I don't think the merits of lack thereof of comic books has ever come up in one of our conversations, but I'll take your word for it. Sorry if I tend to get hung up on certain words or sentences, but in my opinion the sentence “an ‘adult’ movie despite it's comic book origins” suggest that the comic origins would somehow stand in the way of a movie being adult. But maybe I didn't fully get your point because I have not seen these "nitpicking" arguments, and this is sort of the only blog I read, except when you point out others. I take TDK completely serious, and am of the opinion that it holds up in a serious, adult way, despite the spelling out. Which apparently is not all that blatant either, considering how much criticism misses the mark when it comes to the themes and messages they take away from it. But then again, as a young boy I had one Batman comic that I clung to for years, even though I don't have it anymore, and me and a friend of mine dressed up as the Dynamic Duo from the camp tv show when we were 7-9 years old, and in preparation for TDK and three years ago for BB I've been reading up on a lot of what is considered the top of the Batman comic canon, as well as watching some Lang (I like the mention of Fritz in Coleman's and Gross' pieces), so I'm probably biased, and perhaps see more in The Dark Knight than some others because of what I know to lie behind certain surfaces in the movie that seem to be points in itself. But I could be wrong about that, and do risk sounding condescending when that's certainly not my intention. I have no idea if others who saw the same as me "come from the same background", and that's probably not at all necessary to have the same insight I think I have in the movie. Nathaniel does have some interesting points, but in the end the state of film criticism is dire because he doesn't agree with most critics? "I don’t get why the two categories are so often equated." Perhaps because in Hollywood movies, the opposites are more than often forced together?

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Sorry, commenting more on the comments that your post .. this "so sue me" attitude really gets my goat! My father was an NHS dentist for nearly 40 years .. he did a "voluntary" service at a local hospital - all he got paid was his petrol - he didn't even claim that .. most of the attendees were extractions because, to be quite honest, if you need to go to a hospital as an emergency, there is no hope .. he had prisoners handcuffed to the chair, loonies and all the rest .. he was nearly "struck off" because he extracted a tooth from some woman who then went to the BDA and told them that he had cause injuries "consistent with being in a head on car collision" ... now having taken out teeth for some few years (including one of mine) he was fairly expert in it .. what she FAILED to tell the BDA was that she HAD BEEN IN A HEAD ON CAR COLLISION 2 WEEKS PREVIOUS!!!!! Sorry, totally off point, but felt I needed to let it out!

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I feel compelled to add that the phrase about TDK wanting to be "an 'adult' movie despite its comic book origins" blah blah blah appeared to be a paraphrase of Adam Nayman (so why take Hedwig to task?). I also think it's clear contextually that it is not a blanket description but one specific to TDK, which can be seen in the reference to the movie before that final clause. Then again, Foucault or Derrida or another one of those dead French hippie philosophers propagated the idea of the death of the author, so maybe we can all read whatever we like into it after all.

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So long, and thanks for the mammeries.

Too much blood, just oil em up and let em wrestle, and if they wreck a T-Bird I'm gonna get really mad!!!