Author Topic: The Dark Knight Rises and soars!  (Read 7525 times)

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Offline Mika

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Saw the movie today

Felt a little bit of regret over a portion of the spent money. This was a 10 euro ticket, and I saw a movie worth of 6. Still though, that's far less of an absolute rip-off compared to other stuff I have seen (but percentage wise it's a different story...)

Something was missing from this movie that was there in the sequels prequels, perhaps the pacing was somehow wrong? Bruce Wayne didn't seem believable for some reason, and honestly, I think that in this case less action would have improved it. I also think some amount of subtlety was missed compared to the earlier movies, possibly due to the frequent location switches and focus being on the lives of several people, maybe a couple too many. That leads to movie feeling like a blur, I simply don't remember a lot of scenes of this movie. Unfortunately, at that point your mind is actually starting to pick loopholes - during the movie.

Action sequences were a bit cringe-worthy already, and my suspension of belief was completely broken in the beginning at the SWAT team storming into an aircraft - mid-air. And that was only the beginning of several cases. So if you are going to do something ridiculous, make it rule-of-cool awesome, don't leave it at half-way! Also, this might be a good place to talk about female villains, as I haven't seen many movies with good female villains. I don't know why that is so, but mostly they simply are not any where close to believable.
« Last Edit: July 31, 2012, 05:40:42 pm by Mika »
Relaxed movement is always more effective than forced movement.

 

Offline Fury

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Oh, my bad then.

 

Offline Killer Whale

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My opinion
Where The Dark Knight was a beautifully crafted masterpiece of awesomesauce, The Dark Knight Rises was merely epic. It's a good movie, but relative to the previous it lacks a bit.

 
Re: The Dark Knight Rises and soars!
Action sequences were a bit cringe-worthy already, and my suspension of belief was completely broken in the beginning at the SWAT team storming into an aircraft - mid-air. And that was only the beginning of several cases. So if you are going to do something ridiculous, make it rule-of-cool awesome, don't leave it at half-way! Also, this might be a good place to talk about female villains, as I haven't seen many movies with good female villains. I don't know why that is so, but mostly they simply are not any where close to believable.

Death Race 1+2 have some good female villians.

Or if you want the queen of female villians, watch . . Ran (by Akira Kurosawa). Love that woman . . Mieko Harada I think?

 

Offline Klaustrophobia

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there's a death race 2??? o.0
I like to stare at the sun.

  
Re: The Dark Knight Rises and soars!
there's a death race 2??? o.0

Yup. It was direct-to-DVD only though. Prequel of the theatrical movie, doesn't have Jason Statham, but has some other guy who's decent, along with Sean Bean. It's a bit slow at start but has some good payoff at the end.

 

Offline Fury

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along with Sean Bean
Lemme guess. Glorius death by sword?

 
Re: The Dark Knight Rises and soars!
along with Sean Bean
Lemme guess. Glorius death by sword?

Hmmn, not gonna spoil anything :)
'sides Death Race is about cars not swords. Cars with big guns on 'em :D

 

Offline Sarafan

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I have a question about the movie, what was the point of Bane imposing martial law on Gotham? Couldnt understand that.

 

Offline Klaustrophobia

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I have a question about the movie, what was the point of Bane imposing martial law on Gotham? Couldnt understand that.

i'd say it was less marshal law than anarchy disguised as a "by the people" kind of thing.  i imagine it as the occupy wall street people armed with high powered weapons. 

anyway, bane said the point was to punish bruce by making him watch the city go to ****, thinking they were saving it, before he blew it up anyway.  slow, agonizing death.
I like to stare at the sun.

 

Offline Luis Dias

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Perhaps I'm not the first to point this out, but they really missed the biggest opportunity to steal one of the best endings of an animated movie ever created.

Remember how Monsters Inc finishes with the Blue big fur guy opening the door and have his smile glow to the camera before fade to black?

Now imagine Alfred going to the café, very depressed. He sits in the chair and places the paper in the table. The camera slowly zooms in on him. He looks ahead and his eyes go slightly wide, starts smiling. Fade to black.

But no, Dark Knight Rises had to tell you everything twice visually and then one more time in the spoken lines.

 
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Now imagine Alfred going to the café, very depressed. He sits in the chair and places the paper in the table. The camera slowly zooms in on him. He looks ahead and his eyes go slightly wide, starts smiling. Fade to black.

But no, Dark Knight Rises had to tell you everything twice visually and then one more time in the spoken lines.

I agree with this. What's odd is that you'd think it'd be a natural way to do it for Nolan, looking at the ending of Inception.

Of course, then you couldn't get the actual ending with the fade to black in the batcave with that guy, which has a similar effect.