Avoid 'Dark Knight Rises'
Lewis DiuguidPeople at all costs should avoid the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Certainly they should do it because of the tragic mass shootings that took place last week in Aurora, Colo., during the movie’s opening. But they also should do it because it is an awful film.
I went to see it Sunday and found it astoundly pathetic. The movie was about an hour too long.
Where was the editing? Where was the writing? Where was the sensible plot? Where was the acting?
All were missing in this movie.
JR Beillenhouser
10 months agoProbably because it condemns things such as green energy, the occupy movement, appeasement, totalitarianism and is for things such as capitalism.
Kent Mueller
10 months agoRecommending that people not go to a movie based on your opinion of the movie is just fine. People do that all the time.
But you say people should avoid the movie because of the tragic event in Aurora? Why is that? So many innocent people have been either killed or hurt in so many ways. I don’t think it is appropriate to recommend that more innocent people get hurt. There are people that depend on people attending that movie for income. And I’m not talking about the stars who get guaranteed money.
I find people on the left quite callous to the economic consequences to companies and their employees.
Lewis, what if you worked for a company that experienced a tragedy. Should people then not read your work based on that? It would be silly to avoid you for that reason, just as it is silly to not go to that movie based on the tragedy.
Richard L Wagner
10 months agoI would avoid any movies that beat a concept to death, like Batman, Ironman, Starwars, Startrek,etc.
How much money can they squeeze out of a superhero movie,anyway?
Phil Cardarella
10 months agoNo plot? You must be kidding! There are eight million stories in the Naked City of Gotham — and this has been ALL of them. A pirate ship coming over the horizon would not have turned a head.
Anti-green? Not hardly. Anti-capitalist? Only to the extent that it condemns stock manipulation by a master villian. Last time I looked, ACTUAL theft was not considered capitalism. Frankly, it gives anarchists (a rather harmless, disorganized lot in real life) a bad name.
“The Sorrow and the Pity” — an eight-hour documentary on Occupied France — seemed shorter and was far less boring.
Jeff Campbell
10 months agoi thought the movie moved quickly, i hardly noticed how long we were there. The entire theme of the movie was ‘hope”, how hope coupld be used as a weapon, how hope can set you free, how a city with none at all was given it back by sacrifice.
Also the shooting in Colorado is EXACTLY why we all NEED to go see a movie. We can not and will not allow terror to win and rule our lives.
Staci Reeter
10 months agoWhy should people avoid it at all costs? You went didn’t you.