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1. Bale
2. Hathaway
3. Caine

Taking all challengers!

1. Hardy
2. everyone else (maybe Hathaway)

The guy had a face mask on the entire movie and a ridiculous Sean Connery/Grover voice and he was by far the most magnetic presence in the entire film. He was imposing as fuck for most of the movie and was the only one with any memorable lines.
 
Yeah can't wait to see the entire trilogy at home when it's finally released.

I love the entire Batman trilogy but there are scenes and parts where I definitely fast forward through. I am sure there are going to be some parts in TDKR too.
 
So can we all agree that Alfred fed fear into Bruce about Bane? He should have kept his damned mouth shut about those stupid rumors he read. Those was no myth or legend behind his tale. Alfred nearly got Bruce killed.
 
Yeah so here are some ideas half stolen from recent posts:

Instead of Batman having quit 8 years ago, he just 'hasn't been seen in months' instead. So he kept being Batman, had a bunch of other off-screen adventures, but eventually retired after the city was cleaned up. 8 years was too long for Bruce to have stayed in bed, for someone with no motivation and a busted leg he stayed in pretty good shape too...

We stay with Bruce in the prison once he gets there. No cutting back to Gotham. Give the whole thing a mini-narrative. 20 minutes maybe. Nothing much happened back in Gotham while he was gone anyway (hostages stayed hostages), and then it would have been a Batman film, not a 'things that happened to 150 characters in Gotham' film. Forget about all the JGL organising the cops thing, have the whole mess get sorted out by Batman when he returns.

Finally, Bruce has a reconciliation with Alfred after escaping the prison, and the two team up to get him back to Gotham and ready to go.
 
Seriously didn't like The Bat. At all.

No tumbler made me super sad. Imagine the tumbler just fucking roaring through the crowd of goons and police.

'IM HERE MOTHERFUCKER'
 
yep hated that... Ra's had the pimpest death.

Rhas was just the pimpest.

TRILOGY VILLAIN RANKING TIMES!#$%^&*&

1. Rhas Al Ghul
2. The Joker
3. Scarecrow
4. Catwoman (although she's more of an anti-hero)
5. Bane
6. Carmine Falcone
7. Two-Face
8. Talia Al Ghul
9. My dogs are hungry!
 
The Dark Knight trilogy has had some of the best casting in recent memory.

Christian Bale
Michael Caine
Heath Ledger
Morgan Freeman
Gary Oldman
Anne Hathaway
Aaron Eckhart
JGL
Tom Hardy
Marion Cotillard
Cilian Murphy
Liam Neeson
Ken Watanabe
Tom Wilkinson
Katie Holmes
Maggie Gyllenhal


Holy shit....

Even all the bit supporting roles were pretty damned well cast. Rutger Hauer, William Fichtner, etc.
 
Transferred some of the doctor's blood into the corpse to make it look like the doctor died in the plane crash.

Didn't you catch the part where they said the fission expert was dead? That's because Bane did the transfusion into the other guy. Scientist lived, but they ID'd him as dead in the crash because of the blood.

Minor nitpick, but that's not how people are IDed in situations like that. The plot device worked, regardless.
 
Just watched the movie, looved it like mad. And I was crazy hyped. Thought the ending was pitch perfect, made me ache for more but at the same time you know there simply can't be another. Only thing I thought wasn't so hot (not a bad thing mind you) was the flashbacks to remind the noobs things lol, but didn't take anyway, just personally thought it was pointless for me.

Besides that, amazing. The fucking music when he was climbing out the prison was omgwtfyess and then from that point on it was like straight adrenaline to the veins. Catwoman was also perfect for me. So well done. Loved Bane.
 
So can we all agree that Alfred fed fear into Bruce about Bane? He should have kept his damned mouth shut about those stupid rumors he read. Those was no myth or legend behind his tale. Alfred nearly got Bruce killed.


Alfred was just quietly telling Bruce he needed to recapture the eye of the tiger.

'YOU AINT HEARD BOUT THIS GUY BANE? AWWWWWW MAN! MAFUCKIN IS REAL TRILL! I GOT ALL THE UFC STATS HERE. CHECK IT OUT!'
 
Everything Bane said sounded both horrifying and amusing and important/serious. Liked the voice as well. It was like sean connery and liam neeson had a baby.
 
I'll tell you one thing: I absolutely CANNOT wait to have a trilogy viewing day sometime this X-mas.

BB for breakfast.
TDK for lunch.
TDKR for supper.

