The Dark Knight Rises

[stina]

I loved it. Not as great a movie as The Dark Knight, but more satisfying, if that makes sense. And I thought it was just so entertaining. Bane was a great villain (didn't mind the voice), and Hathaway had me at her first scene. Though as someone else said, I wish they would have skipped Bruce and Miranda sleeping together - and just spent the time on Selina and Bruce. I understand it was to make the Talia twist a harder hit, but it didn't work with just the one scene. Also, it made the Cat kissing Bat, and not to mention the ending, seemingly come out of left field. They should have focused on one of those relationships and just downplayed the other.

Except for the Bane / Talia escape twist (which I thought was well done - when I first saw the child, I thought he looked like Tom Hardy /Bane, but when the truth was revealed I thought she looked like Marion Cottliard /Talia. I saw all the other twists coming the Alfred /cafe ending and Blake taking over as Batman, but I loved them anyway.

I will miss Nolan's Batman. I hope someone lures him into making a sequel featuring Joseph Gordon-Lewitt, though I doubt it.

[kateln]

Ok, here's one thing that has bothered me since watching the movie last weekend; Is EVERYBODY in Gotham stupid? I mean Batman stops hanging around, and at almost the exact same time Bruce Wayne--one of the FEW people in Gotham who could pull off being Batman--becomes a recluse? For crying out loud people! Didn't that make anyone curious?

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Jul 29, 2012 7:34:36 GMT -4 kateln said:

Ok, here's one thing that has bothered me since watching the movie last weekend; Is EVERYBODY in Gotham stupid? I mean Batman stops hanging around, and at almost the exact same time Bruce Wayne--one of the FEW people in Gotham who could pull off being Batman--becomes a recluse? For crying out loud people! Didn't that make anyone curious?

I love that you put that in spoiler tags, kateln! ;-)

[kateln]

Jul 29, 2012 12:49:07 GMT -4 @solly79 said:

Jul 29, 2012 7:34:36 GMT -4 kateln said:

Ok, here's one thing that has bothered me since watching the movie last weekend; Is EVERYBODY in Gotham stupid? I mean Batman stops hanging around, and at almost the exact same time Bruce Wayne--one of the FEW people in Gotham who could pull off being Batman--becomes a recluse? For crying out loud people! Didn't that make anyone curious?

I love that you put that in spoiler tags, kateln! ;-)

The things I do at WAY too early in the morning.

[RabbitEars]

Yeah, I thought all of Batman's wildly expensive tools would be a dead giveaway. Who else in the city could afford them? Not to mention the number of people who saw the lower half of his face repeatedly for years. Oh, Commissioner Gordon. I seriously didn't think you went the whole trilogy without knowing!

Okay, enough snark. To me, this absolutely was worth the money. There were plot weaknesses, and Nolan isn't exactly one to use pregnant pauses or silence to break up his precious dialogue, but I didn't mind because so many action sequences worked so well. I loved JGL and Gary Oldman. The trailers used Anne Hathaway's least convincing line of dialogue, so I wasn't convinced she would be good, but she nailed it.

I hope this is Nolan's last use of masks that hide the mouth, though. He used them The Dark Knight on the bank robbers, and it's hard to follow dialogue when you can't see lips.

Please make a sequel with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, please please pretty please.

[jmc]

I really enjoyed the film, even though it did drag in places so much that I had to check my phone for the time. I didn't ask for much except for a satisfying ending, and the film delivered for the most part.

I figured out all three of the major twists for some reason. When the camera lingered on Talia's scar/brand during the scene in front of the fireplace, I figured that it had to be her when they lingered on that scar. That had to be the symbol of the League of Shadows in my mind, and they focused on Ra's al Ghul way too much for her not to show up. Robin Blake and Bruce being alive at the end were obvious IMO. How many characters stay dead in comics?

[jynni]

Jul 29, 2012 7:34:36 GMT -4 kateln said:

Ok, here's one thing that has bothered me since watching the movie last weekend; Is EVERYBODY in Gotham stupid? I mean Batman stops hanging around, and at almost the exact same time Bruce Wayne--one of the FEW people in Gotham who could pull off being Batman--becomes a recluse? For crying out loud people! Didn't that make anyone curious?

Yeah, it seems teh interwebs haven't been invented in the Batman universe. Or if they have, only Bruce Wayne and Evil Villain of the Moment have access to them.

[Alexis Machine]

Jul 29, 2012 20:51:15 GMT -4 jynni said:

Jul 29, 2012 7:34:36 GMT -4 kateln said:

Ok, here's one thing that has bothered me since watching the movie last weekend; Is EVERYBODY in Gotham stupid? I mean Batman stops hanging around, and at almost the exact same time Bruce Wayne--one of the FEW people in Gotham who could pull off being Batman--becomes a recluse? For crying out loud people! Didn't that make anyone curious?

Yeah, it seems teh interwebs haven't been invented in the Batman universe. Or if they have, only Bruce Wayne and Evil Villain of the Moment have access to them.

This is the only explanation I could come up with.

[proper stranger]

Finally saw this today and loved it. The Bruce/Selina stuff was great, and all the supporting players got a chance to shine. Michael Caine was really effective (I teared up when he told Bruce that he couldn't watch him destroy himself.) JG-L was great, too. (I kinda figured out who he was about halfway through, but it was still really satisfying to see it play out.)

I thought the movie did a good job tying together threads from the previous movies. I laughed when Scarecrow was presiding over the kangaroo court. Also liked how the prison escape route called back to the well in Batman Begins with Bruce's dad and the bats.

Jul 22, 2012 23:39:31 GMT -4 ijustworkhere said:

The ending was really excellent. One of the better film endings in recent memory.

Agreed. So satisfying. I actually cried.

[LoveSparky]

I thought Bale and Cotillard had good chemistry, and their brief intimate scenes were sexy and mature. I could have watched the two of them for an hour. Not so with Bale and the other one, who, IMO, shouldn't have been in the movie at all. Her scenes with Bale were forced and cold. No chemistry at all. I was not impressed at all with her. I also could not buy Bruce Wayne ending up with her at the end, or that he would have just been fine with her betrayal of him. It was brutal, and all he did was smirk at her about it.

I'm not sure who would have been better in the role, but they should have kept trying. Maybe Cotillard? And let someone else have the Miranda Tate role? I was satisfied with the rest of the movie, but not with the puppethead Hathaway. I think they cast her because she looks comic-booky in the face. Can't think of any other reason. Every time her character popped up, her miscasting would hit me in the face and take me out of the movie. Also, she was hamming it up. I could feel her acting in every scene. There was no natural flow. I guess talent is something you either have or don't have, and to me, she is just flat. One of those people who got lucky because some blind ass people in moviemaking thought she was drop dead gorgeous. Not so much for me.

If they ever remake The Dark Crystal, they could save on puppets and use Anne Hathaway au naturale.