"The Dark Knight Rises"...?

So is Gordon-Levitt confirmed to be Azrael yet?

My friends, I am off to see TDKR. I shall bring tidings of how it was when I return.

Well, that was pretty, pretty, pretty good, although I wish the ending was a bit stronger.

Hard to gauge whether it's better than TDK or not yet, though. It's definitely bigger in scope and action, that's for sure.

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Does Batman die or retire? Is JGL Azrael/Robin?

Gotta say, I enjoyed this movie a lot and more than DK. Although, I'm gonna say DK was overall the better film. Anyways, I loved JGL and Anne Hathway, their respective characters were great and so were the portrayals. The ending I can't make my mind up about because it is pretty jarring except for

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Bane is a fantastic villain although he sounded really funny and it sort of took the seriousness away during a few scenes. It's especially apparent near the beginning of the film when he's being very affable and almost seems like he's very self-aware of the idea he's a villain from a comic book.

However there was a really dumb plot twist near the end with

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Overall though, it was a great experience and watching it with my mother, who reacted to everything pretty hilariously, was fun too.

Baal wrote:

Bane is a fantastic villain although he sounded really funny and it sort of took the seriousness away during a few scenes. It's especially apparent near the beginning of the film when he's being very affable and almost seems like he's very self-aware of the idea he's a villain from a comic book.

Mmmyes. Although, I wouldn't say I was bothered by it. Instead of being annoying, that hamminess in the way he talks actually kind of adds to his character. I get the feeling that without it, he wouldn't have been as entertaining or memorable.

Just saw this in IMAX. Loved the hell out of it.

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Casa Stark wrote:

they're always so grating and out of place. it's like:

something something PURRFECT

something something CAT BURGLAR

something something GOOD THING I ALWAYS LAND ON MY FEET

Just saw the film and this never happened. I don't think she was ever even called Catwoman.

It was a good film, especially the ending, but the thing that made The Dark Knight so great was Ledger and Eckhart's performances. This film doesn't really have anything like that. Tom Hardy is certainly capable of it, but he was behind that mask the whole time and his voice was disguised as well.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Just saw the film and this never happened. I don't think she was ever even called Catwoman.

There was one instance where she said "Cat got your tongue?", but other than that, there's nothing else I can recall.

I don't mean he didn't deserve it, just as an image on the screen it was a bit too much to take.

Well I can understand that, it was pretty polarizing.

Watched the first two this evening in preparation. Nervous.

I saw TDK over the weekend. Good film, but there's something cold and clinical in it that stops me from loving it. It's like... all the ingredients are there, but there's still something missing.

And yes, I realise I'm probably alone there.

No, you're not alone. The film's pretty enjoyable, but admittedly, it is as little more disjointed than the previous two installments when looking back at it. As it was the last film in this trilogy, it feels like they decided to make it a crazy, fun spectacle that caters to our dumb, emotional, irrational side for a change. It's still well-written for the most part, but it does have its share of clunkiness.

I really enjoyed it. Much different tone than the previous two and it's not a cerebral as the last one for sure, but it's very good. IMAX was definitely the way to see it if you get the opportunity to do so.

I loved the cameo from the Cillian Murphy reprising the Scarecrow.(Should have his own film)

I just don’t think I can really complain about the film much at all.

However, they showed some of the Steelers during the opening of the stadium scene, and living in Pittsburgh of course most of the crowd cheered like the rednecks they are. That’s still just a little sick and disappointing to me that people will cheer for a rapist because he can throw a ball.

Apparently Rape is bad unless it interferes with Football.

At any rate this made me want to go home and play Arkham city for a 4th time. And the way I see it as long as a comic book based movie is even half decent story wise, looks good, and the super heroes costume doesn’t have nipples, it’s fine by me.

I’ll watch this at least a few more times.

well, this was a rather dull movie.


the best part of it was the ending and even that was a ruined one..

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not that it was really bad, i just thought it was very dull at times, and too predicatble imo.

well ok then.. but still..

Sora wrote:

No, you're not alone. The film's pretty enjoyable, but admittedly, it is as little more disjointed than the previous two installments when looking back at it. As it was the last film in this trilogy, it feels like they decided to make it a crazy, fun spectacle that caters to our dumb, emotional, irrational side for a change. It's still well-written for the most part, but it does have its share of clunkiness.

My apologies, but it seems I wasn't clear enough. When I said TDK, I meant The Dark Knight, not Rises.

For what it's worth, I saw Rises yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Tom Hardy's Bane was a monster, albeit slightly less scary than Ledger's Joker, and Hathaway's Selina Kyle just goes to show that putting any woman in a skin tight catsuit will increase their sex appeal ten fold. Seriously, I've never really thought she was anything special but... damn. That cat suit. The ending seems to have been a bit marmite too, but I thought it was just about perfect, my only real gripe with the whole film being

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And yes, I thought it was more entertaining than The Dark Knight, which still leaves me a little cold.

SimianWonder wrote:

Sora wrote:

No, you're not alone. The film's pretty enjoyable, but admittedly, it is as little more disjointed than the previous two installments when looking back at it. As it was the last film in this trilogy, it feels like they decided to make it a crazy, fun spectacle that caters to our dumb, emotional, irrational side for a change. It's still well-written for the most part, but it does have its share of clunkiness.

My apologies, but it seems I wasn't clear enough. When I said TDK, I meant The Dark Knight, not Rises.

Hahahaha, I see. I thought that was just a typo and you were talking about this film. Derp.

So I finally got around to watching this.

Overall, I'd say I'm fairly underwhelmed. It tried to do too much and didn't really succeed at anything - someone else said that it had all the elements that would make a great movie but they never seemed to click together and I'd agree quite readily with that. Gordon felt under utilized. JGL was okay, probably should have been introduced in an earlier movie. Bane was great but the twist at the end kind of undermines him and I guess I'll have to continue waiting for the day an adaption does Bane right. I liked Anne Hathaway but her relationship with Batman felt kind of forced (and they couldn't resist a cat pun, I fucking knew it). I also think they made a mistake by having an eight year time skip, it just made everything feel alien again since we were being introduced to all these characters simultaneously and expected to just accept all these concepts like the neutron bomb, the Dent Act and Batman's retirement. For the first 30 minutes or so I just kept thinking that it felt wrong somehow, like it didn't feel like a natural continuation to TDK.

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Something about Batman himself also bugged me but I can't put my finger on what. Actually I think I can: it didn't feel like he was Batman. It felt like he was Bruce Wayne. You could argue that that was intentional - to show how disassociated he's become from the symbol in the eight years - but to me at least I'm so used to the interpretation that Batman is Batman all the time and Bruce Wayne is the mask that this version of him feels so inherently wrong.

Also, I'm not the only one who thought the fight choreography for the brawls were kind of shit right? They felt like rehearsals, with each mook waiting for his turn to get beaten up. Batman/Bane fights were decent at least.

The ending was spectacular though, for that reason alone I'm happy with the movie. I loved how they interpreted the Lazarus Pit too.