It was a really good movie.

Well said, Fisk. You went into the movie similar to how I did. Went in with an open mind to see just where Nolan was going to take it.

The funny thing is, I figured, for sure, that by the end of "Rises" I would be able to put one above the other; "Dark Knight" above "Rises" or vice versa. But I walked out of the theater, long after the credits, at about 3:30a after the midnight showing, here, last week...and I couldn't. I found them both equally amazing and intense with "Begins" being a very close second.

I don't know who is going to be crazy enough to try to take on the re-boot Hollywood already wants to do but I feel sorry for them. Not sure how they, director, producers, and so on, are going to live-up to the expectations that would surely follow them around, almost hauntingly, after Nolan's amazing trilogy. Arguably one of the greatest movie trilogies of all-time and certainly the best comic book movie adaptation series of all-time.

it's the same with Hulk and Spiderman. Hollywood never gets sick of selling the same shit over and over again. They don't care if the gum is already chewed enough. They can add some extra color or different taste but it's still the same chewed gum and it will never taste as awesome again like the first time. They even wanted to reboot "Back to the future" and "flight of the navigator". Both a BIIIG "NO!" But nothing is sacred for them as long as they can do it and people still run into the cinemas like wild...

Thou i must say i liked the second Hulk reboot a lot better than Ang Lee's version and Spidey... well.. Sam Raimi's Trillogy is just perfect. I don't get what's wrong with all the haters bitching about part 3?

Aren't they even already planning to reboot X-men as well? >.<

I live in colorado...nuff said

Sooo, you didn't see it?

Exactly.

I live in Colorado too, and I saw it on the midnight release. Good movie. :)

Also not a batman fan.

To each their own.

lol, *headdesks* what

Guess they're not a batman fan?

Guess the shooting effected the whole state- lock your doors and initiate not safe to leave your house protocol.

Well, it did affect the whole state. I was freaking out the next day after it happened. It could have been me and my gf. It could have been the theater we went to.

But that won't stop me going to see a movie at at theater. And of course that won't stop the loonies from keeping this world a dangerous place.

I have seen it, guess in ways it affected me all the way in Fort Collins. I might see it when I move to Indiana though lol

And moving to Indiana will make you safer how? Dude... CRAZIES are everywhere.

no my girlfriend moved there, I'm on my way there in the middle of August so yeah.

He just wanted to say that he's living in Colorado. Even though he wouldn't have gone anyway! :P

You'll probably dig it.

My local theatre had a hiccup on the last 20 minutes, pausing like a scratched dvd

The movie itself was far better then I expected, not only one of the greastest comic book related movies i've seen but generally one of the best i've seen this year entirely. I was on the edge of my seat far more then i was for the Avengers, and I'm a Marvel buff!

Oh, that sucks. I'd hate to have an experience like that ruined by a glitch.

Right at the climax it went ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR, having a game of freezeframe before finally continuing.

By the time the credits came around the movie had a short stall after every second . It was that distracting I missed a few details about the ending but either way, got free tickets so can't complain too much!

What I also expected [...] was that the sorts of people who really liked the second movie in the trilogy, wouldn't like this one nearly as much because it lacked [...] the nihilistic Joker character who holds a philosophy that justifies many of their darkest fantasies in such a macabre way. To them, the film would have fallen "flat" because they aren't really there to analyze the entire tale, as much as they are there to enjoy mindfucks and good fights.

I still gotta see part 3, but Heath Ledger didn't impress me much in part 2. AFAIK, nobody was impressed much with Ledger's performance until his Oscar nomination. According to Terry Gilliam, not even the studios were impressed much with Ledger's performance while he was trying to bring the funds for his The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus together, and none of the studio executives (who'd already seen The Dark Knight before its release) could imagine a great star power in Ledger based on his performance. Until then, Ledger's biggest box office successes so far had been high school comedies and "that one gay cowboys art film" (and Gilliam's prior film, The Brothers Grimm that had been majorly damaged by producer interference) that the studios felt didn't target the same demographics as Christopher Nolan or Gilliam's proposed film. But then Ledger got nominated for his role in The Dark Knight (wasn't that after he died, even?), and suddenly everyone and their dog changed their minds and called it a good performance. The rest was done by marketing and trade reviews.

