Thread: Dark Knight Rises

I'm unreasonably excited to see this movie next week.

I have high hopes as well, but I'm thinking it'll be impossible to top what ledger and eckhart did with the last one. Mostly ledger.

Originally Posted by thrav

I have high hopes as well, but I'm thinking it'll be impossible to top what ledger and eckhart did with the last one. Mostly ledger.

I was thinking the same thing. Heath was incredible in the last one. That extended trailer looked sick tho!

I have the Dark Knight on my phone and have watched it like 15 times at this point between lunch at work, the gym, being on airplanes, bored while the lady watches Real Housesluts of Bullshit County. F'n amazing movie, it just doesn't get old. Love when Batman "extradites" Lau from the office tower in Hong Kong.....anyways, I have a really good feeling about this next one. I'm trying hard not to watch all the trailers and whatnot, I want to just go see it in Imax and have a pants-shittingly awesome experience.

Nolan is one of our best directors right now. Inception was a very entertaining movie. This should be good.

Originally Posted by vinzclortho

I'm trying hard not to watch all the trailers and whatnot, I want to just go see it in Imax and have a pants-shittingly awesome experience.

My thoughts exactly

Same here. I've found that my preconceived notions really affect how I feel about the movie, so I now try to avoid extended trailers, reviews, etc. Better just to walk in and have a good time.

14 dead at Colorado midnight showing... crazy.

It was Aurora though.... dude probably waited in line for 10 hours and was pissed he couldn't get tickets

Fantastic movie. Long, but I agree with the contention that if you liked Begins, you'll love this.

I loved it. I hope that it's legacy will not be tied to the tragic act of an insane person. Nolan is my favorite director right now. Inception and The Prestige are in my top 20 all time.

Just saw it, it was alright. Seems like there's 100 things happening at once, nothing particularly outstanding about it. A few twists at the end were good.

I liked it a lot more than the Dark Knight. I think Batman Begins might be the best of the three though. Where DK was really slow and long feeling, this kind of kept a decent pace. The action stuff wasn't all jumpcuts in the dark. The GF didn't really like the female roles, but I keep telling her the movie is called Batman, not Catwoman.

Sidenote: my local 12 screen theater was showing Batman on 11 of them, and there is a heavy police presence. Two unmarked crown vics on the block, at least six uniformed officers around. Keep in mind there are always PO's over there... but this seemed different.

Originally Posted by ml242

Sidenote: my local 12 screen theater was showing Batman on 11 of them, and there is a heavy police presence. Two unmarked crown vics on the block, at least six uniformed officers around. Keep in mind there are always PO's over there... but this seemed different.

Yes, because the movie will cause people to flip out and kill people. It wasn't that somebody who flipped out happened to walk into this particular movie and kill people.

I just don't understand bureaucracy's reaction most of the time. You can call this the TSA reaction. Completely useless and nonsensical but somebody somewhere believes it helps.

Originally Posted by Wandrin*

Yes, because the movie will cause people to flip out and kill people. It wasn't that somebody who flipped out happened to walk into this particular movie and kill people.

I just don't understand bureaucracy's reaction most of the time. You can call this the TSA reaction. Completely useless and nonsensical but somebody somewhere believes it helps.

It is a stupid knee jerk reaction because the chances are pretty low of a repeat, but there is something to copycat killers and stuff like that. I've also read remarks in the other thread about the violence that people:

A) wouldn't go because they couldn't enjoy it knowing what happened
B) wouldn't feel safe attending the movie

I would bet that the studio has some power to lean on big police forces to help make sure nothing else happens, they spent about $300M to make the thing and don't want it abandoned. I'm sure people were a little twitchy thinking about Aurora during some scenes.

So while it is knee jerk, it could be a lot worse if the govt demanded 2 cops per R rated screen from now on. That would be more like the TSA approach.

Did you see the movie?

Just saw this. What a masterpiece of a trilogy. Really an amazing feat.

My order best to least favorite would be 2>3>1. Maybe I'm mentally handicapped, but I found 3 a little hard to follow at times. The scene jumps were a tad random and I felt like some of the scene cuts were really far fetched. People just popped up all over the place. The middle of the movie kind of went on like that for a while. It's a comic book movie, duh. With that said, I never felt like 1 or 2 were like that.

Heath Ledger really brought 2 to an extraordinary level. "Why so serious?!" Such a dramatic villain. Bain was a little different. Still cool tho.

