| Posted by | Message |
CajunRevolution 
LSU Fan
Member since Apr 2009
28816 posts
| TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 8:59 pm)
Obviously this has been discussed ad nauseam here but I enjoyed it more the 2nd time around. Just a few quick points.
- I thought the end was great with John Blake finding the batman cave then with the end him actually "rising" on the platform. Thought that played well symbolically even if it wasn't the main connotation.
- Also, of course Batman didn't die but he pretty much lied to everyone about fixing the auto pilot throughout the film. I understand its a plot device but at the point he lied, there really wasn't a point to. Just strange.
- The douchebag cop Quinn from Dexter that can't stop tripping over his own feet played the douchebag cop that blew the bridge  thought that was funny. Still screwing things up.
- Selina Kyle was a lesbian. Well, maybe now bisexual once Bruce converted her. She had weird sexual chemistry with her gal pal that lived with her.
- When Bruce Wayne fails twice to climb the bit, the pure force of the fall would snap his vetabrae in half. The first guy they showed do it died as he stopped moving and just dangled. That was weird they couldn't build a better harness.
This post was edited on 12/8 at 11:35 am
|
| Back to top | Share on  |
theunknownknight
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
22589 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:03 pm to CajunRevolution)
The only thing worse than a sucky movie is seeing a sucky movie twice
|
| Back to top | |
CajunRevolution
LSU Fan
Member since Apr 2009
28816 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:06 pm to theunknownknight)
I liked it better the second time around. I still gripe about Bane's death but I mean, the dude was a beast. It wasn't logical for Batman for Batman to be able to "restrain" him in anyway.
|
| Back to top | |
Qwerty
LSU Fan
Member since Dec 2010
645 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:11 pm to CajunRevolution)
I thought bane's death was fine. We know batman wouldn't kill him.
It would have been a terrible ending for batman to die considering one of the major themes of the entire series is him learning to want to live - and if the Batman wants to live, he will plan ahead for every possibility including fixing the autopilot in case he needs to send it with the bomb out of the city.
My only gripe is I wish they not actually showed Bruce and Selina, but rather have the final shot be Alfred knowingly smiling into the camera.
|
| Back to top | |
Jumbeauxlaya
LSU Fan
Denham
Member since Jan 2011
15556 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:38 pm to theunknownknight)
quote:
The only thing worse than a sucky movie is seeing a sucky movie twice
I think someone is upset that he's not the big knight on campus.
|
| Back to top | |
Chet Manley 
New Orleans Saints Fan
Danger Zone
Member since Nov 2012
242 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:41 pm to Jumbeauxlaya)
Gotta love that The Bat traveled over 6 miles in a matter of seconds!
|
| Back to top | |
ZTiger87
LSU Fan
Member since Nov 2009
8413 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:59 pm to theunknownknight)
quote:
The only thing worse than a sucky movie is seeing a sucky movie twice
And that's why I refuse to watch The Scorpion King a second time.
|
| Back to top | |
xenythx 
Florida Fan
Member since Dec 2007
17029 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 10:49 pm to CajunRevolution)
I thought it was a good movie with flashes of a great movie throughout. The first 2/3 was excellent but it kind of falls apart in the third act a bit.
I thought the reveal of Cotillard's character as the real "big bad" was the worst-kept secret ever. Bane's death was incredibly too anti-climactic for such a build-up throughout. I felt the ending was a little too by-the-book for an ending to a great trilogy.
I think the scene at the end with Alfred in Italy might have played better not actually showing Bruce but having the camera linger on Alfred's look and smile leaving the implication that Bruce might be alive. But that might have been too "Inception-like". Just a personal preference though.
Again, I enjoyed it, but I felt there was so much more that Nolan could have done with the story.
This post was edited on 12/7 at 10:53 pm
|
| Back to top | |
Tiger1242
LSU Fan
Member since Jul 2011
13937 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 10:58 pm to CajunRevolution)
Is there some movie board rule that if you watch this movie twice you have to make a thread with the same observations everyone made the first time?
|
| Back to top | |
iwyLSUiwy 
Southern Fan
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
20783 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 11:02 pm to CajunRevolution)
quote:
Obviously this has been discussed ad nauseam
|
| Back to top | |
Ignignokt
LSU Fan
The Fatcave
Member since Dec 2005
2243 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 11:10 pm to CajunRevolution)
Holy shite enough!! TDKR wasn't the greatest movie ever made for gods sake. It was good and I'll grant you that, but the plot holes kept it from being a great movie.
|
| Back to top | |
FairhopeTider 
Alabama Fan
Pt. Clear, Alabama
Member since May 2012
1508 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 11:17 pm to CajunRevolution)
Still think it would've been better of the movie was split into two parts.
Also, the Dagget character should've been Earle from Batman Begins.
|
| Back to top | |
south bama tiger
LSU Fan
Memphis, TN
Member since May 2008
5573 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/7/12 at 11:55 pm to xenythx)
quote:
I think the scene at the end with Alfred in Italy might have played better not actually showing Bruce but having the camera linger on Alfred's look and smile leaving the implication that Bruce might be alive.
I agree with this. Should've ended with that scene. No need to even mention Blake being Robin or have him in the Batcave
|
| Back to top | |
JombieZombie
Alabama Fan
North Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
2447 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 1:17 am to south bama tiger)
It's a bad movie, albeit an entertaining one. At least TDK is paced in such a way that you don't notice the plot contrivances until subsequent viewings but they're so ridiculous in DKR that you can't help but become befuddled. Second viewings for this movie are better because you don't have to sit in puzzlement for the entire duration wondering "did I just see/hear that?"
|
| Back to top | |
Asharad
Alabama Fan
Member since Dec 2010
635 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 2:23 am to JombieZombie)
I watched this movie tonight for the first time, and it sucks pretty much worse than any 1980s B movie rental.
This post was edited on 12/8 at 2:25 am
|
| Back to top | |
Melvin
New Orleans Saints Fan
Covington
Member since Apr 2011
5437 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 2:33 am to CajunRevolution)
It was ok
|
| Back to top | |
CajunRevolution
LSU Fan
Member since Apr 2009
28816 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 2:33 am to Asharad)
Quality trolls in this thread tonight
|
| Back to top | |
JombieZombie
Alabama Fan
North Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
2447 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 2:36 am to Asharad)
If someone had told me that the the villains' primary goal was to simply blow up Gotham with a nuke (complete with countdown clock) and that Batman survives a nuclear explosion, I would have given a hearty laugh. Walking out of the theater, I couldn't believe how bad it was.
And the ridiculous line Batman gives Gordan at then end, spoon feeding the audience, sums up the movie.
|
| Back to top | |
TulaneTigerFan 
Tulane Fan
Seattle
Member since Sep 2005
32590 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 2:36 am to CajunRevolution)
It really wasn't a great movie.
|
| Back to top | |
dawgdayafternoon 
Georgia Fan
Member since Jul 2011
9319 posts
| re: TDKR 2nd Viewing Observations (Posted on 12/8/12 at 3:35 am to TulaneTigerFan)
Your post count is my hometown zip code.
I consider TDKR to be the "Return of the Jedi" of the Batman saga - good movie but doesn't live up to the expectations the first two set.
|
| Back to top | |
