Why some people hate the dark knight?

Personally, I thought it was the best of the Batman movies. Edgy to the max. Ledger's character portrayal and acting was/were superb...was out of his mind. Enough so, I think he went over the edge and perhaps it was where he was heading anyhow. However, I digress.

Back to the point - this movie's far too edgy and dark for some mainstream people's taste. There are some who prefer happy peaceful movies. This is not for those people.

Are you asking specifically about "The Dark Night"?

Poor dialogue.
Poor plot.
Poor character development.
It's a f**** remake.
It's a f***** sequel.

But there are lots of reasons:
Too loud.
Not loud enough.
Too much violence.
Not enough violence.
Too dark.
Too bright.

Dark Knight (2008) movie has received favorable critical and boxoffice high marks. In fact on the famous movie databse website, www.imdb.com they have it listed as 9th on their alltime Top 250 movies with over 650,000 responders. Mighty high praise and consideration. It also received 2 Academy Awards (Ledger receiving one of them).

Oh, and it grossed ($1B USD)

Dark Knight
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/

Heath Ledger
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/

There was also a backlash at IMDb as it "threatened" to become the number one film on the IMDb Top 250 list and ouster The Godfather at the time of release.

Many people dismiss the film because it's a comic book movie.

I loved the film even though it had a few acting flaws. Loved the score, the story, and direction as well. But for a great deal of people, it just wasn't their piece of cake.

Since I like the film I can't really say why some people might not like it. But I might speculate that some people aren't comfortable with an ending that casts the hero in a less than heroic light, although I think that's exactly why the film is brilliant. This is the only Batman film ever to make a cogent argument for why Batman needs to be a "Dark" Knight.

I haven't seen it yet

And to think I respected you JC. (((sniff))) Now I just don't know anymore.

Titanic won best picture and it's dialogue, characters, plot were a lot worse than Dark Knight.

For some people a movie just isn't a movie if it doesn't have special effects. I find it a poor substitute for a real story.


Meanwhile, Gone With the Wind is on TV tonight.

@parados thanks for sharing yor opinion. The dark knight is my all time fav movie. I'v watched it more than 25 times..and cudn't get enuf of it. It's kinda hurts to take bad criticism on ur fav movie. But we aren't all same..anwes wat acording you is the best comic book movie ? Andi disagree on u when you said there was action but not enuf,bad acting, bad plot,bad dialogues?? What kinda movie do you watch?

I think some people have their own problem for this reason.