The Dark Knight Sucks

Ever since the last scene of “The Dark Knight” faded to black, the masses have been wondering who the next villains will be.  There’s been great anticpiation, since the hype machine for Batman 3 (or Batman 6?) needs to get started, and wide speculation is spreading.  Everyone seems to agree that the villains need to [...]

Filed under: Writing/Direction Tags: batman 3, cast, casting, Chris Nolan, new villains, villains | 13 Comments »

Harvey Dent (shown here as Two-Face), cleaning up the criminal element in Gotham.
Well, the writers must have been a bit more lazy on the day they wrote the segment where Rachel and Harvey were trying to nail Lau on something.  Particularly, they were trying to use Lau as a means to incriminate all the crime [...]

Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Writing/Direction Tags: chinese, district attorney, Harvey Dent, kidnapping, Rachel Dawes, racketeering, rico, united states attorney, us attorney | 17 Comments »

I was laughing with my buddy today about the rottweiler scene near the end and how farcical it was overall.  Firstly, it was funny how in a movie where the lead villain happens to only carry knives for weapons, Bruce Wayne just happened to want a newer costume and the new one Lucious gave him [...]

Filed under: Writing/Direction Tags: batman, Bruce Wayne, Chuck Liddell, Joker, Ralph's, Randy Couture, rottweiler, sonar, The Joker | 11 Comments »

Believe it or not, Alfred, played by Michael Caine, had a role in “Mystic River”: in the end, he’s in drag (or was that Laura Linney?) and gives the same sort of speech to Sean Penn that he gave to Bruce Wayne, played by Christian Bale, repeatedly throughout his brief cameo walk-ins for “The Dark Knight”.  His repeated [...]

Filed under: Subpar Acting, Writing/Direction Tags: alfred, Christian Bale, Laura Linney, Michael Caine, morality, Mystic River | 4 Comments »

At some point in the movie Batman throws the mob boss Salvatore Maroni, played by Eric Roberts, from a few stories up, and Maroni lands on his feet none too comfortably – it’s clearly shown and implied that he at least broke his ankles if not altogether broke major bones in his legs.  Yet later [...]

Filed under: Story/Plot Problems, Subpar Acting, Writing/Direction Tags: broken bones, cane, Eric Roberts, eyeballs, Maroni, Salvatore Maroni | 11 Comments »

In “Batman Begins”, Christian Bale is shown to be skillful and powerful enough to hold his own against multiple dangerous opponents, including skilled ninja-types.  Although the fight scenes could have been more clear in BB, they were still engaging and entertaining.  So how come in “The Dark Knight” all it takes to bring Batman down [...]

Filed under: Writing/Direction Tags: batman begins, Christian Bale, hounds, Montgomery Burns, rottweiler, rottweilers, the dark knight, Waylon Smithers | 10 Comments »

The Joker has fully-healed scars on the sides of his face and has a slurry/smacky voice, clearly meant to show that his voice is at least partly affected by his disfigurement.  Yet Harvey Dent has half his face melted off with huge gaping holes where his mouth is, is allegedly in extreme pain, hasn’t fully [...]

Filed under: Subpar Acting, Writing/Direction Tags: burned, Harvey Dent, melted, Two-Face, voice | 15 Comments »

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 »

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 »

Just about all the fight scenes with Batman in them were too confusing, dark, and too closely shot.  This was one of the only drawbacks of the first film, but seemed to get significantly worse in TDK.  Stuff like this works in horror or suspense files like Alien, but for action movies they are crap.  [...]

Filed under: Writing/Direction Tags: fight scenes | 6 Comments »