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

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Can't stop thinking about this movie.

It's so very weird in many ways. I can't wait until spoilers can be openly discussed. Gaaaaaah.

Need to see it again.
 
Watching Batman Begins again, right after Bruce totally blows up the fortress, killing dozens of people, including that fat crook he was so keen on not killing. Ken watanabe doing that eyebrow raise on "injustice" makes me laugh every single time.

This movie isn't as good as I remembered, but I randomly teared up on this Alfred scene. I feel like I'm gonna be hopeless if Caine puts on the waterworks in TDKR
 
ViewtifulJC said:
Watching Batman Begins again, right after Bruce totally blows up the fortress, killing dozens of people, including that fat crook he was so keen on not killing. Ken watanabe doing that eyebrow raise on "injustice" makes me laugh every single time.

This movie isn't as good as I remembered, but I randomly teared up on this Alfred scene. I feel like I'm gonna be hopeless if Caine puts on the waterworks in TDKR
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Was the dude in jail with him the same guy he leaves Ducard with?
 
I watched it in digital, and there's nothing to worry about. The movie was still shot on film, which the credits sequence makes a point of, and feels like film in all respects - minus projector judder, cigarette butts and slight colour shifts from reel changes. But all those are the consequences of distribution, not production. It's just like watching a pristine film print.
 
brandonh83 said:
People keep using the word "weird" when talking about certain things about this movie.

I dunno if that bothers me or not.
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Sorry to be oblique, but what I meant was not 'weird' in a necessarily bad way, but more the fact that TDKR is a very audacious movie and really very different from both Begins and TDK (while being, in many ways, a blend of both).

It is simultaneously SUPER comic-bookey and 'unrealistic', while also feeling very grounded in the real world. There are scenes with Bane, Selina Kyle and Batman where everyone is wearing masks and jaunting about that are really quite silly (for all their awesomeness).

TDKR is really silly and really serious all at once. It feels different from both earleir entries, but also feels like a blend of both. It's this sort of Frankenstein's monster thing which is kind of awesome and kind of... weird.

We're not going to be able to talk about this until the film's out, UGH.
 
Seeing this tomorrow night - I cannot comprehend how they can do better than TDK - yet from what the sources say Nolan's final magnum opus is the crowning of the series.

My body is ready.

effzee said:
$10 IMAX tickets? Shit in NYC it's atleast $20
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Goddam, ~$20 here in Melbourne as well. Wait a week for the prices to drop, they inevitably will.
 
Veidt said:
Not even released yet and it's already the greatest film ever made.
Nolan has done it.
An insider friend of mine told me that TDKR is just a recording of Nolan staring at the camera drinking coffee nonchalantly.
I am already dead.
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GAF would cum buckets.

Seriously, I'm looking forward to hearing form the few gaffers who don't have their Nolan fanboy masks on for reviews.

Have Expendable or Sculli seen this thing yet?
 
Fandango questions:

So me and my friends in total bought 15 tickets. One of my friends, who bought 5, all of a sudden can't make up to NYC now. He used his credit card. The 4 other tickets he purchased are for friends from NYC so we were all going to go anyway. The guy who purchased the tickets is emailing me his pdf confirmation page. Is that going to be enough to claim the tickets at the theater? Or do we need the credit card he used? He lives in Philly so its not like I can just go over and get his card.

Worried now because the 4 guys he bought tickets for are super hyped and ready and now they might not be able to get their tickets. I wonder if we can just put the confirmation # into the kiosk at the theater to print out tickets.
 
effzee said:
Fandango questions:

So me and my friends in total bought 15 tickets. One of my friends, who bought 5, all of a sudden can't make up to NYC now. He used his credit card. The 4 other tickets he purchased are for friends from NYC so we were all going to go anyway. The guy who purchased the tickets is emailing me his pdf confirmation page. Is that going to be enough to claim the tickets at the theater? Or do we need the credit card he used? He lives in Philly so its not like I can just go over and get his card.

Worried now because the 4 guys he bought tickets for are super hyped and ready and now they might not be able to get their tickets. I wonder if we can just put the confirmation # into the kiosk at the theater to print out tickets.
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Pretty sure the confirmation page will work
 
Sirius said:
Seeing this tomorrow night - I cannot comprehend how they can do better than TDK - yet from what the sources say Nolan's final magnum opus is the crowning of the series.
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This doesn't really top TDK. To be honest, it feels totally different from that movie. This is one of those trilogies where each film feels unique. TDK is the better 'crime epic' and has one of the best cinematic villains of all time. TDKR is the better pure 'Batman movie', as, you know, Bruce Wayne and Batman actually have an emotional arc in this one.

rekameohs said:
There's a spoiler thread if you want to talk with others who've seen it.
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Ooh, thank you!
 
