The Dark Knight Rises (SPOILED)

[Lord Camomile]

So, you've seen the most hotly anticipated movie since the last one, you're desperate to discuss it, but you don't want to spoil the "I am your long-lost accountant" ending - where on earth do go?!

Here, weary traveller, here.

Was it worth shelling out for IMAX?
Is Bale still doing the Batvoice, and how does Hardy's Banevoice compare?
Does The Joker make an uncredited Oliver Reed/Tupac-style cameo?*

Praise, whine and indifferentiate.... now!





*too soon?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Spoiler

Meh

 

[ruffneck23]

Must stay away from thread til Sunday

 

[skyscraper101]

Spoiler

Meh

Agreed.

 

[METH LAB]

the dark night rises.. fuck off allready he dresses in a batmask and looks like a fuckin childrens breakfest show every bloody time...first one with jack nicolson was good..batman begins i kinda liked, the rest are complete and utter cosmically commical shite! so says me.

 

[METH LAB]

dark night can stay where the fuck he is and play with his batmask he got from some 1 quid for everything shop

dark night rises jesus what a ridiculas name..gimme strengh thats hollywood pathetic as hollywood gets

 

[ruffneck23]

So you've seen it then meth ?

 

[DexterTCN]

I watched it today and was satisfied that it held true to the first two. It's long but so were the other 2.

Hathaway is very sexy, funny and has a reasonable presence of danger, playing Kyle very well. Gordon-Levitt is good as Blake, a part that gets meatier as the film goes on but it's a interesting. Caine as Alfred doesn't get much screen time but still steals every one he's in. Oldman as Gordon is allowed to show some cracks in his 'goodness'.

Cameos by Leeson, Cillian Murphy tie in well but don't overdo it. Marion Cottilard is good, a love interest and minor/major plot character but sadly any time a woman is on screen and isn't CatWoman you're a little disappointed.

Summary - the greatest superhero trilogy ever made by a mile.

So far

 

[DexterTCN]

The 2nd is probably the best of the three (human sacrifice and all that) but this is a wonderful finale because there's not a lot you can really do after the first two. For me, knowing it was the last means that I was actually more interested in Wayne/Batman's end (because I was into the Nolan idea, I don't think he'd sell out, I don't think Bale would sell out). It could be Bane, it could be a nuke, it could be a knife, it could be a normal life or whatever. The film is part of a thought out trilogy about the birth, life and death of Batman, not about what other characters do.

So...Batman and Robin?

 

[thriller]

how long is this? 2 hours?

 

[DexterTCN]

how long is this? 2 hours?

Keep going.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I liked it, the second is still my favourite but this is a worthy ending.

Thought they didn't need to have Robin reveal his name and Arse Al Gool's daughter dying was the Darth Vader 'Nooooooo' moment of the film though!

 

[Shreddy]

So you've seen it then meth ?

Nope...but somebody did...prolly on meth

 

[Liveist]

*Raises hand*. I have a question:

Spoiler

So how did Bruce Wayne get from wherever he was (once he climbed out the well which I am assuming to be somewhere in India) back to Gotham to meet Selina Kyle, crucially within the space of a day or so, especially with no money and with the city completely isolated and locked off?

 

[DexterTCN]

*Raises hand*. I have a question:

Spoiler

So how did Bruce Wayne get from wherever he was (once he climbed out the well which I am assuming to be somewhere in India) back to Gotham to meet Selina Kyle, crucially within the space of a day or so, especially with no money and with the city completely isolated and locked off?

Because he's Batman.

 

[Balbi]

It was more than a day. The difference between special forces being killed and the next scene was 20 days iirc.

It's the Return if the Jedi to TDK's Empire.

 

[revol68]

I waa torn between it being an awesome film and yet counter revolutionary filth all at once. Atleast that cop in the white gloves died. Hathaway was like woah!

 

[Santino]

*Raises hand*. I have a question:

Spoiler

So how did Bruce Wayne get from wherever he was (once he climbed out the well which I am assuming to be somewhere in India) back to Gotham to meet Selina Kyle, crucially within the space of a day or so, especially with no money and with the city completely isolated and locked off?

