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[Solo]

I'd tell you it's the only trilogy where the third movie was the only one I found entertaining.

Says more about your tastes than the movies, I would say. But to each their own.

 

[Mariolee]

So, how many people think audiences will get a little misty eyed from The Dark Knight Rises? I've heard there may be some strongly emotional scenes (that Alfred-Bruce talk already seems to be heavy hearted) that brought some reviewers to tears, but I can't see myself crying in a Batman movie. Prove me wrong Nolan.

 

[Sanjuro]

If that is the case, then Edgar Wright is about to unload godly trilogy all over our faces.

 

[Mr Cola]

ratatouille is a great film, best music in a pixar film to date

 

[Sanjuro]

So, how many people think audiences will get a little misty eyed from The Dark Knight Rises? I've heard there may be some strongly emotional scenes (that Alfred-Bruce talk already seems to be heavy hearted) that brought some reviewers to tears, but I can't see myself crying in a Batman movie. Prove me wrong Nolan.

I'm going to be brining Kleenex into the theater for multiple scenarios.

 

[Recon]

Both count. Trilogies can be linked thematically. No written-in-stone law saying they need to be connected in terms of narrative.

I just think it is a stretch. Like the Cornetto "trilogy", its only a trilogy because the same main cast/director are doing them. It seems like a trilogy only by the loosest definitions.

 

[Solo]

I like the Dollars Trilogy, but I feel TGTBATU is faaaaaaar and away the best one, and where most of the reverence for that series comes from.

But FAFDM is just a hair shy of TGTBATU........

 

[Eidan]

Oh, hello there.

No time to waste. Start explaining!

 

[neorej]

Toy Story 3 hate always blows my mind.

there's TS3-hate? alternate universe did I get in now?

 

[dmshaposv]

But FAFDM is just a hair shy of TGTBATU........

TGTBATU is cool but TAJJBTCRF ia better. Also REPTKDFKSELR.

 

[BY2K]

+

Pretty please.

 

[Solo]

TGTBATU is cool but TAJJBTCRF ia better. Also REPTKDFKSELR.

Jesse James and...?

 

[Eidan]

Says more about your tastes than the movies, I would say. But to each their own.

True. I find westerns inherently boring. It's amazing Good, the Bad, & the Ugly not only held my attention, but entertained me as well. Speaks to the quality of the film.

there's TS3-hate? alternate universe did I get in now?

There are also people out there who will try to convince you that Up is only good for the first 10 minutes. They are the lowest of the low.

 

[Lonestar]

what the fuuuuuu

 

[Foreign Jackass]

i think its quite possible that the dark knight trilogoy will be better and more cinema defining than leone's dollar trillogy.

teeeheeeeheheehee

Hey, Solo, do you need me back in here? I think this thread got the hero it deserves, but not the one it needs right now...

 

[ViewtifulJC]

But FAFDM is just a hair shy of TGTBATU........

3 >> 2 >> 1

and Once Upon a Time in the West > all of them, though 3 is still a masterpiece

 

[neorej]

swear to god, my 7,5 month old daughter just did a Bane-mask with her hands, the second a Bane-picture came up on screen!

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

So, how many people think audiences will get a little misty eyed from The Dark Knight Rises? I've heard there may be some strongly emotional scenes (that Alfred-Bruce talk already seems to be heavy hearted) that brought some reviewers to tears, but I can't see myself crying in a Batman movie. Prove me wrong Nolan.

If a major character dies, and some sad Zimmer starts playing, I'll be WRECKED man.

No time to waste. Start explaining!

Only if Solo gets into the character inconsistencies of the Joker.

 

[Solo]

Only if Solo gets into the character inconsistencies of the Joker.

Neva! I swore I would only do that 957 times. I won't do a 958th!

 

[Error]

I think I just got spoiled by the front page of comicbookmovies.com.
:sad

You try to avoid spoilers as much as possible and then get spoiled out of the blue.

 

[DMczaf]

I think I just got spoiled by the front page of comicbookmovies.com front page.

:sad

You try to avoid spoilers as much as possible and then get spoiled out of the blue.

Your first mistake was going to comicbookmovies.com

 

[Error]

Your first mistake was going to comicbookmovies.com

someone linked to it on irc.

he was hero at first but then died as a villain.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

So, how many people think audiences will get a little misty eyed from The Dark Knight Rises? I've heard there may be some strongly emotional scenes (that Alfred-Bruce talk already seems to be heavy hearted) that brought some reviewers to tears, but I can't see myself crying in a Batman movie. Prove me wrong Nolan.

I'm ready to weep man-tears openly.

teeeheeeeheheehee

Hey, Solo, do you need me back in here? I think this thread got the hero it deserves, but not the one it needs right now...

No one needs you back up in here. Zing!

 

[SUPARSTARX]

Oh my god, the full OST.

My emotions are running so high

 

[strafer]

fuck.. is the thread full of spoilers again?

smg

 

[Error]

fuck.. is the thread full of spoilers again?

smg

no, just avoid comicbookmovie.com front page.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

I'm just gonna be leaking all kinds of bodily fluids during this film.

Hoping the cleansing light of God that comes in at the end of the film and takes me to the Rapture will wipe most of it off.


If not, it's cool, I understand.

