I don't disagree with any of those explanations. I don't mind suspending reality or taking a few leaps of faith. I find that movies go too far though.
I think what happens is Nolan, and most other writers and directors, want the splash page type scenes and it doesn't always fit nicely into the plot.
The entire sequence with Dent in the police van was pointless. There are a million safer ways they could have transported him and even if they drove him they could have gone a different way that didn't trap them underground. But I totally understand that those scenes helped make that movie and the Joker character so awesome.
As I said in my original post I really loved The Dark Knight but I think I have yet to see a comic book movie that I loved. Sin City was great. Watchmen was great. Dark Knight was better than either of those.
I'm really excited to see what Darren Aronofsky can do with Wolverine. And I'm happy they kept Hugh Jackman. I just read an article he's bulking up. No more skinny Wolverine.
I'm really excited to see what Darren Aronofsky can do with Wolverine. And I'm happy they kept Hugh Jackman. I just read an article he's bulking up. No more skinny Wolverine.
I hadn't heard this before. Very cool. Aside though, you think Wolverine was skinny in the last film?
Bit of an overstatement on my partbut he's certainly not bulky. In the comics Wolverine is short and stocky. In the movies he's muscular but fairly lean.
Bit of an overstatement on my partbut he's certainly not bulky. In the comics Wolverine is short and stocky. In the movies he's muscular but fairly lean.
Yeah, but that has a lot to do with with Hugh Jackman's height. The Wolverine from the comics is supposed to be 5'3. Hugh Jackman is 6'3. He would have to put on an insane amount of mass to look stocky like Wolverine should.
Was I the only one who liked Batman Begins better than TDK? Loved TDK too, just felt the first one had more of a storyline to it (obviously, being the origin story). And the better looking, less annoying (but still annoying) Rachel.
definitely with you, TDK crossed the line from comic to being mainly about the moral conflict between batman and joker and the action sequences suffered from it because they jumped way too far into the realm of unbelievability. I get that that's what the comics focused on a lot of the time, but it strayed so far from what a superhero movie is supposed to be. The over the top villains and the crazy storyline in the first one were balanced perfectly to not go too far like Batman and Robin did. Imagine TDK without Heath Ledger as Joker, it would have been so bad.
Yeah, I thought BB was a great story telling movie, but TDK was an amazing film about moral conflict (stealing words from the post above) that just happened to be based off of a popular comic. I didn't think 2-face and Joker were too much because of how carefully each character played into the overall plot. It wasn't just 1 guy vs 1 bad gu... no wait, 2 bad guys... it was how each antagonist would challenge the protagonist. Amazing artistry.
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Maggie Gylinhael is terrible and I hated her performance.
I had never seen her before until that movie, her looks perplex me. She's the complete definition of a "two-face". She's a 7 at the best of times, but in some scenes she'd look decent, and in others she looked like she was seriously well into her 40's. It was throwing me off. Every time I saw her I kept thinking about that Seinfeld episode when Jerry was dating the two-face. So glad they killed her off.
