What I liked about Ledger was that he was both funny and scary; funny in the way that makes you feel bad for laughing, and also in the way that you laugh when you worry that you may be in trouble. Too often lately, in the comics, the Joker is either scary but not funny or (more often) neither.
I too was waiting to find out that the detonators on the ferries had been switched. And yet I also didn't care all that much, because the movie was beginning to drag by that point.
Alfred is, I think, the part of the Batman mythos that grates on folks who have any sort of class awareness, and hence there's been a rash of rationalization for his role in Bruce's life. It's kind of out of control at this point.
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Date: 2008-07-23 04:20 am (UTC)I too was waiting to find out that the detonators on the ferries had been switched. And yet I also didn't care all that much, because the movie was beginning to drag by that point.
Alfred is, I think, the part of the Batman mythos that grates on folks who have any sort of class awareness, and hence there's been a rash of rationalization for his role in Bruce's life. It's kind of out of control at this point.