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Dark Knight poll..for those that have seen it

What did you dislike the most

  • Total voters
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#21
For the love of god people, Two Face isn't dead.

Let's examine the evidence, shall we:

- Batman doesn't kill people.
- Batman dropped that gangster from a similar height, and the gangster said something to the effect of "You're not going to kill me if I fall from this height".
- Batman fell the same height and didn't die.
- Two Face's character was just getting started - there's been no resolution to his character, and we've seen that Christopher Nolan doesn't just let a character go lazily (Batman even caught the Scarecrow in his first scene - something they didn't really have to wrap up from the first flick, but they did it all the same).
- The city of Gotham had a memorial for Harvey Dent, and true, Harvey Dent is dead. Two Face, however, is not.
- Just because somebody falls and doesn't move, doesn't necessarily mean they're dead. Just knocked out, ok?
- Batman says that Gotham needs Harvey Dent, even after the fall. Why would he say that about a dead man?
- Aaron Eckhart is signed on to play Two Face again in the next movie.
 
#22
Benjamin Strange said:
For the love of god people, Two Face isn't dead.

Let's examine the evidence, shall we:

- Batman doesn't kill people.
- Batman dropped that gangster from a similar height, and the gangster said something to the effect of "You're not going to kill me if I fall from this height".
- Batman fell the same height and didn't die.
- Two Face's character was just getting started - there's been no resolution to his character, and we've seen that Christopher Nolan doesn't just let a character go lazily (Batman even caught the Scarecrow in his first scene - something they didn't really have to wrap up from the first flick, but they did it all the same).
- The city of Gotham had a memorial for Harvey Dent, and true, Harvey Dent is dead. Two Face, however, is not.
- Just because somebody falls and doesn't move, doesn't necessarily mean they're dead. Just knocked out, ok?
- Batman says that Gotham needs Harvey Dent, even after the fall. Why would he say that about a dead man?
- Aaron Eckhart is signed on to play Two Face again in the next movie.
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Plus the simple fact, that whether you like it or not, it is my opinion that The Dark Knight was 100% about Two-Face and Harvey Dent.
 
#26
None of that stuff really bothered me. I know the story of Batman Begins was based (loosely) off of some of Batman Graphic novels( Batman:Year one; Batman:The Long Halloween; Batman:The Man Who Falls).

Harvey Dent doesn't get killed in any of them.
There was no Rachel Dawes in ANY Batman comic
I agree with dancehallclasher on the voice thing...
 
#28
Batman's voice was annoying!

Two-face isn't dead. Harvey Dent is dead and not being blamed for the murders because Gotham needed an untainted martyr. Don't know about Rachel...if she is, that's one less thing that's holding back Batman in the next movie.

I wouldn't say 2f was the point of the movie, but Joker's creation of him was the climax. For a crazy person, Joker sure played everyone. I didn't completely buy Dent's transition, but he saw that those outside of the system were in control - Batman, Joker, Mob - and got fed up...and was already superstitious, had PTSD, and got drugged from the stuff on the ground I guess. He's a great character because he embodies the yin/yang of Batman/Joker. I want to see it again.

Those three could/should sustain all the movies with lesser villains/heroes coming in and out imo. Sounds like they might make some good casting choices, but I don't see the other characters being as compelling...maybe Catwoman, if done well. I never really got the Riddler...he's sort of like a weaker Joker. And, Penguin? Mad Hatter? I don't think so.

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#33
I couldn't really take the "Batman Voice" very seriously. It kinda just made me shake my head whenever Bale did it. Killing off Rachel was kind of... I dunno, weak. It was needed for Two Face's development, but it just didn't feel right.

I'm positive Two Face is still alive. I didn't like the way the whole Dent storyline was played out. I've always been a big fan of the comics (and the Two Face storyline in particular) and I just expected a lot more out of the movie as far as that went. If anyone has seen the Two Face two-part episode of Batman: the Animated Series, that is EXACTLY how I would have liked to have seen the movie handle it. I'll stop blabbing now.

It was a great movie, though.
 
#35
The Burrigible said:
I couldn't really take the "Batman Voice" very seriously. It kinda just made me shake my head whenever Bale did it. Killing off Rachel was kind of... I dunno, weak. It was needed for Two Face's development, but it just didn't feel right.
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we don't know whether rachel is dead. i'm betting she's not - bruce thinks she is his salvation, he would not be beyond hiding her, protecting her from the joker, and later from harvey and the monster he's become.
 
#38
smperry said:
Yeah, I agree with that, but still see twoface as joker's creation.

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well, of course. he's the machiavellian manipulator behind all the problems in gotham in this movie.

i think the riddler would be an awesome opponent to have in the next movie - they've already set the stage for him. not only did they have "edward nashton" (riddler alias) write a letter to the editor in the promotional "gotham times" stuff before the movie about harvey dent, but we also have coleman reese discovering batman's identity, something which, of all the criminals in the batman saga, riddler did the most often. mr. coleman reese. mr. reese. :eyebrow:

total setup for 3rd movie. w00t. can't wait heh.
 

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