Rewatching The Dark Knight
So I'm rewatching everyone's favorite Batman film " the Dark Knight ." It's always been hard for me to enjoy this film because I have a hard time letting go of the logical and practical when it comes to films that want us to take them seriously. The Dark Knight is neither logical or practical. It is cool but in no way could any of this crap have happened as the Joker planned. I could go over it or I could let another lover of all things logical tell you. Here is Gregg Easterbrook's one paragraph review written back in 2009: "During training camp, Jon Gruden canceled an August afternoon practice so the team could go see "The Dark Knight." That harks back to Gruden's youthful days -- let's blow off practice and go see a movie! The latest Batman installment is a hit, and well-made from a cinematography standpoint, but the Joker character was unrealism carried to an extreme, even by Hollywood's low standards. The Joker has hundreds of...