Incredibly Overrated and Over-hyped Movie

Rating: 3/10 (25 October 2016)

Ask anyone on the street what the greatest comic book/superhero movie of all time is and they'll say "The Dark Knight". Ask me the same question and you won't get the same answer. If you want the same answer then ask me what the most overrated comic book/superhero movie of all time is and that's what you'll get. There's no denying comic book movies are the most popular type of movie in the last decade or two with Marvel and their cinematic universe dominating both the genre and the box office and they get a large amount of attention. But then there are movies within the genre that get too much attention. "The Dark Knight" is that movie. Now I've never been a fan of batman and dislike has grown because of the countless fanboys on social media making out that he is the greatest fictional character ever created and they always cite TDK as the greatest batman movie and greatest comic book movie ever made. So after talking with a friend, I decided to give it a watch and I was left confused, wondering how people bang on about how wonderful it is and rather underwhelmed by it. Christian Bale's batman was so difficult to understand without subtitles, the action was no different from any other superhero movie and the plot was nothing special. That being said, Two-Face was a good looking villain (better than Tommy Lee Jones' version) and as expected Heath Ledger's Joker was actually quite good, Joker is the only thing to do with batman I like and I've always loved Mark Hamill's Joker and Ledger's was a good 2nd place. As nasty as it sounds I feel a lot of the movie's success comes from the fact that Ledger died before the movie was released (I felt the same about the last "fast and furious" movie with Paul Walker), it's a good movie but better than other classic movies like the original "Superman" "Jurassic Park" "E.T." or "Back to the Future" as a lot of these fanboys suggest? No way whatsoever. Is it the best movie ever made of it's genre? Absolutely not. Should future movies be more like TDK? There are elements that can be adapted yes but no not every movie should be like TDK. Should the fanboys shut up entirely about the movie? Definitely.