There's one thing about "The Dark Knight" that I just don't get... why? Why do so much people make it out to be something that it's not? I don't call it a masterpiece for enough reasons.

1) I didn't find it gripping, and I thought it was schmaltzy as hell, just like all the movies I see these days

2) Sure, it was good, but it's not a masterpiece because I don't call it groundbreaking, despite the fact that it made a helluva lot of money and was the biggest-grossing movie of 2008. Honestly, even I've seen better and I'm almost 17! I don't think it's the kind of movie that leaves a mark on the worldwide consciousness and it doesn't mean much to me personally

3) It was WAY, WAY, over-anticipated.

I honestly don't know if there's any ground left to break, but sure, we can still show audiences that artistry and business shouldn't be two different things. I'd really like to see Hollywood do more stuff like that. Bottom line, what was good back in the Golden Age is still good now. I think both the American people and people all over the world can still handle craftsmanship. I gave the movie 6 stars out of 10 just to be generous.

I'd love to see someone pull it off but I don't know if they'd have the guts.

To call "The Dark Knight" a masterpiece is to say that the viewer clearly has not seen a wide range of films.

You wanna know what a real masterpiece is? Give "2001: A Space Odyssey", the first two "Star Wars" films, "Casablanca", "The Wizard of Oz", or the first two Indiana Jones films a try and think about it.