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Batman!
Random points because OH MY FUCKING GOD.
*I cried. I cried and cried quietly when Gordon 'died' - it hit like a ton of bricks and until the part where the police showed up at Mrs. Gordon's doorstep, I held out hope. And then was crushed....until the driver of the car grabbed the gun and got out and Ben turned to me and went "Gordon!". And I held my breath until the shot went up and the ENTIRE AUDIENCE broke into cheers and applause when Jim Gordon was the one holding the gun against the Joker. Commissioner Gordon, you are bad ass.
*Rachel. I didn't cry for her like I did Gordon - in part because, honestly, I want to do bad things to Gary Oldman and in part because Rachel in the first movie didn't do much for me. However, Rachel in this movie was much better and her loss was just...ow. Ow, guys. Completely unexpected.
*Bruce. Without a doubt, this man was waiting for the right moment to be able to put the mantel back; to return to being just plain old Bruce Wayne and get Rachel back. That dream was one of the many, many victims the Joker left in his wake. Gotham is a crippled city with it's "white knight" gone and Batman hated - but he's not going to be able to give that up for a while, if ever. And he accepts that because he can. Because he's the type of man who can shoulder that kind of burden and there's really no other person who can.
*Scarecrow. EEE! I didn't expect him! *squish* "That's not my diagnois."
*Harvey. Oh, poor Harvey. You're built up only to have everything pulled away from you - your honor, your sanity, your girl. Your, uh, cheek. YOU COULD SEE INTO HIS FACE. I will forever have nightmares about the tendons and the jaw and the GIANT FREAKING EYEBALL. O.O Seriously, that was the best way to show Two-Face's er, face. Creepy creepy creepy.
*Joker. This man scared the crap out of me - from the laughter to the sudden voice changes ("Look at me!") to the lip licking - this man was frightening in drag. I jumped at least three times. And even the times when the Joker made me laugh, it was laughter while I cringed and scooted as far away from the screen as possible. It was an unbelievable performance by Heath Ledger and it was hard to remember that it even was that actor in many scenes, it was that convincing.
And of course, my love for Alfred grows more and more with each movie. This is the Alfred of the comics and the good cartoon, who'll follow Bruce's orders but won't take lip from him and is subtly and sometimes not so subtly biting back in his own way. A man who hides behind his duty (because he'd known Rachel just as long as he'd known Bruce and you know he had to have been grieving behind closed doors) maybe just as much as Bruce does with Batman.
The entire movie was one very long punch to the gut from the moment it started to the moment it ended. The look on Gordon's face when he smashed in the bat-signal, the explanation to his son about the different types of heroes.
Wow. Just...wow.
*I cried. I cried and cried quietly when Gordon 'died' - it hit like a ton of bricks and until the part where the police showed up at Mrs. Gordon's doorstep, I held out hope. And then was crushed....until the driver of the car grabbed the gun and got out and Ben turned to me and went "Gordon!". And I held my breath until the shot went up and the ENTIRE AUDIENCE broke into cheers and applause when Jim Gordon was the one holding the gun against the Joker. Commissioner Gordon, you are bad ass.
*Rachel. I didn't cry for her like I did Gordon - in part because, honestly, I want to do bad things to Gary Oldman and in part because Rachel in the first movie didn't do much for me. However, Rachel in this movie was much better and her loss was just...ow. Ow, guys. Completely unexpected.
*Bruce. Without a doubt, this man was waiting for the right moment to be able to put the mantel back; to return to being just plain old Bruce Wayne and get Rachel back. That dream was one of the many, many victims the Joker left in his wake. Gotham is a crippled city with it's "white knight" gone and Batman hated - but he's not going to be able to give that up for a while, if ever. And he accepts that because he can. Because he's the type of man who can shoulder that kind of burden and there's really no other person who can.
*Scarecrow. EEE! I didn't expect him! *squish* "That's not my diagnois."
*Harvey. Oh, poor Harvey. You're built up only to have everything pulled away from you - your honor, your sanity, your girl. Your, uh, cheek. YOU COULD SEE INTO HIS FACE. I will forever have nightmares about the tendons and the jaw and the GIANT FREAKING EYEBALL. O.O Seriously, that was the best way to show Two-Face's er, face. Creepy creepy creepy.
*Joker. This man scared the crap out of me - from the laughter to the sudden voice changes ("Look at me!") to the lip licking - this man was frightening in drag. I jumped at least three times. And even the times when the Joker made me laugh, it was laughter while I cringed and scooted as far away from the screen as possible. It was an unbelievable performance by Heath Ledger and it was hard to remember that it even was that actor in many scenes, it was that convincing.
And of course, my love for Alfred grows more and more with each movie. This is the Alfred of the comics and the good cartoon, who'll follow Bruce's orders but won't take lip from him and is subtly and sometimes not so subtly biting back in his own way. A man who hides behind his duty (because he'd known Rachel just as long as he'd known Bruce and you know he had to have been grieving behind closed doors) maybe just as much as Bruce does with Batman.
The entire movie was one very long punch to the gut from the moment it started to the moment it ended. The look on Gordon's face when he smashed in the bat-signal, the explanation to his son about the different types of heroes.
Wow. Just...wow.