The Dark Knight Leaves Me Cold

The latest Dark Knight movie trailer is available on the official movie site.  Everything I have seen about this film leaves me utterly cold.  I know they won't be as well made, but I am more excited about the Incredible Hulk or even the X-Files films this summer.

I'm quite surprised by my own reaction.  Few movies have this type of pedigree.  Christopher Nolan made Memento (not Momento--thanks Bill Reid), one of my favorite movies.  The actors (Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart) could not be any better.  Two-Face, one of my favorite Batman villains, looks to be getting the right treatment.  There's a picture of Two-Face's sickening visage on ComicBookMovie, catch it before Warners does the cease-and-desist thing.

So why am I so indifferent to the Dark Knight?  Five reasons come to mind:

1. The costume designers fucked up the Batsuit design.  AGAIN.
2. Batman misses every opportunity to wipe out the Joker.  In one of the trailers he cruises by the Joker on his Bat-cycle before doing a U-Turn to confront him.  Couldn't he just put out his fist, and WHACK, game over?  In the comic series, we forgive this type of thing easily, but in a movie this behavior is ridiculous.
3. Rachel Dawes.  Doesn't matter if it's Katie Holmes or Maggie Gyllenhaal.  This superhero movie franchise has zero sex appeal.  I think only a psychotic woman would want to fuck Batman.  Frank Miller's answer was Black Canary.
4. Which mega-millionaire would you rather be--Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne?
5. Batman Begins is one of the few superhero movies where I did not buy the DVD. 

Nuff said.