by EmperorJeramyu » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:30 pm
Spoiler Alert.
Yeah I'll admit, they should have.. dubbed him over with Kevin Conroy (90s animated cartoon). It's sort of hard to maintain a dramatic scene when one character is perpetually trying to hock a loogie. And Katie Holmes is much hotter than Maggie Gyllenhaal, but that role never should have existed in the first place. And some of it was a bit hard to swallow... like the sky hook, or the sonar thing near the end, or Batman surviving a 3 story fall, landing on his back, and then getting up and fleeing pursuit (but after all, he is the goddamn Batman). And some of the shit the Joker does... first, how does he keep getting henchmen? Second, how does he wire an entire hospital to explode? And how is it that he tells Harvey Dent that he's not a schemer, when everything he did in the movie up to that point was part of a plan to break him? He may be trying to thrust Gotham into chaos, but he seems to have a awfully elaborate... scheme, to do so. And he seem to plan things so far in advance it's unbelievable (the whole guy who swallowed the explosive cellphone thing... and how did he even get the knife from that one cop?). I understand the "psychotic Joker MO", and Heath Ledger's performance definitely brings that across, but still...
"Unfortunately, the dragon only speaks in Napalm, a curious ancient language that you don't really need to speak to understand."