Tacit Ronin
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I wonder if Travesty will be even more passive aggressively upset in thirty years time when TDK is nothing but exalted to an even higher status.
I don't think I'll have to be, because I don't think it'll stand the test of time(and by that, I mean the #1 spot), especially with the immense amount of CBMs, and new iterations of Batman. Like I've said before, I've seen this before with B89, when he was king and couldn't be touched, until TDKT came along. It's all cyclical.I wonder if Travesty will be even more passive aggressively upset in thirty years time when TDK is nothing but exalted to an even higher status.
Yes, I know, but that's what I was responding to. Tacit was saying if I would be mad if it was looked at to an even higher standard than it is today.I don't think standing the test of time and holding the no. 1 spot are the same thing.
I enjoyed DoFP but it wasn't in the same league. It's Fox and X-Men's Dark Knight so far, but i dont think it's close. Apocalypse may achieve that spot. Future Past had way too many stupid points in the film where im wondering why Mystique is being such a stubborn idiot, why Bryan Singer is ripping off T2: Judgement Day so much (not to mention that Inception ending), and why they would decide to not use Quicksilver in the finale. It's entertaining but it feels to me, now that i've seen it a few times, that Singer only really made it to conveniently destroy the old continuity since Fox f'd it up too much in their lousy sequels. Now it's like a clean slate. So we'll see how Apocalypse delivers. They have a MUCH better villain going forward.I feel the film to surpass TDK is chillingly close. That film is Apocalypse.
Singer already tread frighteningly close to TDK-quality with DOFP, which he came to after a vast decade of hiatus under the baggage of a continuity-broken franchise he was forced to fix.
Imagine what he can do free of those chains, and with a villain like Apocalypse? Singer is usually pedestrian, but with X-men his creative juices fire on all cylinders.
I feel that Apocalypse is going to be something. Singer in X-men mode is a force to be reckoned with.
I don't think I'll have to be, because I don't think it'll stand the test of time(and by that, I mean the #1 spot), especially with the immense amount of CBMs, and new iterations of Batman. Like I've said before, I've seen this before with B89, when he was king and couldn't be touched, until TDKT came along. It's all cyclical.
But thanks for keeping me so close to your thoughts.
Empire did a public vote recently for the greatest movies of all time, and TDK came in at #3: http://www.empireonline.com/301/list.asp?page=36
It's actually gone up in the popularity polls because last time Empire did a public poll like that back in 2008/9 it came in at #15. Just goes to show the staying power of it. It wasn't just a 2008 fad.
I agree with the inclusion into the list. Good job.
Co-approved.
TDK is the greatest.