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Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:02 pm**

15 things wrong with The Dark Knight Rises.

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:09 pm**

The "background" check one is funny.

My old staffing company was better at spotting criminals than Bruce.

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:11 pm**

More I think about it, the more they misused Bane in this flick. He's supposed to be Batman's equal by himself, both physically and mentally. Having him be Talia's henchman just cheapens him.

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:02 pm**

Spoilers
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Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:36 pm**

edit - merged 2 threads. just watched it for the first time sine it was in theaters. going to reread the thread and add new thoughts.

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Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:45 pm**

NSFW heh.

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Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:48 pm**

Leisher wrote:Nolan putting the 8 year layoff in front of the Bane situation made Wayne's stay in the prison seem like he was only there a few days.

Only want to address this, everything else I agree with, more or less:

They make it clear Bruce was in the pit for a minimum of 3 months. Bane drops him in there, Bane goes and starts the siege of Gotham, someone in the city mentions the cops have been underground for 3 months, Tumblers are crawling through snow-covered streets, and then Bruce gets out of the hole. No one ever comes out and blatantly says, "You have been in this prison for 3 months!," but they still made it clear he was in there a while.

I believe when the siege started they said the bomb would go off by itself in about 5 months.... which gives Bruce a couple months to walk out of Uzbekestan (or whatever) and get back to Gotham... one assumes he had no access to money, since he lost his fortune. I'd seen that complaint somewhere, too, questioning how he got from the pit to Gotham like overnight. He didn't. The film showed that.

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:53 pm**

GORDON wrote:I believe when the siege started they said the bomb would go off by itself in about 5 months.... which gives Bruce a couple months to walk out of Uzbekestan (or whatever) and get back to Gotham... one assumes he had no access to money, since he lost his fortune. I'd seen that complaint somewhere, too, questioning how he got from the pit to Gotham like overnight. He didn't. The film showed that.

Ahh, it was right there in the "15 things that bugged us" link a few posts up.

How Does Bruce Wayne Get Back to Gotham? – How does Bruce Wayne travel back to Gotham in a matter of days with absolutely no resources what-so-ever?

As I said, the movie allowed for about 2 months between escape from prison, and getting back to Gotham.

Most of that list was nit picky. Some of it was dumb. It is like they were playing PS3 while they were watching the movie and only giving it half their attention.

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:58 pm**

Malcolm wrote:NSFW heh.

That made me laugh a lot. The movie should actually have done that.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:23 pm**

Prestige author doesn't think much of Nolan's Batman.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:31 pm**

He's a Brit. I guess he'd know boring. Looking at his works, he's won a number of awards but the Prestige is the only book title I'd ever heard of (and only because the movie was made out of it). Only about half of books even seem to have Wiki entries. I guess my reaction is, "Uh... okay?"

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:47 pm**

I wouldn't call Nolan's Batman work boring, but I'd go with overrated, and certainly agree about the bad writing. The bomb plot in The Dark Knight Rises was terrible.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:02 pm**

Eh... still the best Batman live action movies ever made by a pretty wide margin.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:40 pm**

Vince wrote:Eh... still the best Batman live action movies ever made by a pretty wide margin.

I think the '89 version holds.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:42 pm**

Malcolm wrote:
Vince wrote:Eh... still the best Batman live action movies ever made by a pretty wide margin.
I think the '89 version holds.

Going to watch those with my kid soon, see what he thinks.

He really enjoyed the Nolan ones, which surprised me a little. Often if there isn't nonstop action he gets bored.

Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:28 pm**

Nolan's batman films appealing to an adolescent? Intellectual development stage is right in the wheelhouse.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:29 am**

Malcolm wrote:
Vince wrote:Eh... still the best Batman live action movies ever made by a pretty wide margin.
I think the '89 version holds.

Was a fan when it first came out, but I'm pretty sure that was just the euphoria of seeing Batman on the big screen. Being a huge fan of The Dark Knight Returns I realized after a while that it really wasn't that great to me. It was a good movie, but not Batman. Plus, Tim had such a boner for Jack while filming that they should have just retitled it to Joker.

This one and Planet of The Apes made me realize that Burton should never be given established properties to work with.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:51 am**

Malcolm wrote:Nolan's batman films appealing to an adolescent? Intellectual development stage is right in the wheelhouse.

He's 9.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:23 am**

Burton's Batman wasn't horrible. Did he do the sequel? That sucked. All the original sequels sucked.

His Planet of the Apes is one of the worse movies I've ever seen.

Nolan's Batman series is very entertaining, well directed, and has very memorable villains, but well written? Not so much.

Heath Ledger dying really gave those films a level of hype that was bullshit. Hell, aside from Ledger the second movie sucked. Tom Hardy's Bane made the third film awesome.

Posted: **Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:21 am**

GORDON wrote:
Malcolm wrote:Nolan's batman films appealing to an adolescent? Intellectual development stage is right in the wheelhouse.

He's 9.

Whatever you want to call the category. A "yute" perhaps.

I'm pretty sure Nolan has a first-grader write his plot outlines.

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