{"id":620,"date":"2008-08-14T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=620"},"modified":"2008-08-14T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T04:03:11","slug":"the-dark-knight-2008-chris-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/620","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Knight (2008, Chris Nolan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, billions of rabid fans, you win.  It&#8217;s a good movie, and Heath Ledger is great in it.  He plays insane like no one else, and when he walks out of the hospital in a nurse&#8217;s uniform stabbing at his remote control prompting a cliched huge explosion while he casually keeps walking, it&#8217;s one of the awesomest things at the movies all year.  But&#8230; top-selling film of all time and #1 on IMDB or not, I still find it the third-best Batman movie.  Full of episodic cliffhangers (maybe as tribute to the comic books?), which is the only way in which it reminded me of <em>Fantomas<\/em>.  Batman\/Wayne, as a character, is almost absent, replaced by gadgets and friends and a dead girlfriend (Maggie G.) whom he mourns for all of four seconds before going on to kill two-face and take the blame for two-face&#8217;s crimes himself, so the sucker public will go on believing in Harvey Dent, the district attorney who almost cleaned up this town before going insane and killing a buncha people.  Some role model.  Now Batty is on the run from Commissioner (finally) Gordon and I think Morgan Freeman quit his gadget-man job and neither of us can remember if the Joker died (which is a <em>bad<\/em> sign &#8211; nobody forgets how Nicholson&#8217;s Joker ended up &#8211; and while I&#8217;m in these parentheses, the soundtrack was no <em>Batdance<\/em> neither) and the Hong Kong financier is dead (burned alive on a pile of money = irony) and I guess the mob is in control of Gotham again, just with less money.<\/p>\n<p><em>Batman has banding issues:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/batman7.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>I dunno, might have to see again sometime when expectations are gone.  I spent a lot of the runtime complaining about stuff, either in my head or directly to Katy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watchmen<\/em> trailer looks cool, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, billions of rabid fans, you win. It&#8217;s a good movie, and Heath Ledger is great in it. He plays insane like no one else, and when he walks out of the hospital in a nurse&#8217;s uniform stabbing at his remote control prompting a cliched huge explosion while he casually keeps walking, it&#8217;s one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,520,139,522,521,181],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-comics","tag-michael-caine","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}