I went to Edwards at the Market place where the midnight premiere was far less crowded than the premiere for Batman Begins.

Joker was as good as he could be and the only problems I have are changes from comic canon with the concept and the script. He talked too much where a simple and funny horrifying joke would have sufficed. “Do you know how I got these scars” or Jack Nicholson’s “pale moonlight” is unneeded here because it sounds like something I guess a real life killer would say. That probably only serves to graft a real world psychotic edge to satisfy fans of Hostile or SAW, which only means I expect too much from Hollywood not to cash in on fads.

At the end of the movie Joker should have hit Bats upside the head with a hockey stick then a few more times where he’s on the ground, with Joker screaming “say it, say it!” Meaning he wants to hear Batman say “I don’t wear hockey pads” like he did earlier in the movie. In that way Joker wins by making a point that Bats can’t be prepared for everything. Also hilarious would be the idea that hockey pads would have protected Bats from being laid out by a Sherwood better than super-Kevlar armor.

There’s a great deal of substitutionary atonement in this movie which makes it so great. The characters of Bruce Wayne/Batman, Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Dent (and even Two-Face shiny side up) choose out of own their free will to protect each other every chance they get. And their sacrifice keeps the city and their trinity safe at the resolution of every plot twist.

Rachael Dawes is presented here as the opposite of Padme in Episode III, where Padme gives everything she has to save Anakin and gets killed anyway. Refusing to save Bruce, Rachael ends up getting killed by Joker. She was unwilling to sacrifice anything so Alfred has to choose to keep silent to protect Bruce. During the interrogation scene Joker nearly deduces Batman’s identity by his reaction to the mention of Rachael. So in the final battle at the end of the movie Joker would have lent a great deal of credit to the audience if he had stated in reference to Bruce’s love, also in context to the trap with the two boats, that “she didn’t put out” and sending Batman into a chivalrous and blind rage.

Take that feminism! HAA!

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