The Dark Knight The Ending: Your Way

[Hancock]

So absolutely no resolution to all the storylines in the movie? Wow, that ending would've really sucked.

what else needed to be said? its obvious the joker couldn't be held by the authorities. harvey dent already became two face, flippin the coin for jokers life. batman saved that rat from being killed. gordan was alive. thats all. the movie dragged on too long.

 

[Sentinel X]

I LOVED this movie. Best superhero film ever but the ending really was pretty weak, where Gordon is talking to his son and Batman was running away. I didn't like it at all but the rest of the film was really solid and I didn't mind.

So I loved how Joker was cut, I liked the Gordon/Two Face finale but hated that incredibly corny Gordon speech at the end.

 

[coleyhinson]

Everybody knows that the ending for TDK could of been improved. So, I wanted to see some of the stuff you guys could come up with for the ending that would be better.

Heres mine: Instead of two-face going after gordons family he goes after joker. He realizes that its all jokers fault that what happend to him and rachel. So two-face shows up with a gun where joker overlooks the ferrys in the building. Joker tries to talk to two-face but hes so angry that he just ignores it. Just as two-face is about to shoot joker, batman appears from the darkness. Batman tries to talk two-face out of killing joker but as soon as you think he changes his mind, he shoots batman. Two-face then slowly approches joker with the gun aimed to his head. Everything is silent for a few moments until two-face says "You left me to die... so let me repay the favor." As he talks the music builds up with intensity. Batman leaps out and takes down harvey with a mighty blow. Two-face lays unconcious as batman gets up to face joker. Joker takes out a knife as batman comes at him. Then batman and joker duke it out for a little bit until joker somehow pins batman down to the edge of the window. Then joker says whatever he said in the movie. He finishes talking to batman by asking him, "You know how I got these scars?" Batman replies, "No, but I know how you got these." Immeadiatly the blades from his gauntlets shoot out and hit joker in the face sending him flying out of the window. His fall is broken by batmans grappling gun. He reels him up and then they talk for a little bit (same as it was in the movie). After they talk batman leaves joker hanging upside down outside the window. Then it cuts to a shot of the new wayne manor, looking almost exactly as it did before. Then bruce and alfred come into the picture. They look at it as they exchange a few words, then they walk up the stairs to the door as the camera pans out while some soft emotional music plays in the background. The screen suddenly goes black and then it cuts to a SWAT team rushing up some stairs to where the joker was hanging. They look around the room and notice two-face unconcious on the ground. But no sign of joker anywhere. "Where did he go?" One of the SWAT member asked. They approach the window where joker was hanging and they look down to see a dizzying drop. But still no sign of him...

Just when I thought the movie could not be any better...

 

[chaseter]

I LOVED this movie. Best superhero film ever but the ending really was pretty weak, where Gordon is talking to his son and Batman was running away. I didn't like it at all but the rest of the film was really solid and I didn't mind.

So I loved how Joker was cut, I liked the Gordon/Two Face finale but hated that incredibly corny Gordon speech at the end.

Then you must have hated the incredibly corny 'we fall down to pick ourselves up' line used 3 times in BB

Gordon's speech summed up the movie greatly and set us up for the third.

 

[SuperBatman]

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Whoa...whoa...whoa... you gave "TDK" an 8/10? It's clearly a 9 or 10/10. I was disappointed to see Lucius leaving and Two-Face dying but I understood that it made the movie complete. Harvey fell from grace but was redeemed in the end and Lucius left because he didn't want to become a part of something unethical and soon realize that Bruce Wayne had become more of Batman and willing to push the limits of himself and his company to get his bad guys and nab them.

I wouldn't change a thing about the movie, those were just minor disappointments but the movie was stellar and the cast was stupendous. Although, I do wish at the end credits we saw Joker getting away or breaking out of Arkham and be continued in movie 3 with Gordon investigating Arkham and finding out that Joker had friends in the inside (Hugo Strange and Harley Quinn) to bust him out.

How many times do we have to go over this. Fox did not leave he's still working with Bruce Wayne.

 

[Omega Wizard]

Two Face shoots the driver and the car wrecks...the camera zooms out and shows an unidentified person coming out of the car. Joker final fight. It ends with Batman trying to find Harvey

 

[Yurka]

I thought the ending was brilliant, everything worked perfectly. If anyone doesn't understand that, then they're missing something and need to rewatch it.

 

[BatmanFanatic]

I think that more in keeping with the dark theme, I would have had the Joker blow up both barges after the people show that they are essentially "good."

That would have been very tragic, and then Batman could have LOST IT.

I just find it odd that half the main characters die in the film, but the boats full of extras get to live. There have to be real consequences to someone like the Joker as far as the innocent bystanders suffering, because that is exactly what happens with terrorism. Now in this film the only people who are killed or harmed by Joker are either other criminals, or people who have chosen to put themselves in the line of fire by either becoming cops, swat, or political targets who are after the criminals. Joker really killed everyone that was "fair" to kill... even the hospitals were evacuated in time. So in a way, even though he tried to go after civilians, the film did not allow that to happen and undercut it's own message (Batman can't save everyone ... there is no real solution to anarchy.)

