The more violent it is, the better it is...?

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2014)

This is one of those films I need to comment on, because the themes of righteousness and insanity seem to stem from filmmakers who champion a disturbing trend that the more violent a film is the better it is. I'm not sold on that logic. Scarier does not have to seem better than funnier. Alfred Hitchcock did a great job of using both horror and comedy to considerable advantage. In fact Hitchcock personally considered 'Psycho' a comedy. The point is that we have to laugh at the absurdity of these increasingly bleak and dark renditions of the world in which we live. If we begin to take it seriously and call it the best, the greatest ever, and the film of the year, we are then arrogantly getting caught up in the hype. I don't want to hear repeatedly that it's the best Batman movie thus far. I want to hear if it makes us think about the world we live in, and if it's pessimistic as all that, then look at the facts and see what can be changed. Otherwise it's an irresponsible chronicle of life in the year 2008 and it won't hold up.