The Dark Knight Sucks » Two-Face

"I'll Have What He's Having."

tdksucks — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:03:46 +0000

In the world of super-realistic Batman, if you get half your face melted off, you are endowed with the following amazing super powers:

A magic eyeball that is impervious to harm, even if every piece of flesh around it is burned beyond recognition. You will no longer need to fear death because your eyeball will live on.
Immunity to infection that would kill any normal human being.
Be able to speak with your normal voice even though half your mouth and lips are scorched off.
The power of instant teleportation and being able to get to any part of a city in the blink of an impervious eye.
The ability to kill someone in a car crash while riding in the same car and, even though you enter the car with half an exposed face, and the other person just has (almost) broken legs, you will be the one who survives UNHARMED.
Be endowed with the ability to be the only one of a few people on Earth who not only shoots AT batman with an actual gun (versus using fists, sticks, pipes, and dogs), but actually hitting him with a bullet.
Be able to find anyone you’re looking for, anywhere, at any time, when you need to find them.

Special Effects for Two-Face

tdksucks — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:01:54 +0000

OK, this was visually well-crafted. Executed perfectly. Visually well-blended. Impressive.

So how come he ended up looking like half an alien from “Mars Attacks”?

It was “too perfect”. I used to do 3D rendering and animation. I pay attention. The problem with a lot of 3D animation (many times referred to as CGI, or Computer Graphics Imaging) when it’s intended to appear realistic is that the element of real-world “weathering” is forgotten, poorly executed, or unable to be mastered. I can understand this difficulty when an entire movie is dependent on CGI but, as far as can be discerned, the only significant CGI in “The Dark Knight” was the burned side of Harvey’s face.

If you can stomach it, go to Google Images and do a search for “burn victims” (you may have to turn SafeSearch off). That’s some scary shit, and had they managed something that realistic looking on the Two-Face CGI then maybe his quick dissent into psychotic dementia would have been a little more believable.

Half a Face Equals a Normal Voice

tdksucks — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:15:01 +0000

The Joker has fully-healed scars on the sides of his face and has a slurry/smacky voice, clearly meant to show that his voice is at least partly affected by his disfigurement. Yet Harvey Dent has half his face melted off with huge gaping holes where his mouth is, is allegedly in extreme pain, hasn’t fully healed yet, and still sounds the same.

Most people sound different when they just go to the dentist and get a shot of novacaine.

It’s a miracle.

From Dent to Bent in The Blink of an Eye

tdksucks — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:11:18 +0000

So here we have a courageous District Attorney, Harvey Dent, one who is passionate about cleaning up the city and upholding the law. Although Rachel Dawes is his girlfriend, we are not shown any real passion or love between them. Allegedly he loves her, which is shown in the form of asking him to marry him, but the scenes are missing chemistry. So, when he gets half his face burned off from an accident in which Batman saved him from death, and apparently nobody felt the need to tell him that The Joker tricked Batman and Gordon by telling them the wrong addresses of where he took Rachel and Harvey to, and he learns of his girlfriend’s death, all it takes is for The Joker to show up and push a couple buttons and he’s off on a homicidal killing spree. True, he’s shown in an earlier scene threatening one of The Joker’s lackeys with a gun, it’s never implied in the scene that he’s wandering into anything near madness – or else every scene n the movie where someone blows their top at a bad guy means they’re just a couple button pushes away from psychopathic homicidal mania.