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

for sure

The Dark Knight Begins

Yeah, one would think the people weren't buying it for a second but what could they really do?

Watching DK and DKR back-to-back the Dent stuff seems totally necessary and something they had to deal with in some way -- they didn't do it cleanly but the attempt didn't bury the film and leads to those finals scenes in the snowy morning light. Really amazing that they thought to set a scene during the day in a film series that takes place in the dark for such obvious reasons. Nolan took the risk and totally pulled it off.

xps

But then i realized, this is just totally something that would happen in a comic book. Like a man wearing a bat costume.

problem is nolan's batman movies all take place in this awkward middle ground between comic book lightness and gritty realism, i get the feeling he resents the comic book tropes and sees them as obstacles blocking him from his 'true vision'

Watching DK and DKR back-to-back the Dent stuff seems totally necessary and something they had to deal with in some way -- they didn't do it cleanly but the attempt didn't bury the film and leads to those finals scenes in the snowy morning light. Really amazing that they thought to set a scene during the day in a film series that takes place in the dark for such obvious reasons. Nolan took the risk and totally pulled it off.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, December 9, 2012 3:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

must have slipped my mind that today is OPPOSITE DAY

There is not a single scene in The Dark Knight that establishes that anyone other than a few cops and Batman gives a fuck about Harvey Dent

He was elected.

Also don't agree with the need for a mention of the Joker. He failed to corrupt/destroy the people of Gotham but destroyed Dent; that's his legacy, which is addressed. So they are clearly closing off that strand from DK but also following on from the League of Shadows in Batman Begins, which the Joker was not a member of.

Finally saw. Uneven at best. Anne Hathaway as the best Catwoman ever and JGL's strongest performance since Mysterious Skin are by far the best things about it.

hathaway's the 4th best catwoman ever, at the most

i'm ok with that ranking as long as Barney Pfeiff isn't in the top 3

she's #1.

pfeiff dawg was a good one but barney pfeiff is pretty morbsian

seriously want to read an Armond White review praising Premium Rush in comparison to Easy Rider, which was never more than an incoherent work of a drug-addled era, whose sloppiness and indolence paved the way for self-indulgent "art" cinema by know-nothings for decades to come, etc.

i'm just joshin' with The Pied Pfeiffer, we're old friends

so you want to read an otm Armond White review xp

that's too obvious. no, armond needs to negatively compare Premium Rush to the underrated Jason Patric vehicle Rush

heard my little sister mutter "I phail u" under her breath in a really stupid voice, and it took me a second to understand what she was referencing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJVfhnhN48

Ha! I've started doing a stupid Bane voice to annoy my brother. Its working so I'm carrying on for a while.

I'm older.

Tying into the dynamic where Christopher Nolan loves James Bond and now the two franchises' are mirroring one another: the Southern redneck cop that is in on the police chase for Batman in this movie, he seems to recall the redneck cop that's boat-chasing after Bond in "Live and Let Die." I'm sure it's a reference to that character, or at least that's what I thought seeing it in theaters.

And I'm pretty sure he's in the 3rd Batman but he might be in the 2nd,, too or only in the 2nd

i would bet there's a big overlap between people who got way too excited about TDKR and people who consider MBDTF the best record of the past decade, and not just because they were both immensely popular.

― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Monday, July 23, 2012 11:46 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark

i still have no idea what this post means. is the group of people who like that album substantially different from the group of people who like the other kanye west records? didn't ilm like it a lot?

i don't even remember what i was talking about then but uh, i wasn't talking about people who just liked it a lot i was talking about people who consider it a timeless classic along the lines of [any other classic album the writers of rolling stone wouldn't argue with]. people who are obsessed with the canon of the monoculture, people who want to feel like they're witnessing the release of Pet Sounds or The Godfather as it happens and get really excited when pitchfork breaks their 10.0 rule for it. with some sociopathic behavior they might become the type of people who send death threats to critics that lower an anticipated movie's RT score. some people just find extreme levels of pleasure not only in watching/listening to critically-hyped-up mainstream/middlebrow things but in feeling like they're a part of the culture that hoists them up. it's like internet fandom but instead of my little pony or dr. who it's about whatever an appropriate amount of critics approve of.

when i type this i'm thinking of a few select people on my facebook wall, maybe it's not as common as i think.

No, you're on to something with that criticism. I remember a few years ago someone I knew wrote a blot post lamenting that the younger generation, our generation, lacked a "Beatles" or entertainmeners that spoke for "us" and to "us."

The Beatles were that rare example of the most popular of something also clearly being the best, and for everyone to all agree with that assessment. And so there are people that are after that moment of clarity and triumph in entertainment. It's not enough that Dark Knight or Kanye West make millions of dollars: it has to be a part of a generation's personal brand and unite us all or something.

We want our "Pet Sounds" and Godfather movies so some day we can flog some other persons' grandchildren with "You missed out, born too late imo" nostalgia

i just plan to do that w climate change

Watching bane slur his way through lawless last night was a laugh

I'm glad he went Modern Comic Book wrt to the plot. It was a great ending too!

finally got around to watching this. it's fucking terrible.

i looked away for a minute and bruce wayne lost all his money and was making out with the heiress in front of a fireplace. only barely engaged enough to leave it on in the background. just hard to care about any of this shit. Is she thalia i guess?

even the choreography is uninspired. amazing how they found a way to make batman boring, that's something i guess

i totally refuse to read the shitton of earlier posts that I'm sure echo this sentiment but i have the creeping suspicion a lot of people want to believe the stupidity in this thing is "just like the comic" right? as if filming a comic book represents some sort of more sensible and meaningful project than making a comic book directly from a film.

it really is amazing to watch this fucking thing. It's just completely tone-deaf, stupid and horribly misguided.

the whole bane at the stadium thing, i mean jesus christ
and doritos paid to sponsor that!

the way every dialogue scene is clipped so it's just the actors reciting the bare minimum of information is so off-putting and overbearing. Even The Phantom Menace let its actors stretch out more.

yeah, it feels like there's at least two lousy movies in this.
all this immensely dumb shit compressed into the most ludicrous package

and yet so much time spent on dumb sadism and grandiose nihilism

if it were really going for nihilism it probably would've been a lot more entertaining!

i am enjoying watching this old guy punch christian bale's vertebra back in. that's kinda been the high point.
also the dumb bane voice.

watch very carefully for the moment after Batman escapes for one of the dumbest moments in movie history.

wait, which moment

The rope sitting idly by the edge of the pit, where a goddamn goat or something could walk by and knock it over.

lol

everything about that prison still cracks me up.

special agent dude from rescue me getting five minutes of terrible dialogue followed by a quick killing and a public hanging seems entirely in keeping with the spirit of this dumbass exercise.

for all the garbage in this movie, i'll always love that stupid Bane voice

they'll be expecting two bodies in the wreckage BROTHERRRRR

you gotta figure all these guys in the prison must be getting tired of watching this schmuck keep rock climbing and yet they keep showing up for the chanting

omg hahahaha the rope
that IS funny

there's still.. so much movie left

for all the garbage in this movie, i'll always love that stupid Bane voice

they'll be expecting two bodies in the wreckage BROTHERRRRR

― Nhex, Monday, July 1, 2013 2:22 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

same