OK, I’m not sure if this is really worth writing about, but hey, I feel like doing it anyway.

A lot of people are lauding The Dark Knight as an amazing film, something that’s transcendent. I don’t see it that way, so turn away now if you’re uninterested in a bit of rain on your parade. (Also turn away if you want to avoid spoilers.)

I feel about The Dark Knight the way Katt told me she felt about Brokeback Mountain: I was expecting to be overwhelmed, but I was merely whelmed. To me, it was another entertaining Batman movie, and certainly one that was more flawed that the preceding one.

On the radio, I heard Christopher Nolan say that what he wanted in this movie was something very gritty and realistic. This might be part of the problem: Batman is gritty, but by design, he can’t be all that realistic.

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