Maybe the idea is blasphemous, but I so want to see that Joker again! It was fucking awesome.

Looking forward to it. I actually heard two old ladies talking about at a restaurant. They were trying to decide when to go. Everyone is checking this out.

Yes, that was intentional.

What I can't believe is that other movies are actually bothering to come out this weekend to get massacred...

You are the one that apparently has problems with the gays, based on your own comments. So save it.

Other villains I want to see:

Angelina Jolie as Catwoman (provided her uterus hasn't busted out from birthing those twins)

John Malkovich as Riddler (provided it's 80's Creepy Malkovich and not 90's Oddball Malkovich)

Patrick Stewart as Mr. Freeze

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Penguin

Megan Fox as Talia Al'Guhl

Scarlett Johansen as Poison Ivy

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what the frick else does he do? you know he doesn't have a second job. them deoderant and sex clothes banners bring in the money.

she says she did scenes with maroni. she's not bruce's arm candy. she's not maroni's mistress.

she has also not shown up in any viral or cable promotions

so who the frick is she in this frickin' picture?!

as for villains, i have no idea.

Plus, I like how you fuckin KNOW what TF2 is gonna be. You don't know shit about it.

After having seen TDK a second time, I'm confident that Harvey is still alive. In the final scene, Gordon and Batman are talking about how damaging it would be if Gotham knew the truth about Harvey's killing spree. Which, of course, is the reason why Batman decides to take the blame for his murders. They then hold a public funeral and proclaim that Harvey "died a hero" when in actuality he "lived to see himself become the villain." Gordon no doubt had Harvey sent to Arkham to maintain this lie.

Incidentally, I find it interesting that during the press conference Harvey took the fall for Bats by claiming he was the caped crusader and then Batman returned the favor by taking responsibility for Harvey's murders.

Also, I've read some criticism of the fact that Harvey "suddenly" becomes vengeful towards Batman. To me, it makes perfect sense that Harvey would harbor animosity (however unreasonable).

Consider:

While both men share the same goals, they go about achieving them in conflicting ways (two sides of the same coin, if you will). The White Knight works within the justice system while the Dark Knight rejects it outright, preferring instead to become a masked vigilante and fight crime at the street level. Harvey believes that Rachel's death was directly related to Batman's methods (in that his existence created a madman like the Joker).

In addition, Batman was the last person Harvey wanted to see while lying face down in that pool of gasoline. He wished Batman was off saving Rachel and no doubt is resentful of the fact that the caped crusader "chose" to save him instead.

This, of course, is bullshit seeing as Batman wanted to save Rachel all along. The Joker (who was aware of Batman's affection towards Rachel after witnessing his daring rescue of her at the fund raiser) intentionally told Bats the wrong address because he knew that Harvey would be angry at Batman if he was saved while his girlfriend was left to die.

Add disfigurement and mental instability to the equation (not to mention the Joker's psychological prodding) and it becomes entirely plausible that Harvey would turn against Batman.

2. All the surprise plot twists which take up like 1/3 of the movie won't be surprise plot twists anymore on second viewings, which kills the rewatchable factor for me.

3. The anti-climactic ending involving Two-Face. Uh...so what happened...is that it...?

4. Lame final character arc for Rachel Dawes. I mean, she had such a big role in Begins, is that how she deserves to be wrapped up?

5. Lack of emotional investment in Harvey Dent/Two-Face. Dent's character is played as a rather arrogant rival to Bruce Wayne, so that when Dent became Two-Face, I didn't really care what happened to him. But the brilliance of Two-Face as a character in the comics is that in a way we care for him as well, which is what makes him so tragic. I think Nolan failed to invest the proper amount of emotional content in Dent's character so that his fall would seem that much more tragic. As it was, I could've cared less what happened to Dent/Two-Face. I think communicating emotion is an apparent weakness of Christopher Nolan's filmmaking.

5. On the eternal comparison between Nolan's version and Tim Burton's version, I still go with the '89 Batman. Nolan's vision lacks the grand metaphorical scheme and gothic opera of Burton's Batman. Burton's vision was unique, Nolan's vision isn't. Nolan's Batman probably could've been accomplished by any good director from Michael Mann to Ridley Scott to Darren Aronofsky. Nobody, NOBODY, could've done what Time Burton did back in 1989. Nolan's Batman looks like a regular crime movie with Batman in it.

6. How come Nolan uses nearly all ethnic-Americans(Italians, hispanics, blacks, etc.) as his lower level bad guys and crooks and convicts? Because he's a pompous English bastard, that's why.

7. Can't think of anything else right now. I'll get back to you...

Personally, I think Michele Pfeiffer's Catwoman in Batman Returns was a more superior example of a tragic Batman villain. I even though the Danny DeVito Penguin was more tragic. Why? Because Tim Burton is damn good at cinematically conveying and investing his characters with the Holy Grail of movies, emotion.

Sure, I got the gist of what was going on from scene to scene but I wouldn't be able to nail down the details. I thought the themes were great and the dialogue was great. But I couldn't recall all the details of, for example, the Joker's plot to kill the mayor and how it went awry.

I know I'm practically begging for someone to reply that I'm simply not intelligent enough to follow it. Go ahead, I'm pretty confident in my ability to follow a story. I can pick up on every nuanced callback or meta-joke on Arrested Development, and I can tell you more about Lost than lostpedia.com. But The Dark Knight was just insane.

In fact, if you insist on taking that stance then allow me to ask you some questions about the plot and I'll prove that you weren't following it as well either. Who is up for it?

Somebody CGI that thing.