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

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

― da croupier, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:25 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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)

yeah i was surprised just how ignorable the OWS/class warfare shit was, critics had me thinking it'd be offensively Randian or something when really you have to put more effort than Nolan did to get a coherent message from the film. for all bane's speechifying it looked like the 99% was staying off the streets, it was just mercenaries/blackgate types vs cops from what i could tell.

i still can't get over the fact that batman retires for 8 years and gotham is plunged into... an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity

well they had a law passed that denied mobsters parole or something

i will say it's a testament to the actors (or the chug-along pace of the film) that even with all the feelings and speeches only michael caine started to actually annoy me. Mostly I just got the giggles.

it really bugged me that like... we're meant to assume that batman retired right after the end of the dark knight, right? why is his body so wrecked and ruined?? it would make sense if he'd continued as batman in the intervening years, but he basically had a few months of crimefighting under his belt and called it quits

also why bother having his legs all owsy-wowsy if later, after Bane appears to break his back, some old dude in a pit can just pop it back into place and then it's just a few push-ups before we're better than ever

yeah... in a lot of ways this movie seemed to deliberately undermine everything potentially fun about it. batman's body is wrecked and we even get a scene from a doctor that's like nolan telling the audience 'don't expect any cool bat-moves'

then again jim dangle is probably a shitty doctor

you know what would've been cool, at the end when the mansion is turned into an orphanage, the new headmaster rolls out and its patrick stewart in a wheelchair. think about THAT

or BANE, who having survived the shooting, realizes there are better uses for his inexplicably saucy inexplicably british wit

i've said "no BROTHER, they expect two of US in the WRECKage" a bunch of times since i saw it

you have to say it into a cup for the full effect

his voice is mad fun to imitate

Would like to see Carcetti as the CIA bad guy in a Bourne movie now.

xpost his voice is sean connery under a bucket and i claim my 5

will def be keeping an eye out for a bane dialogue super-cut when this goes to dvd. I get the feeling his accent will sound all over the place if you put all his lines back-to-back.

i love how his voice rises at the end of every sentence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-BxAU2xvo

bane's voice and the avengers getting me to say "this isnt a (cat / scone / coffee) its a timebomb" for 2 straight weeks are the triumphs of 2012's funnybook movies

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