Kurt Loder Discusses His Changed Opinion On 'Dark Knight,' 'Watchmen'

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[url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/author/kurtloder"]Kurt Loder[/url] compiled over 200 of his favorite movie reviews in his new book "The Good, the Bad and the Godawful," but that doesn't mean that he still necessarily stands by them.

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The former MTV.com movie reviewer recently sat down for a chat to promote the book, currently in stores. Though he didn't change his opinions in the reviews since he wrote them, Loder did admit that his personal opinions of some of the biggest films of the past decade have changed with time. Let's just say he might regret a thing or two he said about "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/306605/moviemain.jhtml"]The Dark Knight[/url]" when it was first released.

"I've definitely changed my mind about 'The Dark Knight,' which I was not really impressed with and now I think is one of the great movies. Just a great, great movie," he said.

"The Dark Knight" isn’t the only film he changed his mind about, and some of those reviews he opted to leave out of the book to avoid confusion. Loder said he really loved "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/302856/moviemain.jhtml"]Watchmen[/url]" when it was first released, but later it came to leave a bad taste in his mouth. In fact, he ended up disliking the film so much that it ended up coloring his opinion of the graphic novel it's based on, which says a lot because he's a self-professed [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/283250/personmain.jhtml"]Alan Moore[/url] fan. So he decided to leave the "Watchmen" review out of his book because his changed opinion would take too long to explain.

Loder was never afraid to be contrary to the popular consensus. Though "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/301495/moviemain.jhtml"]Avatar[/url]" and "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/419756/moviemain.jhtml"]Inception[/url]" were two of the biggest movies of 2009 and 2010 respectively, Loder didn't find himself impressed by them.

"'Avatar' was a movie made by a great director, looked phenomenal, I just thought the story was crap. It was like cowboys and Indians," he said. "And 'Inception,' I just thought that [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/205647/personmain.jhtml"]Chris Nolan[/url] got lost in that, he was just mulling it over too long. But everybody loves those movies so what can we say."

He was never concerned with differing from the general public's appreciation for a movie because he knew that his opinion could never be objective.

"It's just my opinion. Just because I think a movie is good or bad, doesn't mean that it is," Loder said. "There's no objective way of looking at this. It's just what I'm saying."

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