And second, what can you really do to “get ready” for an explosion? Tighten your butt cheeks?

And I’m sorry, try as you may, the reasoning don’t hold up, if someone has a cutting instrument held to the neck of a fellow cop, you’re going to shoot him in the head if you have the chance. If someone had your best friend like that and you had a clear shot of him, are you going to be concerned over whether or not the offender has information you might need?? Yes, cops often do consider each other friends… Surprising, I know. And also convenient that the explosion kills everyone in the room except The Joker. Must be a “smart bomb” with “smart shrapnel” lol.

I’m sorry, but that scene is one of the weakest parts of that entire movie. I was literally laughing out loud in the theater in that scene, and so were two of my friends. The others didn’t really notice these things until after the movie, I brought it up and it was one of those “wow, didn’t realize that, that’s so true!” moments for them.

They didn’t shoot because they were afraid he may still have information that they need. Also I’m pretty sure they were instructed that if at all possible avoid shooting him. They were trying to send a message to the criminal underworld and use the Joker as an example. By putting him on trial and letting him get his justice. Also fairly likely that they were not comfortable taking that shot. One reflexes from being shot could still cut the cops throat and two maybe they didn’t want to risk missing. Even if they were close they were nervous and could merely graze him or even just miss.

I thought the Joker escape scene was a HUGE flaw. That scene was very dumb. First of all, why would they guard THE JOKER, the guy that has caused all of this panic, all of this crazy stuff, the murders, etc, with one unarmed guy INSIDE the interrogation room?? Too convenient isn’t it? Why didn’t any of the cops shoot The Joker when he was holding that cop as a human shield? He wasn’t even shielding himself, his head was completely exposed. Even the dumbest criminal given that opportunity will put his head BEHIND the hostage’s head, not NEXT to it like they always do in movies. Those cops were well within a yard or 2 from them, getting a headshot at that distance is CAKE. I would have been like “phone call? Here’s your phone call… to hell…” *BAM* and it would have been over…

That whole scene seemed WAY too convenient, like they intended to let him escape.

I too had very minor problems with both films, especially near the end of them. I do think Stane was a very weak villain in Iron Man, compared to the Joker, or even Two-Face.
About TDK, I sometimes think the last scene was a little long, but neccesary in the end.
My theory about Two-Face’s final scene and death is that Nolan wanted to really contrast between heroes and anti-heroes, or vigilantes or whatever they could be called. He didn’t want it to be like Spider-Man where evreybody got to love that superhero. So, by blaming himself for everything Dent did, Batman could keep being hated by Gotham, and therefore showing some sort of “sacrifice”, and staying with the dark tone of the films…

But, hey, that’s just my thoughts…

But yah, despite its flaws, I loved Iron Man, besides being more “fun” than TDK, one main thing I liked about IM was that people reacted to things like you would imagine someone would in real life if given the same situation. TDK a lot of lines and scenes seemed forced to perpetuate the story or for some other reason like to make the film seem “darker” and more depressing or whatever, then they completely over complicated the plot at the end and made the movie far less enjoyable than it was if they had ended the movie after they captured The Joker, because up to that point I was pretty pumped and found the movie to be a thrill ride. Then the back and forth pacing of the end killed all of that and it felt like a thrill ride that got stuck on the track for 20 minutes…

Don’t you know you have to overly complicate the plot and everything for a movie to be considered good? Don’t you know the KICS principle: Keep It Complicated Stupid??

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I wonder if Cpt. America’s shield really would be made by Tony Stark like that little snippet from IM suggested??

So wasn’t Iron Man good for you, man? It was probably one of the best films last year. It was not really the greatest thing ever done, but as being Marvel’s first self-financed movie, I think they achieve it. I do think The Dark Knight was even better, but that was a whole other thing.