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

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zethren said:
It's awesome. Be excite.
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I gotta stop reading the impressions in this thread, it seems like people are either loving it or completely hating it. I'm going in with reasonable expectations, I wasn't the biggest BB fan (the last half was eh...but the first half was awesome) but I really liked TDK for the most part. I hear TDKR is a mix of the beginning of BB with the intensity of TDK. That sounds like damn good for me.
 
Film was excellent, seems a lot of people here spent too much time trying to find things to complain about. It's not as good as TDK but it's still excellent and is a fitting end to the trilogy.
 
Damn fine movie.
Solid 9/10.

The vehicle stuff and new characters were fantastic. The ending was just perfect.
But holy fuck, it is so annoying to listen to Bane. His voice just sounds annoying, it's hard to hear him and what he's saying isn't even interesting.
 
I just saw it again and the sound was so much better in the imax one i just saw. Amazing movie. Even what Bane was saying was so much clearer. And the ending...just perfect. Even better 2nd time around.
 
I've been bitten by the bug and now I'm looking to get some good Batman trades. Can anyone recommend any good ones? I've been looking into Batman RIP and some with the early Dick Grayson/Damien Wayne ark. I already have Year One and TDKR, fyi.

Also, how was Batman: Earth One? I believe it was supposed to be in the vein of the Ultimate Superman reboot.
 
Having seen it once in IMAX and once in regular theaters... there's just no comparison.

Everyone owes it to themselves to see this at least once in IMAX.
 
The Outsider said:
Having seen it once in IMAX and once in regular theaters... there's just no comparison.

Everyone owes it to themselves to see this at least once in IMAX.
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Whenever the IMAX switched to something filmed on a regular camera it looked like ass in comparison. Why not just shoot the whole thing in IMAX?
 
golem said:
Whenever the IMAX switched to something filmed on a regular camera it looked like ass in comparison. Why not just shoot the whole thing in IMAX?
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The camera is really loud, so every scene filmed with the IMAX camera is dubbed over. Do you want them to dub over the entire movie?
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
Damn fine movie.
Solid 9/10.

The vehicle stuff and new characters were fantastic. The ending was just perfect.
But holy fuck, it is so annoying to listen to Bane. His voice just sounds annoying, it's hard to hear him and what he's saying isn't even interesting.
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I thought Bane had some iconic lines in there that will be remembered.
 
My reaction to this film was and continues to be very lukewarm. I felt like it was way too long and the addition of new characters (other than Bane) was completely unneeded. I thought that there were some major script issues that bogged the movie down. I guess I'd give it an 7 out of 10 if pressed. This film did a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right. It could have been the best of the trilogy, but the script destroyed that.
 
ThisWreckage said:
My reaction to this film was and continues to be very lukewarm. I felt like it was way too long and the addition of new characters (other than Bane) was completely unneeded. I thought that there were some major script issues that bogged the movie down. I guess I'd give it an 7 out of 10 if pressed. This film did a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right. It could have been the best of the trilogy, but the script destroyed that.
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Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.
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ezekial45 said:
I've been bitten by the bug and now I'm looking to get some good Batman trades. Can anyone recommend any good ones? I've been looking into Batman RIP and some with the early Dick Grayson/Damien Wayne ark. I already have Year One and TDKR, fyi.

Also, how was Batman: Earth One? I believe it was supposed to be in the vein of the Ultimate Superman reboot.
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The ones I have and really like are:

Batman: Year One, Batman: Hush, Batman The Long Halloween, Batman Dark Victory, The Killing Joke, Batman Blind Justice, Batman: Arkham Asylum, The Dark Knight Returns
 
You know what i want to try, i want to try doing nothing but pressups and situps and see if i can get as strong as batman, im semi kind of super serious
 
woooo seeing it in 6 hours. managed to stay spoiler free so far. hot damn I'm excited.
 
Foreign Jackass said:
Just came back from seeing it.

Boy did Nolan try hard for this one. But basically, the movie has a very similar structure to BB, which makes it just as boring. Which is why Solo liked it and BB. Or is it because Bale has a beard in both movies?

Anyways, I'll get more in detail later on, but this is a mostly boring, very bombastic movie with great performances, some interesting visuals, shitty dialog, stupid jokes, more deus ex machinas and out-of-the-dark appearances than any movie I've seen and mostly predictable character arcs.

So, yeah, in the end, they're all very flawed movies but :

TDK >>>>>> TDKR > BB
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Rises was an awesome experience, no doubt, but too many flaws in storyline -
like the poppin' up out of nowhere all the time
- for me to be a 'perfect' film. And by no means better than The Dark Knight.

Not that I won't be going a second time this week, as especially Bane was worth the watch, but it's mostly the bombstic cinema experience that makes it a fine movie. And I doubt it will be as amazing when watching Rises on dvd, whereas with TDK I still enjoy.
 
Just got back from watch it, I thought it was brilliant. It was nice to see that Bruce Wayne and Batman was the focus of the film, something that was sorely missing in TDK. It combines the best of the first two films and outdoes them both in sheer scale and spectacle. The only knock is that Bane isn't that strong of a villain, especially in comparison to the Joker. But the deep characterization for Bruce Wayne was fantastic, topping even the first half of BB.

Therefore my breakdown is:

TDKR(slightly)>TDK>BB
 
Will be watching this in 6 hours! hype hype hype managed to keep myself spoiler free, which I usually don't try that hard at. I went into Prometheus on opening day knowing more than what I know about TDKR.
 
ezekial45 said:
I've been bitten by the bug and now I'm looking to get some good Batman trades. Can anyone recommend any good ones? I've been looking into Batman RIP and some with the early Dick Grayson/Damien Wayne ark. I already have Year One and TDKR, fyi.
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Also do get Batman and Robin, since that's all out Dick Grayson as Batman and Damien as Robin. There are 3 volumes of trades in all for that. Such a fantastic series.
 
JB1981 said:
The ones I have and really like are:

Batman: Year One, Batman: Hush, Batman The Long Halloween, Batman Dark Victory, The Killing Joke, Batman Blind Justice, Batman: Arkham Asylum, The Dark Knight Returns
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Is this in "chronological" order to be read from? I'm ready to buy all books to read.
 
THE NO LIFE KING said:
Is this in "chronological" order to be read from? I'm ready to buy all books to read.
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In terms of that list (which comes pretty close to the definitive list of Batbooks in my opinion), you could probably just start with Year One, end with Dark Knight Returns and read the rest in whatever order.
 
Check out Batman:Black Mirror if you want to see a different, yet canon, Batman.

Just bought it today, and I find it extremely well written. One of the darker Batman stories.
 
MercuryLS said:
Just got back from watch it, I thought it was brilliant. It was nice to see that Bruce Wayne and Batman was the focus of the film, something that was sorely missing in TDK. It combines the best of the first two films and outdoes them both in sheer scale and spectacle. The only knock is that Bane isn't that strong of a villain, especially in comparison to the Joker. But the deep characterization for Bruce Wayne was fantastic, topping even the first half of BB.

Therefore my breakdown is:

TDKR(slightly)>TDK>BB
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Bane was incredible and surpassed the Joker in his ability to project dread at any given second. He is a strength, not a weakness, of the film, even in comparison.
 
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