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Batman: The Dark Knight (film)
Jul. 27th, 2008 09:22 amI am absolutely alone here, but I really didn't enjoy this movie at all.
That doesn't mean I didn't think it was good. I think, based on the metric of "accomplishes what it set out to accomplish," it's an excellent film. Just not something I enjoyed watching or something I could ever conceive of being willing to watch again.
The problem for me is that the more realistic the story attempts to be in tone, the more difficulty I have overlooking the assumptions made that don't match my "real world" assumptions. As long as it's just popcorn violence and pretty outfits and cool gizmos and fairy tale plotting, my suspension of disbelief is automatic. Give me realistic looking outifts and a more realistic psychological tone and my brain gets CRANKY about the differences between what I see and what I expect.
That doesn't mean I didn't think it was good. I think, based on the metric of "accomplishes what it set out to accomplish," it's an excellent film. Just not something I enjoyed watching or something I could ever conceive of being willing to watch again.
The problem for me is that the more realistic the story attempts to be in tone, the more difficulty I have overlooking the assumptions made that don't match my "real world" assumptions. As long as it's just popcorn violence and pretty outfits and cool gizmos and fairy tale plotting, my suspension of disbelief is automatic. Give me realistic looking outifts and a more realistic psychological tone and my brain gets CRANKY about the differences between what I see and what I expect.
( Spoilerific )
