Finally got around to seeing it today as every other time I planned to see it, shit happened. Really fucking good. Eckhart was A #1 Duke of New York as Dent. Great character work from everyone. Great story. The little nuances Ledger gave the Joker really rounded out the character: licking the insides of his wounds with his tongue, the look of disappointment when the Bat-line stopped his fall, his pretend prancing at the fund raiser. What I really like is that Batman is still evolving. It would have been easy to let the character continue on as he was at the end of the last movie, but this Batman is still learning and growing. He's still becoming a better hero for Gotham even to the point of sacrificing himself.

And, in a movie full of great lines, my favorite is, "Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who beats criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."

As far as future villains, I had posted this on the Insurgent boards; but I don't know where they got off to. Easy Batman rogues to adapt to Nolan's more realistic Gotham: Firefly, Deadshot, Professor Hugo Strange, and Deathstroke the Terminator.

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."