Comments on: The Dark Knight — Not Just Another Superhero Movie

By: This Movie Is A Fantasy « Repartay

This Movie Is A Fantasy « Repartay — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:32:21 +0000

[...] Morgan!) and was thinking about how conservatives probably love this movie. And as it turns out, they do! After all, the plot involves the use of illegal surveillance activities and enhanced interrogation [...]

By: njamatt

njamatt — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:54:13 +0000

In response to Clint Grommett’s comment: (even though he was nice enough to tell us he doesn’t care) Do you not see how the first few sentences you typed “Conservatives = Facists, Liberals = Freedom” already have that ‘with us or against us’ mentality that all conservatives supposedly have? I like the last few lines in which you peacefully leave us to “Enjoy our rage” because you obviously don’t care at all and I think that that nice paragraph you left us really shows that. I saw the usual questions, assumptions, and of course a link to some site so you can “inform the people” or something. (I don’t really know, I always just assumed they were porn sites with spyware on them.) Well congratulations, because you’ve got the format down. Now you can take that same structure and just fill in the parts that are some-what related to whatever you’re using to burn a group that you dislike. And also in my opinion, in America we need a balance of right/left, Repubs/Dems. In general, conflicting view points so we don’t go too far left or too far right. Having said that, I’m not really either a conservative or a liberal but I hate people who just want to burn the other side with assumptions like the ones you’ve made. Instead of picking several topics and saying you disagree on them with conservatives, you do the usual “Screw you” type of thing because you were probably angry when you wrote this just like I’m angry at you now. But in my defense, I’m burning you, not any political group. And now, to parallel you; I think I’ll go make a sandwich and ignore this blog for a while.

By: The Dark Knight Voted Film of the Year | The Blog of Record

The Dark Knight Voted Film of the Year | The Blog of Record — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:27:00 +0000

[...] Maybe this has something to do with The Dark Knight’s great success: “Who would have guessed that the latest Batman movie would have a conservative point of view?&… [...]

By: Space Monkey

Space Monkey — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:43:07 +0000

what a bunch of morons on a blog! You ladys are lucky you can put a sentence together! I am Space Monkey and i challenge you fools at Superherohype.com where real men are not pu–ys like in here!

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:36:48 +0000

Umm, you actually just described liberalism, methinks. Conservatism IS “people over government”, “fewer taxes”, ect. And “everything we had will be privatized!!!” is one of the funniest things I have ever read. Privatized means it belongs to someone, not the government. I think you have things backwards. (PS. I am a non-religious conservative. Though you’ve probably never heard of such a concept, but that’s to be expected from someone who bashes a viewpoint (most likely) because it’s trendy to do so.)

By: Clint Grommett

Clint Grommett — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:04:34 +0000

Conservatives = Fascists. Look it up, compare definitions. Liberals = Freedom. Are you conservatives so desperate that you have to latch onto a movie, a meaningless piece of entertainment, to hold your beliefs up? You sound like a bunch of bible-thumpers. Oh yes, not much difference. Let’s make a few parallels here: christians in the crusades, the nazis, and conservatives all have the “you’re either with us or against us” mentality. You all lack the inner strength to live your own lives so you allow yourselves to be brainwashed just to be part of the group, so you feel you belong. Your politics are based on ideals you know nothing about because you’re only told what the politicians want you to know, so you follow blindly. Don’t believe it? Research Bush impeachment, as well as disaster capitolism. Your religion is based on a book that’s been debunked as being full of falsehoods, contradictions, and misinterpretations. Don’t believe it? Goto http://www.cygnus-study.com. The government is NOT more important than the people. They are supposed to be there for us. Without people, government is obsolete. Remember that. Follow the trends and you’ll see that in a few decades, we’ll have half the liberties we have now, that our every move will be monitored, that everything we do will be taxed and privatized. I hope I pissed a lot of people off, because I won’t even remember I made this post, so when you area all flipping out with your hate mail, I’ll be relaxing at home, or at the beach, or playing a game, while your heads are exploding. Enjoy your rage.

By: miriam

miriam — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:07:48 +0000

Those of you who haven’t seen it. Try to see it on imax, spectacular.

By: soundsofsilver

soundsofsilver — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:40:47 +0000

Yeah… or it’s possible that conservatives just tend to take things out of context, and that Christopher Nolan’s BATMAN movie might not be intended to have a message regarding George Bush.

Where does the phrase “Hollywood Liberal” come from? I’d probably be considered as far left as you can get, and I hate Hollywood.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:05:27 +0000

I just saw the movie today (theater in my town is an IMAX and still has every showing sold out) and I have to agree with your assessment.

What I have to wonder is, was this intentional on Nolan’s part and somehow went unnoticed by the cast? Most of the actors in the film are probably quite liberal, other than Gary Oldman who has been on record as hating Hollywood liberalism for years now. From skirting jurisdiction issues to using necessary force to gather information, there was plenty in this movie that would horrify a liberal.

Lucious Fox seemed to be the lone bearer of Liberal sentiment, and he was involved in the scheme in Hong Kong.

It’s an interesting message – Batman is trying his best to give up on the vigilantism and let due process take over by empowering someone like Harvey Dent, but he encounters an adversary that will recognize no rules, no boundaries, no limits, and operates from a standpoint lacking any sanity or rational logic. It’s like bringing a gloved fist to a knife fight.

This is either the most ironic result of liberal artistic efforts yet (the actress that bagged 9/11 victims gets blown up in a movie with a conservative bent) or we gave liberal Hollywood too much credit in their ability to stick to misguided ideals in the face of the almighty dollar.

If a conservative view on conflict didn’t prevail, than at least capitalism did.

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UpsidedownStamps.com » THE OLD MOVIE REEL! — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:24:38 +0000

[...] it to those damned liberals out there… many of them LOVED the movie even if it does have Conservative undertones with Batman being very remnicent of Mr. George W Bush (kinda like Leonidas in [...]