Ok so as the lights dimmed the theater got dark. Seriously there has never been a movie I’ve been in, where the audience is all quiet. It was odd. I will use my spoiler protection thing, so to see what I got to say about TDK click the show button.
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The movie started with the bank robbery. The Joker was robbing the bank along with some of his clown posse. BUT you don’t know it cause he’s wearing a clown mask. Hell even the guys working with him don’t know it. It was insane. Batman’s first entrance wasn’t all that great this time, but his jump down onto the car that was driving off, AWESOME. The flight down the garage not as nice as the flight down the middle of the stairs in Batman Begins when the real bats follow. That scene was awesome. BUT the landing was great.
Rachel… didn’t like her in the first movie cause it was Katie Holmes… (I once liked her, like in that movie with James Marsden… but when she got with Psycho Tom… hell no). Second movie, still didn’t like her, even with a cast change.
Now it’s always been said that Jack Nicholson was the best Joker ever, maybe that was true THEN, but NOW its Heath Ledger. It will always be Heath Ledger, man I can’t believe he’s dead… so sad. Heath Ledger IMO stole the movie from Batman, from Christian Bale. He was just insane. He was creepy, scary, psycho. Jack’s was more comedic, but Heath brought a sinister evilness to the Joker. He made the Joker scary. Not major screaming scary, but scary because he’s so off his rocker. He made the Joker more human than cartoonish. People will be like, “Jack who?”.
We had a lot less Bruce Wayne Batman scenes I think. It’s weird and hard to explain, but it seemed like we got less screen time for batman. The first movie had more action, I mean it would take a lot to beat that roof top / cop car chase from the first movie. The semi being turned over was great though. The one thing that kept bugging me was that Bale seemed thinner in this movie, too thin, or at least his face seemed thinner. BUT the movie was great. The ending seemed a bit rushed to me but a lot of movies seem rushed at the end. I would love to see a 5hr Batman movie, or Harry Potter. Perhaps with a 15 minute intermission.
Now I knew Two Face was to appear but I didn’t think he’d have that much screen time. I thought they would leave him for the next movie, I guess not. I wonder after this kick ass performance by Heath, who could top it? No one.
I don’t know how they plan to do another movie. The Joker didn’t die in this movie, I didn’t like how they ended his role in this movie either… but obviously it was meant for the Joker to be in the next movie too, but without Heath, I can’t possibly imagine someone else. Hell I would rather they CGI the Joker and put him in the movie. I don’t care, as long as they got it right.
Yeah the movie isn’t all about Batman, but Heath owned the Joker in this movie. Hell when I heard Heath was cast as the Joker, I thought "he can’t play someone like that, I didn’t *see* that happening, BUT I knew he could act, and everything he did was good so I knew if he put all he had into it, he could do it. Whoever tries and step in the role next, has got little to no chance at making it. It pisses me off that Heath is dead. Because with this movie he would have finally gotten the props he deserved. He was great in all his movies. I remember the singing scene he did in 10 Things I Hate About You, and his curly hair in A Knights Tale, and his bookworm glasses in Brothers Grimm (I hated when they killed him in the movie, it was sad, but then he came back to life), it’s sad knowing he really is dead. I want to talk more about the movie itself, but I can’t get past Heath’s performance. It was good, real damn good, and I ain’t saying that just because he’s dead, he seriously aced the Joker. And the scenes at the hospital, his speech to Dent, awesome. His blowing up the Hospital, and then hitting the detonator cause it didn’t all go off, and then it did. GREAT. Him in the nurse wig and suit… hilarious AND CREEPY at the same time.
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