The fur rises.
The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)
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I'm not sure what can be expected of the ending? Unless the movie lives in a vaccuum, they can't bring unicorns and rainbows to gotham, neither can they kill batman (can they?). They are somewhat limited in what miracles they can bring.
And this is called the Dark Knight Rises.
I'm just pissed they don't seem to have mid-week previews in the UK - Friday is the earliest they are showing it. Was hoping to grab an early show before I go off on holiday
Secret Fawful
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Hah, IGN's review is all "Bane and Catwoman aren't the Joker so therefore not good enough." Why am I not surprised. They were pretty harsh on Bane for giving the movie a 9 rating.
Good Lord.
why is that a spoiler, isn't he in the trailer?
Escape Goat
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Thats not cosplay. None of them are fat.
One thing that my friends have been talking about is that the title references dark knight as the symbol rising to the people of gotham, not Bruce himself as per BB. Some people expect passing up of the mantle type ending and I've heard one cool idea about Bane letting Batman to kill him, therefore breaking his first rule of killing. That would also be a very powerful theme; So shattering it will not happen.
The expectations are huge.
Total Film (who despite lacking in coverage and mainstream awareness like Empire, actually review better a lot of the time nowadays) give it 5/5
For those who don't want to read the review, Hathaway, Hardy, the holy trinity of Oldman/Caine/Freeman and Bale all get praise, Joker is brought up yet again as a reason why TDK is better (but then the review says its also no shame to come second to TDK), and it's even compared to Batman & Robin.
For those that do: http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/the-dark-knight-rises
Have to say, I can't really think of many trilogies where all three are generally regarded as 5 star movies. Obviously opinion is subjective but critical consensus seems to be like:
Bourne - 4, 4, 5
Indy - 5, 4, 5
BTTF - 5, 3, 4
Godfather - 5, 5, 2
Can only think of LOTR, Toy Story and now this. Loving it.
For those who don't want to read the review, Hathaway, Hardy, the holy trinity of Oldman/Caine/Freeman and Bale all get praise, Joker is brought up yet again as a reason why TDK is better (but then the review says its also no shame to come second to TDK), and it's even compared to Batman & Robin.
For those that do: http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/the-dark-knight-rises
Have to say, I can't really think of many trilogies where all three are generally regarded as 5 star movies. Obviously opinion is subjective but critical consensus seems to be like:
Bourne - 4, 4, 5
Indy - 5, 4, 5
BTTF - 5, 3, 4
Godfather - 5, 5, 2
Can only think of LOTR, Toy Story and now this. Loving it.
Yeah that's what I mean, opinion is going to change those rankings but general critic (and wide audience?) think Ultimatum is the peak.
BrLvgThrChmstry
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For anyone else in Atlanta who is looking to score free passes,Creative Loafing is giving some away. You have to pick them up and presumably play ping pong or not.
Haha, "McWeeney"
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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If you're going to do this, wait until it's someone other than Devin Faraci.
There's always a conspiracy. On TDK GAF told me that NYC critics had it out for the movie.
8-10 is mixed?
I've read a few and mostly it seems to be minor gripes and different ones for each reviewer.
Nothing worse than an 8/10 from what I've seen, but early days. Mind you there was a fair few bad reviews for BB and TDK so it's good not to put too much stock in them.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Well, 3 of 6 low ratings for TDK on metacritic are from New York critics. And 6 of the 9 for Inception were.
You are defending a city so corrupt, haters have infiltrated every level of its critics circle.
.la1n
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Mehhhhhh I have shamed myself worse for things, might check it out.
You're a little premature with this, bro. It's Devin, he's never likes Nolan's Batmans
I'm premature in discussing history? It happened with TDK and Inception. But alright, let's wait for the first bad non-Faraci review.
I actually like Devin's reviews. Though I don't agree with him all the time his stuff is at least well written and he can articulate his thoughts and point of view unlike 99% of the film 'journalists' out there.
And to be fair he didn't like TDK and that's fine. No everyone can like everything. It's almost as if people take someone having different tastes as a personal attack.
And if anyone thinks that Devin is 'out to get' Batman or Nolan he savaged ASM in his review even though he's a HUGE Spider Man fan so it's not as if he's blindly pro Marvel even though the notion of such a thing existing is actually stomach churning.
It is what it is.
To be fair this is just fandom in general. Truly it is the road to madness.
I found the fact that Spider Man 'fans' were retroactively dismissing Raimi's films as garbage when they saw ASM particularly galling.
Especially when ASM is a weightless film with zero emotional direction that isn't fit to be compared to Spider Man 2.
But there we are.
And to be fair he didn't like TDK and that's fine. No everyone can like everything. It's almost as if people take someone having different tastes as a personal attack.
And if anyone thinks that Devin is 'out to get' Batman or Nolan he savaged ASM in his review even though he's a HUGE Spider Man fan so it's not as if he's blindly pro Marvel even though the notion of such a thing existing is actually stomach churning.
It is what it is.
To be fair this is just fandom in general. Truly it is the road to madness.
I found the fact that Spider Man 'fans' were retroactively dismissing Raimi's films as garbage when they saw ASM particularly galling.
Especially when ASM is a weightless film with zero emotional direction that isn't fit to be compared to Spider Man 2.
But there we are.
The Elite
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Just bought my tickets today for an IMAX viewing on Sunday.
I guess this movie isn't doing that well. I expected them all to be sold out.
Edit: When it comes to reviews, the place I trust least for Nolan reviews is GAF. Too many militant Nolan defenders on here. There are a few exceptions of course.
I guess this movie isn't doing that well. I expected them all to be sold out.
New IMAX screen in Toronto that no one seems to know about. Thank god. Scotiabank was sold out of all the good seats until next Thursday. Can't wait!
Edit: When it comes to reviews, the place I trust least for Nolan reviews is GAF. Too many militant Nolan defenders on here. There are a few exceptions of course.
No you're premature in calling out GAF for overreacting to bad press. "McWeeney" on the other hand, has good taste.
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Oh yeah, they're changing the Yonge/Dundas square location to a Cineplex. Must be done by now I think.
There'll be no hospital, then. I'll tell the children.
The Elite
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I didn't pick up my tickets there though. I'm going to the IMAX screen at Empress Walk in North York. I hope it's good.
Does Yonge/Dundas have an IMAX screen?
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qizah
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Yeah I think it recently got one.
I'm not going to that one either - I'm going to the square one imax theatre in Mississauga. Though, I commute downtown every day so I'll probably see today if the sign has changed.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Robbie Collin of The Telegraph is raving on twitter:
I like him.
Expendable.
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Another UK reviewer:
@EthanRunt
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Shots fired.
Uh oh.
I don't want to totally dismiss his point of view because it's negative but he describes himself on Twitter as...,
Filmmaker AND Film reviewer?!
Personally that's a 'hanging offence' for me. That just lends itself to all sorts of 'conflicts of interest'.
Fuck that guy.
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