Will be well fed that day.

I did it with BB and TDK earlier this week. I'm absolutely ready to do it again when TDKR releases.

All I want for the TDKR home release is for Bane's voice to be balanced in the intro/prologue.
 
So can we all agree that Alfred fed fear into Bruce about Bane? He should have kept his damned mouth shut about those stupid rumors he read. Those was no myth or legend behind his tale. Alfred nearly got Bruce killed.
I don't think that had any effect on the fight. Bruce was super confident that he would beat the shit out of Bane and honestly he wasn't in tip top shape either. He was just scoffing off at the videos of Bane beating people the fuck up and was "Meh I beat Rah's and I beat LoS... I can beat him".

This was just a case of not enough prep time, Bruce very much underestimated Bane. The prison scene was important because Bruce learns a valuable piece of information that helps him defeat Bane while also getting back into fighting form.
 
Can't wait for all the poorly written hurt/comfort fanfics by teenage girls revolving around softhearted Bane who's really a nice guy under that mask, he's just understood (and oh so pretty ^^)
 
Not a bad movie, but boring as hell

Best part of the movie was bane until they killed him in a shitty way.

Catwoman was awful, most useless character in all the movies.

Ugh, so boring.
 
Just watched the movie, looved it like mad. And I was crazy hyped. Thought the ending was pitch perfect, made me ache for more but at the same time you know there simply can't be another. Only thing I thought wasn't so hot (not a bad thing mind you) was the flashbacks to remind the noobs things lol, but didn't take anyway, just personally thought it was pointless for me.

I would agree with this too. The first time it happened (Dent as Two-Face), I found it really jarring. I think I would have MUCH rather preferred that fan service to be of the Rhas variety. ie. have the actors come back and shoot new scenes.
 
Some of Bane's kills in this film were so callous that they were genuinely disturbing. You got the neck snaps and all that, they're expected, but stuff like him strangling the special forces guy by kneeling on his face, that was just cold.

Most of the Joker's kills were just him shooting someone, but he had a few sadistic, creepy kills, same deal as Bane.
 
I like Banes voice, its not the voice you associate with a brute, but going with a heavy growly voice would have dimiished the fact that he is intellegent as well.

Trying to do this while making the voice sound like it was filtered through a gasmask was hit and miss.

Some people got it, some people seemed to hate it.
 
I like Banes voice, its not the voice you associate with a brute, but going with a heavy growly voice would have dimiished the fact that he is intellegent as well.

Trying to do this while making the voice sound like it was filtered through a gasmask was hit and miss.

Some people got it, some people seemed to hate it.

I loved his voice during the later half of the movie, but he sounded bizarre during the beginning. It's like they wanted to show off his charisma more than anything.
 
I loved everything about the movie, Bane, Catwoman, The Bat, I was even caught off-guard by the Talia reveal. It was everything I expected and more. Well done
 
Hathaway stole the show for me. Outside of some editing issues (I've just come to accept them with Nolan movies), I really loved it. Thematically it was the strongest of the three and a great ending to the trilogy.
 
Villain ranking?

1. Joker
2. Two-Face
3. Ra's al Ghul
4. Bane
5. Scarecrow
6. Talia al Ghul
7. The Mob

Two Face wasn't even a villain. He was Harvey Dent and Two Face only showed up in the third act. Not to mention he was only called Two Face once. :-/
 
Loved it, but then I know that endings are hard so I always lowered my expectations.

Bane was awesome, and his voice sounded like Liam Neeson to me in the beginning, so when Batman was like "You are his son"...it was awesome. And then it wasn't the case...:(

Awesome to see Neeson again too.

I was not a big fan of Catwoman, but it will do.

I would love to see JGL as Robin

And I loved the ending too.
 
Didn't you catch the part where they said the fission expert was dead? That's because Bane did the transfusion into the other guy. Scientist lived, but they ID'd him as dead in the crash because of the blood.


Oh ok. I understood that the Scientist was supposed to be dead, but I never thought that's how they were covering it up. That's ridiculous.
 
The more I think about it, the more cheapened I feel about the Talia twist. You're fed this entire myth about Bane, you try to understand his motivations, you see him as a true adversary to Bruce, not only because he's a brute, but because we're led to believe his story is one of eternal struggle, that he, much like Bruce, is driven completely by an ideal, one that he mastered when he was much younger.

