http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/ Just another kitsch-ka-blogs weblog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:18:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-26744 Captain America » Movie Monster Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:22:55 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-26744 [...] this function—that can reconcile its complete lack of original thinking with a complete lack of Nolanesque pretension—deserves its share of credit. It structures adolescent fantasia in a way that Transformers III, [...] [...] this function—that can reconcile its complete lack of original thinking with a complete lack of Nolanesque pretension—deserves its share of credit. It structures adolescent fantasia in a way that Transformers III, [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-14813 Inception » Movie Monster Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:19:05 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-14813 [...] hole is the perfect metaphor for where most of Nolan’s emotional currents end up. My dislike of The Dark Knight is all too well documented, but Inception is wounded by the same failings. Nolan mines for human [...] [...] hole is the perfect metaphor for where most of Nolan’s emotional currents end up. My dislike of The Dark Knight is all too well documented, but Inception is wounded by the same failings. Nolan mines for human [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-13045 The Fighter » Movie Monster Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:02:14 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-13045 [...] once he lost his mind, it looked as though he’d never recover it. Sanity appears to bore him. As The Dark Knight, he was torpid—perhaps because the director drooled over the banality of Heath Ledger’s evil [...] [...] once he lost his mind, it looked as though he’d never recover it. Sanity appears to bore him. As The Dark Knight, he was torpid—perhaps because the director drooled over the banality of Heath Ledger’s evil [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-1347 Iron Man 2 » Movie Monster Thu, 13 May 2010 05:27:03 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-1347 [...] fantasy domain; Stark the Renaissance man is serial wish fulfillment, page after page. So when The Dark Knight came out two months after the first Iron Man, and was celebrated as “mature” and [...] [...] fantasy domain; Stark the Renaissance man is serial wish fulfillment, page after page. So when The Dark Knight came out two months after the first Iron Man, and was celebrated as “mature” and [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-1296 Ajami » Movie Monster Fri, 07 May 2010 05:46:40 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-1296 [...] and his spur-wearing ilk, and has recently clogged the arty arteries of No Country for Old Men and The Dark Knight. But the makers of Ajami have taken their sentiments, jammed them into a blender with a couple [...] [...] and his spur-wearing ilk, and has recently clogged the arty arteries of No Country for Old Men and The Dark Knight. But the makers of Ajami have taken their sentiments, jammed them into a blender with a couple [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-824 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » Movie Monster Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:22:05 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-824 [...] describes as being “on the margins of society,” rescues another straggler: Tony (the late Heath Ledger), a smooth-talking amnesiac with some sort of connection to children’s charities and the Russian [...] [...] describes as being “on the margins of society,” rescues another straggler: Tony (the late Heath Ledger), a smooth-talking amnesiac with some sort of connection to children’s charities and the Russian [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-796 Invictus » Movie Monster Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:18:44 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-796 [...] spectacularly! Recently, he’s been the same smooth, sagacious, incontrovertibly moral compass in The Dark Knight, Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, et al. He plays Mandela—his friend in real life—reverently, [...] [...] spectacularly! Recently, he’s been the same smooth, sagacious, incontrovertibly moral compass in The Dark Knight, Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, et al. He plays Mandela—his friend in real life—reverently, [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-751 The Critic’s Criticism of His Critics » Movie Monster Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:39:19 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-751 [...] my while. These rarer movies are not always superior—in fact, some (such as Observe and Report or The Dark Knight) are too stuffy and pretentious or have other failings that bring them below the level of an [...] [...] my while. These rarer movies are not always superior—in fact, some (such as Observe and Report or The Dark Knight) are too stuffy and pretentious or have other failings that bring them below the level of an [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Inglourious Basterds » Movie Monster Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:45:39 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-748 [...] with facile things, even if there’s nothing in the attic and the basement is full of worms. In The Dark Knight, for example, Christopher Nolan’s smash-bang pacing kept one unaware of the suspicious subtext. [...] [...] with facile things, even if there’s nothing in the attic and the basement is full of worms. In The Dark Knight, for example, Christopher Nolan’s smash-bang pacing kept one unaware of the suspicious subtext. [...]

]]> http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Martyrs » Movie Monster Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:42:39 +0000 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/movies/2008/09/14/the-dark-knight/#comment-733 [...] who are easily distracted by clever visuals. This dubious genre includes the Kill Bill movies, The Dark Knight, and the absurd revenge-fantasy Oldboy from South [...] [...] who are easily distracted by clever visuals. This dubious genre includes the Kill Bill movies, The Dark Knight, and the absurd revenge-fantasy Oldboy from South [...]

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