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BATMAN.
JOKER.
COMMISSIONER GORDON.
ALFRED.
LUCIUS WHO? LUCIUS FOX, THAT'S RIGHT. :-D
Let's see, what were my applause lines: I won't remember them all, but here is a partial list. Harpooning the semi and making it do a somersault on the highway. The bike that executes a swimmer's turn on the side of a building. "You think your client is a vigilante who goes out at night and beats criminals with his bare hands, and you want to blackmail this man?" Jim Gordon turning out not to be dead. Jim Gordon's wife slapping him when he reappeared at the house. Lucius declaring that the extraordinary powers were a bad, bad thing.Michael Clark Duncan The biggest baddest con on the ferry throwing the remote detonator out the window (it was telegraphed like a mad thing, but still cool). Half the Joker's material, really; oh, Heath Ledger, you unlucky, overmedicated bastard, you may well win the Oscar for this, because they'll be sorry you died and they didn't give it to you for Brokeback Mountain when they had the chance, but you know, an Oscar's an Oscar -- just ask Russell "The Insider Gladiator" Crowe.
But I do have this to say: the stringy burned-up half face of Harvey Dent started me thinking, and the Gordon family kidnapalooza toward the end had me saying to my seatmates![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pocketmouse and ellen_fremedon, that I think the PG-13 rating may have been a little generous for this thing. pocketmouse pointed out that there was no nudity, which is what probably saved them from the R, but really, anything that hits the Sophie's Choice buttons that hard might deserve to be labeled as grown-up stuff. (Of course, I think actually restricting attendance is an error at best, but how movies are rated and what those ratings mean is I suppose a whole other subject for a whole other day. Suffice it to say that we were all also gobsmacked by the fact that the Mamma Mia! ad included a note that the film includes depictions of tobacco use ... because babydaddy-schmabydaddy, it's the smoking that we need to be warned for there. Sigh.)
JOKER.
COMMISSIONER GORDON.
ALFRED.
LUCIUS WHO? LUCIUS FOX, THAT'S RIGHT. :-D
Let's see, what were my applause lines: I won't remember them all, but here is a partial list. Harpooning the semi and making it do a somersault on the highway. The bike that executes a swimmer's turn on the side of a building. "You think your client is a vigilante who goes out at night and beats criminals with his bare hands, and you want to blackmail this man?" Jim Gordon turning out not to be dead. Jim Gordon's wife slapping him when he reappeared at the house. Lucius declaring that the extraordinary powers were a bad, bad thing.
But I do have this to say: the stringy burned-up half face of Harvey Dent started me thinking, and the Gordon family kidnapalooza toward the end had me saying to my seatmates
pocketmouse and ellen_fremedon, that I think the PG-13 rating may have been a little generous for this thing. pocketmouse pointed out that there was no nudity, which is what probably saved them from the R, but really, anything that hits the Sophie's Choice buttons that hard might deserve to be labeled as grown-up stuff. (Of course, I think actually restricting attendance is an error at best, but how movies are rated and what those ratings mean is I suppose a whole other subject for a whole other day. Suffice it to say that we were all also gobsmacked by the fact that the Mamma Mia! ad included a note that the film includes depictions of tobacco use ... because babydaddy-schmabydaddy, it's the smoking that we need to be warned for there. Sigh.)