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Watched With: Jordan, Amberly
Head over heels in love with this one. It take the universe set up in the first film and runs with it. The tone is even darker, the new villains are fascinating.
Of course Heath Ledger's Joker is a thing of beauty. He makes the anarchist in me giddy. Easily the most frightening and compulsively watchable villain. His thought process leads to some wonderfully inventive action set pieces and situations. His capture is a little less climactic but I feel if not for Ledger's untimely death we would have gotten closure in the 3rd film. Instead we'll just have to presume that he's rotting away in Arkham.
As wonderful as the Joker is my heart belongs to Harvey Dent. I believed in Harvey too. Once again we don't really get to spend a long time with Two-face as a villain, however, unlike scarecrow, Harvey Dent's fall gives the character a massive arc to play over the course of the film. The impact his fall has on the world of the film and the characters in it, after all they invested in him is what makes this chapter so dark and his story so tragic.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is here this time as Rachel Dawes and the way they twist her damsel in distress is just another of the reason this is by far the most emotional of all the films for me.
Head over heels in love with this one. It take the universe set up in the first film and runs with it. The tone is even darker, the new villains are fascinating.
Of course Heath Ledger's Joker is a thing of beauty. He makes the anarchist in me giddy. Easily the most frightening and compulsively watchable villain. His thought process leads to some wonderfully inventive action set pieces and situations. His capture is a little less climactic but I feel if not for Ledger's untimely death we would have gotten closure in the 3rd film. Instead we'll just have to presume that he's rotting away in Arkham.
As wonderful as the Joker is my heart belongs to Harvey Dent. I believed in Harvey too. Once again we don't really get to spend a long time with Two-face as a villain, however, unlike scarecrow, Harvey Dent's fall gives the character a massive arc to play over the course of the film. The impact his fall has on the world of the film and the characters in it, after all they invested in him is what makes this chapter so dark and his story so tragic.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is here this time as Rachel Dawes and the way they twist her damsel in distress is just another of the reason this is by far the most emotional of all the films for me.
Goes without saying, it looks great, sounds great, the actions is great, I love the way the structure works to balance out all those plots into a cohesive and connected whole and with the Joker we get some of that comic book levity the first film largely lacked. Definitely my favourite of the bunch.
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