Let me just state something. I am a huge fan Batman, I mean I’m fucking Gay for Batman. I appreciate the camp feel of the Adam West Batman in the 60’s and 70’s, the 90’s animated series is one of the best cartoons ever conceived and the 1989 movie Batman is one of my favorite films. As for the Comics I’m on the fence as like many super hero series they tend to stray from source material and get bogged down by to many characters and preposterous story lines.
So seeing how I’m such a huge fan you can pretty much guess that I’m ecstatic for the new Batman Movie ” The Dark Knight”. I have my tickets for the midnight showing on Thursday night and over the past few weeks I’ve only taken a drink if it comes from my Batman Cup.
Whoa….Whoa…..Lois this is my Batman Cup!
As a Batman fan what else can you ask for but the new “Dark Knight” Movie. It has everything you need; A dark and mysterious Batman played by Christian Bale, a director who knows the source material well, in addition to an experienced actor in the late Heath Ledger portraying a dark and murderously sadistic Joker THE WAY HE WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE PORTRAYED!!!
Look at this….This is is everything a fan of the Dark knight could ever want.
I’ve have followed the critical consensus of this movie over the past few months as a select few who were lucky enough to see this movie early gave every Batman fan what they wanted, that being that this movie was more than they ever could have hoped for. The majority of the critics that the Dark Knight was haunting, intense, satisfyingly sadistic and more a movie about the the yin-yang complex between the hero and the villain than a simple Good guy foils stereotypical bad guys plan. In other Words, this is no mere comic book fodder but rather a masterful dark crime drama in the realm of Micheal Mann’s “Heat” or Scorsese’s ” The Departed” and should be considered a modern classic as well.
But no movie is perfect and not everybody will love this film, and as the release date creeps up bad reviews a starting to sprout up in a field filled with “Five Stars” and ” Thumbs up’s”. And I can respect this as after reading a few of this reviews I’ve noticed that there are some flaws that may drag down this movie. While many of these flaws appear only minor to me, these problems may be detremental to many movie goers.
But being a movie critic comes with a bit of responsibility to, and when it comes to comic movies it’s knowing the source material and comparing it to the movie portrayed on the screen. So this is where Jurgen Fauth at About.com review of the ” The Dark Knight” comes into play. It would seem that Jurgen has no idea what the hell Batman is about, and his only knowledge of the series comes from the few movies that have portrayed the caped crusader. So Mr. Fauth I would like to point out why your review is fucking retarded and irresponsible and why giving 1 star out of 5 to a movie that’s considered a modern classic to many of your peers was only a ploy to get readers.
You seem to have a problem with how the movie has to much emphasis on vigilante morals, heaps of vicious violence and Gotham Politics. Well first off…umm…do you have any idea who Batman is? He’s a Vigilante who works outside the law but also works with it, so the conflict between doing what is needed and doing what is right is one of the main fucking themes of the series you Dumbass! As for the vicious violence. Well if I was to tell who that the Joker is known to kill people in horrid ways without thought regardless if they’re young or old would that change your mind. I mean he’s killed school children so unless he’s feeding 3rd graders to his dog I’m saying Nolan probably toned down the violence from the source material. And what you know of Batman you know less of his alter ego Bruce Wayne….that’s right dingess as many fans will no doubt back me on this in that Batman is the true persona while Bruce is the disguise he puts on during the day. Bruce Plays the political game in Gotham city and by using his wealth and connections during the day Bruce and Batman can keep their hands firmly on the Pulse of Gotham city and it’s seamy underbelly.
Now don’t get me wrong I liked Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of the Joker in 1989’s “Batman”, but as you may have noticed that was almost twenty years ago and I was 4 and times have changed since than. Jacks Joker was amusing and he did kill people, but Jacks joker killed for a reason while the source joker kills for the fun of it. When many people think of the Joker they think of Jack’s Joker or the Joker from the animated series, and while these portrayals are good they seem to favour the trickster Joker over the correct sadistic Joker who murders, tortures and plays with peoples worst fears all for his own sick amusement.
