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The Dark Knight Rises |OT2| The Legend... Continues
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Escape Goat
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Two of them have to be viral marketers.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
John Carter lives inside of us all, so this is patently false.
MrPink93485
Member
Heh, I don't actually have anything against John Carter. It's a fine movie, but nowadays I just remember the score. Great work from Giacchino.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
I've been trying to warn you guys about Solo and Ex for years. I have a feeling they might even be the same person!
MrPink93485
Member
Somewhere in a parallel universe, this is true, John Carter made Avatar-like money, and maybe it was still called John Carter of Mars. Finding Nemo 2 wouldn't be coming, Taylor Kitsch would actually be the next Brad Pitt, and hey, maybe Speed Racer was successful too!
Matrix
LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world hed rather have. The problem is, Dwyanes not a woman.
lol
Solo gets banned too much to be a viral marketer. He's doing a shit job if so.
"Heh, I don't actually have anything against John Carter. It's a fine movie, but nowadays I just remember the score. Great work from Giacchino. "
ahh good to know
Brilliant OST.
Sculli's rushing to take the title of GAF's own Armond White. At this pace, he'll overtake jett.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
You'll hunt me, condemn me, set the dogs on me, because that's what needs to happen.
Because I make the choice that nobody else will make. The right choice.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Not the hero we deserved... but the hero we needed. Nothing less than a knight... shining. Wait, scratch that. He thinks Superman Returns was better than TDKR.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Like I said, the right choice. You'll hate me for it, but that's the point of honesty.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
I see right through this, you're trying to pull psycho pension.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
In which case I'm fucked and nobody wants to post with me.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Well, today I found out GAF can't do. We can't endure this. Today you get to say "I told you so".
MrPink93485
Member
So when did the nut take over the nuthouse?
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Chief's shitting bricks, man.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
But the J̶o̶k̶e̶r̶ Sculli cannot win.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
What are you proposing?
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
You didn't think I'd risk the battle for Bat-GAF's soul in a troll fight with you guys did you? No. You've got to have an ace in the hole. Mine's Solo. Just look at all the heroic things he's been saying about TDKR lately.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
What have you done...?
If it's so simple, why haven't you done it already?
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
I took Bat-GAF's TDKR-loving brother and brought him down to our level. You see, opinions about TDKR are just like gravity, the higher they start, the further they fall. All it takes is a little push!
Yeah this was my biggest issue with the movie. When I see a Batman movie I want to see Batman get a decent amount of screen time.
If you're good at banning, never do it for free.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
I wonder who would win in a boxing match between Chris Nolan and Uwe Boll. Would Chris go bare-chest save for a vest? They could call him Aladdin.
Lionel Mandrake
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Discotheque
Banned
lol holy shit
triplestation
Member
rofl
Lionel Mandrake
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SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Dammit Lionel! :lol
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Okay here are my thoughts. I haven't read any of this comparison shit and I generally don't watch many superhero movies.
-The setup at the beginning with the 10 second blood transfusion doesn't make any sense at all. How could that be effective for its intended purpose?
-There is a massive shootout at the stock exchange and a huge police chase and Batman shows up after 8 years and for some stupid reason they have to count all trades from that night unless proven fake because they got his thumbprint? What the fuck? Of all the questionable shit, this is the one I cannot suspend my disbelief far enough to accommodate at all.
-I'm not going to talk about pacing and whatnot because this is a Nolan film and I always hated the pacing in his films. However, I will note that the quality of the writing went WAY DOWN. It was filled to the brim with cheesy quips and stuff. You can expect that from the Joker as a character, but from everyone all the time? The whole tone of the other Dark Knight movies was completely lost.
-"Give Gotham to the people" = Instant unchallenged rule of the people who once terrorized the city? ...because "no cops"? Come on, man. EVERYONE who had courage was either a crook or a cop?
-There was an unfathomable amount of dumb moves made by the cops. We can try to write them off saying it was at least 5 years since there was prevalent organized crime and they got soft, but it doesn't FEEL good to watch a bunch of dumbasses. The visual impact of the river of cops was just mind-breaking stupidity. You can talk about blah blah social commentary blah blah but if your analogies are so heavy handed that they destroy any semblance to possible reality within the movie, you dun fucked up. It's better to just be like other movies and Batman stuff and go "How the fuck did Joker set that up?" and let it be a mystery.
