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I enjoyed the three quarters of Dark Knight and the last quarter simply dissembled. The resolution was too simplistic, not lifelike enough. The problems with science fiction and comic incarnations is making the suspension of belief both fun and plausible; they don't have to comply with the rules of science, but the premises must be plausible to some degree. The ferry boat scene was so contrived, and there was no fear that it would happen. Science fiction does a better job IMHO. Battlestar Gallactica, not a show I've seen very often, had a wonderful episode I happened upon, where the humans became terrorists against the superior creatures called Silons. It humanized the inhuman response. It made the issue more gray. Dark Knight has some gifted actors, with some great integration of music, light and some story, but in terms of reaching down into your soul, it fails. The scene needs to be plausible, but contrived by the Joker, otherwise wonderfully played, fell flat for me.
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08-12-2008, 06:58 PM | #32 |
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For me, when Rachel Dawes, the person whom Batman cared about most, blew up, I knew this was a different kind of comic book film.
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Sometimes drawing on and then subverting the archetypes can be very revealing.
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The fall of Michael Corleone may be a better made example than Munich of the point you're making.
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