Batman Is Not George Bush

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I explain here. There are spoilers in this article so please don't read it until you've seen the (fantastic) movie.

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  1. Bob Murphy12:52 AM

    I just watched the movie a second time, and I caught two little things I had missed on the first viewing. (I'm posting them here, so as not to tempt innocent onlookers from seeing spoilers on the front page of Crash Landing...)

    (1) When Bruce Wayne uses his Lamborghini to protect the van carrying Gordon and the would-be blackmailing attorney, Bruce Wayne gives the guy a nod when he is getting carted off. So I think that was kind of cool, because Morgan Freeman's character didn't actually acknowledge to the guy, "Yeah, you got us."

    (2) In the building with the hostages tied up as clowns, the SWAT guys think they have Batman at one point, and radio in, "He's out of the game" or something like that. Then Batman kicks the one guy and they all fall down, so he escapes. For a split second you can see some of the other SWAT team who realizes what happened, and I'm pretty sure one of the cracks a grin. I.e., "I'm glad he got away from us."

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  2. TokyoTom7:27 AM

    I haven't seen the movie yet, but is Cheney the Joker?

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