Ironically the first time I ever spoiled a film for myself going into it was the TDK
that summer was probably the greatest summer of my life. I remember it like yesterday. Iron Man, Speed Racer, Incredible Hulk, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and TDK. It’s crazy because I was the least excited for TDK out of all those films. I really liked Batman Begins but Batman films were numerous and we were approaching the onset of Marvel films
produced by Marvel. Super exciting times and as the summer movie season came to a close, I was scouring the internet curious as to what this new Batman film could be about. People don’t remember but Batman Begins was originally billed as a prequel to Batman ‘89 so when TDK went the route of incorporating its own Joker people were really skeptical on if Jack Nicholson’s “iconic” performance could be replicated 10 things I hate about you/Broke Back Mountain guy and his death earlier in the year left an eerie ominous feeling about the tone of TDK. I remember the advertisement showing Aaron Eckhart with the “I believe in Harvey Dent” badges and thought it was cool Harvey Dent was gonna be in the movie but only thought they were setting up Batman’s rogue’s gallery for future films, similar to how Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Batman Returns and was a minor supporting character but hadn’t yet become two-face. When I went to some movie blog forum that had the whole plot of TDK....... my jaw dropped. I say all that to say that Two-Face appearing in the film and the circumstances that led to him appearing MADE TDK. Joker is the vessel, full of quotables and acting that makes you turn pale but the shocking fall of the “white knight” is what made not only Joker’s beliefs in that film but the whole theme of that movie so heralded. Two-Face appearing turns TDK COMPLETELY upside down. It went from detective thriller to full on comic book madness.
Can I also say that I was waiting for a full on Tony meltdown with some range from RDJ. This cat been having PTSD about space and seeing aliens since Avengers 1. Ok you, he’s more experienced now. New tech got him piped, arms folded on some “you don’t want beef” steez in the face of aliens coming back to earth. I get it. But the film shows his mannerisms as uneasy about everything which was the right way to go about it. **** is going down again. But in the end when he has seen a “maniacal” (and I use that term loosely) tyrant alien thrown a crushed moon from the atmosphere at him and has impaled in the chest forcing him near the brink AND THEN a kid that you dragged into all of this dies in your arms...I expected him to lose it. A full on meltdown with tears and sobbing would’ve really drove home not only the impact but how broken the Avengers just became. RDJ has incredible range and would have sold the hell out of that to where everyone left the theater misty eyed. Instead, son is reflecting like he’s trying to remember if he turned off the stove before he left the crib
This film man. Ball dropped on an insurmountable level.
Man Peter Parker ain’t Tony’s kid, don’t feed in to that iron son narrative
And why did Thanos love Gamora so much? Wish we had more exposure on daddy Thanos instead of that lukewarm dagger giving scene we got. Maybe showing Thanos training Gamora and encouraging her. The way they had him crying they shoulda shown him taking her to a daddy daughter dance
I’m curious about your point with the willpower however. Could you elaborate? That’s somewhat of a cool point.
