{"id":136,"date":"2008-07-28T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2008\/07\/dark-knight-but-not-in-a-good-way\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:25:00","slug":"dark-knight-but-not-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2008\/07\/dark-knight-but-not-in-a-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark (K)Night But Not in a Good Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Too Dark.<\/p>\n<p>Too long.<\/p>\n<p>Too fast.<\/p>\n<p>Too pretentious.<\/p>\n<p>Too loud.<\/p>\n<p>Too many characters.<\/p>\n<p>Too much steady cam.<\/p>\n<p>Too little substance.<\/p>\n<p>Too little fun.<\/p>\n<p>The whole world has lost its mind.<\/p>\n<p>Heath was great, although the role was completely over the top and didn\u2019t call for any subtlety of performance.  And his commitment to method acting certainly wasn\u2019t worth his life.  But I bet they will give him the Oscar as an attempt at a kharmic balancing act: \u201cSorry we ate you up you beautiful young talented person.  But here is a pretty golden 8 lb. statue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So annoyed I stopped touring heavenly Amish farm country for this latest cinematic vision of hell\u2026.  Bleckkkkkkkk.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Dark. Too long. Too fast. Too pretentious. Too loud. Too many characters. Too much steady cam. Too little substance. Too little fun. The whole world has lost its mind. Heath was great, although the role was completely over the top and didn\u2019t call for any subtlety of performance. 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