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The Dark Knight Rises |OT2| The Legend... Continues

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So after having let the whole trilogy sink in for a few months now, I think it's really great. These movies have given me a Bruce Wayne which is just phenomenal. Bale did a great job. I think Batman Begins is still my favorite one of them. It's just so good to see how it all starts with Bruce in prison, then meeting Rha's Al Gul and then becoming Batman and seeing how he handles that for the first time in his life.
 
Got my blu-ray this monday. Watched it and enjoyed it alot. More than my initial viewing the theater. The Dark Knight is still the best of the three. Really hoping they actually do another sequel.
 
Anticitizen One said:
I feel like nobody cares about this movie. Nobody ever talks about it outside in the real world and even on the internet really. Even though it did ok box office business I guess its kind of perceived by people as a flop
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Yeah it only made more than a billion at the box office and was positively reviewed by almost all critics but yup a flop.
 
kinoki said:
Got my blu-ray this monday. Watched it and enjoyed it alot. More than my initial viewing the theater. The Dark Knight is still the best of the three. Really hoping they actually do another sequel.
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I was just reading what Nolan has done for WB financially. I would give him anything he wants.
 
Anticitizen One said:
I feel like nobody cares about this movie. Nobody ever talks about it outside in the real world and even on the internet really. Even though it did ok box office business I guess its kind of perceived by people as a flop
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....it made a billion dollars. How is that, by any measure, a flop?
 
http://collider.com/christopher-nol...ing-of-the-dark-knight-rises-and-more/214349/
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: For me, The Dark Knight Rises is specifically and definitely the end of the Batman story as I wanted to tell it, and the open-ended nature of the film is simply a very important thematic idea that we wanted to get into the movie, which is that Batman is a symbol. He can be anybody, and that was very important to us. Not every Batman fan will necessarily agree with that interpretation of the philosophy of the character, but for me it all comes back to the scene between Bruce Wayne and Alfred in the private jet in Batman Begins, where the only way that I could find to make a credible characterization of a guy transforming himself into Batman is if it was as a necessary symbol, and he saw himself as a catalyst for change and therefore it was a temporary process, maybe a five-year plan that would be enforced for symbolically encouraging the good of Gotham to take back their city. To me, for that mission to succeed, it has to end, so this is the ending for me, and as I say, the open-ended elements are all to do with the thematic idea that Batman was not important as a man, he’s more than that. He’s a symbol, and the symbol lives on.
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NOLAN: We tried with all three films, but in the most extreme way with The Dark Knight Rises, what I call this sort of snowballing approach to action and events. We experimented with this in The Dark Knight, where the action is not based on clean and clear set pieces the way Batman Begins was, but we pushed it much further in this film. The scope and scale of the action is built from smaller pieces that snowball together so you’re cross-cutting, which I love doing, and trying to find a rhythm in conjunction with the music and the sound effects, so you’re building and building tension continuously over a long sustained part of the film, and not releasing that until the very last frame. It’s a risky strategy because you risk exhausting your audience, but to me it’s the most invigorating way of approaching the action film. It’s an approach I applied with Inception as well, to have parallel strands of tension rising and rising and then coming together. In The Dark Knight Rises, from the moment the music and sound drop and the little boy starts singing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” it’s kind of like the gloves are coming off. I’ve been amazed and delighted how people have accepted the extremity of where things go.
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“If I stay, there can be no party.
I must be out there in the night.
Staying vigilant.
Wherever a party needs to be saved,
I’m there.
Wherever there are mask.
Wherever there are tomfoolery and joy.
I’m there.
But sometimes I’m not because I’m out in the night,
Staying vigilant.
Watching.
Lurking.
Running.
Jumping.
Hurdling.
Sleeping.
No, I can’t sleep.
You sleep.
I’m awake.
I don’t sleep.
I don’t blink.
Am I a bird? No.
I’m a bat.
I am Batman.
Or am I?
Yes, I am Batman.”
 
Yep, TDKR sure does try to leech the good shit from BB. That scene was particularly offensive and immediately put a bad taste in my mouth.
 
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