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This movie exposes how grossly overrated The Dark Knight has been for years


The Dark Knight is #3 spot on IMDB's top 250 movies of all time? Really?

Honestly the death of Heath Ledger and his performance in the film are the sole reason why The Dark Knight is so overrated and overhyped by many and why it has bafflingly secured it's spot as the best comic book movie of all time and one of the best movies of all time.

But when you really look at it closely aside from Heath's Joker everything else in the movie is rather mediocre:

underwhelming action scenes
poor fight choreography with too many camera cuts to make up for it
under developed characters (Gordon, Rachel, Harvey, Lucious, Alfred)
contrived plot
dull cinematography
an ordinary looking Ghotam (baffling considering how well it was done in Begins)
poorly cast Rachel (Maggie was awful in the role and just failed to make anyone care for her death)
clunky dialogue
poor pacing
etc

Really overall The Dark Knight is a mediocre film whose only saving grace is Heath's performance as the Joker and this performance itself was boosted and praised more than it should have been due to his death.

This new Batman movie to begin with has a better and more faithful to the comics portrayal of Batman and Pattinson is a much better Batman than Bale, a more comic book like Ghotam, better dialogue, plot, pacing and pulls off the whole "grounded in realism" that Nolan was after in his movie without sacrificing the comic book quality of the film. It actually feels like a Batman movie as opposed to a movie that happens to have Batman in it like The Dark Knight does.

In short, The Dark Knight has always been massively overrated, but it is not until now that we finally have a movie in The Batman that helps show this fact.

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I like The Dark Knight but it is riddled with problems. There is strange exposition (which happen with Nolan's other films) throughout the film. There is a lot of cringey dialogue. There is also a constant score playing in the background throughout the entire film. Bale is a decent Bruce Wayne but an average Batman.

I'd have to watch The Batman again to determine whether I like it better than The Dark Knight

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You must have forgotten the 4 or 5 notes that repetitively play throughout the first 15 minutes of this film

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Yeah, but the Dark Knight is throughout the entire film. I can't even remember a scene of where there was no score.

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I can see where you're coming from. I haven't watched the entire Dark Knight very recently so I can't say for sure if there's too much score, but I would believe you.

More recently, I've watched a few scenes on YouTube to try and compare it to The Batman and I found myself far more impressed by what the Dark Knight accomplished.

People interested in a side by side comparison should watch the car chase/escort scene in Dark Knight vs The Batman chase. The effects are far more practical and yet there is still more action. There are also lots of long shots and establishing shots vs in The Batman's chase almost everything is a closeup or mounted camera angle.

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I haven't watched the comparison videos, but I didn't mind the camerawork in The Batman. I could always follow the action scenes and was thrilled by them. The Dark Knight's car chase scene was great, too.

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Honestly, I can't go wrong with either film. If I'm in the mood for an action oriented Batman film, The Dark Knight it is. If I want a darker, more moody Batman film, then I'm watching The Batman.

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"grounded in realism"

- A bomb goes off in Batman's face, the very next scene he is shown with no injuries
- Batman plummets from the sky and falls upwards of 50mph across the concrete. Result: gets up and walks away.

Yeah so real. The Batman had SOOO many more flaws compared to The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight might not be one of the best movies ever made, but it is significantly better than this piece of shit.

Also, don't say that the pacing of The Batman was better than The Dark Knight. The Batman was EXTREMELY drawn out. Did we really need 30-45 min of a large scale "attack" and 10 min of Batman helping the town? No. An hour could have been cut out of this movie and it still would have been successful in it's tone and progression.

Come on dude.

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Agreed. Batman Begins was so much better.

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No, nothing beats The Dark Knight. It's one of the rare movies out there that is (near) 'perfect'

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lol

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It's a good film, but nowhere near as good as it is said to be. Nolan does not understand Batman, and that is why his trilogy really fails. To be honest, I think Batman Begins is his best effort and even that is not that great. Heath Ledger was a criminal in make-up, he was not the Joker.

At least Matt Reeves took the time and read many many comics and understood that Batman's rogues galary is what makes him tick. Nolan failed with Batman, even if people think he succeeded. Batman in the Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises is a joke.

I really enjoyed The Batman. Matt Reeves did well with the film.

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"Heath Ledger was a criminal in make-up, he was not the Joker."

I may think TDK is incredibly overrated, but this statement is insane. Literally nothing about Heath Ledger's Joker indicates that he's just your run-of-the-mill criminal. The Joker is by far the best part of TDK, and probably will remain the best live action portrayal for many decades to come.

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I prefer Phoenix's portrayal, but kinda marginally so because Ledger was awesome.

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The Dark Knight is hardly overrated. It's deserving of all the praise it has received. However, I'd say the best comic book movie of all time is The Watchmen. That movie gets such a bad rap because it's fashionable to hate on Zack Snyder, but it deserves so much better. Maybe our descendants will one day show it the love that's due to it.

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What the hell are you talking about 😂😂😂

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