DC on TV discussion

Thoughts?

My favorite of the series, in the top for my favorite films. I loved Heath Ledger as the joker and think they did an incredible job with Harvey Dent. There's some tragedy, a small smidge of humor, great action sequences, a few surprises. Gordon was great in this one, as was Alfred. I liked the twist speech at the end about being the hero Gotham needs, even if now it seems overused.

some good bits, but as a whole I find it flawed and over-hyped.
Gary Oldman is great as Gordon.
I still hate the Bat-hummer.
Heath looked good, the jail scenes are intense, and I do like the 'we are going to do this forever!' speech, but would it have killed them to give him a Joker-based gadget?
A bunch of bombs and a pencil? We couldn't have a squirting flower and a gun with a bang flag?

The whole plot thread of Batman going all NSA republican for the 'right reasons' felt very off character and wrong.
The scene on the ferry is brilliantly done and just emphasizes how wrong Batman is and how he's only semi-competent in this trilogy.

and then there's the Batman growl...

Where/when was the growl? Must have missed it, or else it's just not ringing a bell right now.

I agree some kind of gadget would have been cool for the joker.

The infamous Batman growl that makes him sound like he could really use a cough drop first showed up in this movie.

"Where is she!"
the running gag in my family, is my brothers and I will do that that if we are looking for any female relative or friend at a big gathering.

Yeah I go back and forth on liking the voice or not. It makes me want to clear my throat if I hear it too long.

Is anyone surprised neither of the boats pressed the button on the other to save themselves? Do you find that realistic? I'm not sure, it could go either way depending. Would be tough to blow an entire boat of people up, but people and their survival instincts...

Batman seemed more confident about it than I would be.

Erin (Paperback Stash) wrote: "Is anyone surprised neither of the boats pressed the button on the other to save themselves? Do you find that realistic? I'm not sure, it could go either way depending. Would be tough to blow an en..."

No idea if it's a realistic scene, but it is a great dramatic scene. One of the best in the movie.
It is also the best example of why this movie bugs me.
The convicted felon makes the hard/right choice, while the hero chooses to use the easy/evil spying device.

I thought the entire trilogy was great, but this is actually my least favorite of the three. It's got fantastic moments, but I feel like the other two came together a little better as wholes. Still a fantastic movie in my opinion though.

Erin (Paperback Stash) wrote: "Is anyone surprised neither of the boats pressed the button on the other to save themselves? Do you find that realistic? I'm not sure, it could go either way depending. Would be tough to blow an en..."

Wasn't really surprised as it's a movie and for dramatic purposes the citizens had to be better than the Joker thought (or he would win). Realistically, at least one person on the "normal" boat probably would have chosen to kill the criminals to save everyone else. On the other hand realistically speaking the Joker would've blown the surviving boat anyway - he had no reason to keep his word after proving his point, and if he was wrong (as he was in the movie) he gains nothing by letting them live.

Also if I was on the boat I'd see no reason to trust the psychopath threatening us and kill a boat full of people on his word that he'd then let the rest of us go free. For all they know the button could have blown up their own boat (and Joker played that trick on Batman earlier in the film with the addresses).

But it really works in the context of the movie, so stretching believability a bit is fine with me.

Travis wrote: "The infamous Batman growl that makes him sound like he could really use a cough drop first showed up in this movie. ..."

That's probably my least favorite part of this trilogy. That and not being able to understand half of what Bane said.