The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)

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So I'm rewatching Begins, and there's a part I don't quite understand. Bruce comes back home from Princeton for the hearings. Rachel tries to convince him to stay. Is Rachel trying to convince Bruce to drop out of Princeton?
 
Salvor.Hardin said:
So I'm rewatching Begins, and there's a part I don't quite understand. Bruce comes back home from Princeton for the hearings. Rachel tries to convince him to stay. Is Rachel trying to convince Bruce to drop out of Princeton?
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One could assume that Alfred told Rachel Bruce didn't intend to go back.
 
Radian8 said:
Still feeling numb and pretty much speechless (went to midnight imax screening here in NZ).

I absolutely loved it and couldn't contain my tears at the end.

I could only describe it as EPIC. They put a huge amount in to the film and I feel as if a fair bit of stuff is on the cutting room floor, but Nolan and crew did an amazing job.

Anne Hathaways character was the one I was most worried about, but she was really really good and wasn't cheesy. I actually think everyone in it was fantastic, the cast was superb and Michael Caine was perfect.

It ties up the trilogy perfectly and is easily the best trilogy for me since Original Star Wars, it made my inner Batman, movie & comic geek cry with joy and that's about as high a praise as I can give it and any movie.

Nolan DID give us the Trilogy we deserve.

5/5
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This man speaks the truth.

He really couldn't contain his tears!

I fully endorse this post, what an epic trilogy. Batman lovers should be proud.
 
Inferno313 said:
Digital isn't necessarily bad. It's just that most of the digital ones have smaller screens, if yours just converted it's probable that the screen is just as big.
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Yes it's big.


The problem is I don't know if the 70mm projector replacements are 4K digital. If they aren't, then the 70mm scenes obviously won't look as good as they should.
 
Radian8 said:
Still feeling numb and pretty much speechless (went to midnight imax screening here in NZ).

I absolutely loved it and couldn't contain my tears at the end.

I could only describe it as EPIC. They put a huge amount in to the film and I feel as if a fair bit of stuff is on the cutting room floor, but Nolan and crew did an amazing job.

Anne Hathaways character was the one I was most worried about, but she was really really good and wasn't cheesy. I actually think everyone in it was fantastic, the cast was superb and Michael Caine was perfect.

It ties up the trilogy perfectly and is easily the best trilogy for me since Original Star Wars, it made my inner Batman, movie & comic geek cry with joy and that's about as high a praise as I can give it and any movie.

Nolan DID give us the Trilogy we deserve.

5/5
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Was the atmosphere/imagery of the movie/gotham more like Begins or the Dark Knight?
 
Solo said:
One could assume that Alfred told Rachel Bruce didn't intend to go back.
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True. Forgot that he meets her the next morning.

Gawd Rachel is so annoying in the car. Why the fuck does she feel like she has to explain the justice system to Bruce right after what took place.
 
It retains the more grounded feel of TDK, but there are locations and images which really feel like throwbacks to the broader "comic bookiness" of Begins.

This is a real "comic book" film - not as much a crime epic.
 
Tookay said:
Agreed. It's a Nolan (and especially Nolan Batman) staple.

You either dig the thematic/expository/unrealistic (take your pick) dialogue or not.

Nothing has changed.
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I agree with this a lot.

And I think its the reason why I love most all of Nolan movies (haven't seen Following and Insomnia was just good not great). To me it works. I love the themes and the execution of them, don't mind long run times, and love his choices of actors.
 
Salvor.Hardin said:
True. Forgot that he meets her the next morning.

Gawd Rachel is so annoying in the car. Why the fuck does she feel like she has to explain the justice system to Bruce right after what took place.
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That's Nolan's writing in a nutshell. The characters literally explain the film's themes in subtle-as-a-brick-to-the-face dialogue. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
 
Salon.com which has trashed BB and TDK reviewed TDKR

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/the_dark_knight_rises_christopher_nolans_evil_masterpiece/

5/5

But he (Nolan) leaves future Batman filmmakers in an impossible position. They’ll simply have to try something different, because for grandeur and pretension and evil genius and pure thrills — for delivering exactly what the multiplex audience wants, in tremendous style, and undercutting it at the same time — there’s no way to top “The Dark Knight Rises.”
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I’ve had mixed feelings about Christian Bale’s stony, underplayed performance as Batman and Bruce Wayne throughout this series, but it pays off here with his portrayal of an aging, ailing superhero
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Raistlin said:
Williamsville, NY ... digital :(



Unless I'm hallucinating, it's actually been open for a lot longer than 2008. Wonder if that's when it went digital?
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I knew that looked familair, that was my local IMAX theater from 2006-2010. Saw both TDK and Inception there.

Anyways....two mere hours left!
 
I have to agree that this is Bale's best performance in the series - he's more sympathetic and human than ever... a far cry from his (sorta) wooden turn in Begins and his non-existent turn in TDK.

In terms of performances, though, I wasn't feeling Gary Oldman in this one - for the first time I really felt like he was phoning it in.

Also, Marion Cotillard's Miranda Tate is terribly underwritten.

I can't say it enough - this is Anne Hathaway's movie, and the film lights up whenever she's on-screen. And I normally don't care for her!
 
artist said:
His bigger crime is he thought IM2 was better than those snooze fests.
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Sculli likes to play things close to the chest, a real 50/50 split as to whether he's truly right. A little "IM 2 is better than Avengers" here, a little "John Carter is great" there. That's what makes him GAF's most controversial poster and that's why Solo will never be able to stop this thread!
 
effzee said:
I agree with this a lot.

And I think its the reason why I love most all of Nolan movies (haven't seen Following and Insomnia was just good not great). To me it works. I love the themes and the execution of them, don't mind long run times, and love his choices of actors.
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I'm with you. There's a lot of stuff in his movies that, on paper, don't sound great. But his choice of actors, swift editing, great musical cues, and overall themes (basically seeing things in the context of the movie itself) smooth over the rough parts.
 
Solo said:
Just 40 hours now.

About this time tomorrow our midnight BatGaffers on the east coast will be getting near that time :o
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I can't see it until Friday night =( I'm glad I'm not going to midnight showing though I don't want to feel tired in the middle of it.
 
Help me, guys. I have my tickets for the IMAX screening on saturday, but I feel like I'm about to crack and buy midnight screening tickets for the standard theater.

I'm just really afraid I might get spoiled before I get the chance to see it.

EDIT: DH2? What movie is that?
 
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