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[IMADreamer]

Anne Hathaway. yummm.

I guess I didn't see it coming but the Robin revelation was a real groaner.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I pretty much agree with what's been said.

[SHOW]

It was entertaining, but it was so unbelievable for many reasons, but the apparent belief that sewers make up 90% of what's under buildings is ridiculous. Buildings/roads/etc are built on terra firma, not massive openings underneat. Even if the applied science building/football stadium were of a pier support system, you can't jsut blow everything up around the piers and not critically damage them. Also, sewers would never run under the river and be at the same elevation as an underground secret nuclear reactor because if they did, they'd be flooded, but I digress....

I can't wait for this to come out on video so I can figure out half the [expletive] Bane said. And, I almost felt like this should have been two movies. We have this huge Bane vs Batman conflict with no background on Bane. In Batman Begins, you have like half the movie dedicated to Ras Ah Goul. In The Dark Knight, you have an ample understanding of the joker as a simple yet extremely dangerous villain expressed by Alfred below. In TDKR, Bane comes off as an incredibly complex villain with an altered and at times believable moral code which is apparently why his followers are so loyal to him and his movement. I couldn't help but feel Bane embodied the 99% movement at times, but you don't fully understand his motives, even at the end when it's all explained...at least I didn't. In a 2 hour and 45 minute movie, I left feeling as though the character development was rushed along just to keep this from becoming a mega long 4 hour movie....

Anyway, it was good, but yeah, definitely the weakest of the 3.

Here's the scene that in a minute fully explains the Joker, imo.

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Anne Hathaway is not bringing the wood.

[Vidor]

What a terrible, terrible haircut.

[Michael]

Yeah, Anne Hathaway doesn't do it for me.

And I have no problem with her knobby knees.

[Vidor]

As for what's been said above, re: The Dark Knight Rises...

...whenever I read this thread on my ipad, and I click to open a spoiler tag, it kicks me all the way back to the top of the page. Wait--that's not about the movie, that's me whining about "spoiler" tags again. So never mind. Anyway....

...I guess I have a higher tolerance for Bane hiding out in a gigantic sewer system, or the "unstable" nuke that you can apparently whack with hammers or whatever. It's not just "it's a movie", but "it's a comic book movie". It's a guy running around in a bat suit. Surely films like that get more leeway with plot contrivances and MacGuffins.

[Vidor]

Interesting article at Slate on the decline of counterprogramming, or, why there was no chick flick to go up against "The Dark Knight Rises".

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... fice_.html

[AdmiralKird]

DKR...

[SHOW]

1. Bane's voice means this film will never win an award for sound mixing. It was just terrible. They gave his dialogue aural treatment to try and make it more clear, but it didn't work at all. Hearing him 'narrate' his dialogue rather than having it be locational reaaaaally pulled me out of the Bane scenes, and I missed numerous lines because of too much digitization.

2. The scene with the cops and the league of shadows was just hokey. These films were supposed to be more...realistic, but then we get a scene where Batman and Bane are posturing through the center of the battle and then start to duke it out. I felt like I was watching the ending of the Patriot where Mel Gibson fights Tavington/Tarelton during a major engagement. WTF, if you're a foot soldier you grab a rifle and annihilate the leader. At least Tavington was dressed in a common uniform and could be missed in the heat of a major fight by other soldiers. Clearly Bane held all the cards since he had been speaking on TV for months, was buff as heck, and had a gigantic mask on his face. Someone should have grabbed a thrown AK74 and just riddled him.

3. The idea of removing the rope to escape the prison. Ummm Bruce...why didn't you take the rope off of you on the platform prior to the jump and used the rope to lasso the other rock?

4. Oh and clearly Al Ghoul wasn't Bane's father because it was obviously Sean Connery.

[Swirls]

DKR...

[SHOW]

1. Bane's voice means this film will never win an award for sound mixing. It was just terrible. They gave his dialogue aural treatment to try and make it more clear, but it didn't work at all. Hearing him 'narrate' his dialogue rather than having it be locational reaaaaally pulled me out of the Bane scenes, and I missed numerous lines because of too much digitization.

2. The scene with the cops and the league of shadows was just hokey. These films were supposed to be more...realistic, but then we get a scene where Batman and Bane are posturing through the center of the battle and then start to duke it out. I felt like I was watching the ending of the Patriot where Mel Gibson fights Tavington/Tarelton during a major engagement. WTF, if you're a foot soldier you grab a rifle and annihilate the leader. At least Tavington was dressed in a common uniform and could be missed in the heat of a major fight by other soldiers. Clearly Bane held all the cards since he had been speaking on TV for months, was buff as heck, and had a gigantic mask on his face. Someone should have grabbed a thrown AK74 and just riddled him.

3. The idea of removing the rope to escape the prison. Ummm Bruce...why didn't you take the rope off of you on the platform prior to the jump and used the rope to lasso the other rock?

[SHOW]

Yeah, I joked to my friends about Sean Connery being Bane. And my thought was why not just climb the rope in the first place to get out of prison??

[SHOW]

4. Oh and clearly Al Ghoul wasn't Bane's father because it was obviously Sean Connery.

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Cloud Atlas trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/cloudatlas/#share

Incredibly ambitious. If they pull it off, could be great.