An ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot
This is the second installment in an ongoing series of articles exploring which Batman character Donald Trump resembles most. You can read the first installment here, in which I explain the impetus for this series and compare Donald Trump to Oswald "the Penguin" Cobblepot. Or if you're interested in reading D. F. Lovett’s fiction, you …
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Or, "Stop Calling Them Gunmen and Start Calling Them Terrorists" One of the most notable elements of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is that, despite being made by a British writer and director and set in the fictional Gotham City, the films capture the zeitgeist of the post-9/11 America in a frightening, realistic way. But there’s …
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It's been out for a while, but there are still two things that bug me about Interstellar. And no, neither of them is the science of it. I'm not expert in theories of time travel, interstellar travel, worm holes, quantum mechanics, etc. I'm not even very interested in such things. I know that some people …
Remember The Dark Knight? Who can forget Harvey Dent's tragic line, the one which foreshadowed both his own downfall and the character arcs of so many of those around him: you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. The question I have often come back to is whether Harvey could …
A lot of movies happened in 2013. Only a few of them had Bale in them, but many were connected to Bale, either through themes, tone, extended universes, future sequels, Nolan-esque qualities, etc. This is a list of the Top Ten Christian Bale films, whether or not they actually had Christian Bale in them. 10. …
Warning: Spoilers for all the Batman films, as well as a few Batman comics, abound in the following: The most troubling element of the Dark Knight Trilogy (as it is now known) is that the entirety of Gotham City does not realize that Batman is Bruce Wayne. Interestingly enough, a variety of characters figure it …
The idea that Selina Kyle will be a metaphor for Sarah Palin in The Dark Knight Rises has already been previously discussed here, in the post Why Catwoman Will Be Sarah Palin. There is little left to say on the matter, aside from these key points: 1.) Anne Hathaway will be an excellent Selina Kyle, …
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I am seriously disappointed that I'm not the one who came up with this, but website "The Wrap" (I don't know what it is; I googled it) wrote an article in February of this year on something that I was going to write about this week: The Bat Pack. The Bat Pack, meaning the team …
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