Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)
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Negative review? YES!
Coppertracks
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If any one could Riddler-ize my avatar, that would be brilliant!
1 week to go!
Thursday = BB/TDK double bill at the cinema.
Friday = TDKR at imax.
It's going to be a very good couple of days!!
1 week to go!
Thursday = BB/TDK double bill at the cinema.
Friday = TDKR at imax.
It's going to be a very good couple of days!!
lucius
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No chance this movie ends up worse than The Amazing Spiderman and The Avengers, it might not be as good as TDK since Heath Ledgers Joker will never be topped.
Suprised some of you are able to still find the Batman Blu-Rays for $10 at Best Buy, I went when they started selling them with the Spiderman Blu-rays for $10 with free movie tickets and all the Batman Blu-rays were already sold out.
Suprised some of you are able to still find the Batman Blu-Rays for $10 at Best Buy, I went when they started selling them with the Spiderman Blu-rays for $10 with free movie tickets and all the Batman Blu-rays were already sold out.
You could get it right now for all I care, seeing Bane in the Nokia-trailer before ASM has sealed the deal for me; Hardy will most probably match Ledger's performance, the man has menacing eyes if he wants to.
His joker likely wont be topped in my lifetime, at least not in the same tone, but as a Villain I liked Ra's better. Im not too sold on Bane honestly, but thats mostly because the trailers have never really focused on him, they have just been snippets of dialogue with a few shots of him walking/fiighting. Im really interested to see a lengthy scene with some dialogue.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Hope somebody is compiling the excel file for all the people who say Heath will never be topped and then say Bane was the best.
crow.xls
crow.xls
Discotheque
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Not voice-wise. Definitely not voice-wise. But apparently it's been toned down for this new film. It was horrible hearing monologues from the dude in TDK tho.
Man speeding, everytime I read ur posts, somewhere in the back of my head a little voice keeps saying "...And I am the DEVIL."
His French voice is less annoying, lemme tell you.
French Bane also sounds demonic.
Discotheque
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Put me on that Excel file. It's practically impossible to top Ledger's performance in this trilogy. It can't be done.
I may like Bane more, I may like him less. But even if Hardy wasn't restricted by the mask (which hinders some of the performance I'd say) he couldn't touch DDL 2.0 (RIP)
I may like Bane more, I may like him less. But even if Hardy wasn't restricted by the mask (which hinders some of the performance I'd say) he couldn't touch DDL 2.0 (RIP)
Protection for them!
The perfect Dark
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But you didn't say the truth, why?
It's not the same league, it's not even the same sport
Keaton > Bale
Even you cant deny that "The Dark Knight" is a vastly better movie title than "Batman Begins", regardless of your stance on the actual content of the movies.
demosthenes
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Oh, for a second I thought you meant the movie, then I saw the word 'title', lol.
Show me the receipts!
EdibleExplosives
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Can someone Bane up my avatar? In return, I will make sweet, sweet love to them.
I would prefer them to retitle BB to that. TDKR is truly an awful title.
No that dude is a troll who hasn't seen the movie.
brandonh83
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I'd be a little surprised if I like it more than Spider-man. TDKR may end up being a technically better movie, but enjoyment wise, or emotionally, I dunno. I'm not terribly attached to any of the characters in Batman. There isn't one character death that I would react to on an emotional level. If Alfred or Gordon or one of them died I'd be like "fuck that sucks" but actually feeling anything for them, probably not. Nolan's movies just have no heart in them, not to me anyway. When Rachel died in TDK only two people gave a fuck: Bruce and Harvey. Certainly not the audience.
I realize that Batman isn't really about the emotional elements, that's cool, it's a very different thing from Spider-man. Batman will probably have a good story and some amazing setpieces but at 2 hours and 40 minutes I strongly doubt it will have good pacing which is something that hurt its predecessor for me. I'm definitely expecting the movie to wear out its welcome but hopefully that doesn't happen.
I love these movies, especially Begins, and I am excited as fuck for next week. But I don't hold them up on some cinematic messiah pedestal. Clearly people disagree with me about Spider-man, that's fine, they're all just opinions, I'm just explaining why I may or may not end up liking TDKR more. Honestly the two things I'm excited for the most are Bane and Catwoman but hopefully Bruce/Batman doesn't completely suck like he did in TDK.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Dude, what?!
brandonh83
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I would say that Begins definitely has some but after TDK I'm not expecting any more of that.
