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

neither is a useful guide to movie quality

is that so

Coping with a Dark Knight Rises negative review

i dunno how anyone can having anything but a 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' attitude towards sequels, historically speaking it's just a crapshoot. i wanna see this and want to enjoy it, but who knows really.

There's always Metacritic, which divines numerals from reviews that don't use any rating scale whatsoever.

Often with clear bias. Seen lots of mostly positive reviews get scored in the 40 percent range.

it's pretty rare i want to get a sense of consensus, but i prefer the green-to-red scroll-down formatting of metacritic, despite the lunacy of their imposed rating style, to the relative swamp of rotten tomatoes

Viocodin is a helluva drug.

Just incredible the shit that dribbles out of that gaping anal cavity.

you're looking for the tmi thread I think

lol

thank u rush <3

i use metacritic all the time but not to figure out movie quality just to see a list of links to reviews

i mean i don't read reviews to figure out movie quality either

i realize the same could be accomplished by googling "[movie name] review" but leave me alone

the first time i appeared on metacritic btw i screencapped it and posted it on my livejournal

Posting screencaps of your metacritic appearances on your livejournal is the new 'dancing about architecture' is the name of my dog, officer.

(but YOU don't understand /unclesam)

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haha, awesome

burn

so, Occupy-bashing?

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/batman_hates_the_99_percent/

good lord

been wondering about this, though i haven't seen TDKR. in TDK, the citizenry must be lied to in order to keep them moving in the right direction (as conceived by the superrich and engineered with the aid of government). looks like the sequel will concern what happens when that benevolent guidance slips.

you mean like that part where the people ended up making the right moral choices on their own, despite manipulation?

Oh, but this movie is going to make election year a traet!

you mean like that part where the people ended up making the right moral choices on their own, despite manipulation?

yeah, exactly

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2012/07/are-you-not-entertained.html

kenny sorta-kinda weighs in on the Rotten tomatoes thing

not sure he understands this specific scenario as much as he thinks but otm regardless

framing this as readers vs. "critics with whom they disagree" isn't right really since generally speaking the people that are mad haven't even seen the movie, they're just fans of the franchise. which is the craziest thing to me, how can you be that defensive about the advance press for something you haven't seen yet?

bc anticipation >>> results every time, if the anticipation is big enough

nerds spend 2 hours watching the movie and like two months wetting their pants over the idea of watching the movie

bad reviews injure the fantasy

nerds spend 2 hours watching the movie and like two months wetting their pants over the idea of watching the movie

not that different from music critics tbh

or movie critics!

Harry Knowles is disappointed. Um, too bad?

nerds are nerds, and they come in many varieties, but the state of collective, sustained, internet-enabled frenzy in which self-defined "geek culture" (or w/e) awaits its totem films does have its own special character.

btwn Knowles hating it and Schager approving, I'm about 99% sure I'm going to like this.

no way dude Harry called BULLSHIT.

god, harry knowles is a terrible writer

god, harry knowles is a terrible writer

(you had to know that was coming, so I'm going to assume that was an alley-oop)

After the film, I went out to dinner with some friends that attended and the aggravation with the film was felt throughout the table.

i guess that line's not that weird. maybe you can say "throughout the table". i just laughed cuz i imagined the table itself like shaking with inarticulate rage over nolan's desecration of batman.

tbf James Hetfield usually seems pretty aggravated

Ebert liked the last 2, isn't sold on this one. leaving aside the ones who seemingly HAVE to say something nice this is basiclaly getting 'mixed' reviews then.

He gave this 3 stars. Andy over at Salon loved it.

hahaha wait

"hmm, I'm not sure about this one: 3 out of 4 stars"

NYT review was pretty glowing

I liked the Salon review

Harry Knowles is disappointed.

This makes me want to pre-emptively like this movie.

i stopped myself when i got to the big spoiler pause (sigh, normally i don't care but i'd kinda like the end to be a surprise) but the stuff he mentioned, like batman retiring because someone he loved died, seemed kinda weak sans context.

it just seemed a really nerdy and macho rant.

I hope this is super sacrilegious. I'm sick to death of "faithful" comic adaptations.

honestly i don't really care if the film adds up so long as it's got forward motion. i just don't want to have a chance to ponder how it could have been better while it's on screen.

so no hollered, gravelly bat-monologues, nolan!