... and what this guy says, too.

A quick update expanding on my screed against The Dark & Boring Knight -- it's a piece from Michael Atkinson ('writing on cinema, culture & anti-imperialist dudgeon in a blindly Godless world') which says a bit more eloquently what I was getting at below. In short, like this:

'The Dark Knight epitomizes the problem specifically not by simply being a Caped Crusader trifle masquerading as Paradise Lost, but because it failed to do the simplest things movies have always done: tell a fucking story. The film is quite literally one violent set-piece followed by a 20-second snatch of exposition, to explain what significance the set-piece is supposed to have, repeated again and again and again, for over 2.5 interminable hours.'

Read more here in Zero for Conduct.

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