I think more than anything Heath Ledger felt too much of a cookie-cutter psycho rather than a proper adversary for Batman. But incidentally he also was more than anyone else’s match. The two don’t really tie together.

Well, I thought the boat scene was outrageously silly and (between holding my head in my hands) was willing someone to stand up and point out that they’re being played for fools by someone who’s already blown up a hospital today, and maybe they shouldn’t take his word for how the bombs are rigged.

Also, you’ll find that the leading lady died in James Bond too! ;-)

Yes, we did see it in Casino Royale, and in the first Spider-Man. But this time they outright killed the love interest.

What else would they assume?

(Okay, this one I agree with)

I think he was playing the Joker. I also think that we’ve never actually seen anyone else playing the Joker before (with the possible exception of Mark Hamill). I certainly don’t think Jack Nicolson was. He was playing Jack Nicolson in a clown suit. The main problem with JN’s version (for me) is that we just plain knew too much about him. The character has been in the comics for over 60 years, and his real identity has never been definitively revealed (“Do you wanna know how I got these scars?”). I think Heath Ledger went back to the source for his interpretation, most notably Alan Moore’s “The Killing Joke”. I agree it was cool to see Cillian Murphy again, and that Bruce Wayne was a little too sidelined.

I remain unconvinced that two face is actually dead. Far more interesting if they simply spirited him away to Arkam and buried him there, so to speak. I mostly thought the eyeball was really, really freaky.

I think it was better than Begins, being as it actually had a third act, and lacked a lot of the silly Sci-Fi stuff which pissed my off in the first one (the microwave laser thing which explosively evaporates all water… except that in the human body, for instance). I liked that it focused on the crime drama part of the story. Roll on the third film, I say.

I was also quite impressed with the script (except, frustratingly, the first couple of lines of dialogue), and it seems that co-writer Jonathan Nolan wrote the new terminator film, which also has a fairly impressive cast. Might not be as shit as I first feared…