Originally Posted By: Nowhereman
 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
Moving away from Pro's love of the Halle Berry Catwoman movie, I liked all the little things in TDK that shows that Nolan and his brother actually did some comic book reading in writing the script. The Bat-Man militia was straight out of Millers DKR. The changing Joker origins concept that Moore introduced in the Killing Joke. The 'Joker Killings' assignations seemed really inspired by the very first Joker story. Like I said with Batman Begins, Nolan has found a good way to balance the comic book with an interesting movie world.

The bit when they found Brians body (the guy in the hockey pad Batsuit) reminded me of another story. I think it was called The many deaths of Batman, where bodies were turning up wearing bat costumes!


I do think that, with the more realistic approach of these films, that the sheer body count that the Joker was racking up made him a much more frightening foe than how he's previously been portrayed in adaptations. Given the fact that everything he did was plausible and not really that over the top adds to that. The whole bit where he's trying to turn average citizens into murders by threatening to blow up hospitals and ferries is also a bit reminiscent of The Killing Joke in the fact that 'it only takes one bad day'.

whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."