Every five years since I was 11 I've watched The Dark Knight thinking "maybe this time I'll find out it wasn't actually as good as I remember it being". So far it's only gotten better each time.
Hmm. Can't upvote+disagree for shortform entries. I like hearing about others' preferences and experiences in cultural and artistic realms, so thanks for that. I'm not sure I exactly disagree - the movie was very good, but not in my top-10 - I need to re-watch it, but previous re-watches have been within epsilon of my expectations - still good, but no better nor worse than before.
Can you identify the element(s) that you expect to age badly, or you think you overvalued before, and which surprised you by still being great? Or just the consistency of vision and feel through all the details?
Also, if you are even a little bit of a Batman or superhero connoisseur, I highly recommend Birdman (2014).
Can you identify the element(s) that you expect to age badly, or you think you overvalued before, and which surprised you by still being great?
One of the very suprising ones is this sense of something cousined to "realism". Specifically how much the city of Gotham could be seamlessly replaced with "Juarez" or "Sinaloa" and become an uncomfortably on-point tragedy about the never-ending war between honest men and organized bandits in those regions. The level of corruption and government ineffectiveness, the open coordination and power sharing between the... (read more)