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Movie Rec: Dark Knight
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 09:48 pmA while ago, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yebisu9 and I rented "The Untouchables" and I kept thinking, wow, this would be a really great movie if it didn't have the horrific '80s synth/sax soundtrack. With "The Dark Knight", I got "The Untouchables" without the horrible soundtrack and darned if I didn't notice how much disturbing material was in there because I didn't have the awful music to complain about! That's not to say I didn't enjoy the film, but, man oh man, was it ever stressful. In some ways, it was a good thing that it was stressful, because I kept thinking, so glad I don't have *that* job, but in others... well. I'm not sure if Bob Kane and the others who created Batman would be pleased with this incarnation of their character. Part of me hopes that twenty or fifty years from now, this movie, and all the moral choices and "terrorist" violence it grapples with, will seem hopelessly dated.
I was amused for all the wrong reasons at the Joker's line about a SOSHUL EXPERIMENT. Oh, Internet, I find it so hard to take things seriously because of you!
In all honesty, of the superhero movies this summer? Hellboy is the best, for action, for laughs, for heart, for everything. Dark Knight is a very dense film, and Hancock is funny, but I came away from Hellboy feeling lighter about life and totally digging a superhero doing his thing and saving my city, if needed. With Hancock and Batman, I'd be worried about the property destruction costs and related trauma stemming from mafia grudge matches.
yebisu9 and I rented "The Untouchables" and I kept thinking, wow, this would be a really great movie if it didn't have the horrific '80s synth/sax soundtrack. With "The Dark Knight", I got "The Untouchables" without the horrible soundtrack and darned if I didn't notice how much disturbing material was in there because I didn't have the awful music to complain about! That's not to say I didn't enjoy the film, but, man oh man, was it ever stressful. In some ways, it was a good thing that it was stressful, because I kept thinking, so glad I don't have *that* job, but in others... well. I'm not sure if Bob Kane and the others who created Batman would be pleased with this incarnation of their character. Part of me hopes that twenty or fifty years from now, this movie, and all the moral choices and "terrorist" violence it grapples with, will seem hopelessly dated.I was amused for all the wrong reasons at the Joker's line about a SOSHUL EXPERIMENT. Oh, Internet, I find it so hard to take things seriously because of you!
In all honesty, of the superhero movies this summer? Hellboy is the best, for action, for laughs, for heart, for everything. Dark Knight is a very dense film, and Hancock is funny, but I came away from Hellboy feeling lighter about life and totally digging a superhero doing his thing and saving my city, if needed. With Hancock and Batman, I'd be worried about the property destruction costs and related trauma stemming from mafia grudge matches.
