Batman
Posted by Neil Brimelow | Filed under Uncategorized
The only flaw I could find in the whole movie was the Garbage Truck vs. the Batmobile. It was the only noticable bit of CGI and it stood out really bad. Otherwise, there was hardly any CGI in the movie and the movie was 10x better for it.
That said, the movie effectively painted the future of the series into a corner. Really, what in the fuck could they do next to top it? The movie essentially has enough stuff crammed into it for six movies.
The biggest problem Nolan and company will have for any future Batman films is that they really can’t use mostly any of the traditional Batman Villains.
“The Dark Knight” dragged Batman too far into the real world, and they can’t go back to the pseudo-comic book world of the previous Batman movie.
Are they going to dust off Clay Face, or Poison Ivy or even newer villains like Mr. Freeze? No, they can’t. So that pretty much leaves the Riddler. To be honest, I don’t know if I would be interested in a movie where Batman is chasing down clues all over Gotham. Besides, Die Hard 3 pretty much did a faux-riddler in Jeffrey Irons villain.
All in all, TDK is a great movie. It’s a mix of “Heat” and “Batman.” Heath Ledger’s performance was fucking brilliant. Ledger brought The Joker into the real world and made him just the perfect amount of batshit insane.
The disappearing pencil trick was worth the price of admission.