Am I the only one who thought The Dark Knight was overrated??? SPOIILERS!!!
Yeah, it's a great action film, but the plot had a zillion holes in it, and there wasn't enough time for real character development, particularly for Harvey Dent. They should have ended the movie with him becoming Two-Face and saved him to be a great villain for the next one! Instead they gave him a lame 15 minutes before he gets kacked. And in the most stupid of ways. What a waste of a formidable foe (and a decent actor in Aaron Eckhart). And what the hell was Scarecrow even IN this film for? There was zero point in his even being in the movie, for all of 2 minutes.
Plus I didn't buy for even a second that ANYONE would ever work for the Joker, knowing full well that he kills everyone who works for him, and he never would have pulled off what he did without a ton of minions. Took me right out of the suspension of disbelief that is the mark of a truly great film. This movie paled in comparison to the quality and cohesiveness of Batman Begins (with the exception of the Joker.. he was badass. Oh, and course Katie Holmes' replacement with Maggie Gyllenhall - good call there).
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