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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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  • Poll closed .
#61
cheesemonkey said:
well like they said in the end of the movie Harvey was the beaming hope of light in the city. He was the guy who was going to clean up Gotham. And Joker was trying to show that even the greatest of men can fall and become evil and twisted. And if they found out he killed those people it would destroy the hope that Harvey made for the city by showing that even the hero's can become corrupted. So batman took the blame.
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And that's it. If you can't understand this point, you probably don't need to be watching this movie.
 
#63
Valerus said:
And that's it. If you can't understand this point, you probably don't need to be watching this movie.
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:eyebrow: it's not a question of "understanding this point", it's a question of agreeing with the scope of the point. neither gordon nor bruce would mortgage batman's image for a dead hero - there's only so much inspiration a dead d.a. can offer, whereas batman's role as "providing an example" for the citizens of gotham is going to LONG outlast the memory of one dead d.a. - remember what happened to harvey's predecessor. besides, since he was dead, without direct proof linking him specifically to any crimes, the crimes themselves would remain unsolved - and unsolvable, and his legacy would remain untarnished without linking those crimes to anyone.

if harvey was still alive, though, and potentially prosecutable, or at least investiatable, his reputation stood to be tarnished, his former prosecutions compromised. this required batman to temporarily take the fall for these things. when gotham is ready, someone - possibly the riddler, if not harvey himself - will "out" 2face as the real criminal, and in the process batman will be redeemed in the public eye.

harvey's alive, and he'll either return as twoface, or he'll get "healed' like he has on a few occasions in the original stories, returning to his role as harvey dent, white knight, but with the two-face persona as a constant, looming threat, ready to rear it's half-head whenever life gets snarky on him.

and lastly, as for understanding batman, harvey and the joker, i read my first harvey/joker batman story some time around 1979, if not earlier. :eyebrow: if there's anything i've -ever-understood in life it's comics. :D
 
#67
Alan Vorse said:
What bugged me the most is that they tried to cram too many ideas into one movie and that it didn't live up to the hype.
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I pretty much agree with this. Although you have to say that living up to the hype this movie had would be just about impossible.

I didn't think it was bad, just not as great as I'd been hoping for after reading all the rave reviews. Nice visuals in Imax format, though. Heath Ledger's Joker - good, but way over rated. Sorry, just my opinion.

Anyway, on topic... Batman's voice I could cope with. Maggie's character dying was emotionally not really that much of a wrench. And Two Face will be back for a later movie, I'm pretty sure.
 
#71
john turner said:
with schumacher in charge i'm surprised they didn't break out into a chorus line :rolleyes:.

never saw that one in the theaters, i'm happy to say.
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I didn't see them at all. Batman Returns was bad enough - the previews for the next two looked far worse. I can't bring myself to watch them even out of morbid curiousity.
 
#74
Batman sounded like he's got throat cancer. :hmm:

I cheered in the movie theater when the Rachel Dawes character died. Ugly, droopy, and I kept thinking that Batman could get a much hotter piece of ass seeing as how he's a billionare.

Its a pity the wife character in the new Mummy movie didn't mean the same fate. I would've been shouting joy outta my seat for that one.
 
#77
I think the last 2 options irritated me a bit, but Batman's voice didn't. I mean at first it did, but afterwards I just realized it made sense. I mean he's a public figure, certainly someone would recognize his voice sooner or later if he didn't disguise it.

He's certainly doing a lot better a job of disguising himself than Superman is. Removing a pair of glasses and you're a completely different person, unbeknownst to anyone? Ridiculous. :D
 

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