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Posted: 7/2/08 at 4:10pm
I thought I'd share this with you all even though there will probably be someone posting in this thread sarcastic remarks about me making alot of Dark Knight related threads, but I thought I'd share this with you anyway.
I was just reading this article from Variety that talked about Dark Knight and that Nolan has made the movie alot darker than Begins and possible made it the darkest Batman movie yet. I wanted to post this to kinda give caution to any parents of young children that maybe on this board that might be taking their children to see this movie because the children maybe fans of Batman, but I just want to say that this isn't Adam West's Batman or Joel Schumacher's Batman, this is Batman as he truly is portrayed in the comics since he was created(except for a time during the late 40s to the mid 60s when he became campy).
Batman has never been a family friendly or a child friendly character. Batman has always been a dark, brooding vigilante with an equally dark and sinister rogues gallery. The only time the character has been child friendly is with the Adam West TV show, the Schumacher movies, and the animated series, The Batman, and Dark Knight is definetly darker and it's not going to be child friendly at all. Some of the things from the movie that lead me to believe that are The Joker's appearance(his smile was cut into his face), Two-Face's appearance(based on the leaked concept art it's not going to be pretty), somewhere in the movie, Joker performs a magic trick for the different mobsters of Gotham making a pencil disappear and then reappear in one of their heads, and so on.
So, take a look at the article which can be found here:http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117988395.html?categoryId=1350&cs=1&no_cj_c=0
I'd take producer Chuck Roven's word for it when he said that he would recommend this film for anyone under 10.
I was just reading this article from Variety that talked about Dark Knight and that Nolan has made the movie alot darker than Begins and possible made it the darkest Batman movie yet. I wanted to post this to kinda give caution to any parents of young children that maybe on this board that might be taking their children to see this movie because the children maybe fans of Batman, but I just want to say that this isn't Adam West's Batman or Joel Schumacher's Batman, this is Batman as he truly is portrayed in the comics since he was created(except for a time during the late 40s to the mid 60s when he became campy).
Batman has never been a family friendly or a child friendly character. Batman has always been a dark, brooding vigilante with an equally dark and sinister rogues gallery. The only time the character has been child friendly is with the Adam West TV show, the Schumacher movies, and the animated series, The Batman, and Dark Knight is definetly darker and it's not going to be child friendly at all. Some of the things from the movie that lead me to believe that are The Joker's appearance(his smile was cut into his face), Two-Face's appearance(based on the leaked concept art it's not going to be pretty), somewhere in the movie, Joker performs a magic trick for the different mobsters of Gotham making a pencil disappear and then reappear in one of their heads, and so on.
So, take a look at the article which can be found here:http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117988395.html?categoryId=1350&cs=1&no_cj_c=0
I'd take producer Chuck Roven's word for it when he said that he would recommend this film for anyone under 10.
