During the interrogation scene I would have modified the dialogue to where the Joker hints at 'taking the best person in this city and turning him/her into a savage...when the chips are down, civilized people become animals and won't hesitate to take lives themselves.' Not the entire city, just ONE particular person.
Except that he didn't know what was going to befall Harvey during the interrogation scene. While the Joker does do some things in this movie that border on the supernatural, he's not a psychic. He didn't even know for sure whether it was going to be Rachel or Harvey that lived or died. Funny how your idea for turning the movie into a 'masterpiece' starts out with what is apparently a plothole.
Right after the hospital scene, Dent dissappears - This is the end of Harvey Dent's character - WE DON'T SEE HIM EVER AGAIN!
As much as I would have liked for Harvey's character to have lived, this would have turned a complete movie (what we got) into an incomplete one. Hardly an improvement, IMO, and I think this would have made the movie
less likely to receive an academy award.
The Joker makes an announcement on T.V. saying he has Harvey Dent, and a bunch of hostages at an undisclosed location. He wants Batman to confront him ONLY. "If cops show up, I kill the hostages and DENT." He knows Batman is smart enough to find him.
Batman and Alfred, in the bat bunker work together, and do some actual DETECTIVE work to find the Joker's location. (NO CHEESIE TACHNOLOGY) AKA BAT SONAR...
Even though I think the sonar scenes could have been executed better, they still showed the detective side of Batman, even if it wasn't the kind of detective work you'd prefer. Using technology to do detective work is
still detective work, and it's the kind of detective work Batman does in the comics pretty often, no less. You don't have to use the primitive technology Sherlock Holmes had to be a true detective. There's no telling how long it took Batman to design that computer, so that already shows he was thinking ahead and is a credit to his intelligence, IMO, especially since he was apparently building that thing on his own after having figured out how Fox's cell phone worked.
Batman enters the building...makes his way to the middle three floors - IT'S A LONG WAY UP. The hostages see Batman and start trying to say something...but it's not audible due to the gags. Batman suddenly hears whimpering and crying coming from a room - a WOMAN or a CHILD'S VOICE crying out - "Help! - Please Help us!" Batman kicks the door open - There is nothing in the room except for a RECORDING/PLAYING DEVICE playing an audio tape - "HELP! - PLEASE HELP US!" There is a message on paper taped to the device that reads: 'GOTCHA!' There is a digital countdown clock above the device: 5 SECONDS...4 SECONDS... Batman looks to the hostages - 3 SECONDS... 2 ... - Batman has no time - he crashes through the office window and out of the building ...falling - his wings go rigid, CATCHING THE WIND - BOOM!! The windows of the middle THREE floors EXPLODE OUTWARDS, FLAMES SHOOTING OUT. The impact of the explosion throws BATMAN downward - He lands hard on the opposite building, SHAKEN. He looks up at the DERELICT BUILDING...The middle of the building is completely destroyed...BURNING. IN FLAMES.... IN THE SHAPE OF THE BAT SYMBOL. Batman looks up at the BURNING SYMBOL - The Joker has set him up.
You complained about the movie having a generic action movie ending and then you come up with
this to try to improve it? Really?
I wouldn't have minded seeing the building explode like what we saw on the poster, but I wouldn't have wanted them to go about showing it this way.
ENGEL: Due to a miscommunication during the evacuation of Gotham General, there is still no word on the whereabouts of Harvey Dent. The Joker's threat... - this just coming in - Let's go live (aerial footage of the DERELICT BUILDING) The Bat symbol BURNING. Engel reports that the hostages are dead, nothing is quite clear ,etc. Looks as if Batman has left his mark on the building - ETC.
Okay.. so everyone knows there's a terrorist on the loose in Gotham, one that's obsessed with Batman. You've got his televised humiliation of the fake Batman before he murdered him, followed by the demand that Batman turn himself in. Oh, and trying to get people to kill Reese when Reese was about to spill the beans on Batman's identity. They know this guy is out there and the kind of stuff he's doing... and despite the fact that Batman hasn't committed any terrorist activities himself (though he has done a little bit of property damage here and there), you're saying that they're going to assume
Batman blew up the building and "left his mark" there!?
There is a knock at Gordon's door. Gordon looks out the window: squad cars are outside. Gordon's wife goes to answer the door, keeping the chain on . At the door: a Police officer. The Police officer kicks the door in, knocking Gordon's wife to the ground. The Police officer steps into the light....The Joker disguised as a cop...
Although seeing the Joker as a cop again wouldn't have ruined the movie for me, it would have cheapened his first appearance as a cop. We saw very brief glances of him that lasted.. what.. probably two seconds at the most? It was terrifying, and the brevity is part of what made it so effective. The more you show of something, the less horrendous it becomes. This is why the movie Alien is more effective at being scary than its sequal, because even though I think the latter film is the superior film, it showed much more of the aliens and took away a good deal of the creatures' mystery.
The Joker then continues to make his point, shooting Gordon's wife in front of him...the kids hide. The Joker takes Gordon with him.
And Gordon does nothing about this? It worked with Two-Face because he'd clobbered Gordon, disarmed him, and had a gun to his boy's head so that he was helpless. What's the excuse here? With all the chaos going on, Gordon wouldn't have his gun on him?
The Joker takes Gordon to a location, gives him the opportunity of KILLING HIM, Gordon almost breaks, But Batman is there in time to whisper in the ear of Gordon. Gordon,sobbing, doesn't kill the joker. The Joker is disappointed. Batman kicks his ass in a final scene.
So we go from the homages to TKJ to basically copying it, only that instead of Gordon's daughter getting shot and paralyzed, his wife gets shot and killed. Again, not an improvement, IMO. I'm thankful that the Nolans decided to actually give us something
original in this movie.
Because of the building incident, DETECTIVE BULLOCK gives orders to take Batman into custody... Gordon knows Batman is innocent...Batman flees ....' A Dark Knight'.....the END.
And thus, a powerful, emotional ending is turned into a nonsensical one. Batman takes the blame for the Joker's crimes... why? At least with Harvey, he had a reason, so that the people of Gotham wouldn't lose their faith in their white knight. And again, I don't buy that the people of Gotham would believe Batman was guilty of the building incident in the first place. That really insults the intelligence of the people of Gotham, and I've seen no reason to think that Gothamites in general are that stupid and gullible.
This would have been PERFECT.
Not in my diagnosis.
There was very little CGI in this movie to begin with, especially when compared with its peers. And I'd take every bit of CGI in it
and the batpod flip over the alternative presented here.
and this film would have been VYING FOR BEST PICTURE ...
lol.
TOO BAD NOBODY HAD THE SENSE TO GO AGAINST THE NORM AND HAVE An intimate ENDING. OH, WELL!
I saw an intimate ending in TDK. What I didn't see was an ending where everyone went, "There was a bat symbol burned into the building, therefore Batman must be responsible, despite the fact that we know there's a terrorist obsessed with him running around out there."
grin
and realises that atmosphere isnt a bad thing when done right. I dont want him to do a jerk reaction and give us the exact opposite of his realism, but some BB aura would be nice to see in the sequel again. We never got to see batman in a classic gritty Gotham neighbourhood (like the Narrows in BB) or jump from dirty rooftop to another. 
