^ Great film
Just got back from Dark Knight Rises. I fucking loved it. I honestly enjoyed it more then I enjoyed the first 2 nolan batman films, and it’s made me want to go back and watch them again. I saw the trailers and dismissed the movie at first, but boy I could not have been more wrong for doing that.
Easily my favorite Batman film ever. I used to like nolan’s batman and Tim burtons equally (with a slight lean towards keaton since I grew up with him) but this movie has made me undeniably a Nolan and Baleman fan. Seriously, the plot was excellent, the action was terrific, the fight scenes were realistic and meaty, and the performances were all stellar. Plus it was much longer than I expected.
I was also happy that I was able to actually understand Bale as batman this time around, though he almost lost it a couple of times.
I was supposed to go see The Amazing Spider-man tomorrow, but honestly I would rather pay to see DKR again.
If you fancy yourself a Batman fan, and you haven’t done so already, go watch Mask of the Phantasm. Far and away my favorite Batman flick. I’ll take it over the Nolan trilogy any day.
I will agree completely with you on all points save the plot. It is…well, interestingly enough to me, the plot is at once quite deep and also also quite glossed over. What I mean is, Nolan did a really great job weaving the stories of the characters together. At the same time, some things that Nolan felt unimportant are inserted, accepted, and quickly forgotten or pushed aside. I’ll just give the example that stuck out most in my mind when I saw the movie.
Selina Kyle. Her motivation for most of the movie is this MacGuffin which SPOILERS [COLOR=‘Black’]can apparently delete her “record” (whatever that includes) from…the police network? The internet? The world? Who knows? Does it even exist? Yes! Wait, no! Wait…yes? But Nolan seems to have replied to all this with a big “Who cares?”, and he got away with it. Really, in the end, despite some things being very contrived and/or illogical, it didn’t matter because the movie wasn’t too much about the plot in and of itself. It was a character driven story. It was about conflict of beliefs, about Batman coming to understand what was most important to him, and relationships between the characters and the emotions involved.
…it was also about fist fights between a guy dressed like a bat and a massive dude with a magic mask, about Anne Hathaway in a catsuit exploding tanks and Joe Levitt killing bad guys by ricocheting bullets off of trucks. Cause let’s face it, all that stuff was sick.
Good man. Do so. You can safely wait to rent Spiderman.
Dark Knight Rises
Incredible movie. Great ending to a great trilogy.
Would have been nice to have this in the movie
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https://www.comicbookmovie.com/batman_movies/news/?a=62948
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I really like the OST. Hans Zimmer did a damn good job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ydR5SCDtt9k
WHO WAS IT THAT TOLD YOU IT WAS A TRILOGY!?!?
THIS IS EATING ME UP INSIDE!
Everyone involved with making it have been calling it a trilogy since the second movie was announced. Pay attention to more than just these forums and stop acting like such a twat.
Speaking of twats, I finally listened to the people who said Inception is a must-see flick.
I saw Inception. It was not very good. I guess I liked the hospital’s architecture and the remnants of the main-character’s city, but there’s nothing else about it I can compliment.
The soundtrack really blew and I’ve been tired of open endings since reading The Giver.
I watched Lockout, home of two of the most WTF moments in recent cinematic history. I laughed really hard at each, so I guess the movie wasn’t a complete waste. Unfortunately I can’t find any videos of them online, so you’ll just have to rent it if you really want to see them.
Other than that it was just uniformly bland, poorly written and poorly acted. Guy Pearce seems utterly disinterested in the whole thing, and Shannon from Lost is as annoying as ever. I can’t believe Luc Besson has failed us so badly.
Ah.
I actually agree with Tiki on most of what he said about Inception. It is overrated.
The “twist” of him leading his wife to death was majorly foreseeable.
And if anybody would care to explain how the falling van created zero-G hotel, but zero-G hotel didn’t create zero-G mountain, etc., then I’m all ears.
It surprises me that you are able to see through Nolan’s BS when it comes to Inception, but not when it comes to his Batman films.
Watched Batman Begins since I never saw the whole thing from start to finish, only bits and pieces.
Bale actually did a human-sounding batman voice, and I loved how the League of Shadows was portrayed. Plus Liam Neeson is badass, of course.
I personally thought Katie Holmes did a much better job of playing a likeable love interest for Bruce Wayne than Maggie Gyllenhaal and SPOILER Though I don’t know who here wouldn’t have watched the second film [COLOR=‘Black’]I think her death would have actually had an impact on me in the second film had she not been pulled out of it spoiler
Robocoooooooooop
“That’s it buster, NO MORE MILITARY AID!”
SPOILERS and BS rationalization follows
All the way up, the group is in an aircraft and they’re sitting/back lounging. The movement of the aircraft (turns and such) does not affect the first level dream (rainy city) because it’s gradual and not sudden like a falling van. If you take a dreaming subject and slowly move their chair backwards as expressed by the man leaning back in his chair when describing what a “kick” is instead of “kicking” the chair out from below them violently, they would not wake up because the movement is not quick enough.
However, when the van in the rainy city level is swerving wildly along the road, the hotel level’s gravity is only slightly and slowly shifting because of the time dilation between the two levels. When the van flips over, in the hotel hallway, they’re able to stay upright as the man runs along the floor and then the walls and the ceiling while fighting. The van tumbling is much more violent but it’s less violent in the hotel level.
As such in the snow fortress level, the effects of the van’s movement are exponentially less so there would be very little effect on the gravity in that level. Maybe they’re slightly lighter or something.
So, yeah, Cobb says that each level is like 12 times longer then the one before it, so 24 hours of outside time could be on the order of 50 years or so (as Cobb and Mal spent in limbo constructing their dream world), so I imagine any difference between the levels would be exponentially less the deeper you go. 12 times less on the second level, 144 times less on the third level, and 1,728 times less in Limbo (hence why there wasn’t any weightlessness in Limbo while Cobb was giving Ariadne the tour).
So, that’s my BS rationalization.
It’s best if you actually watch both parts, but if you don’t want to, skip to about 5:00 in this relevant video.
Today I watched Midnight in Paris,
Beautiful movie about life, nostalgia and love. I didn’t recognize all the characters (can’t tell who they are) at first, but it was nice to see them alive and interacting with each other. There sure was a lot of research put in this movie.
And I saw Cashback
Again, beautiful movie about love and art, as well as time.
I highly recommend both. A++