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

this movie kinda hit a sweet spot in being good enough to be a satisfying summer blockbuster but not so 'good' that moron fanboys genuinely believe it should be nominated for best picture

― balls, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:00 PM Bookmark

Yeah, I mean essentially it just dialed back the quality from TDK to the level of, like, a pretty damned good superhero movie. I'd rank Spider-Man 2 above it, and tie it with maybe Iron Man.

insomnia's all day all da time

like the dark knight being constructed well enough and begging to be taken seriously so much leads to you possibly actually taking it seriously and finding that the entire thing is really very very dumb (and then having to deal w/ fanboys who, having never dealt w/ serious grownup art before, don't get that something that is capable of being scrutinized /= something that will stand up to scrutiny). tdr was more sloppily constructed and less forceful in its pretensions and as a result i didn't mind that somehow this one was even dumber. if anything it was a relief.

otm

xxposts hrm...well then maybe I can caveat my musings to say that I mean Nolan as darkness-dude w/r/t the Dark Knight trilogy? That saves me from being completely rong, kind of? lol

Daylight is one of the reasons the last Terminator sucked so.

BAN ALL DAYLIGHT

BANE, ALL DAYLIGHT

^ accurate tagline for this one

http://twitter.com/TebowIsAmish/status/235560717426753536

How far would a plane continue to fly if its wings fell off mid flight? Like based on its altitude, groundspeed, flight path, etc.?

About like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedLTEbhjJ0

this would be the worst movie of the year if prometheus hadn't come out.

oh c'mon you really don't think there were worst movies than those 2?

worst=worse

Finally watched this today... If the bare minimum theme for a Batman movie is "will I be entertained for however long I have to sit through this?" then TDKR was completely successful. I haven't followed Batman in print since the mid-90s so I kept wondering if the bits and pieces of characters and plots that didn't make any sense were just slalom flags to keep the current nerds happy while Nolan plays Bat Katamari Damashī.

Scene at the Pit Prison felt like a perfect cliffhanger break point from the 60s-era two-parters. Really wanted a scene where Gotham News Network airs a Bane propaganda video that ends with him growling out in Bane-voice "Will Batman fix his back and escape the Pit Prison of Death? Who has the detonator for the atom bomb? And just who is the mysterious Catwoman? Stay tuned... same bat time, same bat channel!"

A+ thread BTW.

BTW, despite just seeing it a few hours ago, I have already forgotten most of what happened except that I was disappointed that there was no Bat Snake Plissken scene to get into Gotham.

Considering writing a long blog post about how movie urban planning has entered an uncanny valley. Gotham looks so good-but-not-quite-real that it's creepy as hell - I can't imagine anyone living there outside of background extra cannon fodder.

oh c'mon you really don't think there were worst movies than those 2?

― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:28 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not that i saw!

Considering writing a long blog post about how movie urban planning has entered an uncanny valley. Gotham looks so good-but-not-quite-real that it's creepy as hell - I can't imagine anyone living there outside of background extra cannon fodder.

maybe i just hate nolan but this has everything to do with nolan

that great critical post about him someone put here, i think from emerson? saying that nolan only wants you to pay attention to one thing at a time, so he leads you by the hand from one scene to the next. doesn't spend any time working in the periphery, both in the script and in the set design.

gotham also just looked like it was constructed with the world's largest/bleakest duplo set

oh c'mon you really don't think there were worst movies than those 2?

― RIP Gramp C (some dude), Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:28 PM

not that i saw!

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 4, 2012 8:49 PM

i'd recommend you see dark shadows and the dictator, except i wouldn't

lockout. it doesn't get worse than Lockout

This movie was great

ehh this movie...its not so bad

Lockout was rad

everyone who worked on lockout should be tried for war crimes

ehh this movie...its not so bad

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

big lols

The 15 minutes of Prometheus that I want to remember are better than the 15 minutes of Batman that I guess maybe I could be bothered to remember.

yup

I don't really know what people were expecting from this movie that they would proclaim it to be terrible; it had pretty much everything I expected, plus Anne Hathaway was awesome

BAT-ANTICS

lockout sucked but it was def better than this

you really think ppl went to a batman movie expecting a long mournful movie that took place during the day and featured batman throwing like one punch

- Batman is as much about gadgets as he is punching and, between the batdarts and the bat hoverplane, he had some fun ones
- Bane was a total badass and the way they incorporated bits of his comic book persona into the movie was fantastic
- gtfo with this "one punch" nonsense, there were two big fights and countless smaller skirmishes
- Anne Hathaway was great, as was JGL
- what exactly about the first two Nolan Batman movies made you think this movie would be a nonstop punchstravaganza

yeah Hathaway really doesn't get enough credit for this movie

xp well I think I know sooome people that didn't!

I mean, I basically was sold on the movie when Bruce Wayne shot an arrow inches away from Selina Kyle's head, but when she kicked his crutch out from underneath him and slipped out the window it was game over, movie I love you

DJP OTM

i abide by the year one rule that the costume should never be worn during the day.

instead bruce should wear an uncle-sam-on-stilts suit.

seriously, though, i never did see this. did he really wear the costume out in daylight? for shame, nolan. for shame.

cops versus bane's goons was the stupidest thing

^ yes absolutely. either nolan chickened out of showing lines of dead cops, or he really has zero imagination or common sense.

... he showed a ton of dead cops, particularly in the scene with Modine's last stand?

fyi guys, it's apparently easier to pay attention to a movie if you uncross your arms

unarmed men charging bunkered-in dudes with rifles doesn't turn into a big old-west fistfight. it was stupid.

I watched Lockout last night. It was completely brainless but vaguely amusing. Have no idea why Guy Pearce was pretending to be Johnny Depp as the pirate, though.

Have no idea why Guy Pearce was pretending to be Johnny Depp as the pirate, though.

I know nothing about Lockout, but this kind of makes me want to see it.

yeah what is this lockout you speak of. to google!

you will not find it rewarding.

That's the space prison movie, right