For that matter, why are you so happy to point out that an action movie based on a comic book isn't smart?
Films based on comic books don't have to be smart, they can just be fun. However, TDK has been hyped, especially by the fans, as being a thinking person's movie, not just your standard action flick; it's been hyped as transcending mere comic books and action films. Which brings up the issue in question: if people want to call it a smart film, they must expect to be called on why they think that. My main issue with TDK was that it was filled with the sort of pretentious waffle and simplistic moral dilemmas that you'd expect a first-year philosophy student to come up with, but that was passed off as something profound. It's the latter part that irked me the most about it: that it was dressed up in pseudo-intellectual trappings. As much as I disliked the latest Indiana Jones movie, at least it didn't pretend to be anything more.
I like plenty of stupid films. Hell, I practically revel in them! But it's only when I'm REALLY unsober that I claim that they're anything more than what they are, and it seems that way too many TDK fans were sober when they gushed about the film's, er, intellectual challenges. :)
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Films based on comic books don't have to be smart, they can just be fun. However, TDK has been hyped, especially by the fans, as being a thinking person's movie, not just your standard action flick; it's been hyped as transcending mere comic books and action films. Which brings up the issue in question: if people want to call it a smart film, they must expect to be called on why they think that. My main issue with TDK was that it was filled with the sort of pretentious waffle and simplistic moral dilemmas that you'd expect a first-year philosophy student to come up with, but that was passed off as something profound. It's the latter part that irked me the most about it: that it was dressed up in pseudo-intellectual trappings. As much as I disliked the latest Indiana Jones movie, at least it didn't pretend to be anything more.
I like plenty of stupid films. Hell, I practically revel in them! But it's only when I'm REALLY unsober that I claim that they're anything more than what they are, and it seems that way too many TDK fans were sober when they gushed about the film's, er, intellectual challenges. :)