Originally Posted by Lev

The scene jumps were a tad random and I felt like some of the scene cuts were really far fetched. People just popped up all over the place. The middle of the movie kind of went on like that for a while.

I think the hardest thing to grasp was time. It felt like everything was happening in hours, when really it was months. I did have to wonder how Bruce travelled from wherever the prison was back to Gotham with no ID, money, etc.

He also overcame all of his medical ills without the assistance of the mechanical braces the second time, and as far as I know, pushups don't restore cartilage to your knees.

That's just nitpicking though. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Individual performances could never match TDK, but I felt like the story had more substance. TDK was a one(two?) off villain story. TDKR moved the overarching story forward and brought real resolution.

Obviously couldn't happen, but some joker chaos definitely would've fit into the whole "make a new Gotham" segment.

I caught this yesterday and had a great time, the twist at the end was cool.

Bane was somewhat difficult to understand at times but I think my real question is what the hell happened to him at the end? Talia Al Ghul reveals herself and they just leave Bane chilling out on the floor after Batman bangs up his mask a little bit? Am I forgetting something?? What the hell happened to Bane??

Also the time jumps WERE weird. If they hadn't said stuff like "well that was 4 months ago", I definitely would have thought "oh...this is a couple hours after that last thing."

all that being said, Bane's escape at the beginning of the film was pretty fucking ballsy. Though perhaps not as ballsy as Batman extraditing Mr. Lau in the second film.

am i the only one that thought it was shit? the movie was so overwhelmingly stupid, and i get it, it's a super hero movie.. but it was exceptionally stupid, distractingly stupid.

i didn't think anything could top the awfulness of batman's voice but bane's voice took it to a whole new level. he just sounded like a goofy sean connery. plus his voice never sounded like it was coming from his mouth, it was always the same clarity and volume and played in every speaker as if it was the voice of god.

or the greatest energy source ever created being something you could squeeze in the back of a semi that can be completely destroyed by flooding it with water. or the super mega ultra max pit prison with it's unscalable wall that looked like a single pitch 5.11. and to recover from a broken back or whatever he had in a couple of months while living in this hell on earth and manage to come back to fight one of the strongest men on earth in hand to hand combat. batman is just a fit rich dude with awesome gadgets, he isn't superhuman. bruce wayne can circumvent the globe with no id and no money and make it back on hostage held gotham city but the government can only manage to sneak 3 bumbling navy seals over. and after a violent take over the nyse the sec sees no reason to reverse hundreds of millions in fraudulent stock trades..

i don't even remember most of the dumb stuff, they spend 300 million making and marketing a movie like this, and yet they run with a brain dead storyline and screenplay. typical hollywood junk. and batman begins sucks too, watch that movie again. dark night is great though, but that's because of the acting.

^ to go along with this. How did the entire police force spend 5 months underground, come out running full of energy with no beards and uniforms still crisp and new?

The Dark Knight Rise is an best movie of all batman series.In this movie i like Tom Hardy Character he done outstanding job in it.Christian bale perform great stunt and action.When i watched it i became a fan of this new Batman series movie.

Originally Posted by boxterford

The Dark Knight Rise is an best movie of all batman series.In this movie i like Tom Hardy Character he done outstanding job in it.Christian bale perform great stunt and action.When i watched it i became a fan of this new Batman series movie.

BANG!

Review this, bitches!

Originally Posted by vinzclortho

I caught this yesterday and had a great time, the twist at the end was cool.

Bane was somewhat difficult to understand at times but I think my real question is what the hell happened to him at the end? Talia Al Ghul reveals herself and they just leave Bane chilling out on the floor after Batman bangs up his mask a little bit? Am I forgetting something?? What the hell happened to Bane??

Also the time jumps WERE weird. If they hadn't said stuff like "well that was 4 months ago", I definitely would have thought "oh...this is a couple hours after that last thing."

all that being said, Bane's escape at the beginning of the film was pretty fucking ballsy. Though perhaps not as ballsy as Batman extraditing Mr. Lau in the second film.

How many stars?

Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater

How many stars?

35 out of 47.

Good, but not great. After the Dark Knight I guess anything would be kind of a let down. I tried to avoid watching commericals, trailers, reading about it etc....so I wouldn't get over-hyped. I don't think I GOT over-hyped, but I did go in with high expectations.

I did love when the cop shoots a bullet into batman's EMP gun and Batman just gives him that look (he's got that look) and the cop goes "SORRY!"

I would watch it again at home, and I'm sure I will. At this point just looking forward to the next Chris Nolan film, that boy good.