The Dark Knight Official Critics Reviews of TDK

[I Am The Knight]

I remember seeing that first trailer with the Two Towers. It was weird to think about after the fact.

What? But Spider-Man came out months before The Two Towers

 

[The Battousai]

What? But Spider-Man came out months before The Two Towers

Uh, no.

The attack occured on September 11th, 2001.

Spiderman came out on May 3rd, 2002.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Uh, no.

The attack occured on September 11th, 2001.

Spiderman came out on May 3rd, 2002.

Duh.

Yes, Spider-Man came out like 6 months before "TTT"

You said:

I remember seeing that first trailer with the Two Towers. It was weird to think about after the fact.

Are you actually saying that you saw that pre 9-11 trailer with a movie that came out in December 2002

 

[The Battousai]

Duh.

Yes, Spider-Man came out like 6 months before "TTT"

Are you actually saying that you saw that pre 9-11 trailer with a movie that came out in December 2002

EDIT: I just realized what you thought I said

I was recalling the first teaser trailer for Spiderman that had the Two Towers in it.

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[I Am The Knight]

EDIT: I just realized what you thought I said

I was recalling the first teaser trailer for Spiderman that had the Two Towers in it.

Here:

LOL! Yeah...Twin Towers = Two Towers. I used to mix them up all the time

 

[The Battousai]

LOL! Yeah...Twin Towers = Two Towers. I used to mix them up all the time

I haven't seen that movie in ages...

 

[I Am The Knight]

I haven't seen that movie in ages...

Last time I saw it was probably last year. I used to watch the whole trilogy all the time, back in 2006.

 

[The Battousai]

Last time I saw it was probably last year. I used to watch the whole trilogy all the time, back in 2006.

I still need to watch all my extended versions in a row

 

[I Am The Knight]

I still need to watch all my extended versions in a row

Yeah, me too.

 

[batman11]

I still need to watch all my extended versions in a row

Funny you mention that. I did that about a month ago. It was like 11 hours straight. I'm not sure if I was crying at the end of ROTK because the movie played my emotions, or because I was happy the tiresome experience was over. Either way, it was crazy. LOL t:

It's funny though, cause after that, I can't think of the events in the films as separate movies; it's all one big story to me now.

 

[p4poetic]

The original trailer aired long before the events of 9/11.

 

[Naite22]

I'm sorry to say this. As beautiful SHOT, and as grand the LOTR's trilogy seems, they're not HALF the movie The Dark Knight is!... ok, maybe HALF.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

as randal says in clerks 2 " all they did in those ****ing movies was walk to a stupid volcano!"

 

[Comics N' Toons]

when i saw the copycats I WAS THINKING sons of Batman from DKR...

 

[Phoenix2088]

Down to 94% on RR

 

[I Am The Knight]

I'm sorry to say this. As beautiful SHOT, and as grand the LOTR's trilogy seems, they're not HALF the movie The Dark Knight is!... ok, maybe HALF.

I disagree.

 

[laudanum09]

I disagree.

I agree with him only because I'm a bigger bat-fan than a LOTR fan. I think objectively however, they're of comparable quality.

 

[regwec]

I like the LOTR movies, and enjoy all of that Tolkien mythology and imagery in general. But none of the three parts of the LOTR trilogy on film were anywhere near as taughtly scripted and edited as TDK. Peter Jackson is a director who does "epic" very well, but he is obsessed with breaking tension, and peppering events with a sentimental, humanistic element. TDK is unforgettable because it is completely uncompromising. From the moment that a seemingly dead clown awakes to shove a dagger into his enemy's mouth, you know that anything can happen, and nothing is off limits. It's a massive credit to the Nolans that that sense of anxiety remains until the very last frame.

 

[justinianus]

Incomparable. Not in quality (all are exceptionally well-done films) but in style and content.

I have to agree that TDK's intensity is a strong hook.

 

[regwec]

Salutem, Justinianus! I am a fond admirer of your basilicas, though think your reconquests were a touch foolhardy.

 

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[justinianus]

Salutem, Justinianus! I am a fond admirer of your basilicas, though think your reconquests were a touch foolhardy.

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[Saint]

I like the LOTR movies, and enjoy all of that Tolkien mythology and imagery in general. But none of the three parts of the LOTR trilogy on film were anywhere near as taughtly scripted and edited as TDK. Peter Jackson is a director who does "epic" very well, but he is obsessed with breaking tension, and peppering events with a sentimental, humanistic element. TDK is unforgettable because it is completely uncompromising. From the moment that a seemingly dead clown awakes to shove a dagger into his enemy's mouth, you know that anything can happen, and nothing is off limits. It's a massive credit to the Nolans that that sense of anxiety remains until the very last frame.

Indeed--Jackson is big on sentiment. Really, really big. I think he sometimes oversells emotion to the point where you're asking him to stop bludgeoning you with it. That may or may not appeal to some.

Your point about intensity is well made.When I first saw Fellowship, my mouth sort of hung open during the escape from the Balrog. When I saw TDK, it hung open during... well, most of the film.

 

[laudanum09]

Incomparable. Not in quality (all are exceptionally well-done films) but in style and content.

I have to agree that TDK's intensity is a strong hook.

-well it's difficult to say because TDK is a real-world crime drama whereas LOTR is in a completely mythical world, fairies, demons and giants. It's hard to judge them on a point by point basis. but in general terms I think that maybe TDK is more intense, but once again the context helps facilitate that intensity: an ork or orc or however you spell it...well one of those getting clubbed or shot with an arrow will be different then Joker popping out of a truck and shooting a police officer with a shotgun, carving a grin into several people, murdering prominent city officials and driving the district attorney mad.
Of course those things are more intense, if those had a place in LOTR mythology, then it could hypothetically be just as taut (although I don't see ARagon cruising around in a tank the idea of 'taut'), its just that the elements that make TDK have no place in the world of LOTR.

I'm sure theres a much more objective way of looking at things but I can't help but just find these two films really difficult to compare. I think Pulp Fiction vs. TDK would be easier honestly