The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

[Chris55]

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I learned that cops will RUN straight at armed thugs in this movie and it will be called genius!

Also, the people of Gotham will be thanking Batman for the slow and painful death of radioactive fallout for years to come!

[Gorosaurus Rex]

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Anyone else find it funny how the climaxes to this and The Avengers were so bizarrely similar?

[Spirit Ghidorah 2010]

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Also, the people of Gotham will be thanking Batman for the slow and painful death of radioactive fallout for years to come!

I was gonna say...

The explosion was over water, so the scattered radioactive particles will be smaller and more easily dispersed by wind currents, many of which will likely blow over Gotham. And even if the scattered particles don't reach Gotham, they're gonna have to deal with the contaminated water...

[Tohosaurus]

Probably the lesser of two evils

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

The explosion was over water, so the scattered radioactive particles will be smaller and more easily dispersed by wind currents, many of which will likely blow over Gotham. And even if the scattered particles don't reach Gotham, they're gonna have to deal with the contaminated water...

So we get more superpowers and more villains for Robin to fight.

[Mincecraft]

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Anyone else find it funny how the climaxes to this and The Avengers were so bizarrely similar?

Never thought of that!

[wataru]

The explosion was over water, so the scattered radioactive particles will be smaller and more easily dispersed by wind currents, many of which will likely blow over Gotham. And even if the scattered particles don't reach Gotham, they're gonna have to deal with the contaminated water...

So we get more superpowers and more villains for Robin to fight.

Radioactive shit in the water? Killer Croc.

Radioactive shit in the air? Man-Bat

[Chris55]

The more you think about the movie, the dumber it gets in hindsight.

[HikizuruBeat]

The more you think about the movie, the dumber it gets in hindsight.

The sewer part with the strobe light effect scene made me laugh.

Also I feel for Tom Hardy he got a ridiculous tan with that Bane mask.

[Chris55]

The more you think about the movie, the dumber it gets in hindsight.

The sewer part with the strobe light effect scene made me laugh.

Also I feel for Tom Hardy he got a ridiculous tan with that Bane mask.

Yeah what sucked about that is that anyone with that build could have played his part. He's a pretty great actor too. Seems like he was wasted.

[wataru]

Now he's on his way to the reboot of Avatar the Last Airbender..

[RedZillaKing]

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Did anyone else think that Bane's voice was ridiculous? What the hell accent were they going for? Why did they steal his origin for Talia?

And while we're on the subject of Bane, I feel like the only thing this Bane and comic book Bane share are the name (and maybe the ridiculous strength, though THAT attribute belongs to several of Batman's rogues).

[HikizuruBeat]

POSSIBLE SPOILERS:

Did anyone else think that Bane's voice was ridiculous? What the hell accent were they going for? Why did they steal his origin for Talia?

And while we're on the subject of Bane, I feel like the only thing this Bane and comic book Bane share are the name (and maybe the ridiculous strength, though THAT attribute belongs to several of Batman's rogues).

He sounded like a mix of the snowman from courage the cowardly dog and Baron Underbeit from venture bros

[Chris55]

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Did anyone else think that Bane's voice was ridiculous?

It was interesting. I got MOST of what he was saying. Some of it was just straight up mumbled.

[Gojira21]

I enjoyed Bane, i thought he was ten times better than the Bane used to older Batman movies. Plus, i thought the voice worked out, it was hard to understand at times but still

[SoleMan]

A couple thigns that bother me:

Did Bruce Wayne fake his X-Ray scans? First off, how could he have THAT much damage to his body, even if it is 8 years later? Secondly, if it was as damaged as they say, he wouldn't have been able to move, and the rest of the movie is ridiculous. I'm going with he faked his scans.
Building on that, I don't think Bane would've beaten him the first time. In the comic, Batman could barely stand and was about to pass out, not to mention Bane was jacked up on Venom, that's how he beat him. Here, Batman was for better or worse at full strength, especially since he would've come back weaker to fight him the second time. (I'll let the magic "Healing his spine" thing go, though there's no way he could be at full strength)

