This movie could’ve been far more graphic and still been PG-13 I don’t know why Nolan played it so safe. Really deflated the intensity and impact in several scenes
This movie could’ve been far more graphic and still been PG-13 I don’t know why Nolan played it so safe...
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David Carter
I recently rewatched The Dark Knight expecting it to disappoint, but I was impressed how well it holds up. Easily among the top 3 capeshit
Brandon Flores
Nolan is a hack and his movies are trash, all of them
And you're a brainlet
David Cruz
>This movie could’ve been far more graphic and still been PG-13
Er, no. It being PG-13 was controversial at the time and they actually had to tone it down to avoid an R.
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Henry Gomez
Batman Begins was the best one.
Jaxson Sullivan
There's literally no blood in the movies and Burton's Batman was way more graphic and adult oriented and was still pg13.
Nolan is simply a hack. That's all there is to it.
Juan Bell
It was plenty graphic
Blake Moore
release the 3 hour cut
Luke Ortiz
It's not all about blood. Tone and intensity are massive factors. And there was 19 years between the 2 films. Standards change.
Camden Gonzalez
>HAPPY HOLIDAYES
Levi Wilson
A stab wound and a bump on a head is too graphic for a PG-13? Are you shitting me? Theres been far worse in movies rated far lighter he should’ve fought back at least a little bit. MPAA probably got too scared of the yelling and loud music to realize that there’s barely any onscreen violence at all
Ethan Russell
Yeah, that's literally all it was...
Carson Martinez
Camden Anderson
Parents literally complained in cinemas and contacted ratings boards because it had the same rating as the Harry Potter films, but sure...
Thomas Wright
It's not just about specific moments on their own, it's about tone, intensity, and the overall effect of all those moments added up. Do I support it? No. But that's how it is. Ratings boards are pretty upfront about how they make their decisions, look it up.
Dylan Richardson
You're just desensitized, bro.
Xavier Scott
Yeah as if the tone in the later Harry Potter movies wasn’t absolutely brooding and miserable with much more on screen violence than this movie
Aaron Hernandez
>This movie could’ve been far more graphic and still been PG-13
I'm geuninely shocked they managed to get away with that rating given the content. Just goes to how something is directed and presented is more important than the act itself. You can murder as many people as necessary as long as they die quickly and no blood is shown.
Henry Russell
Scenes like the one where the Joker has a knife in the guy's mouth are pretty brutal, even though they don't show it.
Benjamin Gray
Compare that to the scene in clover field where somebody explodes and their body is shown completely blown open afterwards
Michael Myers
Still happened.
For the record, at that the time the first five had been released so things weren't as heavy as they got by the end.
Kevin Rivera
it was still the best film released in a while
Charles Hernandez
They don't show her body, and it happens very quickly behind a curtain. And that was a giant monster movie, not something where people were being shot, stabbed, having their faces burnt down to the muscle. Tone and 'realism' are a big factor.
Nolan Roberts
I unironically find the Joker scene more disturbing than that. The idea of a mouth in your knife like that is quite visceral, someone exploding doesn't really register as real
Asher Jackson
I like TDK but you could take all this shit out of the movie and it would not change the overall story whatsoever
Adrian Hall
>mouth in your knife
I see where you’re coming from but the eye stabbing scene in fire in the sky is a far more effective use of offscreen violence than the knife scene
Luis Robinson
>mouth in your knife
my brain is pretty much falling apart in my head
Thomas Nelson
Bruh there is a fucking blasted open body with intestines and rib cage shown in that movie for 3 seconds and it’s fifty times more violent than anything in this movie look it up
Matthew Jenkins
Which, again, came out in a different era with different standards
Luke Phillips
haha yeah imagine being the joker and you go to cut something but some dude's mouth is there like eww gross haha
Brody Hughes
It's a movie about giant fucking alien monsters that wasn't even aimed at children, not a surprisingly intense superhero blockbuster with mass family appeal where a terrorist was stabbing people in the face. Jesus Christ...
Lincoln Parker
>So, how did it get away with a PG-13? Well, first and foremost, there’s very little blood in The Dark Knight and secondly, Nolan’s such an astute editor that he can make you think you’ve seen more violence than you actually did.
>Nolan’s such an astute editor that he can make you think you’ve seen more violence than you actually did.
Oh yes.
Carson Martin
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One of the most violent scenes in PG-13 kino and worse than anything in TDK suck my dick and balls
Asher Robinson
Again: It's a very different type of film, a different genre, a different core audience. It doesn't have things in it that can actually happen. That people can imitate. These are all things ratings boards take into account. Stop being wilfully dense. Maybe do some research.
Blake Wright
That's a different film, buddy
Luke Sanchez
I went looking for some other examples and I think Taken has to be the most egregious. Casino Royale also has some very violent stuff in it