CO said:
GhostAlpha26 said:
#10. I agree with that, especially with the ending, it was done poor. Dispatching Two-Face so quickly and not allowly the chance to further develope his chracter in the next movie was a complete failure. Saving the Joker and not wrapping up his story was terrible.
Two Face is a plot point, not a main point, and I think people are missing that angle. This isn't your typical comic book movie, where the bad guy IS the bad guy, this is about a city that has gone to hell, and there a bad guys all over the place, some aligned, some not. The Joker is not the main villain, he is just a bad guy, the mob is a bad guy, Two Face becomes a symbol of the whole movie: Choice. Everyone in the movie, including even the Butler Alfred has to make a choice and they each must face the ramifications of their decisions. Alfred decides to never show Bruce Wayne the letter from Rachel that she really wasn't going to stay with him before she died, but Alfred decides that it is a better that Bruce goes to his grave thinking she thought he was the one. Two face is a symbol of how a man, a good man, goes bad because of a tragic event. Think of yourself, a successful DA, a pretty girl friend, all gone to hell after she dies and your face is burned off? Sounds like what Lucas was trying to accomplish in ROTS, and the whole PT, and Nolan did it in the course of half the movie.
I can honestly say that Batman Begins is a better movie now, the same way TPM should have been a better movie after AOTC & ROTS. I thought Batman Begins was a good, but not great movie in 2005, but after seeing TDK, it is a perfect setup movie for the sequel, and Nolan has done his job for me. BB is about development and growth and finding yourself, TDK is about choice and how it affects your life, what the third movie will be about in terms of symbolism, I am not sure, but I really can't wait.
As I have said before, if you don't like this movie, that's cool with me cause everyone's opinion is their own, but you have to atleast respect that Nolan was trying to do something totally different in this genre, the same way Lucas did with ESB back in 1980.
Thats your take on the movie, which is fine and Id respect it if it was executed better, it was poorly done. Having the end show the symbolism doesnt make up for the fact that 2 Hours and 20 mintues of the movie was out of wack.
And this is not the first movie in the genre to have "Choice" as a theme , Spiderman 2