The Dark Knight Rises

[romeat50]

Nolan has never had much use for female characters in his movies. They either die very quickly, are dead to begin with, are duplicitous bitches, or Ellen Page. I was amazed by how much screen time Hathaway got.

IA.He usually either portrays/writes them poorly or miscasts them. I thought both of those things would happen with Catwoman but the writing for her was better than I thought it would be and Hathaway was surprisingly good.

really noticed that in the scenes with Gotham's police force. I saw no women cops at all.

I saw female cops in a few scenes.

[bklynred]

I saw a few as well.

[Deleted]

I...didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Was looking forward to it but it dragged as if they really wanted to make a long movie but didn't know what to do with about 45 minutes of it. I love Nolan's movies but this one might be my least favourite so far. I did love JGL though, I thought he was great and yes, the ending was indeed satisfying. What a waste of Tom Hardy's talent though. Despite the mask thingy, Bane never seemed as terrifying as other villains and the voice was ridiculous.

[LoveSparky]

I guess I'm in the minority, but Bane scared me! Neither Ass Al-Ghoul nor the Joker scared me, but Bane did. Even though I needed a subtitle to understand what he was saying, his voice scared me too. What's happening to me?

[bklynred]

The famous fight scene scared the sh*t outta me, but yeah, otherwise I was too busy listening to hear what Bane was saying. And watching a vein in his forehead and feeling mildly concerned (I'm gonna hope that was a prosthetic). He was probably emoting his heart out and about 20% made it onscreen. I also thought the whole "the world is ours!" mania/chaos didn't square with the rest of the movie. The Joker made it clear: he was psycho and didn't give a sh*t, he did crazy stuff cuz he was crazy. This was kinda murky.

[kateln]

I will admit, I was impressed with the opening airplane sequence. You could tell that it wasn't all CGI, that there were stuntmen, and airplanes--it was jaw dropping.

[Malle Babbe]

Yeah, I really enjoyed the Littlefinger cameo at the beginning, which made <<him dropping the ball so spectacularly that more surprising. "Dammit, Baelish! You had ONE job...">>

I had known about the running time, and therefore didn't even drink much from the water bottle that I slipped into the movie theater.

While it dragged in the middle, I figured that the world building was enough to keep me interested. I didn't see << the Miranda Tate twist, and apparently got a false spoiler on Bruce Wayne getting killed>> I did spend the end thinking, "OK, how are they going to get out of this?!?!", and also seeing what parts of Pittsburgh I could spot as well.

[Babycakes]

Finally saw this yesterday, and it was a decent end for the trilogy, but nowhere near the best of the series. Number 2 will always be the best, but I'm finding it harder to rank 1 and 3. I liked Anne and Joseph a whole lot. Wouldn't mind seeing movies about either one of their characters. Bane was intimidating, but not as scary as the Joker. I was spoiled about Talia/Miranda, and thought she was underwritten and a pointless twist. Bane was enough of a villain. They could have stopped at the point where we were lead to believe he was Ras' heir.

And last but certainly not least, Alfred muthafucking Pennyworth. Damn you Micheal Caine, I was practically sobbing out loud anytime her spoke. And that scene by the grave? The entire theater was crying. So, so upsetting. I was spoiled and knew Bruce was alive, but damn it, when Alfred was telling the Waynes that he failed them. Huge, eye burning tears.

[Neurochick]

Just want to say that I LOVED seeing Cillian Murphy in this movie. He really does know how to do crazy well.

[bklynred]

He was great. "EXILE!"