besides Bruce Wayne is pretty high profile, it'd be hard NOT to recognize his voice. What else would he do? Face/Off style throat implant? Because that was lame enough the first time.
It was much worse in this one. Overdone and distracting.
I'm not positive this is the case, but I'm fairly sure that Two-face is not dead. Dent "died." I think if Batman survived the fall in the heavy armor, Two-face survived. I imagine he'll turn up in Arkham if and when they do a third movie.
That would be soooooo cheap to bring him back. At the least, let's have Gordon say "hey, where'd he go?"
4) Did I miscount? How many times did that happen? I thought it was just the one. Are you comparing it to the first, or are you calling the chinese dude a loved one? Because I dunno about you but I didn't love him that much.
Dent, annoying girl, Gordon's family. Yes, the first two were one instance, but it's still two warehouses. Chinese guy counts for one-half, as yea, he wasn't loved by anyone.
5) You are probably one of the guys who hated the battles in LOTR too. Once again I respect your opinion, and especially since you're stating a preference I'm not calling it crap, but I felt that the fights were excellently staged and choreographed. Especially since this one had a lot more "brawling" than crazy sword kata demonstrations like the first one.
I wasn't very clear - the fights I liked fine. It was the big fight in the streets followed by the big chase followed by the big jailhouse thing followed by the big boat thing followed by more hostages from two face thing - I forget, where did the hospital thing fit there... Enough with the "can you top this".
In general, I just don't like this new trend in movies as a rule - the "we have to have 10 battles, each more mind blowing and/or meaningful than the last!!!" I'm a big film buff, and I notice as time goes on, there are less and less "memorable scenes" in movies, because they feel they have to cram so many of them in there - so nothing stands out. It's annoying.
And on the note that he would have been sniffed out by mole cops, the whole reason for him going incognito was so that the moles wouldn't know,
But the moles were pretty trusted guys. There has to be a few people in the know to set this up, no? I think my big problem with this is it wasn't explained in the least - it just seemed "cheap", the way they did it. And not that I need every little detail explained, but this wasn't even a subtle setup that one could miss if they weren't paying attention (like the execution of Sonny in The Godfather) - this was just cheap.. "oh, I couldn't risk my family..." When Gordon popped up again, my first thought was "lame." Akin to the "it was really all a dream" cop-out.
I loved it, mainly because I felt like the "good" comic movies coming out lately, it realized it was a movie and didn't try to be a living comic book (shakes fist at Ang Lee), but it stayed true to the source material enough for it to be enjoyable.
I'm not a big enough comic fan to really care about that, but I do agree comic book movies have gotten a lot better.
My opinion is really kind of skewed by the length, two face, and the "more more more" battle set pieces. It makes me pick at other stuff that may not deserve it (I mean really, the love triangle was no worse than cyclops/wolvie/jean, and I liked the x-men movies).
I just felt there was too much unnecessary "stuff". Because for the first hour, I *really* was liking it a lot. A run time of 115 minutes would do this movie serious justice.
All that being said, nice post. : )
You too.