DoctorWho said:
GAF would cum buckets.

Seriously, I'm looking forward to hearing form the few gaffers who don't have their Nolan fanboy masks on for reviews.

Have Expendable or Sculli seen this thing yet?
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Plainview should be halfway done scullis review is about 10 pages back
 
shira said:
Was the dude in jail with him the same guy he leaves Ducard with?
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Nah, it's somebody else

Seeing this again, it reminds me that I always HATED this change that Bruce gets the idea of Batman from some random bat flapping around in the corner of his house. In the comics, Bruce Wayne is sitting there in his chair, thinking about how he's gonna do this crusade, then BAM in comes the bat through the glass, crashing into his life and into his mind, scaring the hell out of him...and that's when it dawns on. "I will become a bat". The Begins way is more "realistic", but it loses so much of the original comic/Year One's dramatic power.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
Nah, it's somebody else

Seeing this again, it reminds me that I always HATED this change that Bruce gets the idea of Batman from some random bat flapping around in the corner of his house. In the comics, Bruce Wayne is sitting there in his chair, thinking about how he's gonna do this crusade, then BAM in comes the bat through the glass, crashing into his life and into his mind, scaring the hell out of him...and that's when it dawns on. "I will become a bat". The Begins way is more "realistic", but it loses so much of the original comic/Year One's dramatic power.
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It was more a refresher than anything, since he had feared Bats literally his whole life til a couple months earlier. Not even a refresher, so much as it was like "oh, naming myself was further down on my list of things to do today after researching Gordon, but now that I think about it, Batman is a pretty good name."
 
ViewtifulJC said:
Nah, it's somebody else

Seeing this again, it reminds me that I always HATED this change that Bruce gets the idea of Batman from some random bat flapping around in the corner of his house. In the comics, Bruce Wayne is sitting there in his chair, thinking about how he's gonna do this crusade, then BAM in comes the bat through the glass, crashing into his life and into his mind, scaring the hell out of him...and that's when it dawns on. "I will become a bat". The Begins way is more "realistic", but it loses so much of the original comic/Year One's dramatic power.
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What about during the ninja test.
Are there real bats in the box?
 
ViewtifulJC said:
Nah, it's somebody else

Seeing this again, it reminds me that I always HATED this change that Bruce gets the idea of Batman from some random bat flapping around in the corner of his house. In the comics, Bruce Wayne is sitting there in his chair, thinking about how he's gonna do this crusade, then BAM in comes the bat through the glass, crashing into his life and into his mind, scaring the hell out of him...and that's when it dawns on. "I will become a bat". The Begins way is more "realistic", but it loses so much of the original comic/Year One's dramatic power.
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Sort of always found that bit in Year One cheesy.

The film gives us plenty of reasons for bats to have a dramatic power over Bruce (Opera/Parents, the well, when they all flock around him in what will eventually become the batcave). The bat in the corner was just the reminder that made it all click.
 
effzee said:
Fandango questions:

So me and my friends in total bought 15 tickets. One of my friends, who bought 5, all of a sudden can't make up to NYC now. He used his credit card. The 4 other tickets he purchased are for friends from NYC so we were all going to go anyway. The guy who purchased the tickets is emailing me his pdf confirmation page. Is that going to be enough to claim the tickets at the theater? Or do we need the credit card he used? He lives in Philly so its not like I can just go over and get his card.

Worried now because the 4 guys he bought tickets for are super hyped and ready and now they might not be able to get their tickets. I wonder if we can just put the confirmation # into the kiosk at the theater to print out tickets.
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You can use a printout of the confirmation page just fine. It has a number/barcode for scan.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
Nah, it's somebody else

Seeing this again, it reminds me that I always HATED this change that Bruce gets the idea of Batman from some random bat flapping around in the corner of his house. In the comics, Bruce Wayne is sitting there in his chair, thinking about how he's gonna do this crusade, then BAM in comes the bat through the glass, crashing into his life and into his mind, scaring the hell out of him...and that's when it dawns on. "I will become a bat". The Begins way is more "realistic", but it loses so much of the original comic/Year One's dramatic power.
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One of my favorite scenes of that movie is him confronting his Bat-phobia in the cave, with all the bats swarming around him.
 
Secret_Riddle said:
Sort of always found that bit in Year One cheesy.

The film gives us plenty of reasons for bats to have a dramatic power over Bruce (Opera/Parents, the well, when they all flock around him in what will eventually become the batcave). The bat in the corner was just the reminder that made it all click.
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That's a solid argument, but at this point in the film he has no idea he's going to become Batman, and there's simply no dramatic weight to this reveal whatsoever.

"Hmm...what am I gonna do again?"

*random bat bumping against the wall like an idiot*

"Oh right, bats"

eh
 
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