The Dark Knight wishes it could be this dark and awesome
The pill popping clown wasn't enough
sharePreach.
You want something corny? You got it!
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shareLOL I highly doubt The Dark Knight wishes it was less successful overall. Don't get me wrong, I love this movie but that's like saying Slipknot wishes they were as awesome as Mushroomhead. Doesn't really make sense when you stack "dark and awesome" up against how much money/critical acclaim it received.
What do those movies have in common again? Oh that's right. Central characters with face paint. Okay.
Nah, TDK is better. But I do think Nolan lifted the scene in this movie where Eric confronts the gangsters at their meeting. It's eerily similar to when Joker crashes the Gotham mob summit early in TDK.
shareThese are different stories. While both are based off a comic, Batman is a part of the superhero genre and has a certain tone to maintain. The Crow is more of a horror story despite having some mild superhero elements. It also needs to have a certain tone.
That said, a darker story is not necessarily better. The Saw movies are very dark and I think they're terrible. Meanwhile, The Big Lebowski is, in my opinion, a near-perfect movie and it's a comedy.
They are very different movies, yes, with the comic book tether one of the few connections between them. Although, there are others like the face paint, but they are trivial (or, perhaps nothing is trivial?)
I'm with you 100% that dark does not equal good. They are two different metrics.
I kinda forgot that a character wears facepaint in both movies. I associate the Joker with bleached skin even though the Dark Knight version and a few others had make up.
shareI prefer the classic, chemically-altered origin, but yeah, for the "realistic" Dark Knight Trilogy, they went with the makeup.
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