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The Dark Knight (SPOILERS START ON PAGE 3)
Jimmy the Squid:
Going to the IMAX tomorrow night with Est and Eris to see this again.
Rad.
Blue Kitty:
And now, it is once again time for random speculation
indeed
Ozymandias:
Damn, some people on the internets are talented.
Tom:
I wish I was.
imagist42:
Oh God that has me salivating.
Also I loved this movie (although I won't even begin to say it's my all time favorite), but I really felt like it should have been two movies instead. Not because I wanted Two-Face to have his own movie (and in fact, I think his whole progression works perfectly in tune with Joker's, being one who's calculative and yet, ultimately, a servant of chaos, Joker trying to use him to show people who they really can be underneath and whatnot) but because even at two and a half hours the entire movie felt rushed. As others have said, the gaps between scenes are sometimes too much of a stretch (especially after Joker pushes Rachel out the window and Batman jumps after her, there is simply no logical progression in my head that leads from that to the next scene without some important action stopping Joker from turning the place inside-out looking for Dent), and I don't know if anyone else sensed this but I felt that almost every single line in the movie was delivered in a very hurried manner. It was as if they got the lines down pat and then the Nolans said "okay now I need you to do that twice as fast, we're short on time." There were almost no pauses in conversations and no downtime between important sequences except for the too often-used "let's build obvious suspense" scenes with that absolutely annoying sound that's (as best I can tell) a cross between awful chords on poor string samples and nails on a chalkboard. I just would have liked better pacing, particularly at the beginning of the movie (more Joker exposition less hilarious Hong Kong hi-jinks please) and as Dent transforms (for lack of a better word) into Two-Face. Someone speculated that there must be a three- or four-hour cut of this movie out there? I almost would have taken it ending at two hours with Joker driving the cop car into the night and Dent in a hospital bed, then picking up again with more time invested in both Dent and Bruce (Jesus Christ does the man not care that the woman he loved and thought loved him just died? He had like six seconds of grief) coming to grips with what has happened, and Joker continuing to attempt smaller "social experiments," growing more and more frustrated as they continue to fail (the people still looking up to their White Knight, who they idealize as some kind of martyr, calling for him to return and finish the fight for their city) until he is finally driven to unleashing Two-Face on the streets and pulling the boat incident.
Oh why oh why did I just spend so long typing all this out I should just go to bed now...
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