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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade  Anyway it was good. I pretty much figured out the Two Face tie in the moment he pulled out the coin though. Heath Ledger was weird, but I think a lot of the ZOMG BEST MOVIE EVAR was because he's dead. |
I thought about that, but I don't agree - I think he would at least have been nominated for an Academy Award even if he hadn't died. But his death is probably going to shoo him in to a win or at least a special award.
I saw some of "Batman Returns" on cable last night, with Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer and Danny DeVito. It was interesting to watch, because that movie was far, far more cartoonish than Dark Knight. And, yes, Keaton altered his voice when he had on the bat costume. Not quite as much as Bale, but it was still noticable.
DeVito was brilliant as the Penguin, and yet his character was so unrealistic and unbelievable it wasn't anywhere near Ledger's performance as Joker.
It's important to bear in mind that Batman was born during a campy, overstated era of superheroes. We're more sophisticated (read: Jaded) today. So much so, that in the last Superman movie they felt compelled to change the iconic Superman motto "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" to "Truth, Justice and all that other stuff". To hell with the era in which Superman was born, when "the American Way" wasn't a cuss word. We wouldn't want to offend any of our culturally diverse audience today, especially when the movie goes global.