Comments on: the dark knight http://www.jon22.net/the-dark-knight/ The Website of Jonathan Dobres Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Tall One http://www.jon22.net/the-dark-knight/comment-page-1/#comment-4301 The Tall One Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:42:45 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=585#comment-4301 So I was cruising through the New Yorker review, and I came across this line: "In brief, Warner Bros. has continued to drain the poetry, fantasy, and comedy out of Tim Burton’s original conception for “Batman” (1989), completing the job of coarsening the material into hyperviolent summer action spectacle." Get the impression that maybe Mr. Denby has never heard of the Dark Knight take on Batman, and has no fucking clue what he's talking about? So I was cruising through the New Yorker review, and I came across this line:

“In brief, Warner Bros. has continued to drain the poetry, fantasy, and comedy out of Tim Burton’s original conception for “Batman” (1989), completing the job of coarsening the material into hyperviolent summer action spectacle.”

Get the impression that maybe Mr. Denby has never heard of the Dark Knight take on Batman, and has no fucking clue what he’s talking about?

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