re: OFFICIAL - The Dark Knight Rises Discussion Thread - *SPOILERS*

I saw it again today. You pick up a couple things you missed the first go round.


I agree with what the guy from last night was saying in this thread, at the end when he's flying the bomb out toward the bay, it does appear to look like he goes underwater, with the reflections in the cockpit.

My mom absolutely loved this movie! She teared up when Alfred's voice shook when he was leaving and certainly at the end.

She clapped at the part where Catwoman says, "Well, were both suckers, I guess." And kisses Batman.

I really, really liked the Avengers but this is better.

did anyone see it in IMAX, they flipped between imax footage and regular footage a couple of times and it took a little way from the experience. Your like man this is awesome oh now they just do it normal.

I think when they took the bomb on the back of the truck, it went from Imax footage to normal footage.

The entire first scene was shot in IMAX. the part where batman gets the crap beat out of him was all shot in IMAX. Those two scenes probably made the few extra bucks I paid for the ticket worth it.

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Figured it's be some gimmicky super hero crap.

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Nah, it was very, very good.

But it was several super heros. Tons of action, funny moments but it didn't have the emotional moments this movie has (the parts with Alfred tearing up, wondering what's going to happen to Batman, etc).

Absolutely loved this movie.

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Did anyone else get chills when Bruce finally escaped from the pit? As Bruce starts climbing, the drums kick in. The camera starts rotating between the chanters, the doctor, and Bruce. Bruce keeps climbing, and the drums get louder, so we have both a visual and auditory crescendo. Once on the platform, the bats came out from a crack in the wall, and swirl around above him, at which point the drums really kick in. The bats were his primal fear years ago, and his ability to feel that fear and triumph over it was the symbolic birth of Batman. His main fear while he's standing on the platform, however, is falling and dying in the pit, and the presence of the bats symbolizes a rebirth of Batman as Bruce makes himself vulnerable and challenges fear once again.

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I got chills on this part. When he made the jump & everyone started cheering was awesome. One of the best scenes in the trilogy IMO.

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the train crashed because Gordon shot the supports with the Batmobile, and there ARE witnesses who see and comment on Gordon being the trigger man. "Nice ride, man" etc. Then, boom, down goes the train, plot thwarted, bye bye daddy.

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holy frick....seriously? Yes, I'm sure the league questioned random homeless people about whether or not that was batman in there or not.

not sure what's worse you babbling on about this or unknownknight not shutting up about Nolan not giving us a shot of freeing the other prisoners. Who cares?

Okay, I haven't read this thread, only this page, but are there people who were disappointed in TDKR?

I'll start off by saying that I did like it. A lot. But I'm not honest if I say that I wasn't a little disappointed in it. There were so many things to like about it, so I'll discuss what I didn't.

First was Bane's voice. I was worried about that from the trailers, and there were time last night when I was struggling to understand what he was saying. That was fairly annoying.

I wasn't really a big fan of the plot, for different reasons. First off, Bane and his men basically blow out more than half of the city's undercarriage. I felt like buildings should've been falling and caving in (kinda like the football field). Assuming that he did that almost solely to trap the cops underground..I dunno, I just felt like there could've been a much more realistic and believable way of doing that. The only thing I can think of is that tehre were, what, 3,000 cops so that's a lot of people to trap. Also, Bane was trying to get the people of Gotham to take back their city..but what he really mainly meant was the prisoners and assholes of Gotham. That's why the main thing he did was break the prisoners out of the prison.

Also, with the plot, it just felt very similar to the previous two movies. In Begins, the Narrows are segregated by the bridges, and shite goes down and Batman (and others) have to save the day. Well, this was the same thing, just on a bigger scale (Gotham instead of just the Narrows). In Begins, the prisoners are released from Arkham and in this one they are released from the prison. In TDK Joker tries to get the people to cause chaos and do bad things to turn Gotham bad, and in this one Bane basically does the exact same thing. I dunno, I just felt like I was watching the same plots unfold from the previous two movies. And it prolly didn't help that I watched both yesterday before seeing the new one.

In the beginning of the film, Bruce is basically a cripple. Then he puts something on his knee and magically is kicking arse and jumping around. Then Bane hurts him (breaks his back..???), and he trains, IN PRISON, and all of a sudden a couple months later he's back into kick arse form again. I dunno, I just didn't really believe it..or at least found it really hard to.


NOTE: And to some of my points, spare me the whole "It's a movie.." argument. I know it's a movie and I know suspension of belief comes with that to a degree, but Nolan has kept things based pretty solidly in reality (the reality he created), and I felt like some of this movie kinda stepped beyond that.


ETA: As far as this trilogy, it's a great one and one of the best ever. And I did really like TDKR a lot. But after a marathon viewing of all three yesterday, I feel like it could be the weakest of the three, or maybe behind TDK at the very best.

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Nah, it was very, very good.

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Good to hear. I want to see it, but I still need to see Captain America and The Incredible Hulk.

To be honest, I never liked comic books, so I don't think this would appeal to me like it does to most. I still think it would be entertaining and worth watching.

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With the technology he has available, I don't find that too far-fetched. A mechanical brace that takes the pressure off his joints and provides extra power.. we have things like that currently in development for military.

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I realize that, and I bought it. It was just another thing that I noticed about how broken down his body was and then magically it was completely fine.

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Bane basically dislocated a disc, and didn't seem to actually "break" anything. Once the disc is back in place, recovery would be pretty quick, albeit very painful. BW has always been a tough son of a bitch.. I do agree the timeline was a little far-fetched, but I don't think it was a detriment to the movie.

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That would make more sense. And I'm assuming the timeline was a couple/few months because that's how long they said the bomb core would take to blow itself up (five months total I believe).

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Overall, I enjoyed the movie VERY, very much and don't see much to complain about. Anyone complaining about plot holes and crap is overexamining the shite out of this movie. Then again, this is a movie board so maybe it's to be expected. In any case, I'm recommending this movie to anyone and everyone I know and probably will see it again next weekend with another group of friends.

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And like I said, I enjoyed it a lot as well, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. But that doesn't mean that I can't be disappointed in some aspects of it.

And I do plan on seeing it again (in theaters, DVD, etc.), so I'm thinking that the second go round will be better.

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I do agree with the stock market thing though. I mean one of the richest men in the world just happens to lose everything the day Bane and his men shoot the place up? Oh you MIGHT be able to prove fraud eventually? Come on.

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Agreed on that as well...the whole stock market thing was something else I didn't care for. But I undeerstood why it was there, as the crutch for the plot to get Bruce broke.

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I didn't think letting him live was a cop out, in fact I preferred it. I would have been more pissed had he never gotten the chance to live a normal life after doing everything he had done. He finally gets to live in peace away from Gotham.

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Yeah, that didn't bother me at all. And if nothing else, I liked it for Alfred, who deserved to get something happy.

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I liked it for Alfred, who deserved to get something happy.

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I'm not afraid to admit, seeing Alfred crying and apologizing at the Waynes' gravesite really got at me, I teared up a little.

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I was under the impression that the weapons on the bike were of high ordinance and bane should be dead