I also don't see how, "Hey, we're both freaks! We're the same! Why so serious?" is supposed to be such a complex, sophisticated "nihilistic philosophy". I liked part 2 a lot, but that was because of Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and the action sequences. Not much there to "analyze the entire tale", but fun.

Funny. I don't remember being told I should like his performance, or dislike it. However, I thought that version of the Joker was the most compelling I've seen and I thought he was performed well.

I don't say it was bad, but I couldn't see anything extraordinary. Reading Ledger's interviews about his preparations and mindset for the role was more exciting than actually watching him do it.

I always saw his joker as a different character altogether. Still Very well played, but i was always a die hard fan of Hamill's brand of crazy.
But honestly this version of bane, while fun to watch, had a much more subtle aura about him than the joker did. Ledger spent time in seclusion to practice for this role, but the insanity that was bane was far more background and IMO harder to prepare for and harder to portray externally, but Tom Hardy did an amazing job, and in the end i had more fun watching Bane.
-imho

I agree. The Dark Knight was my favorite of the three. Sure, the thrid one had good action scenes, but Catwoman ruined it for me. I just couldn't get into it with her there.

I'll wait till its out on DVD cause none of those movies was worth seeing on the big screen. Don't get me wrong, batman is actually my favorite but I just didn't bale's portrayal of him as much nor am I feeling the superhero genre anymore. It's been too saturated in the media it's like you can't turn without one popping up. I'd love to see takes on red wall, the dragons of pern series, or fiest's dark series. Those could be good if done right.

the ending mixed with the incredible soundtrack almost gave me a heart attack..

Two words.

Hans Zimmer.

was a really thought out and well written review and take on the film series. Great job. It is rare a movie series manages to hold up this well with three films without it going through drastic changes. This is as complete of a story arc as one can get with a batman film. And yes WB will never let this franchise go but it's still open to possibly continue the series in the future. I always liked the idea of superhero films being treated like the bond franchise. Have two, three, or four movies, then let some other director/actors take the reigns and just keep telling good batman stories and to hell with continuity. X-men first class didn't care, I'm still surprise people dare compare that to X-3 as if that movie counted.

Considering the amount of characters they introduce, and with so many returning characters, I'm surprised at how well the hole movie is layed out. It's a slow burn with an explosive ending; kind of the same rhythm as hot fuzz. I could easily see the studio tacking on another 1 or 2 movies.

Funny thing, I didn't take as much notice as you did to the whole the truth will set you free thing.

You do realize that the entire series has been laid out as an eternally on-going franchise since at least Burton's second movie, right? It's just that Nolan is retiring from his role at the helm, it doesn't mean the franchise itself is gonna end in any way. It'll just be a new era after Burton, Schumacher, and Nolan.

Yes I do, and i've herd about plans for the possible next movie. BUT I also know the movie industry can move on rather quickly. And there is also the preasure for putting batman into justice league movie; it's probable not a question of if they will re-boot batman. It's more of a question of how long do they continue the current franchise, before doing so.

I'll give it like that they tried to bring batman more into the real world then his own but being an old batfan, I'll stick to the comic. Watching each of the movies all I could do was sit and point out how they screwed it up or over completely, I'm still weirded that bane wasn't...Bane. the real Bane. or at the very least his damned heritage, screwed that over more then him. He was raised in a prison like that yeah but he's not british or whatever that accent was, I liked them as a whole but it makes me feel bad as a batfan for some reason as well.

It's simply an interpretation of the myth. Bane's ethnicity being one thing or another is as inconsequential as Joker's canon origin (of which there are several).

Aye that's true, considering thought too movies usually end up radically different from their books or games and such, over all I would say they did a good job. Still kinda disapointed Bane was huge but they did get his strength anyways and that he's the only villian to brake batman's spine. The ending though makes me think they're gonna do spin off movies since now robin is in it, it'd be interesting since he'd turn into nightwing I believe.

