InJustice
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I just wanted to comment on this one thing, this isn't what TDK is about, at all. The very fact that at the end of the film he quits being Batman is pretty much the opposite of 'Learning that Batman is who he is and there is no escape from it' He quits because the organized crime was stopped and his girlfriend died and he was all sad about that.
I was hoping with the approaching BvS and that fact that it has been 6 years since TDK came out, that all the 15-year-old emo *****es that loved that movie would've grown up and realized its nothing special at all and spits in the face of a lot of history and tone of the characters (Two-Face anyone?). Nolan didn't like Batman or comic books, he wanted to tell his pretentious little story and that was it. Heath was great as the Joker, but even that was blown out of proportion.
I guess we all have to suffer the Nolanite syndrome for a few more years at least. Maybe one day people will understand that 'super-serious' and 'grimdark' don't necessarily equate to 'good' and 'intellectual'. Its ok to laugh and be taken seriously at the same time.
No one is saying that a movie needs to be only grimdark and super-serious, and that you cant have one without the other. The issue is balance, if you have too much humour, audiences tend not to take the serious parts so seriously, likewise, if one you have too much serious stuff then its a dull experience.
Fantastic job with the straw man argument. You cluster people into categories such as Nolanites and 15-year old emo *****es pretty clearly. Also, pretentious story? In what way? Just because it doesnt translate the comic books ad verbatim? So you call people names for liking a movie you dont seem to hold in as high regards as them, but its okay for you whine when you dont get what you want? Its alright to dislike or find a movie average, but lets not resort to straw men or insults.