Onyxmeth said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Onyxmeth said:
MontanaHatchet said:
I can see the comparison between The Dark Knight and videogames as a whole though. The Dark Knight was incredibly popular and loved by the vast majority of people, but a small group of snooty elitist critics kept it from being fully recognized for its quality. |
Huh? Are we talking about the same movie here? The Dark Knight has a ridiculously high rating on rottentomatoes, with an average rating of "A" out of a scale from A+ to F. It won two Academy Awards and got nominated for another six. It ended up on 34 critics' top ten lists, including 9 picks for best film of the year.
You must be thinking of that other Batman movie, the one with Liam Neeson.
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I'm mainly talking about the academy awards. Notice I said "small group," and said that majority opinion was positive.
TheThunder: I didn't insult you at all, so don't take it that way. You're free to not like the movie, but you're also not a influential film critic (unless you really are, in which case, cool beans!).
Goddog: No. That's actually kind of insulting. Many of his henchmen were people with personality disorders (such as schizophrenia), but I doubt any of them were retarded.
And Batman Begins was awesome.
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The Academy Awards are made up of all of the same exact group of critics that gave it the great reviews. In fact it would be the largest group of critics around by far, nothing small about it. It ended up winning two awards out of it's eight nominations. I'm sorry I just don't know exactly what you meant by the original comment. Did you expect it to get nominated for every conceivable award and win them all, because that just isn't realistic, nor is it very deserving to the other great movies that got nominations also.
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has similar ratings on Rotten Tomatoes as The Dark Knight, and similar critic fanfare. Still, it won 11 academy awards and The Dark Knight won 2. That either means that 2003 was a very bad year for films, or 2008 was a very good one. And considering how much 2008 got criticized for the lack of quality in films, I doubt that.
