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Okay, who's seen it and what did you think?
One of the best movies I have ever seen and Heath Ledger was incredible.(Such a shame what happened to him) I highly reccomend this movie.Okay, who's seen it and what did you think?
A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .
Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."
There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.
And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.
"The Dark Knight," then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year's "300," "The Dark Knight" is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for beans.
Who knew that the new batman flick was a tribute to President Bush?
What Bush and Batman Have in Common
I know I did but I needed to vent a littleI'm starting to think you guys missed the point of the whole column....
Interesting. I'm not a fan of comic movies generally, nor of the Batman flicks specifically for the same reasons you cite. However, since you like this one, I might like it as well. Definitely a rental then.Although I'm a fan of comic movies, I disliked most of the other Batman movies as I feel they simply failed to capture the essence of what the Dark Knight is all about. They were more a tribute to the campy Batman & Robin series of the '60s than the actual comic books. None of them were very good movies, except for Batman Begins. That was generally excellent.
The Dark Knight is even better and continues the dark and gritty style of Batman Begins. The movie is outrageously over the top, but somehow manages to retain a serious tone. No easy task.
Frazer, missing this point completely, concludes:The answers to these questions seem to me to be embedded in the story of "The Dark Knight" itself: Doing what's right is hard, and speaking the truth is dangerous. Many have been abhorred for it, some killed, one crucified.
Leftists frequently complain that right-wing morality is simplistic. Morality is relative, they say; nuanced, complex. They're wrong, of course, even on their own terms.
In attempting to refute Klavan's accusations, Frazer has plead guilty to them!But it's clear that Lucius has compromised in his pursuit of a worthy goal, and the film assigns a moral weight to that compromise. The Dark Knight is about how hard it is to do the right thing -- not least because in Gotham, as in the rest of the world, moral certitude is more difficult to reach than either idealists or ideologues would have you believe.
you love Transformers? so do iI love this movie too. It's simply amazing! Transformers is my second best.