DISQUS

Kevin Carr · 1 year ago

about those 520 comments on the review... there's about a half dozen negative reviews for TDK on RT.com, and all of the negative ones have hundreds of comments, compared to the 10 or 12 (if any) comments on the flurry of good reviews. the fans are speaking out.

Nate · 1 year ago

Denby's negative review was a well written one, while the others were not. Lash out at those. There was one guy from star magazine who wrote three paragraphs and his point was Why do comic book movies take them selves to seriously? Are you fucking kidding me? That's the guy who doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

Nevernude · 1 year ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! there are approxiimately 26 pages of responses to Mr Denby's review, and a lot of them attack him endlessly. Swear words aplenty from the fanboys. Im not gonna say he doesnt deserve all of it because his review is incoherent. He seems very much like he was having a bad day when he wrote his review.
Although, wishing death upon him etc is VERY uncalled for.

Josh Radde · 1 year ago

The only thing that made me upset about Denby's review is that he gave away spoilers without warning readers. Any critic who gives away what happens in a movie is not doing his or her job correctly. I understand Denby's argument about the film, but throwing out spoilers is just lazy.

Zap Rowsdower · 1 year ago

Denby's a f--got.


Just kidding.

Big Word · 1 year ago

I'm with you that us Fanboys and Fangirls can really get carried away because we're passionate about the characters & how they are portrayed and are tired of people not taking something we love seriously, (e.g.-The Academy, Reveiwers that have no real knowledge about the phenomenon that is, the Film Creators/Overseers/Studios-as Michael Bay is to Transformers since he didn't want to get involved in some stupid robot movie, etc., & even the actors/actresses who are the representations of these precious character's images-as Kirsten Dunst is to Spider-Man-(who the hell didn't grow up knowing something about Spider-Man??? WTF!? & how did she get the role when it could of gone to a more talented actress who'd of appreciated it like Donna from That 70's Show????...), but instead raping these stories to make megabucks (again...Transformers aka The 2hr GM/PepsiCo/iPod/etc commercial) & move on to the next comicbook hero/story at their leisure. So, when we have something that could be seriously enjoyed as both art and a respectable translation of a beloved comic book icon onto the silver screen being mocked or insulted, most of Fandom takes it personal. Whilst I agree with you that alot of people take it too far especially due to the fact that what you mentioned above are some seriously disturbed comments, (who the hell wishes AIDS on another person?!?!?!), I, as a bit of a Fanboy myself, can definitely appreciate sticking up for something we believe in and cherish. So spark up the Batsignal and plug your ears and cover your eyes to the negativity that are less than positive reviews and spend your movie-going $'s as you see fit!!!

Big Word · 1 year ago

Plus, if the reviewer were to use the websites powers to track down who wrote those "annonymous" comments on a blog page...can you say police involvement? & I'm not talking Gotham's Finest here. To write a comment on a blog page-like this one for example-you must be a member of said website which means that site has your personal info and that could be provided to police w/the proper request documents to file charges of threats, hate crimes, "verbal" abuse, or whatever other law is applicable to the scenario-you gotta watch what you write-even on the ether of cyberspace....

Cinexcellence · 1 year ago

Hear, hear. People need to chill. It's ok for a critic to not like a film that you HAVEN'T seen yet.

Nevernude · 1 year ago

I agree with you Big Word..we have to wait a long time for a real proper comic adaptation movie to come around. And when they do, most of the time they suck. Suck a lot. So it really grates when a potentially awesome movie like TDK comes along, and some critics who give the thumbs up to bad movies like Hancock which is a money grabbing opportunistic holiday movie, and then turn around and rip apart our dreams and wishes and hopes with movies like TDK...it hurts. Read Roger Eberts review, the man speaks with a great wisdom and insight into what makes a movie like this special.

Also, so far, theres a trend developing with the reviews. A lot of reviews from New York based critics are hatin on this film. Is it a location thing or what?

Josh Radde · 1 year ago

They must be jealous that Batman patrols Chicago (Gotham) and emo jazz-club Spider-Man patrols New York.

