A better adaption than The Dark Knight...

Rating: 8/10 (27 November 2008)

I believe that film as an art form is in one of its darkest periods. Movies on a whole have gotten so bad that we latch onto lackluster movies and call them masterpieces. I don't think Finding Neverland would have gotten an Oscar nomination if it had come out a decade earlier. It was an empty movie with ridiculously subtle performances. Yet people were supposedly moved to tears. The Dark Knight is in my opinion the most overrated film of all time. Not because I think it a bad movie, but because it is only a pretty good movie. Yet as an adaption of Batman: The Long Halloween or Batman comics in general, it is terrible to me. Batman is no longer like an agile ninja or samurai; he is a clunky walking tank with a ridiculous voice. And Harvey Dent's losing of his ideals makes Anakin Skywalker's turn to the darkside seem nuanced (no offense Hayden). You are probably wondering why I am writing this in my Twilight review, well here it is: Several million people have read these books, and that means that there are several million movies in peoples' heads. The film Twilight manages to capture as much of the books plot in two hours as I think possible. There are no actors that can ever be exactly what Bella or Edward were in the books, though I think these kids did a damn good job. So unless Stephenie Meyer co-directs a computer animated twenty hour mini-series with Robert Rodriguez you're not going to get anything closer, just different. Let those who love it, love it; and let those who hate it be nice to those of us that love it.
P.S. Please let Catherine Hardwicke direct NEW MOON. Her style is fantastic. We don't need this to change filmmakers like it's Harry Potter.