THE DARK KNIGHT RISES REVIEW THREAD [SPOILERS]

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Just got back from seeing it and a few things...

:huh:@ building up an epic showdown between Bane and Batman, only to have some average as fukk fist-fight in the middle of the movie. No music, piss-poor choreography, and a rushed back break. Nolan treated an iconic moment like just a random scene. WTF??????

:huh:@ full recovery from a broken back in a couple months, ending up stronger than before the injury, while in a fukking cave prison. So....8 years living as a billionaire with the best doctors in the world, and you still have a bum knee. A few weeks with a bum punching you in the back, you're good as new. Paleo diet?

:huh: :huh: :huh:@ a prison full of grown men that can't out-climb or out-jump a little girl. What?

:huh:@ having a belt full of gadgets and weapons, but engaging in fisticuffs while nuclear destruction is at stake

:huh:@ Bane's corny ass speeches. This guy wasn't crazy enough to be entertaining, and his "cause" wasn't serious enough to entertain. He was just stock dirtbag with a mask.

:huh: :huh:@ an army of cops walking down the street against tanks and machine guns, and living.

:huh:@ the movie being 12 hours long but not half as good as Dark Knight

What really sucks is that the most memorable parts of the movie are stupid. If an action movie has a series of epic scenes, and you focus on the "logical inconsistencies" that don't matter, then that's nitpicking. But when the biggest moments of a movie ARE the parts that were handled poorly or don't make any fukking sense, what are you really left with? I can't remember anything about this movie aside from Catwoman's suit.

Bale, Gordon, Catwoman, Robin, etc. all gave solid performances. I enjoyed the acting, though the screenplay/action did nothing for me. Obviously, Avengers is significantly better than this, but I don't think it's even fair to compare the two. They're not only two different universes, but different types of directing. I'm more disappointed in how poorly this measures up to Dark Knight and Inception. The actors brought their A game, but Nolan just seemed to mail it in. It's just a generic Hollywood movie, right up to the sappy ending. It also insults the viewer numerous times, which was the main thing that set Nolan's universe apart from other comic movies. No desire to see this again, but it does make me want to see the first 2.
Saw this posted on another board and it's exactly how I feel about the movie. Not impressed at all.
 

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Just got back from seeing it and a few things...


Saw this posted on another board and it's exactly how I feel about the movie. Not impressed at all.

If that's how you feel then maybe you need someone with you to point out and explain the scenes to you when you watch it again.
 

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i comprehended the storyline, i am just sharing my opinion. its the pacing and the execution, i didint enjoy it. just because i didint enjoy it doesnt mean im telling you guys not to like it. its not a bad movie its just not one i enjoyed.

i didint think i was "motherless" and "needed to die" because i wasnt crazy about the movie.
 

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I'm suprised batman didn't bring some gadgets to the 2nd fight vs bane after getting the fops put on him the first time.

Bat had been outta the game for a while before the first fight. He wasn't in shape, nor prepared to fight Bane. He knew what he was up against the 2nd time around
 

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I finally saw this, and was it me or was batman hardly in this?

Also when batman was around I was laughing in the theatre cuz of the stupid voice despite everyone seeming to know his true identity. Btw, what happened to baine at the end?

it annoys me when people say this... bruce was STILL batman even WITHOUT the cape & cowl. it's not the SUIT that makes the person. this movie, at the very LEAST, returned focus BACK on bruce wayne and his inner-struggles and not on the villians, like it happened in TDK (which, btw, had batman in uniform majority of the time yet SIDE felt like he was a side character after harvey dent and the joker)

it's the wackest gripe, especially being that this was the MOST action-packed film out of them all, alongside the best hand to hand combat scenes you have in comparison to the other two film...
 

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The movie was a disaster! I asked one of the people at the Box Office for my 21 dollar refund and they said no because I was 2 hours in the movie. I couldn't even hear anything Bane said because of that muzzle on his mouth. Anyone hear anything about the Robin movie?
 

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i comprehended the storyline, i am just sharing my opinion. its the pacing and the execution, i didint enjoy it. just because i didint enjoy it doesnt mean im telling you guys not to like it. its not a bad movie its just not one i enjoyed.

i didint think i was "motherless" and "needed to die" because i wasnt crazy about the movie.

Can you explain your problems with the pacing? I read that complaint before, but I didn't have any problems with it.
 

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Brother the movie was rushed. What memorable scenes were there? The whole screenplay in general was awfully written. Batman has a broken back and recovers in 3 months. They should have split the movie into 2 parts. Have Bane destroy Batman in the First movie and have Batman come back in the Second and go over on Bane. One for the summer and the other for X-Mas time. It Dark Knight Rises wasn't so rushed and was thought out more, it would have been a masterpiece. They screwed this movie up big time.
 

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Can you explain your problems with the pacing? I read that complaint before, but I didn't have any problems with it.

the city never feels "under seige for months" it goes from normal weather to winter in a matter of minutes. you never really feel the city is in dire straights. Catwoman seems to not give a shyt for the most part and the city doesnt really feel like its in a desperate, last legs stand against bane and the others.

Take children of men for example , the pacing and direction of that movie suggest that situation is dire and any sort of help would be a huge relief to a suffering world.

the police operating seemingly with free will seemed off to me as well, they did as they pleased when they had the resources to do so. it didint make sense to keep them around, planning and plotting.

Banes death was anticlimactic as hell, also, Batmans relationship with the mercenearies daughter is supposed to add to this supposedly huge plot twist but their relationship feels so forced to me, their relationship wasnt organic or natural at all IMO. Also, it was a wasted moment not to elaborate on banes true relationship with the mercs daughter, he seemed to be crying for more than just "oh i protect her" he was clearly in love, Catwoman jumping in and killing him was lame as hell and really took away from the movie.

Catwomans lines and her entire getup was corny as hell, again, it felt forced.

Like I said the main problem with this movie is pacing, things move from scene to scene without enough time to give a shyt about the characters. Thats why i feel the pacing is off. You never have time to feel that Bane is this unstoppable monster, you never have time to invest in the mercs daughter so the plot twist is meaningful. Oddly enough Private Joker (aka matthew modine)'s character was one of the best because you see his evolution from self centered jerk to hero willing to sacrafice himself for the sake of the force and the city.

Why should I care about Catwoman as Ann Hathaway belts out cheesy one liners? Why should i care about batman as he gets his back broken and comes back better than ever in an unknown prison in a faraway land. You never feel bruce wayne has "lost it all"

thats what i feel is wrong with the movie
 
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