Margaret and I watched Dark Knight for the sort of second time last night. We have a copy that we can watch at home, (Homeland Security, come and get us.) and we watched it once with some friends the weekend it came out in the US, but we were playing with a two-year old most of the movie and didn't really see much of it.We came to a couple of conclusions about the movie, and the new Batman franchise in general.
Conclusion 1.) Margaret REALLY doesn't like the Rachel Dawes character. I am not sure if it's that she really wants Batman to love her instead of whoever is playing Dawes. I thought at first that it was an anti-Katie Holmes impulse, and let's face it, who could blame her if it were. But it turns out that it isn't that. She dislike Maggie Gyllenhall just as much. (Did I spell that wrong? It's her fault for having an unpronounceable and confusing name. I decree that the new spelling.)
Conclusion 2.) It really is too bad that no one will get to be The Joker ever again. It's a great role and Heath Ledger OWNS it. I know, everyone and their brother has said that already, but I haven't seen any of my brothers say it yet, so I get to be everyone and they get to be my brothers.
Conclusion 3.) This is kind of a two-fer. See, it seems to me that they need a good bad guy for the next one, and lets face it, there will be a next one. And when Margaret and I were talking about the Batman Rogue's Gallery we agreed that The Riddler is a good choice, if they could un-Jim Carrey him. And then we noticed that everyone in Dark Knight, when they want to be scary, talks in a gravelly voice. Now, who can you think of who talks in a gravelly voice and would be PERFECT for The Riddler? Damn Skippy! Will Arnett! GOB is the perfect Riddler. He could resurrect his theme song. The Final Countdown is a wonderful Riddler theme. He could do his magic tricks, totally in character. Man, Tony Hale could even come in and be his sidekick. It would be like when they were going to bury GOB alive. They could dance and stuff. Arnett could do gravelly voice and Hale could do the Ledger falsetto. Can anyone deny that this is brilliant? Speak up!
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Wow! I'm speechless... conclusion three is brilliant! Absolutely brilliant.
I still think of Mark Hamill's Joker as the best Joker. I really didn't like the Rachel Dawes character either. What a self righteous idiot. And why would Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent fight over someone who looks like Maggie Gyllenhall? She's an eyesore! Heath Ledger's Joker is the best part of that movie. I liked the first movie until I watched it a second time, and I liked this movie less when I watched it a second time. I was irritated with the third movie because of their treatment of Bane. I liked the character they made, but he wasn't Bane. He was someone else.
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