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Just thought it as I was watching Skyfall. Felt the villain (although fantastic) was aimed as being like the Joker. Thought this because of the plotline, he deliberately got caught as a ploy to break out from the inside. Was stretching as he was held captive- similar to Joker when saying "Do you wanna know which of your friends were cowards?" The whole structure of the editing from M back to this just seemed so familiar to TDK I thought someone else would have felt the same? Also the villain dressing as a policeman seemed the same as the Joker. I'd have to watch Skyfall again to see if I noticed anything else but i couldn't help but think it throughout the film.
Also felt Q was alot like Nolan's Fox, and the thing about Bond spending two days in a priest hole after his parents death seemed familiar to the whole Bruce falling into a bat cave and his parents dying thing. One other thing was the villain in Skyfall (forgot his name!) tells Bond that M betrayed him, the Joker told Batman the city would betray him. I know that's not the same but the themes in both films just seemed so similar.
Not saying there's anything particularly wrong with this as TDK was a fantastic film so not exactly a bad model to copy.
Fair enough, I can sort of see that. Where the Joker planted a Bomb in the Cop Shop, and used himself as the bait to make Batman have to make a critical choice that would define the next film, Bardem just does nothing with it.. tries and fails to kill M which he could have done at any time. The critics creaming themselves over this Bond aren't real fans of the series, ho hum on too many levels.