Quote:Original post by Salsa
Christian Bale as Batman is absolutely horrible. It's like watching a 5 year old in a costume
I think the one thing they messed up with was that they shot batman just standing around in too brightly lit situations, and in such obvious light it seemed a bit odd. If they had a bit more "CSI" lighting, and made him more standing away and out of the scene (like how he talks to Gordon outside his house, the complete opposite of his conversation on the roof with Gordon and Dent where he's just standing there, come on he's supposed to live in the shadows!). I think that was one thing they missed.
Quote:Original post by Salsa
trying as hard as possible to lower his voice and sound "bad ass". It was so terribly forced I had to hold back my laughter every time he spoke.
Yeah it did seem a little silly, but if I remember correctly in the comics he had a speaker in his chest plate that filtered his voice to make him sound like the badass demon voice he does, which helps intimidate people and cover his normal voice. If you subscribe to that theory he always has it on it makes a bit more sense why he does it all the time, but I mean he spoke like that in Batman Begins anyway. Still, it was a bit of a surprise when he was in the bank vault and busted that voice out, but like I said above, I think that was just because he was standing there in full light (both scenes I thought his voice sounded silly where the same exact two scenes that bugged me in my first point, so yeah it could just be that) (EDIT - After reading the post by Oluseyi, I did some poking around and I think I'm wrong about the voice filter he uses in the comics. I'm sure I read it somewhere or someone told me, but reading on Wikipedia it seems to be the complete opposite of what Batman is about that he would use one, so ignore me!)
Quote:Original post by Salsa
Harvey Dent was amazing, until you know, his face was blown off. Sloppiest and most rushed transformation of all time.
I thought it was done perfectly. I don't see how much slower they could have taken it without splitting it over two movies. It obviously showed how he was getting frustrated with the laws inability to stop evil, and how at one point he just said "Screw this" and decided to take the law into his own hands before Batman pulled him back. Losing Rachel, his face, his life, batman and Gordon screwing him over, it was enough to push him back over that edge same edge again, except this time he had the Joker egging him on (and the Joker can be
a hell of an influence). I mean it was a heck of a lot better than Darth Vader [wink]
Quote:Original post by Salsa
if only they removed Joker's godly vice-like grip on the city and impossibly perfect "planning"
While I agree by the time it got to the boats I was thinking "Jesus, how many places can this guy be at once?", but I think it was necessary to show how one man/terrorist could place the entire city under lockdown (I'm reminded on the sniper attacks in America). It could be easily explained as to say his thugs do most of the setting up for him and he just turns up to run the show since they always seem to be around, but I think that it was more of a "yeah it's pushing it, but it's needed to show just how much of an unstoppable force he is (like a terrorist cell?) and Batman always being 2 steps behind" decision by the writers.
[Edited by - boolean on July 28, 2008 2:27:34 PM]
