{"id":945,"date":"2011-09-20T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=945"},"modified":"2011-10-18T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T02:18:48","slug":"so-the-dark-knight-wasnt-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/09\/so-the-dark-knight-wasnt-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"So The Dark Knight Wasn&#8217;t Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Batman fan, it&#8217;s no shocker that I enjoyed The Dark Knight (although I still believe Heath Ledger shouldn&#8217;t have won the Oscar). At the same time, I find Christopher Nolan a bit overrated (which is evidenced by my claim that <a title=\"Clams Casino... chef recommends.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Betrayal\" target=\"_blank\">The Betrayal<\/a> is better than <a title=\"Could have used more Carrie-Anne Moss.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memento_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\">Memento<\/a> because it didn&#8217;t require the gimic of playing backwards).<\/p>\n<p>Further proof comes with the in-depth analysis of an action sequence in The Dark Knight, which highlights some shortcomings with Nolan&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28792404?portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The thing I like most about this video is that it isn&#8217;t malicious towards the film or Christopher Nolan. After all, Nolan might not be the best director, but his movies aren&#8217;t horrible (something that can&#8217;t be said about Michael Bay&#8217;s work). Instead, it&#8217;s an informative video that provides several tips about editing and direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Batman fan, it&#8217;s no shocker that I enjoyed The Dark Knight (although I still believe Heath Ledger shouldn&#8217;t have won the Oscar). At the same time, I find Christopher Nolan a bit overrated (which is evidenced by my claim that The Betrayal is better than Memento because it didn&#8217;t require the gimic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}