Jan 28 2009
The Dark Knight Revisited - Inconsistencies
Too long, too long, too long.
Oh, and it was too long.
In the movie theater, watching it for the first time, Dark Knight was really entertaining. I do remember my bladder begging to differ sometime around the Gordon v. Dent scene, but that sort of added to the tension at the time.
But watching it a second time, with out the glitzy big screen, I was very disappointed. I was more forgiving the first time. But, after raving about the movie to my parents, I was awfully embarrassed to have to sit through the movie a second time and beg their forgiveness.
What happened to the Joker after Batman jumps out of the Harvey Dent fundraiser to save Rachael? Did he just hang about and schmooze? Or did he torture and humiliate a bunch of people while looking for Harvey? Or did he just give up and call it a night?
I guess the audience was supposed to assume the later, but, come on!
And all those scenes with the cell phone sonar-unnecessary. It felt like an obvious set-up for a video game.
And didn’t it feel preachy? Like a bunch of bumper stickers and just-say-no ads strung together with explosions in between?
Outside of the please-suspend-your-disbelief moments (everything involving the police and the Joker, the dogs v. batman-the-martial-arts-trained-unarmed-combat-specialist, the chase scene where Dent’s in custody and the Joker apparently PLANS on being captured) there were also those we’re-just-not-going-to-explain-ourselves moments-like the fundraiser where Bruce takes out Dent just as Gordon’s learning about the DNA on the card…and then leaving the Joker in a room full of Gotham’s most powerful while lounging with Rachael, the fingerprint constructed with bullet fragments-REALLY?-and disappearing reappearing Dent coin-did Batman pull it from Rachael’s body and put it next to Dent to GENTLY let him know Rachael was dead?
