The Dark Knight "influence" from Metal Gear Solid is shameful

[BenKenobi88]

Girl Gamer Elite said:

DTG said:

After having watched this overrated but mediocre movie it's hard not to be beaten over the head with all the apparent coincidential similarities to MGS.

Batmans raspy voice, which came out quite forced seemed like a nod to David Hayters Solid Snake as the two characters sounded essentially alike (besides the fact that SS sounds much more natural having done this voice for over a decade)

The thematics and pseudo philosophies of TDK also quite overtly borrowed from MGS. The themes of chaos, control, manipulation, heroes, anarchy, etc were simply too numerous to be considered merely nods to MGS. Much like The Matrix practically ripped off Ghost in the Shell (and did a poor job at that) TDK quite shamefully borrowed almost complete lines from Kojima's games. Some of the lines of being a hero (or not being one), of chaos and control were so similar to dialogue used in MGS that it felt almost distracting while watching the movie.

That TDK made such shallow use of Kojima's deep thematics was ever so aggrivating, not to mention the fact that I had not see the director or writer admit to MGS serving as an obvious influence is what makes this all the more shameful. 

I honestly have to agree.

It seems like the movie tried too hard to present a story that begged a very simple question which was then extrapolated needlessly as the sole substance of the plot. Like Metal Gear Solid 2, it took a fairly simple underlying commentary and made it a confusing mess, spinning its wheels in its redundant progression while trying to explain the same message over and over. Let us also not forget the frequent trailing off of the movie to follow tangents of the story and characters who were only ever meant to be supplementary to the larger story. Like Metal Gear Solid 2, the story didn't really know where it wanted to go or how to get there and rellied on the ambiguity of the story telling and presentation to create the illusion of something that is greater than what it truly was.

 

I'm not sure what movie you watched...The Dark Knight was fairly straightforward.

DTG just heard a raspy voice, heard the word "chaos", remembered playing MGS, and immediately stated The Dark Knight ripped off MGS.

It's an insult to Christopher Nolan really, and it's pretty lame.  I doubt he's even seen a PS3 let alone play an MGS game.