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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

what is the deal with this commissioner gordon b plot? who thought what a superhero movie needed was more talky talky

one thing keaton had going for him that bale doesn't is inherent likability. bale is less charismatic than bane is.

Token moral complexity trappings

this movie is such a nothing. kind of amazing how bad Nolan blew it. I think it was a combo of terrible villain and feeling the need to stick batman in a hole, not to mention deciding that making it more epic meant that he'd have more time to devote to matthew modine's pathetic character arc and JGL in a useless supporting role.

this is basically a four issue miniseries, chopped into storyboards and setpieces which explains why it's simultaneously rushed, immensely slow and tin-eared. this is dancing about architecture in grand scale.
how in the hell was this a blockbuster? who has the patience for this?

I recognize that folks might hate BB and TDK but those movies are imo pretty rewatchable and massively fun, w the villains played by actors who seem to take joy in the roles. not sure why it even matters who played bane, can't believe it was a fun role for tom hardy.

All the fucking "occupied gotham" shit is so horrible. It's like the pianist without the action scenes.

i'd agree with that. i watched the first two not with any overwhelming joy but they were fine. this is DOA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zxgUUfQPxAI&t=2m

ugh fight choreography is SO BAD why is this so poorly thought out
WHERE IS THE TRIGGER WHERE IS THE TRIGGER WHERE IS IT ARAARAAAARGH

i see i called the thalia thing. i am not proud in any way.

batman's gonna fly the atom bomb away in his batplane
why is this film still going
why am i still watching it

wait til superman shows up and breaks the bomb's neck

http://technabob.com/blog/2013/06/30/the-dark-knight-trilogy-blu-ray-ultimate-collectors-edition-leaked/

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

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, July 1, 2013 1:27 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, ditto. kinda wish they'd stuck with the original dub or w/e

stupid voices secretly best thing about nolan batman movies

otm

I seriously do impressions of the Bane voice to myself, like, once a week.

It works incredibly well with nursery rhymes.

twinkle twinkle little... star?

bane voice has some great questioning uptalk

yeah, GRRRWHYDOYOUWANNAKILLME/WHERESHARVEYDENT scene from TDK still brings the lols

i like that batman and bane not only sound like children pretending to be monsters, but that their fight scenes come off like two dolls being bashed against each other

LOL yes!

The plot of these movies is utterly ridiculous though, even given the comic book world they live in. The OWS stuff they shoehorned in was weak and pretty dumb. The shackles of rule by the rich and powerful are thrown off for the populist....um ... guy that blew up a football stadium. And then this same guy who has killed many innocent people reads from a confession about the truth about Harvey Dent and all of Gotham believes him and turns on the police? At a certain point it becomes more than plot holes, it's a general lack of focus, unclear motivations all around, etc.

Felt like there were too many things they wanted to include in this movie and all of them got written in but the impact was severely diminished for pretty much all of them.

script predated OWS, sheesh

If they wanted to go with the "Gotham ruled by a villain" thing they should have just done that. Chop out the bomb thing, chop out the faraway pit-prison (which creates more plot problems than it's worth - how about Bane has a sinister super-base in the sewers, or he somehow imprisons Batman in the Bat Cave or something), chop out Talia and make Bane work as a villain in his own right (or use someone other than Bane)... basically the 2-second premise of this is interesting but it gets junked up really fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgT1gtdC-PE

I like the scene at 2:10 because it sounds like Bane is bumbling incoherently and the dude is just going "What?"

general rule of thumb is that when Mike W Barr's Batman and the Outsiders stories make more sense and look better than your 300 million dollar movie something's gone wrong.
no dis to jim aparo of course

their fight scenes come off like two dolls being bashed against each other

seeing bits and pieces on hbo recently has brought up more bits of stupidity. How when Matthew Modine leads the charge on bane's people, the cops have little guns, and bane's soldiers have automatic weapons. But when Batman shows up, everybody's having fisticuffs?

That drove me nuts. Hooray, Batman is leading everybody to their deaths in a suicide charge! And they win!

similarly, why would the bad guys run toward a small army when they have automatic weapons and some distance? Hold your ground, keep firing, end movie.

my #1 favorite thing about this movie is still that they apparently unintentionally jacked this for the climax

http://filmdump.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/batman-1966-3.jpg

HAS to be intentional.

a nolan quote re inception that seems pertinent to the matter

"There are all kinds of references in there. This wasn't really a conscious thing on my part; I didn't set out to make a movie about movies. But what I wanted was for the dream imagery to be resonant not just to me, but on some kind of shared level. And I think naturally, as a filmmaker, I just gravitate toward cinema as the collective memory we have of imagery and symbolism."

from the same interview that features my favorite nolan quote ever:

"One of my favorite brain teasers, or things to occupy my mind with when I have spare time, is that if you look in a mirror, left and right are reversed, but up and down are not. How is that possible? I've been trying to wrap my head around that for decades and I make no progress. If any of your readers have the solution, I'll be interested."

DECADES.

fucking mirrors how do they work

Effect of gravity on light photons btw

real versus virtual images iirc

btw if the mirror was on the ceiling you'd be upside down!

The Dark Knight Refracted