Warner Brothers and DC might agree to more movies, but I'm pretty sure Nolan's probably out.

I wouldn't doubt that, he said the suit was making him feel weird. After 3 movies in the suit I think I would too, The next would be maybe robin since batman "exploded."

The director doesn't wear the batsuit.

I ment nolan.

Right. Wrong Chris... Nolan directed. Bale was Batman. ;)

Ehh wrong name, ment bale. never really cared for actors in movies as long as the movie was good

Wow, I guess I really am in the minority on liking this movie.

As well as the movie was done, it was boring to me and some details here or there bothered me.

You are not alone. And I'm glad for it, because I was thinking I was alone in this as well.

The movie is really good! But the Batman didn't show up in the movie much compare to older movies. But still very good.

I'm glad to see other people who actually LIKED the movie. My friends and I dug the hell out of it, thought it was a perfect capper to tie all three movies together, but seems like every time I open my browser I see someone else saying WORST MOVIE EVAR, NOLAN SUX. Was starting to think i was in the vast minority.

I may go see it when the crowd dies down some.

Phrasing?

Wow. Way to be unoriginal.

I'll have to see the movie, first, before I comment. I did recently watch both the previous movies, though. The first one I disliked from the start. It was murky, and half seemed like a cheap Hong Kong Kung Fu movie. Okay, it's useful to learn martial arts skills, but would't any first class judoka in Japan do? Does anyone but 14 year-olds really believe in secret martial arts techniques that are superhuman? Bruce Wayne might as well have been bitten by a radioactive spider or bathed in cosmic rays.

The second movie hardly seemed like a Batman film at all. It was a Joker movie, with Batman in a supporting role. And The Joker clearly suffered from Hannibal Lector syndrome -- madness obviously adds 100 points to anyone's IQ. For The Joker to have pulled off half his crimes, he would have had be be trucking explosives surreptitiously into buildings for months, if not years, ahead of time.

But, to tell the truth, I enjoyed the two films more this time than the first couple of viewings. So I do look forward to the third.

Spoiler Warning!

Really, I didn't think they would really kill Bruce Wayne off, not just for the philosophical reasons but also because the trailers and such have hinted extensively that John Blake would be his successor and, I'm sorry, but he will get his candy ass handed to him without someone to help train him. Although that franchise has ended, I can see Bruce Wayne returning to train him.

Well, I put a link my LJ comment and it got marked as spam for it so I might as well repeat it here in case it blocked it somehow. XD

Most of my issues came from just how paper thin everything in the film felt. My wife and I enjoyed the film but every time we talk about it we liked it less. We watched Movie Bob's review of it after seeing the film and he pretty much summed up our feelings. You may actually enjoy his thoughts. He's intelligent in his reviews.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid.....k-Knight-Rises

Same website you get Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation game reviews.

FOR OTHERS THERE ARE SOME SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW AS THE REVIEWER EVEN WARNS ABOUT

eh, was a last ditch effort for a cash grab, joker was way better. not much a batman fan anyways and didnt pay to see it so no real loss save for an aching bladder afterwards.

In an attempt to avoid spoilers, I'll just say that I liked the film in general, but it has a couple of plot holes... including one big truck-sized one dealing with information Bruce SHOULD have received during his recovery.

I mean, think about it... those companions to speak to, and somehow the details of the topic they KEEP talking about never come up, so he can be surprised later?

All I can say is: those guys were dicks.

I present the entire final act of Dark Knight Rises...

https://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/.....10VeaMslQ2.jpg

Nolan actually stated himself there was no political aim of the movie, they simply found a strategy for which bane would attempt to sway the people. It's not some sort of statist-captisalist propganda bullshit, and especially not objectivist propoganda. The Dark Knight films are much more intelligent and justice oriented than that.

Intent or not.

And your misunderstanding of freedom and rights is noted.

Scarecrow had a cool role in this movie