The Dark Knight Official Critics Reviews of TDK

[I Am The Knight]

i used to watch WWE when it was WWF. looking back at it now i find it insanely shoite. all the blokes are so pumped up on steroids they can hardly string a coherant sentance together.

Funny you should say that...

 

[Sevb30]

i used to watch WWE when it was WWF. looking back at it now i find it insanely shoite. all the blokes are so pumped up on steroids they can hardly string a coherant sentance together.

Actually back in those days, through the 80s and early 90s Steroid use were worse, being that they were legal without prescription.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

even vince mcmahon blatently does the roids. have you heard him speak? sounds like hes constantly constipated!!!

 

[Voyeur]

I like this review:

The image of a coin carries the symbiotic relationship between Batman and the Joker even deeper. Like warring parents within a destructive marriage, others become pawns in their quest to triumph over one another. One of those pawns is Harvey Dent. Batman sees him as a way to escape from his addiction, from the self-inflicted prison he is unable to break out of: “Gotham needs a hero with a face…Harvey is that hero.” The Joker sees him in an entirely different, yet no more selfish, light: “You need an ace in the hole. Mine’s Harvey.” Between them both the White Knight of Gotham is torn apart. If Batman represents the second act and the Joker represents the tragic finale, then Harvey “Two-Face” represents the entire 3-act play.

http://www.tulsatoday.com/newsdesk/...sk=view&id=1671&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=2

 

[Anita18]

I like this review:

http://www.tulsatoday.com/newsdesk/...sk=view&id=1671&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=2

Very cool stuff.

I've a hankering to type up a very long, rambly essay on the themes I've observed in TDK and thought about, but I'll probably save that for the media studies majors in here.

 

[General Vulcun]

More praise from Ebert, from his Answer Man column:

Q. If a fantasy film like "Lord of the Rings" can be nominated for the best picture Oscar, why not "The Dark Knight"? Surely, if there ever was a comic book blockbuster to be nominated, this would have to be it. It's got an acclaimed director, music composers and a fantastic cast. The whole production was executed so well. I suspect that there may be some kind of comic-book stigma attached to the film that would hurt its chances.
Dallas Rabot, Auckland, New Zealand



A. I would be astonished were it not nominated.

 

[laudanum09]

I like this review:


http://www.tulsatoday.com/newsdesk/...sk=view&id=1671&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=2

yeah im glad they got that harvey is indeed the backbone of the story, seems like it gets missed a bit in some of these reviews

 

[The Batman]

I'm not a wrestling fan, but I don't seem to get why everyone here has their panties in a bunch over the WWE interview.

Everyone in the interview with the Miz, seemed to get his act and play along, even Bale. They were prepped for what it was and I'm sure before they actually taped the wrestler behaved like a normal human being and explained his whole routine to each of them and that it's geared towards wrestling fans so he's going to be a bit of a jackass.

Maggie actually looked really cute in that clip too.

Agreed...Fanboys like to project their opinions onto the actors for some reason...nothing really indicated that any of the actors had some seething hatred for the miz...in fact, eckhart and maggie play along nicely....Bale, as always, has limited sense of humor

 

[Steyin]

The Australians don't seem to be enjoying this film so far:
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/fs/20080805/121796735900.html

 

[Ace of Knaves]

what a prick, he was obviously pissed out his brain when he went into the cinema

 

[Anita18]

The Australians don't seem to be enjoying this film so far:
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/fs/20080805/121796735900.html

The Australians seem to be enjoying it very well, considering the revenue it's taking in.

That reviewer, however....

 

[Bond]

Don't know where to put this, but I just saw a new "critics" tv spot on ESPN. It was pretty cool, it was saying things like "record-breaking" and at the end it was like "experience The Dark Knight." I thought it was cool. It also showed the Joker sliding down the pile of money.

 

[user123456789]

Don't know where to put this, but I just saw a new "critics" tv spot on ESPN. It was pretty cool, it was saying things like "record-breaking" and at the end it was like "experience The Dark Knight." I thought it was cool. It also showed the Joker sliding down the pile of money.

i just saw this on FX as well!

yay for tdk commercials!

 

[Va3H]

I like this review:


http://www.tulsatoday.com/newsdesk/...sk=view&id=1671&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=2

One of the better reviews I have read in sometime.

 

[Boba_Fett_123]

More praise from Ebert, from his Answer Man column:

Very interesting. Link for those who are curious.

 

[Ziggyman]

Ebert really loves this movie!

