Obvious, in hindsight.
And you buy the popcorn/coke memorabilia pack too.
[Hey, I wasn't the only one who wanted to go.]
Quick review - really good flick. Ledger's Joker performance is as jaw droppingly good as everybody is making out. Just brutally good. Bale's Bruce Wayne is spot on. And his Batman is good, too. But that voice he uses works only about half the time. It's too over the top the other half of the time. Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent is nuanced and really well done. When he snaps, cracks and explodes, it's really strong acting, and a powerful moment. Oldman's Gordon is also excellent in a deservedly more fleshed out role, not having very much to do in the first film. Freeman and Caine turn in their usual extremely solid, capable and worthwhile performances, with the gravitas unique to their respective careers. On the neg, some of the dialogue and exposition struck me as clunky. There were a couple plot holes too. [The most obvious, why not simply blame the Joker for Dent's actions? Instead of the way they went with it?] The fight scenes, while better than Batman Begins, still struck me as "off" though I couldn't say exactly why. And the Rachel Dawes character remains, for me, as useless and unnecessary in this flick as the first. The shoehorned-in cliched love interest, with not much to do, and without an actress, in either film, who made me care about the character.
Still, probably the best Batman film to date.
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