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ruined throat? missed that bit. xp.

i just realized, is bane basically hufifng whip-its the whole time?

ruined throat? missed that bit. xp.

i may have misunderstood something myself, but that was, i thought, the nature of the botched operation that necessitated the mask.

no, the mask basically pumped nitrous into his face so he wasnt in constant pain

yeah, but what was the origin of the constant pain? wasn't it a botched operation?

[i apparently like the phrase "botched operation"]

botched chest wax

didn't he have a big scar on his back?

they went in from the back

There was an outbreak of something in the prison then yes, a botched operation from that doctor who later did the business on Bruce's back.

Actually, I think I've got that wrong. It wasn't a disease - it was people attacking him and then the doctor trying to fix him left him in constant pain.

I thought the doc was the blind guy, tom conti just some hobbyist osteopath. But as with many other things it wasn't terribly clear.

There was a plague mentioned.

No, you're right. I was getting mixed up between Conti and the other guy. Maybe the other guy told Conti which vertebrae needed knocking into shape.

Or maybe the other guy said "This osteopathy is pseudoscience and I want no part of it"

it wasn't a plague and for the bane of TDKR there's no drug administration involved. just some mumbo jumbo about how it keeps the pain at bay. from his grievous wounds. from his prison beatdown.

which, keep in mind, this TDKR jaunty shakespearean Bane who is forever gripping his own imaginary lapels, this guy never even got hisself out of the joint. just sat around bleeding until Ras showed up. so much for all that ubermensch business.

i'm telling u it's nitrous

that would explain the voice

This movie would have been top ten of all time material if the gas ghad been helium

Ha ha. Easy to mockup for a YouTube sensation, I'd say.

Maybe it was, and Bane's REAL voice would RATTLE YOUR BONES with how fearsomely deep it is.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7r517akgT1qdtlw7o1_r1_500.png

I love that he favorite-d this.

Wow, that Red Letter Media review. It's perfectly reasonable and positive; fair enough. But it also pointed out an incredible editing error, where Bane and his crew leave the stock exchange in daylight, with the program counting down 8 minutes to upload, and by the time it's done uploading, it's night outside.

It soon became a dark night.

it rose, if you will

Caught that in the theater and was amused.

Maybe they went out of signal area and it took longer...

this movie certainly was the end of a bat-trilogy

i don't think i've ever seen that was 3 hours where every scene was crucial, and yet there were still a million loose ends

i think my fave plot hole is Bruce Wayne, after some amazing alternative medicine, climbing out of a hole in the middle of nowhere with nothing and zipping back to a city on lockdown like it ain't no thang

yeah, lol, and showing up a few hours before the bomb goes off, and somehow getting into gotham when no one else in the country can, and just sort of running into selina on the streets somewhere, etc...

i don't think i've ever seen that was 3 hours where every scene was crucial, and yet there were still a million loose ends

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i feel like there was a lot that could have been cut, such as the entire mean-cop-gets-dressed-up-and-dies-well subplot

haha ok yeah i'm trying to find the right way to phrase it, but it just felt like every scene advanced a plot (even if shit like modine's was pretty negligile) and it still didn't add up to squat

i didn't hate it or anything, i came in for three hours of bat-shenanigans and definitely got that

i just wished there were more actual bat-shenanigans. would it kill nolan to show batman flapping around the city at night knocking thugs heads together like coconuts once or twice?

also, why wouldn't the national guard have known that the bomb was going to go off? lucius knew, right? and we presume he has a cell phone. so wouldn't everybody have been prepared on the final day?

I think this movie had the least amount of actual Bat-screen time

i'm happy to have a less literal take on "bat-shenanigans" if batman is going to talk like a child pretending to be a monster

never laughed harder than any scene where batman and bane had a conversation, did they just get tom hardy drunk and make him talk into his cup

Haha

also JGL-cop was a swell dude and all, but what the fuck is he gonna do with a batcave

there should have been a smiling morgan freeman to suggest he's not just being left alone with gadgetry they probably didn't train him on in police academy

the entire jgl subplot coulda been scrapped imo

also what's the deal here:

isn't this supposed to be the last one?

are they really setting up another batman? for another director or whatever?

if so why did they make a big point of being like "btw your name is ROBIN"

is there really a possibility of a robin movie in the works? if not why do that??!

those orphans are gonna totally fuck up the manor

i'm guessing re: jgl as robin/batman whatever they will let america decide whether that's a better idea than an Armie Hammer reboot or whatever

i can see him as batman rebooted but why be all robin when clearly if they do that he won't be playing robin

i'm glad i read harry knowles' "batman wouldn't do that!" rant so i could just lol at how flighty bruce wayne is. family dies, comes up with a plan for vengeance, hides out for 8 years when someone else he loves dies, comes back when people get him nostalgic, gets the shit kicked out of him, sacrifices life to save gotham only lol not really, he's sexing it up in europe with catwoman but don't worry he left a cool bro the keys to his shit

ha. just ridiculous.

drives me crazy the critics who are like finally a supehero movie that grapples with SERIOUS THEMES

(when everything about it is so half-assed)