Not Spidey III levels of bad, but not great either.

[seiberwing]

So I went and saw "Dark Knight" in IMAX tonight, finally catching up with the rest of the civilized world.

...did I miss a memo or walk into a different Batman movie or something? As pretty as some of the swooping-over-the-city scenes were, I find distinctly underwhelmed. Perhaps the constant angst and attempts at making broad statements about humanity and the nature of power managed to trick the general public into thinking this was a good movie because for some reason the non-fanperson community likes that sort of thing, because all I managed to see was a plothole-filled emofest. I mean, they spent more time focusing on the Joker's sadistic shenanigans than they did Batman, probably because Batman's raspy-voiced self is just that boring.

Just blech. Shiny enough during the few times we even see Batman kicking ass and taking names, but otherwise mediocre.

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[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

The Joker was perfect, it was just...everything else that bugged me. They try to take the fallible hero approach and go too far, coming back around the other end to a city that is actually made worse by the presence of Batman and a villain that Batman barely manages to even measure up to and defeat, let alone outshine. And even that involves pulling in a sonar McGuffin at the end and making a statement about invasion of privacy instead of having some simple deductive Batmanning.

The way I hear it, Two-Face was supposed to live and then break Joker out in the next movie, but sans Heath Ledger we can't exactly have a Joker.

In terms of theme...well, it's possible it was just too thematic for my tastes. I don't like a movie that gets so tied up in its own metaphors and symbolism that it sacrifices interesting plot.