original bat suit can’t protect him against dog bites?  What?  Wait, it can withstand bullets, but it can’t protect against dog bites.  The new one is easier to move in and protects him better from dog bites (maybe, this was never clarified), but no longer even partially protects him from bullets.  He’s one of [...]

Filed under: Makeup/Custume, Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: bat pod, batman, batpod, blue raja, forks, gadget, gadgets, the blue raja | 19 Comments »