Here are some of the more violent crimes committed by the Joker.
1. The Paralysis of Barbara Gordon ( Batgirl)
2. The Murder of Jason Todd ( The Second Robin)
3. He’s Gassed an entire Kindergarten class…That’s Hitler shit right there buddy
4. committed over 2000 senseless murders
It’s said when super Villains want to scare each other, they tell Joker stories.
“Heath Ledger’s Joker, a sadistic freak with curious facial ticks, is the most compelling person on screen, but tragedy or not, he can’t beat Jack Nicholson dancing in the pale moonlight to a Prince track.”
Well Jurgen you may like the campy non-threatening Joker who dances to prince songs, but I think many Batman fans would prefer the sadistic killer who toys with Batman and strikes fear in the hearts of the the good and the bad.
“Tim Burton knew how to have fun with Batman rather than turning it into plodding, puffed-up kitsch mistaking itself for profound psycho noir that the source material won’t support”
And this quote is the shit stopper as he actually claims to have some knowledge of the source material.
First off, Tim Burton fucking raped the origin story of Batman by stating that Bruce’s parents were killed by Jack Napier who would later turn into the Joker. However Nolan correctly portrayed a random gunman as the correct killer
Burtan: 0 Nolan: 1 Jurgan: Looks like an ass so far
Burtan Showed us that it was Batman who tuned Jack into the Joker, while Nolan Correctly shows us that the the Joker Just comes out of nowhere and challenges Batman and the city.
Burtan: 0 Nolan: 2 Jurgan: still and ass and has no idea what’s he’s talking about
Burton’s Joker liked to kill his enemies with joy buzzers, acid spewing flowers and Gas that kills you with a smile. Nolan’s Joker prefers a bullet to the head or using his knife skills to kill his enemies…hell to kill anybody really. And yet again Nolan is correct
Burtan:0 Nolan: 3 Jurgan: NOOB!!!
Tim in no way shows the complex connection between the joker and Batman and how they are each others opposite and cannot exist without each other. Nolan delves deep into this complex dance between good and evil.
Buton:0 Nolan: 4 Jurgan: Super Noob.
Burtan’s movie was a stylish movie with one liners, dance sequences and a movie that simplifies Batman down to lavish action sequences and basic plot devices. Nolan’s Batman is a Dark Crime Story that does not skimp on how violent and disturbing Gotham can be, in addition to entertaining the masses with action and a story that is not so kid friendly.
Burtan:0 Nolan: 5
As for Jurgan, for a guy who states that Tim Burton’s is more accurate to the source material of the Batman mythos than Nolan’s movie, than I suggest you look a little deeper Jurgan and realize that the series started way before the Adam west series and the safe comics of the 1960’s. go back to 40’s when Joker killed for no reason and Batman would be much more likely to kick a crime fighter out of a 10 story window to his death than do his festive Bat dance.
If Jurgan had his way ” The Dark Knight” Would look like this…..or we could have ended up with another Batman and Robin.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like the burton films and the Adam West Batman is funny but when you critic a movie on not being true to the source material than you should probably get the source material right. The Batman series is a dark and violent property and should be treated with respect and not dumbed down to a light hearted action comedy just for commercial reasons. Burton’s movies while incorrect to the story of Batman does keep a solid grip into the darkness of Gotham, yet as the movies progressed the darkness was traded in for comedic, lite hearted kid friendly Batman who could sell toys and happy meals…This was no fault of Tim’s as he lost control over the series after Batman Returns. So far this Batman reboot has held true to the source material and hopefully Nolan will keep it going despite commercial pressure.
And if you are a fan of the lite hearted, funny batman than skip the movie and wait for the Lego Batman to hit store shelves, because this is the corect way to make batman a little more family freindly.
