06-18-2005, 01:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-18-2005, 01:57 AM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Count Duckula,Jun 15 2005, 09:27 PM Wrote:According to my geek friends who know more about this than any human being should rightly know, Ras Al'Ghul was in the comics from the beginning and it was he, not the Joker, who did...all that stuff the Joker did. (Trying not to spoil.) ...[right][snapback]80792[/snapback][/right]Joker? The Joker reference at the end was asetup for the sequel. He's not actually in this one.
And if you're referring to The Joker (in reference from the first Burton film) as being the guy who killed Bruce's parentsâ far, far different than what this new film handled that whole matter. In a powerful way that furthered both Wayne's descent in vengeance and the degradation of Gotham as a whole.
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I did find it amusing that the criminal kingpin who was giving Gotham such a bad destiny turned out to be so small-fry in the grand scheme of things. I mean, Batman takes him down before Act 2 is even halfway through. Of course, the normal everyday villians parted way so that the super-villians could take the stage.
Beautiful turnaround on the theme that you had to be "more than a man" to stop Ras Al Gul, when in fact Batman was relying on Sergeant Gordon, an ordinary man, to doing the actual 'saving of the city' bit while Bats sabotaged the train controls.
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