I suppose nukes in the DC universe don't carry radiation, as there's no way Batman could've escaped it from his plane, nor could the city of Gotham. (Though I like the idea of him riding the radiation wave to safety, must have been a lead-lined suit)

Also, Bane really wasn't the villain in it, he was little more than a thug. I figured the whole thing was Talia's plan, and he just executed it, maybe getting some of the little details. (Like reading Gordon's speech on the steps of the courthouse) My biggest problem is that he goes through the whole business of isolating the city and creating an anarchist state with the nuclear bomb...only to have it decay and blow them up anyway. I understand that the normal people didn't realize this until the end, but why even go through that? Why just...I don't know...do it in the first place without all the hassel? There's much less a chance of it being stopped, and it would fit more the secretive nature of an organization called "The League of Shadows." I guess it's just to screw with Batman, like, "Yeah, we did this: All because of you!" It's like their insanity defeats them.

[HikizuruBeat]

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I don't think he got on the plane in the first place or if he did he left while the plane was still near the city. Remember at the end with Fox someone said the auto pilot system on the plane was fixed 6 months ago by Bruce Wayne hinting that he fixed the autopilot before the atomic bomb thing. So the whole plane flying the bomb away was implied probably that it was auto piloting away the whole time and he faked his death.

[kkawachi]

My verdict: It's a winner. There i going to be a ton of spoilers so read at your own peril.

I didnt love the title, but building around the word rise seems appropriate now.
Opening scene rocked. Completely understood and was menaced by Bane. I prefer to think of him as power over brain; Talia and the Joker are those characters for me.
Bane is overwhelmingly excellent, but how do you follow the Joker/Ledger?

I thought Bruce Wayne's condition was a bit much, how could he be so messed up from inaction? Was he already that worn down at the end of TDK?

Catwoman was also excellent throughout.
I liked the reactor subplot, it made sence and was pertinant to today.

While the stock market scene rocked, I didnt understand why they had to take away Bruce's money. Was that the only way to get control of the company?

The pacing throuout the siege is really bad; time flies, then pauses, then flies again. Also, I never really got a feeling of dread in the city, that Bane's rule was really messing with everything. Only some of the rich seemed to get justice, and it was brief. I expected total anarchy and chaos ruled over by the masked man.
However the trapping plot was great, and well played.

more to follow

[Spirit Ghidorah 2010]

Building on that, I don't think Bane would've beaten him the first time. In the comic, Batman could barely stand and was about to pass out, not to mention Bane was jacked up on Venom, that's how he beat him. Here, Batman was for better or worse at full strength, especially since he would've come back weaker to fight him the second time. (I'll let the magic "Healing his spine" thing go, though there's no way he could be at full strength)

He essentially did nothing but mope around and get his left knee all fubar'd for 8 years. He wasn't nearly at full strength.

Although, that doesn't really explain how a few months of push ups and crunches are going to suddenly reverse 8 years of atrophy. But hey, I saw a movie where a teenage high schooler managed to cobble together specialized launchers that store and fire super compressed high tensile polyaramid fibers, so I'm not one to base quality on realism or probability.

[Eunectes]

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I am speaking of the character, not the man in the mask



So, Christopher Nolan left us another Inception-esque ending.

Questions:

Did Batman die?
Did Bruce Wayne die? Is he still alive or was Alfred hallucinating?
Is Ra's Al Ghul still alive, or was Bruce hallucinating?
How did Bruce suddenly travel from the prison to Gotham in a matter of hours/days?

That's all people should ask themselves while watching the movie, and discussing it, different answers makes a totally different movie.

But, with that aside this movie was the best out of the trilogy IMO. Good to see JGL taking the role of Robin/Nightwing, his face had Robin all over it from the start.

10/10