 

[thejon93]

Should've ended with Two-Face killing that guys in the bar, closing with a monologue from Alfred with clips of all of the key characters: Gordon with his family, The Joker laughing over the fact that he manipulated Harvey into becoming the villain, etc. I wish that they would've left the future open with Two-Face hunting down all of the people responsible for his fiance's death.

 

[kid bosco]

Just you wait and see when Two-Face and Scarecrow meet up in Arkham hahaha!

 

[Yurka]

People who think Lucius Fox left Wayne Enterprises must have been high on something when they saw the movie. Lucious says as long as this (sonar gadget) is around he wont be, Batman says when you're done enter your name. Lucius enters his name, sees the machine start to self-destruct, he smiles, then leaves while the machine blows itself apart.

 

[XxDarkRebelXx]

I thought the ending didn't need a new one, they possibly didn't know what villian to do next and left it like that.

 

[Vile]

I would have liked a final scene of Joker in a padded cell at Arkham.

Obviously he was arrested at the end, but I felt it needed just that one shot of an Arkham cell door - "Inmate #583. Name: Unknown."

 

[Mr. Socko]

A shot of the Joker in Arkham.

 

[cerealclown]

Just you wait and see when Two-Face and Scarecrow meet up in Arkham hahaha!

So now Scarecrow plays with dead bodies?

 

[Nirvana]

Everyone knos that the ending needed improvement? Are you kidding? It was absolutely perfect.

 

[BatmanFanatic]

Everyone knos that the ending needed improvement? Are you kidding? It was absolutely perfect.

Please see the "did Batman really need to fall" thread.

 

[mrelectric]

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Whoa...whoa...whoa... you gave "TDK" an 8/10? It's clearly a 9 or 10/10. I was disappointed to see Lucius leaving and Two-Face dying but I understood that it made the movie complete. Harvey fell from grace but was redeemed in the end and Lucius left because he didn't want to become a part of something unethical and soon realize that Bruce Wayne had become more of Batman and willing to push the limits of himself and his company to get his bad guys and nab them.

I wouldn't change a thing about the movie, those were just minor disappointments but the movie was stellar and the cast was stupendous. Although, I do wish at the end credits we saw Joker getting away or breaking out of Arkham and be continued in movie 3 with Gordon investigating Arkham and finding out that Joker had friends in the inside (Hugo Strange and Harley Quinn) to bust him out.

I didn't bother to read the whole thread so I don't know if anyone has addressed this, but... Lucius didn't leave Wayne Enterprises. He told Batman that he would leave as long as the sonar machine existed. He destroyed the machine once the Joker had been found and walked away with an ever so slight smile on his face. All is well.

 

[LightningFlash]

Joker was the REASON Harvey became Harvey Two-Face. Joker played the catalyst for the downfall of Dent's character and that is a big role to itself; having Dent turn around and go after Joker, thus making a villain vs. villain showdown would not be good to watch, having Dent become a murdering vigilante is better, because Batman had to deal with both: Joker and what Joker unleashed(Joker's last plan for Gotham City before being caught).

 

[Venom75]

I love the ending but if there's one thing I would change,it would be the fate of Two Face. It would kinda be like the ending of Halloween. Two Face is lying there,seemingly dead,as Batman is lying next to him. Gordon comes down and checks on Batman and Harvey. Batman gets up as Gordon talks to him for a few minutes. Then,Batman leaves the scene,now a hunted criminal. As the police chase him,Gordon turns around and to his surprise,Two Face is gone.
That would be a nice lead into part 3.

 

[roxette]

the ending is fine both villians (sorry i have to put two-face here as villan) ends the same way which is something like "fall from the grace" i mean, they fall and that's it, except for Joker being saved by Batman. There is no need to "fall" twice on both villian. I was hoping there could be another way of dying for two-face instead of fall to death.

as for joker, i wish there is a epilogue showing he's being thrown in arkham asylum with the tag on the cell written "joker" at least there is a space for expansion in future batman films

 

[DAMU RYDER]

Imo i would have went with a different route, but the ending was fine with me how it was.

 

[souvlaki]

The ending was perfect, as was Gordon's monologue. Actually, his speech at the end for me was what sold it. That, along with Batman taking the blame for Dent's crimes really set it apart from every other superhero film. I would go so far as to say the ending (Dent's death and all) for me was the difference between a really good superhero film, and an absolutely amazing film. If it had ended with Dent being sent to jail, or Joker in Arkham, or Batman talking to Gordon on the top of the GCPD with the bat-signal shining against the clouds I probably would have walked out happy enough, but the ending we got left me literally speechless.

 

[Nightwatcher11]

I HATED how they ended with the Joker with him just hanging there. WTF. They couldn't have thought of any better ending to him? I thought that was REALLY lame. I was hoping for something like him actually falling, landing on a car then an ambulance shows up and they drive to an area while trying to revive him in there. Then the heart rate monitor shows up and while they medics are talking to the driver, we see the Joker slowly rise up and grab a scalpel and end. That would have been awesome.

 

[CrumyPreacher]

I'm just curious how we can judge the ending of this one without knowing what happens in the next one?