It's good to see that Boris from the ''Life of Boris'' YouTube channel got himself a cameo. Or it might as well be a cameo. One of the Mobsters in this film has this ridiculous sounding '''Russian''' accent. All I can think of is Boris the entire time.
I kept expecting him to talk about his ass hole neighbor Vadim or begin a segment on cooking.
We now look at the most famous Batman movie. Or at least that's what everybody was saying about 6 years ago. This was everywhere, people are writing essays on it, everyone was talking about it, they were having screenings for it years down the line, there was a crazy man who dressed up as the Joker and went around killing people. It was really big. Not quite as big as Lord of the Rings Gollum being used as a religious metaphor
buy a Protestant charge to try and get more butts in the seats. But it was still very popular.
And dose it deserve it prays? Well, kind of.
I still hold firm that this is the best movie made that happens to have Batman in it. But as a Batman film goes I think it reaches somewhere in the middle. Batman has far less screen time than he did in the original film. Which is kind of funny considering he wasn't even Batman until about one third into the actual movie.
however I still consider this a positive as Christian Bale really went into his over-the-top ridiculous Batman voice.
Any jokes that people made about his voice being really bad in the first movie are definitely valid here. And they become even more apparent when you put them next to Heath Ledger playing The Joker. One's putting in a really solid and believable act while the other one is screaming as if he was possessed by Satan.
I almost feel kind of sorry for Alan Eckhart he put on a really solid performance. Probably the best. And he gets completely overshadowed by Heath Ledger. Which I admit was kind of natural as it was his last proper role. But it's still got to be kind of annoying when you look at the Harvey Dent character and and noticed that he and Christian Bale playing Bruce Wayne are the main characters in the movie. Batman is secondary, the Joker's kind of secondary and only really gets into the spotlight somewhere around the second half.
I think the actor who look the best in this movie in comparison to how they looked in the original was Maggie Gyllenhaal. If Christian Bale's voice was going downhill than her performance was going up. She was really solid in this film. And felt like an actual character. Still dies at some point just to move the plot along but at least she went out as an enjoyable character and not as a half Bates romantic floss with no charisma.
Christopher Nolan loves his spinning cam in this movie. There are multiple scenes where the camera is just spinning around the characters constantly. To his credit it was done in such a way that I wasn't getting nauseous. Which is something a lot of films now or having a problem with. I also felt that the Cameron was more steady during the fight scenes. Which made the more impactful for the most part. Although it is kind of funny to watch Batman do this slow punch that's supposed to look powerful but looks a little Derpy in all reality.
But then watching Batman fight is always a funny experience. Seeing some guy in an over sized bat costume who can barely move trying to manoeuvre himself around and hit multiple opponents all while trying to look frightening. It never really works but it doesn't entirely matter because it's entertaining all the same.
The story isn't as organised as I thought it was when I first watched this some of the events seem a little ridiculous or over staged. And it seems almost impossible of the Joker could get away with some of the events that he was bleeding but it's still done in such a way that you don't really care about it and while you're watching the film. You only start to think about it after the fact. And I don't like holding feelings accountable for difficult story when you're not really supposed to be worried about it in the movie to begin with.
like at the end of the day we don't need to know how the Joker got a bunch of bombs into a major hospital. It's not entangled to the story, and some of the story issues aren't even that problematic. I've seen a bunch of people complain about the Joker having a guy tossed in a cell with him who just happen to have a remote activated bomb surgically implanted into his stomach. It didn't seem that out of place to me that he should be there. It's indicated later that a bunch of cops are on his payroll or are at least blackmailed by him so they could have easily snuck the guy in. And I always think the Joker purposely plans a bunch of ridiculous stuff in advance and then just works with whichever one he gets.
On that one night the Joker might have planned to put 50 different criminals in 50 different jail cells all with bombs in their bodies. And then simply just needed a phone to activate whichever one he was in the cell with. Or heck, maybe he blew them all up at once and we only saw the outcome of one explosion. I wouldn't put the past the Joker to do something like that. That's the beauty of a chaotic character. You can have him do incredibly random things and you don't really have to explain why they're happening. It's like having a wizard in a movie. It's magic you don't need to explain how it works.
There's only one part of the story that I legitimately think is overlooked. It involves Bruce Wayne getting in contact with South Korean Smugglers to abstract him (as Batman) out of Hong Kong. When he meets up with these people he's just himself as Bruce Wayne. But then later on when they pick him up he's in the Batman costume. So I would think that the South Koreans now know who Batman is. And it's not like this is a nobody. It'd be one thing if it was Barry Allen as the flash. Nobody knows who Barry Allen is, Lex Luthor didn't know who he was. But Bruce Wayne!
And besides, you're going to sit there and pick a part all the different aspects of somebody's ridiculous plan but you're not going to point out the awkward language and grammar structure of everybody's conversation. Everybody breaks into their own little Soliloquy all the time.
Oh, and there's a few moments in the film where you can hear some stock sound effects being used. Such as the sound of children on a bus, or this weird robot arm moving noise that you can hear inside Batman's car when he's driving down the street. These are sounds that I've heard in a bunch of other things before. They're just basic stock affects, I wouldn't really think much of them but this is a major multimillion-dollar movie. You're telling me you couldn't make up your own robot sounding arm noise. You just have to put a microphone up to a Tickle Me Elmo that doesn't have any of the Furr on. Those mechanical bits inside moving make noise. Okay that's just dumb nit-picky though.
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