shakey: not if you are going to be a whiny crank about it
― flopson, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the other two movies a lot fwiw
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 August 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
in that case: yes
― flopson, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno man this movie was pretty fuckin terrible
― adam, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
*shrugs*
― flopson, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the other 2 quite a bit, I was intermittently bored by this one. It definitely feels more slapped together, and altogether fairly nonsensical, which I wasn't expecting. Hathaway is pretty good.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
That's about as much as an endorsement as I can give.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
i thought it was about as good as the other two.
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cracked.com/article_20012_if-dark-knight-rises-was-10-times-shorter-more-honest.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ha!
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 26 August 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
Finally saw this. It was decent but very cheesy compared to the previous two. Caine was dreadfully unconvincing.
Hathaway's ass was like a young Marlon Brando.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
Are you trying to make this look like a plane crash? Do you really expect people to believe this plane's wings broke off and then it flew for about 100 more miles before crashing?
Lol, had not thought about this.
― da croupier, Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
the phrase "10 times shorter" makes less sense than most of the plot holes they're pointing out
― ska bands a make her dance (some dude), Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
still, lol:
(Mickey Mouse voice)
OF COURSH!
― ska bands a make her dance (some dude), Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
So is it accurate to suggest that this movie just did not capture the zeitgeist at all? It feels like it exists, and made a lot of money, but didn't really enter the public consciousness the way the last did. Except, of course, related to the shooting, but I don't blame the shooting for this movie's failure as an "event."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
How far would a plane continue to fly if its wings fell off mid flight? Like based on its altitude, groundspeed, flight path, etc.?
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just asking the aerospace engineers in the audience, btw.
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
Same way a man would devote his life to dressing up as a bat and fighting crime.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
i thought this was pretty awful in exactly the same ways 'inception' was, but worse because of what they made poor tom hardy wear.
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdIxE9tqO0&feature=related
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno
― balls, Sunday, 26 August 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno
athaway's ass was like a young Marlon Brando.
sweaty and a Polack?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
simmering with barely controlled fury
― Number None, Sunday, 26 August 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 26, 2012 10:15 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
that's kinda what happens with MOST sequels, ain't it -- makes a ton of money off name recognition, but rarely sticks in people's minds beyond a continuation of the adventures of the characters they already know from the previous movies
― ska bands a make her dance (some dude), Sunday, 26 August 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
I liked this. More than the other two. Sue me.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
*files lawsuit*
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 September 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
*demotes the Capitaine to corporal*
― How's My Modding? Call 1-800-SBU-RSELF (WmC), Saturday, 1 September 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Haah! Hey - I can't help that I've always found TDK a tedious slog for the most part. I was going in to watch TDKR last night with major apprehension and then that wonderful Bond-esque opening sequence happened. Then Anne Hathaway's Irma Vep-ish Catwoman. Followed by crazy adventures under Gotham (Nolan sure loves his subterranea), across the world (How did he make it back to Gotham?), a much faster pace due to some loopy, off the cuff editing and leads who for once seemed to be having fun with the ridiculousness of it all.
I'll be on KP Duty in the barracks.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i def could see someone saying it's their favorite of the nolan's because it comes the closest to the '60s batman of the three
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the underhanded challops there.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
i can see someone saying it's their favourite because the first was massively flawed through having an awful villain and the second has that dreadful bombship dragging sequence and doesn't know what to do with twoface. all three have clunking flaws so it's really a take-your-pick
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
though personally even though serious batman is serious in TDK ledger makes it work for me and if you're going to talk about set-pieces i think TDK has plenty better than the opening of TDKR
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Xp Also - how does it resemble the 60s Batman? Enlighten me.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really get the "twoface was bungled" take on TDK, which seems increasingly common, I thought Eckhart was great
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
1) batman is in it xp
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
eckhardt was fine, effects were terrible, story once he got disfigured was kind of ... mangled, i suppose? just trying to do too much, too soon.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
CJV you praised Irma Vep-ish Catwoman, crazy adventures, loopy off the cuff editing and actors finally enjoying the ridiculousness. The movie also has batman running around with a bomb before throwing it into the ocean.
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
also fight scenes that are basically BOFF! POW! PUNCH!
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
if only the blackgate prisoners in the climax had numbers on their shirts
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
You're stretching. What fight scene isn't BOFF! BANG! POW!?! So I guess the same goes for the TDK? Joker's in it. And there's a bank robbery. Pretty 60s!
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
2) he wears a mask and has a butler
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
you're responding to what i wrote with "well the other had a bank robbery" and I'm stretching?
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
the qualities you say distinguish TDKR from TDK pretty blatantly bring it closer to the '60s batman, even if TDK had the joker and a bank robbery
― da croupier, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
if TDK had wide shots of people brawling i don't remember them
if by closer you mean "minutely, almost imperceptibly closer if you squint" then croops is right
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Burning a giant pile of money = best movie
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 2 September 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
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yeah i understand why they did it storywise but it felt so weak that he was basically Two Face for five minutes at the end of the movie and only a handful of people saw him. when i think of the movie i remember Harvey Dent but Two Face never pops into my head unless someone brings him up, it just kinda leaves such little impression.
― cute, banned, alert (some dude), Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
at it's worst nolan's revisionism seems to think it's above the standard batman comic while still needing to acknowledge it. because he was allergic to the standard "crime lord with aggressive visual aesthetic" bat-nemesis, two-face couldn't stand around screaming "oh god i love the number 2" while henchmen caused chaos, but dent still had to BE two-face. because eckhart was great and dent made such an impression, i guess i don't understand why people are so disappointed by the lack of two-face qua two-face, especially in comparison to say, Batman Forever.
and just in case this is why anyone's scoffing at the observation, i'm not saying TDKR is so much like '60s batman everyone who loves adam west should delight in it, i'm saying that the distinctions between the films CJV made happen to line up nicely with the qualities of '60s batman. If anything i'm trying to dignify the challop of liking TDKR the most ("yes it's campier and more frantic, that's what I want from Batman movies!").
― da croupier, Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
i think these movies are much more comic booky than most people characterize them as. has Nolan said anything particular condescending about the source material in interviews or is that just a vibe people pick up in the movies?
― cute, banned, alert (some dude), Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link