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Jane seemed to have liked "Dark Knight" as much as I did but she thought it was too long. I disagree. I really could've taken more if Christopher Nolan wanted to give it. I was pretty sucked in the whole time. I think length can be a real problem with many of these event, big-budget, Summer franchises. ("Spider-Man 3" and the last two "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies come to mind.) Really I only think length is usually a problem if the film's themes can't sustain it. Spider-Man and Pirates were just excessive but had they been as deep as Dark Knight their length would have been acceptable. Instead they were just popcorn and after awhile all the action and special effects just got boring. It's kind of like if you get a big bag of one flavor of life savers. You'll enjoy it for awhile but by the time you get to the bottom of the bag you're sick of it and ready for another flavor. What's the solution? Get a bag of candy with a half dozen or even a dozen flavors. That's basically what "The Dark Knight" is. Agree? Disagree?
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David - I was pretty much ready for it to end after the final scenes with Harvey Dent. But as my son pointed out, all of the remaining scenes of the movie were really integral to the story. So I can go either way, but definitely lean towards the "too long" camp.
Also, was anyone else surprised...
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...that Dent was killed off? Sure seemed like they could have gotten more mileage out of that character in any upcoming movies. I heard that Chris Noth didn't want to do any more, and maybe that's why he wanted to wrap things up with this movie.
It's about 45 minutes' drive from our apartment to the IMAX theatre and one of my friends and I talked about the prospects of a third Batman movie and how it could work. We both thought it would be tough to pull off a third one since they....
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..... decided to kill of Two-Face. So many of the other Batman villains are just too damn cartoony and don't have the rich thematic potential of the Joker and Two-Face. They might be able to do something with Cat-Woman or maybe Bane but a movie with The Riddler, Mr. Freeze, The Penguin, etc. just wouldn't seem to work as well given the rules that Nolan set up with his series.
Is this really it? I hadn't heard that.
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