 

[Blader]

I like the Dollars Trilogy, but I feel TGTBATU is faaaaaaar and away the best one, and where most of the reverence for that series comes from.

I don't know, I think For a Few Dollars More might edge out the top spot for me.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

No one needs you back up in here. Zing!

Your avatar tells me I shouldn't trust you on this...

Stay tuned for my TDK impressions, though, because you know you want them. And because I'm watching it for the second time sometimes this week!

 

[Mariolee]

So after watching The Dark Knight with my 10 year old baby sister, which she loved, I decided to show her Batman Begins. The result? She liked The Dark Knight better. In either film, the themes and plot twists were a bit too complex for her to fully wrap her mind around, but for some reason it seems that she found The Dark Knight much more straightforward and easier to follow. I believe it's because in TDK they set up who the main bad guy is right away, whereas in Batman Begins it's a bit more complicated than that.

 

[QuiteWhittle]

no, just avoid comicbookmovie.com front page.

I just visited the website, I didn't see any spoilers.
Maybe just an oversight on my part?

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Yea, definitely. Batman Begins will be the only one where the opening scene is about Bruce Wayne.

 

[Lonestar]

watched a little bit of Anne Hathaway on Fallon, and found it funny that apparently, Nolan liked MacGruber, and came into set one day talking about it. :lol

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Feels like MacGruber will be as big an influence on TDK as A Tale of Two Cities.

 

[Rocket786]

someone linked to it on irc.

Spoiler

he was hero at first but then died as a villain.

I hope that's not a real spoiler that you forgot to hide...

 

[Lonestar]

Feels like MacGruber will be as big an influence on TDK as A Tale of Two Cities.

Selina Kyle drops an upper decker on Bruce's toilet. That's what she meant with "There's a Storm Coming"

 

[Kellen]

My brother just told me that Letterman ruined the ending to the flick? Any truth to this story?

 

[Mariolee]

My brother just told me that Letterman ruined the ending to the flick? Any truth to this story?

Letterman was kidding.

 

[Dany]

@DavidPoland: The TDKR review embargo now set for 11:59p pdt Sunday night. Who will break it and claim to be the FIRST!!! review?

I'm RISING

 

[Sanjuro]

Nolan: I always wanted Val Kilmer as Batman.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I'm RISING

damn that's sooner than I thought!

edit: oh wait it's already july 14th, so monday is july 16th, that's exactly what we knew already

 

[strafer]

Ebert will spoil it in the title.

 

[Error]

I hope that's not a real spoiler that you forgot to hide...

I'm just referencing a famous quote in TDK :/

has nothing to do with the spoiler I saw.

 

[Salvadora]

I'm just referencing a famous quote in TDK :/

has nothing to do with the spoiler I saw.

How bad was the spoiler you saw, on a scale of 1 to 10?

 

[Dany]

damn that's sooner than I thought!

edit: oh wait it's already july 14th, so monday is july 16th, that's exactly what we knew already

I thought it was set for tuesday, but this is better!

I'm just referencing a famous quote in TDK :/

has nothing to do with the spoiler I saw.

Good. move talk to the other thread.

Ebert will spoil it in the title.

"Dark Knight Rises as Bruce Wayne Falls, 4/4"

 

[Rocket786]

I'm just referencing a famous quote in TDK :/

has nothing to do with the spoiler I saw.

I know the quote from TDK, but thought perhaps you meant it related to TDKR. Didn't want you to get banned if you forgot to hide it. No worries though.

 

[Vesmir]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-JlQGLSOI

7 minutes of the trilogy. Thought it was cool.
If you are completely dry from TDKR clips, don't watch.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE77361948FA54C6C

TDKR OST playlist (including the bonus tracks, minus the bad remix).
FYI, last song has a title, just in case you think song names are spoilers.

 

[Mr. Fix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-JlQGLSOI

7 minutes of the trilogy. Thought it was cool.
If you are completely dry from TDKR clips, don't watch.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE77361948FA54C6C

TDKR OST playlist (including the bonus tracks, minus the bad remix).
FYI, last song has a title, just in case you think song names are spoilers.

Full track out? I'm loving 15. Good thing there are no names.

 

[planar1280]

Miami Herald

http://www.miamihera...brings-the.html

Don't read the article as it contains spoilers, ill paste the non spoilery parts

One of the most striking things about The Dark Knight Rises, the third entry in director Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Batman movies, is how bold and confident and precise it is — as if the filmmaker had always known how the story that started in 2005’s Batman Begins and continued in 2008’s The Dark Knight would turn out.
The truth is, Nolan was making it up as he went along.

Nolan’s previous two Batman films were celebrated for grounding the superhero genre in a grittier, darker reality. But The Dark Knight Rises pushes things even further

The film plunges into the abyss instead of just peering into it, and Nolan works the audience over with the confidence he’s gained from making risky, daring movies ( Memento, Inception, The Prestige) that found mainstream acceptance. He knows just how long he can push without turning off the viewer.

There are moments in The Dark Knight Rises that generate a furious surge of emotion that The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man combined couldn’t muster. But even at its most heated, the movie remains elegantly cool.

 

[artist]

Uh, I dont like the oranges with my tangerines. TASM is a really low bar even for emotional quotient and in Avengers that was basically zero.