-Batman fights like a street brawler. He just tromps around throwing haymakers instead of flying around the area like a ninja. I know everyone complained about the warehouse scene in the first one but this is NOT the answer. He doesn't seem like Batman at all. I mean MAYBE he did some ninja stuff in the sewers that they didn't show at all, but that's an even shittier way of handling it than how he fought Bane.
-Hey... Bruce... everyone in this scene knows you're Bruce... why are you using the Batman voice?
-"Hey everybody, let's watch a nuke detonate"
-So this "Robin" is supposed to take over with no special training while Bruce is off with Selena? Is he supposed to magically become Nightwing or something?
I can feel the weight of a thousand other things in the back of my mind. I imagine I would end up tearing it to shit if I watched it while intentionally analyzing rather than trying to have fun.
-The setup at the beginning with the 10 second blood transfusion doesn't make any sense at all. How could that be effective for its intended purpose?
-There is a massive shootout at the stock exchange and a huge police chase and Batman shows up after 8 years and for some stupid reason they have to count all trades from that night unless proven fake because they got his thumbprint? What the fuck? Of all the questionable shit, this is the one I cannot suspend my disbelief far enough to accommodate at all.
-I'm not going to talk about pacing and whatnot because this is a Nolan film and I always hated the pacing in his films. However, I will note that the quality of the writing went WAY DOWN. It was filled to the brim with cheesy quips and stuff. You can expect that from the Joker as a character, but from everyone all the time? The whole tone of the other Dark Knight movies was completely lost.
-"Give Gotham to the people" = Instant unchallenged rule of the people who once terrorized the city? ...because "no cops"? Come on, man. EVERYONE who had courage was either a crook or a cop?
-There was an unfathomable amount of dumb moves made by the cops. We can try to write them off saying it was at least 5 years since there was prevalent organized crime and they got soft, but it doesn't FEEL good to watch a bunch of dumbasses. The visual impact of the river of cops was just mind-breaking stupidity. You can talk about blah blah social commentary blah blah but if your analogies are so heavy handed that they destroy any semblance to possible reality within the movie, you dun fucked up. It's better to just be like other movies and Batman stuff and go "How the fuck did Joker set that up?" and let it be a mystery.
-Batman fights like a street brawler. He just tromps around throwing haymakers instead of flying around the area like a ninja. I know everyone complained about the warehouse scene in the first one but this is NOT the answer. He doesn't seem like Batman at all. I mean MAYBE he did some ninja stuff in the sewers that they didn't show at all, but that's an even shittier way of handling it than how he fought Bane.
-Hey... Bruce... everyone in this scene knows you're Bruce... why are you using the Batman voice?
-"Hey everybody, let's watch a nuke detonate"
-So this "Robin" is supposed to take over with no special training while Bruce is off with Selena? Is he supposed to magically become Nightwing or something?
I can feel the weight of a thousand other things in the back of my mind. I imagine I would end up tearing it to shit if I watched it while intentionally analyzing rather than trying to have fun.
More like Batman Begins.
Trent Strong
Banned
Shit movie. And Catwoman, my god what a terrible character, and what a terrible idea having Anne Hathaway play her.
8BitsAtATime
Member
I would like to think that Robin would try to be batman for awhile and then gets destoryed by Killer Croc....so Bruce has to come back and save Gotham but that theory is pretty much shit if JGL is going to be bats in the Justice League movie
way more
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Catwomen was the best part. She was straight up abhorant to Batman. She pitied the Dark Knight because he was such a boy scout. Every other medium of Batman features Catwomen enthralled by Bat's humanity. Hathaway was pretty much disgusted that Big Ol' Bats even considered returning to Gotham.
Do you watch movies at all? Because it sounds like you would question a title sequence.
"Guys! Giant nude female figures rose up out of the ground in James Bond! Where did these giant naked women go!"
The bottom of his mask puts pressure on his tracchea... or an allergic reaction to his black make-up... but it's based on real life, Nolan said it
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