But at the end, we're told he's just some dude that was hired because he helped out a girl. He's a thug being repaid. Where's the great motivation? And what am I meant to think of him upon a rewatch?
 
Actually rewatching Begins for the first time in a long time, I'd forgotten what a nutjob Scarecrow was. He was downright depraved in that film, breaking people's minds for fun, psychological torture of his patients, fucking setting Batman on fire.

Seems like all three films have a requisite psycho nutjob murderer in Scarecrow, Joker and Bane.
 
Two Face wasn't even a villain. He was Harvey Dent and Two Face only showed up in the third act. Not to mention he was only called Two Face once. :-/

Strange, I remember that he held a gun to a young boy's head and threatened to pull the trigger. A tragic villain, but a villain nonetheless.
 
I thought the fight scenes between Bane and Batman (especially in the sewers) could have been done a bit better. I could really tell they were pulling their punches, didn't feel solid or grounded. I don't know if it was the choreography or what, which is a shame because the setting was fantastic.

Would have like Bane to have really laid into Batman, and for the whole fight scene to be a touch longer.

Anne Hathaway for me was the best acted along with Bale/Bruce. Felt like this was the most comic book like of the trilogy also.

Batman Begins = Dark Knight > Dark Knight Rises
 
I think the whole Talia reveal was kind of ridiculous. The entire movie Bane was being hyped as being as strong as he was because of that backstory. Then we find out that's all bullshit and applies to Talia instead; who by the way never really shows any sort of fighting skills in the entire movie.

I thought the Talia reveal was really poorly done.

Not only did it detract from Bane's character development, but her brief time as the "big bad" was a complete joke. She pressed the detonator and it failed to work, then she drove down the street and got killed in the span of like two minutes.
 
The more I think about it, the more cheapened I feel about the Talia twist. You're fed this entire myth about Bane, you try to understand his motivations, you see him as a true adversary to Bruce, not only because he's a brute, but because we're led to believe his story is one of eternal struggle, that he, much like Bruce, is driven completely by an ideal, one that he mastered when he was much younger.

But at the end, we're told he's just some dude that was hired because he helped out a girl. He's a thug being repaid. Where's the great motivation? And what am I meant to think of him upon a rewatch?

Actions speak louder than words, he's still the beast and revolution leader he was throughout the film.
 
So after Bruce killed Ras (sorry, didn't save him) and stopped his plan, he then manages to stop Ras' plan a second time and fucks his daughter in the process.

Immortal Ras rolling in his grave.
 
I thought the Talia reveal was really poorly done.

Not only did it detract from Bane's character development, but her brief time as the "big bad" was a complete joke. She pressed the detonator and it failed to work, then she drove down the street and got killed in the span of like two minutes.


She managed to sleep with Bruce Wayne. Thats something no villain has managed to do.
 
The more I think about it, the more cheapened I feel about the Talia twist. You're fed this entire myth about Bane, you try to understand his motivations, you see him as a true adversary to Bruce, not only because he's a brute, but because we're led to believe his story is one of eternal struggle, that he, much like Bruce, is driven completely by an ideal, one that he mastered when he was much younger.

But at the end, we're told he's just some dude that was hired because he helped out a girl. He's a thug being repaid. Where's the great motivation? And what am I meant to think of him upon a rewatch?

Cheap parlour tricks, remind you of someone?



So after Bruce killed Ras (sorry, didn't save him) and stopped his plan, he then manages to stop Ras' plan a second time and fucks his daughter in the process.

Immortal Ras rolling in his grave.

Poor guy.
 
I would agree with this too. The first time it happened (Dent as Two-Face), I found it really jarring. I think I would have MUCH rather preferred that fan service to be of the Rhas variety. ie. have the actors come back and shoot new scenes.

I know that the MGS4 comparison some people are making is really stupid - but the flashbacks actually made me think of the cutscenes in that game where you could hold a button down and see an image of what was being discussed occurring in the previous games in the series. That kind of super obvious "in case you idiots weren't paying attention during the previous films" techniques is really irritating to me.
 
Why did Nolan fuck up the pronunciation of the name in the first place? Having to hear "Rhaaaaz" throughout BB is reason enough to rank it below TDK and TDKR.

Who knows, it bugs the everloving shit out of me though.

I thought the Talia reveal was really poorly done.

Not only did it detract from Bane's character development, but her brief time as the "big bad" was a complete joke. She pressed the detonator and it failed to work, then she drove down the street and got killed in the span of like two minutes.

Perfect.
 
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