Simply Breathtaking

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2008)

I honestly don't know how anyone could possibly not love this movie, much less despise it. The director obviously took for granted that everyone who decided to view the film would have some intelligence and he wouldn't have to spend an unnecessary amount of time explaining why characters are the way they are or do the things they do. A back story is not the directors responsibility in a freaking sequel.
As for the characters being prone to having very involved and seemingly impossible plans that revolve around knowledge that you think they probably don't have, I have two responses. There is a reason that the movie is even made. First of all, the people in it are not real and therefore are not subjected to limits of normal reality. There are countless things that happen in movies that probably shouldn't happen, but there are maybe even more things that happen in real life that shouldn't happen... Who made you the judge of the probabilities of fictional occurrences? Secondly, the reason that a story is being told about people is not because they are normal. The reason they are characters in a movie is because they are exceptional and are not limited to the normal standards of behavior of normal people and can sometimes do surprising things that ordinary people can't do. This tends to be the case with a great deal of movies, and is especially common in SUPERHERO MOVIES!!! The point of the entire genre is that we know this stuff can't really happen. You don't have to explain individual circumstances that can't happen and support your claims with your limitless knowledge of the laws of physics and probabilities of fictional worlds. We get it, you know everything that could ever happen and ever has happened and something happened in the movie that couldn't have happened so it's a bad movie. Brilliant!!!
And if you thought the movie was too long, then you are an idiot. And I'm not arguing with you whether the movie was actually too long or not. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't... I personally could have watched it a lot longer than 2.5 hours. There is this mystical thing you can do before you go see a movie... it's called CHECK HOW LONG THE MOVIE IS. If you don't want to watch a two and a half hour movie, than don't go to a movie that lasts two and a half hours. And if you don't want to but do anyway, then don't complain about it because there is no excuse and it's your own fault.
And while Maggie Gyllenhaal may not be the most attractive woman they could have cast for the role of Rachel Dawes, maybe Batman and Harvey Dent just aren't as superficial as everyone who finds the movie flawed because Batman values character over appearance.
And I read a comment that complained about the Joker being too serious and violent. There is a reason the Joker is Batman's arch-nemesis. He is a psychopathic, homicidal, ruthless murderer with no morals or values whatsoever, the exact opposite of Batman in every way. To think he goes around committing "prankish" crimes and is an all around funny guy is naive and missing the point.
And if I hear one more person complain about Batman's voice I am going to shoot myself. This isn't like Spiderman where he can talk to people he knows in his normal voice and people still won't figure out who he is, or worse, Superman when he just puts on some glasses. You can see half of Batman's face even with his mask on, do you not think it would help to hide his true identity if he didn't use his normal voice when speaking? I MEAN COME ON!!! Is it that hard to understand?
People are really reaching for complaints about this movie. "WAHHH, ITS TOO DARK...WAHHH". Well, I believe Gotham City is kind of recognized as a dark place with a lot of crime and darkness. It kind of plays in to the overall setting and subsequently affects the quality of the film. In the 90's, the fantasy Batman films were fine. But now that I've seen this much realism with the last two Batman movies, I can't go back to the phony, almost comedic interpretations of what was meant to be somewhat serious struggles between good and evil. I can't and I won't, and what's more, I won't stand idly by while someone is complaining about the best thing to ever happen to not only Batman, but possibly the superhero genre as a whole. Do you have any idea the kind of quality movies we are going to get now, people following The Dark Knight's example, trying to compete with it, and so on? Do you realize that this movie has made over 22 million dollars, ON A TUESDAY!!! It's been out a week now, and is already in the top 50 grossing movies of ALL TIME. I mean, could it be that 99% of the world is wrong about this movie and it's actually garbage? I mean really, what's next. "I didn't see Bruce Wayne sleeping in the film. People have to sleep to live. It's not realistic...drrr" "WAHHH, its a crime fighting movie with a superhero and villains but there's fighting in it and its violent fighting...WAHHH" Oh, actually some people really do have that complaint. I personally find it laughable, as well as anyone else who doesn't give this movie at least a 9/10.