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

they really should have shown Batman getting that giant fire bat symbol ready. using rappelling rope to get into position, taping the outline with painter's tape, spraying layers of flammable coating, etc. probably took him that whole afternoon

I'd settle for seeing him get into the impregnable, sealed-off city, which would have actually made a cool set piece. Between that and the incredibly uninteresting second fight with Bane it's pretty clear this movie was written in like two lazy afternoons and they never went back and thought about anything again, even by the measure of "what would be cool and satisfying in an action-adventure movie?"

just remembered that bruce wayne's devastating spinal injury in this is solved by having some guy punch him really hard in the back

helluva movie

I just checked the Wikipedia page to see how Bruce Wayne overcame his backache and I realized that I'd completely forgotten that Catwoman and Talia Al Ghul were in this thing, and that I'd also forgotten basically the entire movie. And then realized that I don't think I could piece together even a rudimentary summary of any of the three Nolan films. I remember that Morgan Freeman and My Cocaine were in them. And Cillian Murphy (forgot about Scarecrow), and Heath Ledger, of course. Just remembered that Maggie Gyllenhaal replaced Katie Holmes. Ummm...a hospital exploded at some point? Oh, Liam Neeson. Aaron Eckhart. I mostly just remember who was in them. Tom Hardy. What did they do in these things? I don't know. I really don't. Gary Oldman. That football stadium...collapsed, maybe? Sheesh. Oh, Batman made that truck flip over. That was pretty cool. I could probably relate the events of the first Burton Batman minute-by-minute but I guess I probably saw that 852 times as opposed to the one time I saw each of the Nolans.

xpost!!! bizarro!!

We could be doing so much more with this perpetual mind meld, brother.

Maybe its workmanlike lameness is just a tribute to Chuck Dizon

I think Nolan might be the master of completely ephemeral spectacle. Even most bad blockbuster-y movies have at least a scene or two that sticks with me, but I genuinely remember almost nothing about any of his films.

lol so otm.

the first two Burton films are still my favorite

I've enjoyed and often even loved every Nolan movie I've seen on first viewing, eventually I learned that these movies absolutely do not hold up to repeat viewings, or even reminiscing.

We could be doing so much more with this perpetual mind meld, brother.

it's starting to freak me out a little, honestly!

this movie is the biggest pile of shit in the world

The Prestige really stuck with me, and I loved it at the time. Probably doesn't hold up now, but nice to have the Bowie scenes.

Maybe its workmanlike lameness is just a tribute to Chuck Dizon

i dunno if you've checked in with chuck dixon recently (and let's be honest, why would you) but his 'workmanlike lameness' has descended into full-on maga-chuddery over the last few years

Bane voice is the one thing that I still think of from this movie

I was noodling around the house and put on some streaming movies from Amazon, including that Vin Diesel xXx movie from last year, and there's a segment where it seems like they're about to crash this giant military plane. I'm mumbling "crashing this plane... with no survivors!" at the tv and laughing

Bane Irish traveller callout is the best thing about this

And the iDENtiTY of the TRIGger Man is... a MYSTERY!

― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Sunday, January 21, 2018 10:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just started giggling at this

do you guys think that Tom Hardy does the voice around the house when he's talking to his dogs?

bane voice is a gift to humanity, not least because it creeps into so many other tom hardy performances - his slurred cockney muttering in peaky blinders in particular is always teetering on the precipice of full-on bane

dmac otm xxp

Also, what asshole looks at the whole history of Batman and think, "Let's do Knightfall!!!"

the Nolans, obv

Tom hardy hasn't spoken clearly since I pointed out that he is in fact Judi dench in an inflatable muscle skin some years back

Fooling nobody judi

when's the next season of Taboo going to air, can we get Tom back to work on that

Bane's voice and memes is truly the lasting gift of these films.

perhaps also TDKR giving Occupy protesters their mainstream film debut in a film about a billionaire vigilante being our only hope. i wonder if in some weird, twisted way, it actually helped to legitimize the cause to the general public.

No

I'm not sure it put the angry mob in a sympathetic light but I get where you're coming from

Tom hardy hasn't spoken clearly since I pointed out that he is in fact Judi dench in an inflatable muscle skin some years back

eager to refute this obvious nonsense, i google image searched for pictures of dench and hardy together and found nothing

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can't agree about occupy, but i think it's obvious that a series of blockbuster movies about a billionaire vigilante being our only hope put trump in the white house

fwiw i mean "legitimized" as in "This isn't just a thing the news made up, i saw it in Batman"

i think the venn diagram of people aware enough of current events to know about occupy and people who wait for things to show up in their batman movies before giving them credence probably doesn't have a huge amount of overlap, let's put it that way

Ya but in the right gerrymandering system it's just enough

I'm on your schedule, Captain

^^^should replace "otm"

Nolan Batman >>>>>> Burton Batman you are all goths.

just remembered that bruce wayne's devastating spinal injury in this is solved by having some guy punch him really hard in the back

helluva movie

― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 January 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you'd like a film closer to reality may I point you to Rome, Open City.

Glad to help.

Nolan Batman >>>>>> Burton Batman you are all goths.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, January 22, 2018 9:31 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^i'm on your schedule, cap