Whoa! Really sad what the TDK thread has devolved into.
Maybe we can get back on topic now, though I suppose the movie has been out long enough that it is old news now.
I FINALLY got to see TDK yesterday. Been dying to see it since release, but things kept coming up, then all my friends had seen it without me and I was having a hard time getting any of them to go see it a second time with me.
I loved it. I am a very harsh critic of movies, and I usual manage to find something in modern movies that totally pulls me out of the movie and ruins the whole thing for me. The whole time watching TDK it was near perfect, little tiny things here and there, but nothing that ruined the film. I was impressed. Until toward the very end and Dent's face gets burnt off, I was expecting that of course, and all the story points worked fine for me. The only thing I didn't like about it was the look of the burnt face. Looked too zombish and unreal. I am surprised nobody else mentioned this before. His lidless eye would have dried out, even if it had somehow managed not to be burnt up with the rest of his face. Also I am pretty sure it would be hard to articulate words as perfectly as Dent does with only half a pair a lips. I was expecting them to go for something much more realistic looking. Just came off as really cartoony to me and not grotesque as I suppose the intention was.
So, that was the thing that managed to pull me out of the movie, but I am determined not to let it ruin the movie for me.
As for the convict throwing the detonator out the window, I thought that worked perfectly. From the moment the detonator showed up and was explained I thought that if I was the prison guard I would have thrown the thing out the window, or at least locked it away in another room rather than keep it there in the open in from of a mass quantity of hardened criminals. I can totaly relate to the convict, being a hardend killer himself and probably having spent a good deal of time in prison to reflect on how his life had gone wrong, looking at the prison guard holding the detonator and thinking what an asshole he was for even considering the possibility of blowing the other boat up. I thought that scene was very well done. Surprised it got complained about.