Dark Knight, The: Remixed by Jorge

August 26, 2009

My friends were having a get together, and couldn’t decide on a movie… so I produced this DVD from my pocket, and we had a little screening party. 5 of us altogether, seeing your edit displayed with a very nice digital projector.

My 4 friends enjoyed the film… but from their comments I gathered that they enjoyed it mostly because they liked seeing scenes from Batman, and were unable to appreciate that this had a different perspective, they just thought of it as watching their favorite scenes in a different order.

I thought it was brilliant. Visually I was surprised to find that I preferred the black and white treatment to the original color. As for the order of scenes, I felt this was a novel solution to an overlong movie. In the original by the time I got to the end I was having trouble keeping track of where we had started out. Seeing cause and effect placed side-by-side in this chronology was a great experience for me.

It was an interesting effect of the non-chronological editing that it was very invisible that scenes had been cut. When we finished my friends had not even remembered Gordon’s “death.” Perhaps this was even *too* invisible for some, one of my friends remarked that the movie (referring to both yours and the original) was simply too long. She had not noticed at all that scenes were cut, let alone 32 minutes.

August 18, 2009
*This rating was given before reviews were required*

August 17, 2009

I heard people said “who the hell is this Jorge guy to think he can make a better movie out of TDK?”.
Well to me Jorge did not make a better movie, it is a GREAT companion to the original.
It took me a long time to get into it though. I like when a movie loose me sometime, but here I realy had difficulties following it for a good 20 minutes.
For that reason: -1
But in the end it’s still a solid 9/10!

July 23, 2009
*This rating was given before reviews were required*

June 27, 2009

I just finished watching. I’m not sure how I can put into writing how amazing the editing was, phenomenal idea and execution. While I wouldn’t say I enjoyed more than the movie its most defiantly a unique perspective to watch. Now, I just need to get the dvd version downloaded because the avi version was kind of hard to watch with all of the darkness. This is a great companion piece to the original, this will probably be the first one I make the case for and the whole 9 yards.