pablohoolio
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Well, what can I say guys. To all the regulars on here who've been on this thread for years, what did you think? I personally LOVED TDK. I mean, fuckin loved it. It took a while to get going (about 20 mins) but then it just never stopped! Ledger was amazing, everything about him. I think the best way to do this is in a list!
The Joker
• The way he licked his lips
• The magic trick (fantastic!)
• The slide down the money!
• The stories about his scars
• The way he baited and wound up the cop in the interrogation room
• The mouthing of the word 'Six?' when the cop told him how many of his friends he'd killed! 
• The Nurse scene
• The walk from the hospital, stopping to check the detonator (followed by the whole hospital exploding!)
• ' Can you just give me a minute?' while getting pulled off Batman by the police.
• 'Why so serious?' 'Let's put a smile on that face!' to Gambol
• The way he staggered out of the flipped truck and still tried to fire his machine gun.
• 'He's going to need something bigger than that to get in here' Cue Joker pulling a rocket launcher out.
• The voice
• The no-make up scene
• When Gambol calls him a freak, he just carries on talking, but the LOOK he gives Gambol makes you think 'he's dead'.
Batman
• The new suit
• The Batpod (the fact that it was part of the Batmobile was a total suprise to me!)
• The way he went for Harvey Dent instead of Rachel, but told Gordon he was going for Rachel, which in his mind, he was. If he rescued Dent, he could give up being Batman, and so he was right, he was going for Rachel. Sadly for Bruce, he wasn't to know (and will never know) that she wouldn't have gone with him anyway. Makes Batman all the more of a tragic figure. (at least that's what I thought he did, but people tell me that the Joker told him who was at what address?)
• "Accomplice? I'm going to tell them it was all your idea"
• The Batpod flipping the truck, driving up a wall, spinning round and Batman looking mean as fuck.
• The sonar, giving Batman his 'white eyes' look of the animated series. 
Harvey Dent
• The Face. Creepy and excellent effects work 
• The coin (100% kept to the comics)
• The courtroom disarming
• Asking someone to tell him something then shouting 'SHUT UP!'. He's flipped.
• 'Your lucky. He isn't' 'Who?' 'Your driver' *shoots the driver in the back and the car crashes with Dent still in it! Serious nutjob! 
• The hospital scene. Loved it. If anything that summed up what a perfect Batman movie Nolan had created it was that scene in the hospital with The Joker and Two Face. It's straight from a Batman graphic novel. Brilliant.
Gordon
• The fake 'death'
• The way Nolan wrote the part that showed him to be good at his job, a good man, a great cop and someone who is willing to bend the rules, but not break them.
Most of all, I loved the fact that The Joker, Two Face, Batman and Gordon were like a perfect ensemble, all playing off each other. The way the Nolan's wrote it, it just captured Batman as a character and the whole world excellently. Ok, Dent's scarring was different to the comics etc, but the twists and turns, and the double crosses, the bent cops to the city under siege, it was almost perfect for me.
Not to mention Michael Caine who I thought was excellent, and I'll never understand why people think he stands out like a sore thumb. I thought he played the part brilliantly. The only thing I thought could have been improved was trimming the film slightly as the first 20 minutes took a little while to get going. But after that, it was amazing.
I seriously doubt any Batman fan could hate the movie. It just had everything I want from a serious Batman movie, and the good thing was that the Nolan's weren't afraid to not mention his parents death (which is what cropped up in every other Batman movie) so it was refreshing not to see it.
I think the movie also sets up a third very nicely, but also succeeded in making a movie that could EASILY NOT have a follow up. Everything was tied up, but things have been left so that if they do another, it will be fresh -
• New Batmobile?
• Is Harvey dead, or whisked off to Arkham?
• Wayne Manor with an improved Batcave?
• Love interest (Catwoman?)
• Reese knows Bruce Wayne is Batman
Etc...
So many things that COULD be done, but also, if they stopped here it would still pay off. If there is one thing about modern 'franchises' it's that they make you watch the second and leave everything up inthe air for a third. TDK didn't do this. It rewarded it's viewers but also tied everything up as a self contained story, but at the same time left a lot of things that COULD be done in a sequel.
Loved it, and it's one of the only films I've seen this year that left me saying the day after 'Did you see when...' or 'I loved the bit when....'. Even Iron Man, and The Hulkwhich I enjoyed, were fairly forgettable for villains and action. TDK blew them away. It really did.
Excellent. By the way. Scene of the movie? The one shot that I loved above all else? THIS
[image]http://vrempire.com/Image/BlogImg/20080101-DarkKnightTrailer/DarkKnight5.jpg[/image]
The Joker, in the police car. No music. No dialogue. Just silence. He'd escaped, and they didn't know what to do next. It was fantastic.
< Message edited by pablohoolio -- 29/7/2008 12:56:51 AM >
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