Well...Same with basically everyone!

 

[I Am The Knight]

Don't know where to put this, but I just saw a new "critics" tv spot on ESPN. It was pretty cool, it was saying things like "record-breaking" and at the end it was like "experience The Dark Knight." I thought it was cool. It also showed the Joker sliding down the pile of money.

LOL, how appropiate

 

[P.B.&Chocolate]

Who’s the Better Action Director: David Gordon Green or Christopher Nolan?

Much is being made over Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green's inexplicable overnight transition from indie auteur (the one behind slow-paced tone poems like George Washington and All the Real Girls) to helmer of a Judd Apatow marijuana-glorifying fart comedy, a job for which he has practically no relevant experience. The other night, Vulture took a rare trip outdoors to catch a screening of Pineapple and what impressed us most wasn't Green's ability to coax funny performances out of Seth Rogen and James Franco (this couldn't have been too hard, right?) but the fact that the movie's action scenes — the ones that Manohla Dargis calls "crudely choreographed and just the kind of big finish a dead-ended writer or two might come up with while searching for a third act and lighting up to a Steven Seagal flick in the wee hours" — weren't nearly as crappy as we thought they'd be. In Pineapple, Rogen and Franco flex their acting muscles as a pair of stoners on the run from hit men and drug lords (including Darryl from The Office, hilariously), and (spoiler alert) the movie climaxes in a fifteen-minute shoot-out in a barn. Obviously Green is no John Woo, but the scene is lucid, well paced, and nowhere near as stupid-looking as one might reasonably anticipate, especially considering that it includes shots of Rogen firing an automatic weapon. There are explosions, bleeding injuries, and some passably impressive stunt work, not bad for a freakin' Judd Apatow movie. Surely it helps that Rogen is fat and slow-moving, but we could actually tell what was happening the entire time — more than we can say for the action sequences in this summer's biggest hit, The Dark Knight.
In Knight (which we loved, honest!), poorly lit punching and kicking are edited together, seemingly at random, into an incoherent, motion-sick scramble. It's only when we see Batman still standing over toppled enemies that we can tell he'd actually been winning the whole time. But that movie was directed by Christopher Nolan, who'd already made a violent superhero movie and ostensibly should know what he's doing, while Pineapple Express was directed by Green, a guy who'd never shot an explosion in his life. Sure, the action in Nolan's film is more ambitious, but the fact that Green's is infinitely more coherent and suspenseful is … well, sort of funny, right?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/whos_the_better_action_directo.html

 

[Fenrir]

Who’s the Better Action Director: David Gordon Green or Christopher Nolan?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/whos_the_better_action_directo.html

What a coincidence! It's from a New York critic!

 

[I Am The Knight]

Who’s the Better Action Director: David Gordon Green or Christopher Nolan?

Who cares...

 

[Anita18]

Who’s the Better Action Director: David Gordon Green or Christopher Nolan?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/whos_the_better_action_directo.html

Well, um, yeah, because in gun shoot-outs, you don't need to stage close physical contact between the adversaries.

Not that I've seen Pineapple Express, but I'm just sayin'. I'd find a comparison between the Bourne movies and BB/TDK to be more valid.

 

[Jokers_Wild]

In Knight (which we loved, honest!), poorly lit punching and kicking are edited together, seemingly at random, into an incoherent, motion-sick scramble. It's only when we see Batman still standing over toppled enemies that we can tell he'd actually been winning the whole time.

Ok...it's Batman, duh...he fights in dimly lit areas, and he's quick...real quick.

NY critics just need to get their glasses checked!

 

[Harrygucha]

Three things Nolan could have said to have made TDK perfect:

"Christian, tone the voice down a little, would ya."

"We don't need to show Two-Face's return. Let's just have him go into exile after the hospital scene...and disappear. This way we can wrap up the movie a little quicker."

"Bat sonar? Yes, it can work. Let's make it look realistic, and not like a video game."

 

[batman11]

Three things Nolan could have said to have made TDK perfect:

"Christian, tone the voice down a little, would ya."

"We don't need to show Two-Face's return. Let's just have him go into exile after the hospital scene...and disappear. This way we can wrap up the movie a little quicker."

"Bat sonar? Yes, it can work. Let's make it look realistic, and not like a video game."

 

[danb26]

Think this belongs here, from the TimesOnline (UK)

10 things that make The Dark Knight the best Batman ever:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/blockbuster_buzz/2008/07/10-10-things-th.html