Movie Review:
The Dark Knight

Naaahhh...I prefer Batman as portrayed in the cartoons, which is just good clean fun. I don't need dark, psychotic portrayals of either villains or heroes. I don't know what level of bloodthirsty you have to be to call images of cruelty and torture "entertainment", but I don't share your view.
I liked the other Batman movie series, especially number 4 because it was so funny, and just love the toy-like sets in those earlier movies.
And the spoofy 1960's series.
In other words, just about any Batman except these newer movies.

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i've seen it twice time already, i like this film

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Wow SuperMomCraps, you're a negative Nancy! Criticize the movie, not the movie reviewer. This writer is just trying to do her job, giving her opinion to educate parents -- no need for the personal attacks!

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I loved this movie. Particularly the Joker. I was hesitant at first, but the character was well portrayed and psychotically different than past Jokers.
I won't take my kids to see it, but then again they are 3. I agreet with Fett Dad about if it is appropriate for your kid or not, it really depends on the child. I definately would not take a child 6 or younger.

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(CONT)
And you have Jim Grodon trying to protect his family, his cops, his city in a world where corruption is the norm and honesty the sin. This is a tale about the spectrums of humanity. The insanity of the Joker, the anarchy of the character compared to the ridged moral code of the Batman. Trapped in the middle is the duality of all man, Two-Face.
And blah, blah, blah, it is a COMIC BOOK MOVIE. It's dark if your kid gets scared don't take them. If your kid can handle it take them. Be a parent, that's your job.
The End.

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I better not let them play video games, I'd better not let them watch cartoons either, never know when one of them will throw an anvil on the other's head.
Better send them out with jasbatchelor to the shooting range, because nothing makes a good sniper like some one who's been shooting since they were in diapers.
Is this movie dark? Yes. Violent? Yes. A family movie? Depends on the family, but I think if you read the review above you get the same impression. Is it one of the best human studies every done in the comic book movie genre? Yes. Are grown-ups scared of the Joker? Yes. Are characters faced with horrific decisions shown rising to the challenge to be the best they can in a dark, corrupt, evil world? Yes. You have Batman, our hero, who takes the fall because his city needs him to be the villain in order to be the hero. You have Harvey Dent, fighting his way through the proper legal channels to save his city.

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Great review. I'm glad you mention it "toes the line between PG-13 and R," right in the review, because unlike some people's children my kids 12, 14 will not wake up with night terrors or shoot up a high school because of seeing a fictional comic book movie. While I don't find Christian Bale hot (I mean he's good looking for a dude and all) I do like that Maggie Gyllenhaal is a good looking actress. Oh my god, I just realized I'm sexist to because I mentioned a movie star, who people tend to fawn over is, dear I say it, sexy. I didn't know terrorist videos had millionaire playboys in them running around saving people on supped up motorcycles with the help of Alfie and the guy who Drive's Miss Daisy, had I know I would have checked them out.
Thank god there are people out there to protect my children from the likes of these things, since they are apparently to stupid to tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

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And people wonder why there are such tragedies as the Columbine shootings, highway snipers, etc? What boggles me, is that your comments typify the kind of person who would be appalled at the idea of taking an 8-yr old to a shooting range to learn how to handle a weapon, but hey, it's okay to watch someone else blow up buildings, commit mass murder, like what this movie dishes out is acceptable?
Call this movie what you want, but do not dare pan it off as being a family show, unless you're one of the Mansons.

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Wow. What an amazingly shallow review of a movie! Perhaps it wasn't stunned admiration that you felt, but rather your psyche reeling with disgust. Unfortunately, you can't allow yourself to give a bad review to the summer's "hottest" movie.
I, on the other hand, hold no such care for others' labels. This movie, while the production quality and technical aspects might have been awesome, was a horror story. Brutality, corruption, selfish desire for the "thrill," all these "wonderful" human components that exist in people around the world, and you call that a good thing?
Let's not forget that you're also making a stunning sexist comment, in saying that "Moms ... never need to obsess over another McDreamy ..."
Gee, this seems to imply that women who are moms are starved for sex idols, and that's all they think about.

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