Speaking of criticism, I was taking a glance at Rotten Tomatoes at how The Dark Knight Rises was doing. And it just always seems a lot of movie critics cannot help but fall over themselves when they try and describe super hero movies. Here's a quote that was particularly amusing:
"A cinematic, cultural and personal triumph, “The Dark Knight Rises” is emotionally inspiring, aesthetically significant and critically important for America itself – as a mirror of both sober reflection and resilient hope."
Critically important for America itself. I didn't know which word to italicize in that sentence so I just put them all in bold. That is just preposterous bullshit. Could you imagine? if Dark Knight Rises didn't come out just when it did? Oh, I don't even want to think of it. So much of the fabric of our American heritage and the resilience of our infrastructure would have suffered in more ways than we can imagine, sitting here, now, from our perspective in this post-Dark Knight Rises World. That critic went on to write about how super hero film, or rather Nolan's super hero films, are a reminder that they are not just a frivolous distraction, or even a wish-fulfillment fantasy, but an embodiment of our best selves – or at least what we want our best selves to be......when that's exactly what superheros are meant to be.
I'm still excited to see the movie, I've read that it's the most "comic booky" of the 3, so that clash with the "real world box" he trapped his version of Batman in will probably be more jarring than the other 2 movies were. But as long as he doesn't **** the story up too much, it'll probably be good. I'm glad he's done with Batman though, not just because I'm not a particular fan of the the way he's portrayed that world, but because his other non-Batman movies are so much better.
