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

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Anth0ny said:
I agree... but there's a point where people are shitting on the film based on slow motion .gifs of the fight scenes that is goes a bit too far imo.

The film has its issues, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. If Begins and Dark Knight are 9/10s, DKR is 8/10, no lower.
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I agree with the sentiment that Batman wasn't in this that much and it was displeasing.
 
I think after Skyfall, its good to go back to TDK and see exactly what Nolan and Mendes conferred on when creating the characters of Joker and Silvia
 
I watched it with some friends today, this viewing was probably better than my first(and only) at midnight. I honestly forgot how good it was.
 
LeBrick James said:
Yes he is. At first I just thought it was fanservice, but watching it a 2nd time clearly shows that he's Robin. Blake is Nolan's way of including Robin without having some kid hang around Bruce, don a costume, and fight alongside Batman. Revealing him at the end made it easier to achieve this, and made for a great surprise during a first watch.
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Magnus said:
And therefore...that original IMAX image is lost forever as far as home exhibition goes? :(

I'd honestly rather it fit onto my screen with black bars on the side. I like the idea of seeing the full original image. The option at least, would be nice.
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Nah, the extra image space on the 1.44 frame is intended for an IMAX screen only(ie. a screen so large you don't really pay attention to what's at the periphery of the screen. If you watched the 1.44 version it on a television, the tons of unused extra space at the top and bottom would look weird.

EDIT: That video...

'This isn't a caaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr.' lol
 
Finally got around to watching this. I don't feel like writing up my full thoughts right now, but HOLY SHIT @
Bane got friendzoned after lifelong dedication and then shot by the girl who had a crush on the guy who slept with the woman he loved. Crime-simping doesn't pay.
 
So what will Bruce do when he reads in the paper that the Joker escaped Arkham, has tortured and murdered Blake and is once again terrorizing Gotham? WHAT THEN?
 
Was watching the special feature on the blu ray, didn't know Gieger was asked to design a batmobile. Seriously that was a fucked up looking batmobile. Who thought that was a good idea? Oh wait, Joel Schumacher.
 
I don't know about this movie.

Nolan and co. tried to do so much with this movie that it's overstuffed to the gills. The plotting, not necessarily the scripting is bad. The worst scripting moment is Alfred explaining the letter. It's as if he wanted to one up the Butler from Spider-man 3 with inane dialogue for that moment. I can't believe how fumbled that entire scene was and how they kept in that way in the final edit.

As an opening, the plane stunt looks great from a visual standpoint. Its inclusion though is superfluous to everything that comes afterwards. The movie would be better without it's inclusion. For Bruces arc having him start out as a recluse, rushing him foolishly back into the suit, only to have him broken lessens the impact of him regaining a will to fight for Gotham in the lazerus(?) pit. All of that stuff in the pit makes it come across as truly magical place. The concept of time is broken. 8 years did not have to be the time between the movie. It's an arbitrary number that doesn't additionally prove the value of the Dent act. Society and the characters don't reflect the time jump either. And honesty to God, the logistics of the escape from the pit and the countdown for the nuke

Catwoman exists to fulfill Alfred's wish at the end of the movie. The Blake character is terribly shoehorned into the plotting of this movie, so that WB is appeased if another set of movies are made. Bane is a monologue machine. I actually liked how odd he sounded in comparison to the onscreen movements of the character. It's an odd character because he got things done, he really messed up Gotham in the way his father would have wanted, but in actuality, other than the scenes with his first confrontation with Batman, he didn't physically do much. His ending, WTF, that was unfulfilling. Bruce has gone to hell and back, returns to Gotham to confront Bane they're fighting the same way as before. You're trying to tell me that the only thing learned was to punch Bane in his magical mask? So uninteresting. Miranda Tate, duh everyone should have know the deal when she became owner of Wayne Enterprises. But even the treachery arc is rushed. That could have been it's own movie, but it's stab Bats in the side, try to get away in the truck, then die. All of the additional flashblacks that accompany this reduce Banes character even more. Juno Temple's character? what purpose did she have other than to show an odd affection of Selina?

I'm also confused about where this is supposed to take place. It's not faux-Chicago anymore because all the night chase stuff is L.A. and then the Gotham destruction for the big chunk of the movie is Pittsburgh via Saks Fifth Avenue.
 
I watched my BD copy today. I was not hugely impressed, defiantly the worst of the three. Bane was a good bad guy, but the acting and dialog for him was cringe worthy. The way he had to wave his hands around while he talked was not helping.

The story itself was a mix of good and bad. Catwoman was good, Bruce's recluse mode was kind of forced and he sure jumped back into the suit fast. The pacing and editing was strange, it was all over the place with slow dialog, action and back again.

The last 20 minutes was the best part. It also was wierd that Batman never really acted like Batman. Where was the crime fighting at night with ziplines and gadgets? He was either in his flying bat copter or just punching guys. He turned from a smart fight from the dark gadget dude to a dumb brawler.

I love the twist ending with Bane, glad I managed to keep it from getting spoiled.

Overall it was too long and had pacing issues. Avengers was defiantly the better summer action film, I think I even liked Spide-rman batter. Bale's Batman just was getting tired, three films was just too many I think.
 
AgentP said:
I watched my BD copy today. I was not hugely impressed, defiantly the worst of the three. Bane was a good bad guy, but the acting and dialog for him was cringe worthy. The way he had to wave his hands around while he talked was not helping.

The story itself was a mix of good and bad. Catwoman was good, Bruce's recluse mode was kind of forced and he sure jumped back into the suit fast. The pacing and editing was strange, it was all over the place with slow dialog, action and back again.

The last 20 minutes was the best part. It also was wierd that Batman never really acted like Batman. Where was the crime fighting at night with ziplines and gadgets? He was either in his flying bat copter or just punching guys. He turned from a smart fight from the dark gadget dude to a dumb brawler.

I love the twist ending with Bane, glad I managed to keep it from getting spoiled.

Overall it was too long and had pacing issues. Avengers was defiantly the better summer action film, I think I even liked Spide-rman batter. Bale's Batman just was getting tired, three films was just too many I think.
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Scullibundo said:
It doesn't need to be said for any reason, yet I have no problem reminding everybody that Superman Returns is better than TDKR.
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no no no no NOOOOOOOOOOO
 
Guys, Sculli knows all the release dates of upcoming movies and insider info. I think we should trust him when it comes to film critique.
 
Hey, let's not make it personal. Just because Bryan Singer's masturbatory homage to Donner's film is more enjoyable than Nolan's fumbling of his own universe, it doesn't mean Nolan won't recover from it and become Shyamalan 2.0.
 
I heard the reason Nolan isn't directing Man of Steel himself is because he didn't want his film to be compared to Singer's film. He didn't think he could get out of the shadow of Returns.
 
The only living memories of Superman Returns will be buried under Scullibundo's headstone and then that film will finally be lost to the sands of time, never to be heard from again.
 
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