Thomas T
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I would love to sit down with actual Academy voters and have back-to-back screenings with them of The Dark Knight and then Slumdog Millionaire. I’d then like them to explain why The Dark Knight, a movie celebrating its tenth anniversary this year with a sold-out-in-advance IMAX re-release (at a time in our culture when repertory cinema is dead), is so vastly inferior to Slumdog Millionare, a film barely remembered today that has made no impact on either the filmmaking industry or the culture at large.
I’m not here to say whether or not The Dark Knight is the best movie ever made. But it’s a movie that revolutionized how films are made and presented theatrically, a film with near universal critical acclaim, a film that was an overwhelming box office success, and a film that continues to move me even after years of repeat viewings. Films that can still make you cry and still make you think ten years after their original release are pretty special. And everything that made that film special was apparent ten years ago too.
So I’d love to actually watch it with Academy members so they could explain what about it was so terrible that it wasn’t even worthy of their consideration.
It could be that lots of Academy members didn't see it. I know I hated Batman Begins so much that I skipped The Dark Knight although I made the mistake of going to the hideous The Dark Knight Rises (or whatever that thing was called) just to see Anne Hathaway's Catwoman.