Bill Brasky · 1 year ago

yeah, they would have filmed in NY, but its too difficult to cut out all the rats that infest every inch of the city.

Why do you think Spidey is always climbing up walls?

Jason · 1 year ago

Btw, have you guys noticed that 6 of the negative reviews found on RT are from critics of NEW YORK publications?

There's a conspiracy going on.

Neil Miller · 1 year ago

What, was there no free popcorn at the NY press screening?

Eric · 1 year ago

The reaction to Mr. Denby's review is rather harsh and unreasoned, but hey thats the whole point of fanboyism. Which is of course an unfortunate truth. This is what happens when your job is to share an opinion, and when fanboyism takes what the opinion/criticism is being offered for into ones personal identity.

Almost reminds me of the Family guy scene where Peter admits he did not like the Godfather.

Dale Cooper · 1 year ago

I wasn't one of the people attacking the critics, but I understand. Many people have seen early screenings and from what I've heard, these negative reviews are completely ridiculous because apparently this film (in a summer of comic book movies) is not only the best Batman film, but possibly the best superhero film ever.

On another note, I find it funny that a critic would be whining about being criticized.

Big Word · 1 year ago

A critic's critique coming under fire-heavens to mergatroid!!! LMAO Can't you just savour the irony that off that statement? LMAO or should I say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
To me, the bottom line is that the Fandom's harsh responses come due to an air of insult being levied on something they love and cherish. Kinda like somebody insulting your kid sister, right after you just called her a b1tch. What's the knee jerk reaction to that? A sound thrashing of your buddy or whoever made such a rude comment. Life's a double standard friends-but it is all precious-so, when bad reviews come out, & those same reviewers are claiming that TDK sucks in comparison to Batman & Robin, Hancock, Superman Returns, or Spider-Man3, one cannot honestly be surprised at the backlash. However, once people return to civility, they ultimately know that regardless of a critic's opinion-the people will go if they want to. For instance, I live in Toronto & I can remember just how harsh the critics were towards Ace Ventura:Pet Detective when it was released. I mean, they tore it up and heavily lambasted local son Jim Carrey in an unabashed manner. However, one of my older cousins took me out to see the movie that same Friday night and I laughed my a$$ off and left the theatre wondering what the heck those stupid critics were carrying on about in the first place. I think sometimes people forget that everybody's entitled to their opinion and we're entitled not to give a damn.

Josh Radde · 1 year ago

@ Dale

To be honest, Denby has not come out and whined about the slams. An article over at Hollywood Bitchslap was sent to me defending the man and that caused me to go look this review up myself.

H. Stewart · 1 year ago

@ Neil

There's never popcorn at NY screenings. :(

Anyway, the fanboy outrage at the "rotten" reviews was almost scary. I blogged about it
myself.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/lmag_blog/blog/post...

Dissapointed · 1 year ago

"This movie is grim and jammed together. The narrative isn’t shaped coherently to bring
out contrasts and build toward a satisfying climax. The Dark Knight is constant climax;
it’s always in a frenzy, and it goes on forever."

To be honest.... as a huge fan and follower of these movies... I couldn't have put it better
myself. At least this negative review makes sense, as opposed to those who really just
see the film as being too "dark". I expected much more, and was disappointed. Very anti
climatic... unless of course you want to keep shelling out more money for inevitable
sequels.

Amol · 1 year ago

In the opening, Denby describes all the violence from TDK also saying Nolan sadly took away all the poetry from Burton's original(?) Batman. What F*cking poetry? And what does the term 'Burton's original' mean? And I thought Bob Cane, Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, Jeph Loeb and others created the Batman. A Dark Batman to be specific and not the Poetic one that Denby loves. But he also appreciates The Joker for his extreme Psychosis and Sadism. And yet he does not expect that much violence from that type of Joker? That's one contrast from Denby's review.

That is just one observation. You can find more.

Denby can't appreciate good music.

Denby can't do this and Denby do can't that... there's so much to point out in Denby's review that it's nonsense to talk about it.

And Eric Snider cannot even be considered a critic. Sometimes it happens. Wrong people at the wrong job.