I expect he had emergency funds locked away in a secret bank account somewhere. Quick coded phone call to his Swiss contact and hours later there's a private jet waiting for him.

 

[Santino]

I waa torn between it being an awesome film and yet counter revolutionary filth all at once. Atleast that cop in the white gloves died. Hathaway was like woah!

It made a big point about the new Batman being an ordinary working class man.

 

[PlaidDragon]

Because he's Batman.

That was my mate's explanation as well.

i thought it was well made, well acted, and well directed, but the plot was a fucking mess. I called the Robin thing straight away, and it was like Nolan was just shoving everything in that he could think of. Best bits were Cillian Murphy's bit, and Alfred at the grave.

And I know it's Hollywood, but just a LITTLE explanation of how Batman survived would have been fucking nice.

 

[october_lost]

I thought the last ten minutes were the only really remarkable thing in the two and half hours. It felt totally out of jar with the other films; the fights, baggy story, Anne Hathaway and the politics felt a little dodgy in places. I knew something was wrong in the opening sequence, and the extra toys along with the female leads don't really add much to the scramble. Bit of an average affair to end the sequence.

 

[youngian]

It made a big point about the new Batman being an ordinary working class man.

Think about it most of these superheroes are middle class professionals. Although you wouldn't have a builder-

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

It was good.

 

[Ranbay]

Just back, what pissed me off was the explaining everything parts....cut them out and it would have been ace.

maybe there should be a fan versions that's about an hour shorter?

also took a long time to get going, but when it did it was ace.

Overall i was happy with it but a few times i was like, just fucking get on with it!!!!

 

[Superdupastupor]

I was 3 fingers drunk + vallied so my accounting of it may be a little skewed

but I thought it was rubbish, really really rubbish.

I thought prometheus was rubbish too, maybe I should stop going to the movies when drunk


Eta: Thinking about it I was sober when I saw Men In Black3 and I enjoyed that a lot

 

[DexterTCN]

I was 3 fingers drunk + vallied so my accounting of it may be a little skewed

but I thought it was rubbish, really really rubbish.

I thought prometheus was rubbish too, maybe I should stop going to the movies when drunk


Eta: Thinking about it I was sober when I saw Men In Black3 and I enjoyed that a lot

The vallies probably stop you getting involved in any plot or commitment.

However if the lack of them made you enjoy MiB3, I'd stay on them.

 

[Superdupastupor]

The vallies probably stop you getting involved in any plot or commitment.

However if the lack of them made you enjoy MiB3, I'd stay on them.

fucked if I do fucked if I don't ......

yeh a lot of it flew past me i'm guessing pretty stupid

 

[badseed]

The 2nd is probably the best of the three (human sacrifice and all that) but this is a wonderful finale because there's not a lot you can really do after the first two. For me, knowing it was the last means that I was actually more interested in Wayne/Batman's end (because I was into the Nolan idea, I don't think he'd sell out, I don't think Bale would sell out). It could be Bane, it could be a nuke, it could be a knife, it could be a normal life or whatever. The film is part of a thought out trilogy about the birth, life and death of Batman, not about what other characters do.

So...Batman and Robin?

Agree strongly with this and your previous post.

I stayed away from all hype, threads and reviews before seeing this one and I am glad I did.
I didn't even know Talia was going to be in it Is she knocked up with Damien now?

Hollywood ending though, Bruce should never get the girl, especially not Selina (not forever anyway)

Great trilogy, but I am a batman fanboy anyway.

 

[Balbi]

Like I said, it's Jedi to TDKs Empire. Good,but not surpassing.

 

[DexterTCN]

...And I know it's Hollywood, but just a LITTLE explanation of how Batman survived would have been fucking nice.

Because he's Batman.

Some more thoughts:- In Rises, Nolan has stripped Batman of his tools of the trade. Most of the action is during the day, Batman prefers night, he looks like an (old) man in a suit during the day. None of his gadgets, money or utilities are available to him, on the rare occasion they are (ie the Bane fight) they are useless or work against him. He seems vulnerable all the way through the film, there's a sense of foreboding, we always feel something is going to badly hurt or kill him...or he'll do it to himself.

I would rate the trilogy like this - TDK, BB, TDKR.