Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

The Thugless Void

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fucking beat me to it arrrgghhh

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haha would watch

my wife wanted to know why there weren't any rappers in this movie ("where's Ice-T?" she asked)

aka thugless void syndrome

Talking of the thugs, what became of Mafia Maroni's little visit to the hospital, where he said "This is too much, I'll tell you where the Joker is this afternoon". I can't recall that leading to anything.

Gordon was marshalling the police to raid the boat he was on with all the money but then the hospital bombing threat took a little precedence.

the cops were all on their way to where Joker was burning the money, then the hospital threat thing went down...? But yeah that transition didn't make a lot of sense

Thanks. One other thing I didn't get was the whole ballistics/shattered bullet thing. What was he actually doing with all those test shots into walls back at his lair? He seemed to be matching the results against the real wall in a plastic bag.

The only thing I can think is that he needed to work out what kind of bullet was fired because it would help him fit together the jigsaw of the shattered one to get fingerprints, but that seems rather tenuous and implausible. Was that it?

I just laughed through that whole sequence - total CSI Jerry Bruckheimer nonsense

i'm already waiting for an extended DVD, so many of the plot shifts were ruthlessly pared down (last few posts, eg). plus, like i said a billion posts ago, what was all the scarecrow drug dealer business at the beginning? that's like a whole other movie right there

bullet/fingerprint analysis

Yeah, the dealers seemed to be pissed off with the Scarecrow ("If you don't like my wares then go elsewhere") but I didn't catch why.

Also, was it supposed to be Bruce alone that reprogrammed the city's mobile phones to be sonar devices, or does he have unseen helpers?

all he'd need is one lonely network admin

what was the deal w/ the scarecrow scene? i figured it somehow tied into the first one which ive pretty much totally forgotten

IOW, this: total CSI Jerry Bruckheimer nonsense

xxp

Thanks for that link, will. That puzzle they outline at the end about how the Joker would set up the trap at Melvin White's apartment seems like no puzzle to me. As they finally suggest, I don't think it was supposed to be a trap.

it is implied in just a few lines of dialogue that the (now insane, escaped) scarecrow has cornered the entire gotham drug supply (lol marlo stanfield) and has spiked it with something that fries people's brains and the rest of the mobs are pissed. that's a huge deal to toss away in a little action prologue!

Yeah, the dealers seemed to be pissed off with the Scarecrow ("If you don't like my wares then go elsewhere") but I didn't catch why.

It's cos his stuff was giving everyone horrendously bad trips.

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that's a huge deal to toss away in a little action prologue

Yeah, it must have gone further in deleted scenes I guess.

Great idea - this movie really needs to be longer.

It should have been a 10-part miniseries really.

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Great idea - this movie really needs to be longer.

-- Oilyrags, Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:59 PM (10 minutes ago)

a long ass dvd is no problem, let's hav it!

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I think I'm going to watch Batman Begins again now.

A few hours late but that sourceless blog post was written by a former editor of DC and a current writer for Marvel. So... it has some validity.

How does having comic-book-industry cred give her validity in spreading Hollywood rumors?

Or something like that.

i heard there was a cut about 30 minutes longer that existed a few weeks ago.

months ago, that is...oof.

David, presumably DC Comics, which is owned by Warner, has some inside information about the new film. I don't doubt that she's still friendly with people in that company.

Of course, on rereading her post, she seems to be quoting some Hollywood gossip website. Not her insider contacts.

David, presumably DC Comics, which is owned by Warner

no wai! :p

Forgive me if I'm skeptical of someone that used to work for Batfolks' book division reporting rumors of a movie that's in pre-pre-pre-pre production.

xpost - BWAH HAH HAH

Hmmm... I was just forwarded this from two different people:

Johnny Depp to play Riddler in next flick?

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