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woulda been cool if they had put a glowing outline around ra's-al-ghul like the dead people in star wars movies

I agree w/ whichever review described his tone as "weirdly jaunty."

― Simon H., Tuesday, 31 July 2012 09:13 (3 hours ago)

ha yeah, it sometimes felt like he was 50% psychotic hardman 50% quippy standup.

xp the characterizations won't be any less incoherent, but i think the awesome explosions and crap in IMAX would make it a little more enjoyable. at least, it helped me ignore most of the stuff you guys are talking about while i was in the theater. but if you dislike it so much it much, why bother seeing it again?

I sometimes give films I didn't like a second chance if I get the feeling I might have just approached them wrongly or missed stuff. Did it with There Will Be Blood and it paid huge dividends. I have monthly pass to Cineworld cinemas so it doesn't cost me anything.

Reason to see TDKR in IMAX is not just awesome explosions and crap – at least if the first time you say it it was in a crappy digital projection that totally shortchanged the cinematography.

I thought he sounded like the Family Guy impressions of Patrick Stewart.

i don't even remember any awesome explosions or much action at all really.

Bane's look and physicality should have done most of the work but they basically chickened out and turned him into a second-rate Joker, and the way he acted didn't really square with his origin story either. Should have been a man of few words

woulda been cool if they had put a glowing outline around ra's-al-ghul like the dead people in star wars movies

― joaquin haus-partizan (s1ocki), Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:24 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

i hated when he faded away like obi-wan's ghost

xxp ahaha, i actually got that vibe a few times too! but you realize those aren't impressions, right

haha, was just gonna say, that's actually Patrick Stewart on FG.

That makes it funnier, because he sounds like somebody trying to parody him.

Which when you remember Hardy played Picard's clone in the last Next Gen movie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blOgs6r7MM

he is one of these super creepy guys who is never not acting, hardy

find me two interviews where you can say this is exactly the same relaxed irl person with the same voice in both

still can't believe Hardy walked his career back from Nemesis

I still feel slightly traumatized when I think about how awful Nemesis was.

Picard all rockin' his all-terrain vehicle moves...

As the RedLetterMedia guys point out, Tom Hardy's character in both movies pretty much has the same origin of coming from a forgotten pit, amassing an army, etc

Bane's look and physicality should have done most of the work but they basically chickened out and turned him into a second-rate Joker, and the way he acted didn't really square with his origin story either. Should have been a man of few words

― Number None, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:31 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, to the point where, while leaving the cinema, i wondered for a moment whether it was really supposed to have been bane talking throughout the film, or just a voice broadcast through his mask.

whatever, his voice was the best thing about the movie, why "should" they have had his pecs do all the work

man-mountain henchman with a ruined throat and a permanent drug-administering mask does not immediately suggest "chatty kathy"

I wonder how much of the single day he had left to save gotham bats spent painting gasoline on a bridge and writing a new will.

haha

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