I went to the movies at 9 in the morning. Pretty sure that’s the earliest screening I’ve ever been to. Anyway, when I came home, my son immediately punched me in the balls. Honestly. I think he was trying to give me a hug, but was looking away, and he slugged me right in the junk. Likely, he meant well, but his grand gesture of adoration went awry and ended up a painful moment of shock and disappointment.
If you haven’t gotten it by now, I was crushed with disappointment after seeing The Dark Knight Rises. Oh, that was obvious? Well, if you’ve seen this movie, you know that everything must be explained and shown fully to occur. I’m just following suit.
I went into full-on internet lockdown when it came to reviews (or even images) concerning the third film in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. This was going to be hands down the movie of the summer, if not of all time. You can laugh at the absurdity of that all you want, but I was f–king hyped. And when I left the damn-near three-hour epic, I was in shock not only because the movie it wasn’t even close to being that good, I honestly felt for a minute that it wasn’t good at all.
Read the rest of this witty, well structured, review at Two Dollar Cinema. You’ll find here points that bring up plot holes and inconsistencies that don’t necessarily take away from the movie, but are definitely a good point or two to bring up before always blindly praising the film [much like I did to admit].
About 230/270 critics on Rotten Tomatoes deemed the Dark Knight Rises as a ‘good’ movie. There was a neat uprising about a guy a couple of weeks ago who wrote a negative review who was so absurd in his points, that he was beginning to get death threats. Now, the United States is a free country where you can say what you like without the fear of being attacked or put down, so this idea was absolutely insane. Now today’s Weekend Reblog is something a little bit different. I send you to Two Dollar Cinema, one of my longtime blogger friends, who writes a legitimate ‘negative’ review on his blog. While he certainly doesn’t hate the movie, he does definitely brings up some good points and says, “TDKR was like a girlfriend that dumped me. All of a sudden I’m pissed about all the little things, but before I looked right passed them. ” That’s the kind of humor you’ll find over there. So check it out!
This reblog is a little different because he hails from rival blogging domain Blogger, but blogging friendship extends beyond that. To get Weekend Reblogged, simply comment on any article between this post and next week to enter a pool of possibly getting reblogged. I’ll look at recently posted articles that catch my attention. Start commenting now by settling a long time debate at the Live Discussion: Mac or PC?
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Patrick! My goodness, what have you done??? You’ve sent them to destroy me!
Nah, I’m just kidding. I really appreciate that you’ve taken the time to include my ludicrous ‘review’ of TDKR. Coming from a site I respect, it means that much more.
A reading your comments about the reaction to negative reviews of TDKR has further cemented my feelings about movie reviews in general. This is supposed to be fun. How mad can we get over dissenting opinions? Seriously?
And one more thing (sorry), I walked out of the theater less than 12 hours after what happened in Aurora, Co. When the credits rolled, I wasn’t thinking about the end of the Batman trilogy. I was thinking that people actually, in a way, gave their lives to see that movie.
Let people love the movie, let people hate the movie. Leave it at that. And if you can’t do that, well at least keep it civil.
M. Brown, haha, you’ve definitely provided one of the more controversial articles written and your 31 comments is a testament to that. You definitely seem to be dealing with a whole mess over there haha. I’m glad you understand the absurdity of this entire matter as a lesser being would take it personally and try to go 1-on-1 with the internet [you’d lose that fight, anyone would]. Stay strong, but you don’t seem to need my advice on that, seeing as you’ve got your own similar philosophy to counter some of the more ignorant actions taken.
And the Colorado incident is also important to consider. All the praise in a time where no one should be celebrating anything definitely makes things difficult to put in perspective. It’s hard to set one aside from the other.
Best of luck man.
the thing that bugged me most was the fight scenes. the punch outs were painfully forced and I felt a bit too ridiculous. I felt that the DKR was an above average super hero movie that was entertaining. Super hero movies typically don’t stay with me at all so I never get too hyped for them. I suppose were were all a little spoiled by Batman Begins and The Dark Knight