What I didn't like about The Dark Knight: Batman's voice : I don't understand what the hell Milky and the 1up FM guys had against it in the first film (SWEAR TO ME! was one of my favorite parts, I thought that was an awesome display of symbolic dominance) but they're right about its overuse here. There's a couple "uncanny valley" scenes where Nolan's mostly believable world is compromised by two government officials conversing with a guy in a batsuit. Ok, that sounds unfair, and it is considering it's a movie about a guy in said batsuit fighting a clown, but does he really need to use that gravelly voice to plan things with the good guys? I think it makes perfect sense when he's fighting baddies, and you have to admit it's more intimidating than Keaton's take, but can't he chill every now and then? The "Tumbler"? Another aspect I was totally willing to embrace in the first film, this time for its practicality and difference, but once you're over that you remember how goddam ugly the tank version of the Batmobile is. I quite honestly preffered it as a wall-climbing phallus, but on the bright side the sweet action sequence involving the batcycle more than makes up for it (especially when the ugly tank explodes). Length: Now remember I did see this at a midnight screening, and meant every word when I said it flows far better than the overlong Lord of the Rings but you do still feel its length as the 1up FM guys pointed out. However, whi ...
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