Begins is vastly superior to TDK to me just because of its emotional aspects but like I said I'd be shocked if TDKR has anything like that.
Ape Gone Insane
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Was it Nolan or Warner Bros' decision to call the film 'The Dark Knight Rises'?
Discotheque
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Amazing Spiderman wasn't about the emotional elements imo. Uncle Ben in the new one probably got more lines and screentime than the last but the way they handled his death....did anybody give a shit? It felt much more dramatic (especially it's effect on Aunt May) in the Raimi films.
If Alfred dies that will be extremely sad for me. Moreso than any other character in the franchise other than Bruce of course. Michael Caine made him so likeable.
If Alfred dies that will be extremely sad for me. Moreso than any other character in the franchise other than Bruce of course. Michael Caine made him so likeable.
brandonh83
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I did. I thought it was excellent and packed a punch when you factor in the scenes that preceded the death.
Obviously this is coming from someone who actually loved the film against a lot of people that did not.
I imagine it was an executive's decision mainly to capture the hype from TDK.
I imagine WB's only demand on this film was to have The Dark Knight in the title.
Bingo. Was probably "hey Chris, we'll give you 100% creative freedom on the film's content, but we need TDK in the title".
EdibleExplosives
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I'd imagine it was WB. It's such a shitty title but I've gotten used to it.
See I really enjoyed the film but I had no emotional connection whatsoever. When Uncle Ben died May didn't really have any reaction, Garfield's acting over Ben's body wasn't that great... And
when Captain Stacy died I couldnt give a shit even though I liked his character.
Like I say I enjoyed Spider-Man, more so than the Avengers in fact (which had no discernable feeling of danger whatsoever)but I viewed it as a more comic book movie as opposed to TDK. The lighter tone meant that emotional connection wasn't that necessary for me to enjoy it. When Rachel died I thought 'fuck they've actually killed the love interest off'.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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I was expecting "The Dark Knight Returns" but I guess they didn't want to confuse it with "Batman Returns". I would certain not want "The Dark Knight Forever".
Rises threw me off first but I'm used it now and it makes sense and is awesome!
brandonh83
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Spider-man 2 was even goofier and comic-y than ASM and I thought SM2 had way more emotional value than any other comic book adaptation. So clearly we disagree there about the tone big time. For me it's not about the tone but about the writing and character development.
There was zero reason for me to care about Rachel, whereas a character like Ben was great, played wonderfully by Sheen, and left an impact on the story IMO. The tone or how comic like it is means zilch to me in the face of good writing. And TDK had excellent writing, her death scene was great, but her actual character gave me nothing to go on emotionally. I don't know if it was Maggie or the script or what, but I just did not care.
I didn't see that one coming either. On the other hand, I was thankful for not having to watch Maggie Gyllenhaal anymore. I cannot watch her in anything else than Secretary or Donnie Darko.
mocolostrocolos
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Thanks!
Honest to god, I can't even remember noticing first time round. But I rewatched it last week specifically searching for nipples and holy erect phallus Batman, I was sated.
I almost think Katie knew and that's why she filed for divorce. I'm coming for her. It's not who she is, but what's underneath
her clothes
EdibleExplosives
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That would be confused with the comic as well, which has the same title. I always get The Dark Knight Returns mixed up with Rises.
Damnit. I want someone to kill the hype so I can be more hyped!
Just hold on, Armond White's review will be entertaining as the flim itself.
Well I didn't think SM2 was goofier, save the Raindrops scene. But I agree it was more emotionally satisfying. Doc Ock was more menacing a villain, when he took his mask off it mattered because it wasn't the 85th time... the tone of ASM seemed more wisecracky Spidey and banter between him and Gwen, and I was fine with that.
I also agree about Sheen being great. But when he was dead, Garfield's reaction was poorly acted, Aunt May didn't really react at all, and
the hunt for his killer gets dropped in lieu of a shit villain. At least in TDK Harvey's rage over what happens to Rachel is explored and concluded.
neoism
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lol really what else could they have called it Batman 3.
Batman and Bane......
EdibleExplosives
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I'm sure all of the creative minds they have could've came up with a better title than the most successful movie in the franchise with the word 'Rises' added onto it. It's obvious they only used it because of the success of TDK.
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