Come anticipate "The Dark Knight Rises" with *BATSPOILERS*

nerds are nerds, and they come in many varieties, but the state of collective, sustained, internet-enabled frenzy in which self-defined "geek culture" (or w/e) awaits its totem films does have its own special character.

btwn Knowles hating it and Schager approving, I'm about 99% sure I'm going to like this.

no way dude Harry called BULLSHIT.

god, harry knowles is a terrible writer

god, harry knowles is a terrible writer

(you had to know that was coming, so I'm going to assume that was an alley-oop)

After the film, I went out to dinner with some friends that attended and the aggravation with the film was felt throughout the table.

i guess that line's not that weird. maybe you can say "throughout the table". i just laughed cuz i imagined the table itself like shaking with inarticulate rage over nolan's desecration of batman.

tbf James Hetfield usually seems pretty aggravated

Ebert liked the last 2, isn't sold on this one. leaving aside the ones who seemingly HAVE to say something nice this is basiclaly getting 'mixed' reviews then.

He gave this 3 stars. Andy over at Salon loved it.

hahaha wait

"hmm, I'm not sure about this one: 3 out of 4 stars"

NYT review was pretty glowing

I liked the Salon review

Harry Knowles is disappointed.

This makes me want to pre-emptively like this movie.

i stopped myself when i got to the big spoiler pause (sigh, normally i don't care but i'd kinda like the end to be a surprise) but the stuff he mentioned, like batman retiring because someone he loved died, seemed kinda weak sans context.

it just seemed a really nerdy and macho rant.

I hope this is super sacrilegious. I'm sick to death of "faithful" comic adaptations.

honestly i don't really care if the film adds up so long as it's got forward motion. i just don't want to have a chance to ponder how it could have been better while it's on screen.

so no hollered, gravelly bat-monologues, nolan!

i just want to feel a well of emotion as batman sheds a tear then emerges triumphant and more gravelly voiced than ever, plus explosions.

worried we're more in for "plus expositions"

I hope this is super sacrilegious. I'm sick to death of "faithful" comic adaptations.

― Simon H., Thursday, 19 July 2012 22:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I imagine it'll be as "faithful" as the other Nolan movies. Not sure what else you're expecting

I've already seen a couple of butthurt fanboy takes. I find that encouraging.

Bob Mondello had a clever bit in his (glowing) review today on NPR. He was talking about the score, which was playing behind him. The music volume kept going up and up until he was having to shout his review over it.

Watched the first two flicks today as a refresher course; TDK is about 1000x better than BB. It's not even close.

i still wish they'd gone with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Penguin. i can't get over how amazing that sounded.

definitely a better villain than Bane

and the whole high society/corrupt rich freak angle...

sweet tidbit about Batman Returns from IMDB

The production wanted to use King Penguins but the only tame ones in captivity were at a bird sanctuary in the Cotswolds deep in the English countryside. So the birds were flown over to the States in the refrigerated hold of a plane, they were given their own refrigerated trailer, their own swimming pool with half a ton of fresh ice every day, and had fresh fish delivered daily straight from the docks. Even though the temperature outside frequently topped 100 degrees, the entire set was refrigerated down to 35 degrees. The birds also had a round-the-clock bodyguard. Clearly the birds enjoyed the experience as, following their stint in Hollywood, most of them had mated and produced eggs - the sure sign of a contented penguin.

:)

I hope this is super sacrilegious. I'm sick to death of "faithful" comic adaptations.

― Simon H., Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:11 PM (2 hours ago)

yes, yes, a thousand times yes. that was the most annoying and telling thing about that dumbass knowles rant: i do not give one hairy fuck whether or not this movie satisfies your sense of "what batman is really like". still plan to hate it.

I still prefer BB to TDK so ner. Two-Face stuff doesn't work, nor the Joker's boat thing.

But now I'm just kind of ready for TDKR being even more grandiose and batshit and not really caring if it doesn't hang together like BB. Bring it on. IMAX ticket booked for Monday morning.

the villains in BB were boring

the villain in TDK is so good that he has his own little whiney soundtrack noise to remind you one of his scenes is coming up

Alba OTM about BB > TDK. boat stuff, 2 face stuff, lots of other stuff.. oyy it goes on forever. but hey the amazing bits are still amazing.

TDK has a brilliant hour which is probably better than any part of BB, but BB as a whole is a much better film.

likely not seeing TDKR until DVD but I'm stoked for that day to get here.

i am in a darkened theatre watching the previews

start the show!!!

Well that was exhausting.

My brief take on Batman Gets Up: too long, clunky as fuck, cute ending. No more superhero movies for me.

It was ok.

http://news.sky.com/story/962756/reports-10-shot-dead-at-batman-film-premiere

Uh-oh, *someone* only rated it a 7.

Sorry, that's not funny.

Uh, wow, Holy shit at that.

As for the movie itself, kind of a bummer. Anne Hathaway was great, plot was several times more convoluted than necessary; a streamlined screenplay w/ more time spent with the, y'know, characters would have helped immensely. Hints of great atmosphere from time to time. Overall not a patch on TDK, for sure.

That's awful.

But yeah, aside from the awfulness of this shooting, I'm seein this tonight and super-psyched. Have read several reviews (including spoilers, which, if you've got any knowledge of the Batman universe, are pretty predictable and logical) and they all point towards me loving it.

plot was several times more convoluted than necessary; a streamlined screenplay w/ more time spent with the, y'know, characters would have helped immensely.

This pretty much guarantees that I'm going to love it.

Batman Begins is just one of the most superfluous movies I've ever seen. If they felt the need to reference it in The Dark Knight (and they didn't), they could have just put up a title card reading "Bruce Wayne is Batman. You know, Batman".

but they're referencing it a lot in this one apparently

Well that's not good news, as I remember fuck-all about it. To Wikipedia, I suppose.