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I really needed to take a piss during the last 30 minutes - and I didn't want to miss anything.
^^ This. My bladder felt like the Hoover dam that last 20 minutes. Kept praying for this thing to wrap up.
Out of the trilogy, I'd probably put this in third -- slightly behind Dark Knight. Batman Begins, IMO, was just a much better movie than its sequels. Like albinopenguin, I also felt that the contrivance of isolating Gotham from the rest of the country simply wasn't believable, even in a movie like this. Things took on a very ponderous tone after the football stadium scene. The tension dissipated because the "ticking time bomb" had such a long fuse -- five months! Just enough time for Batman to get back in shape and find his inspiration, which was convenient for him.
SPOILER The Cotillard reveal -- granted, I didn't foresee her being Ras' daughter or the mystery child who escaped the pit -- but you knew she had to be a bad guy. There was simply no other reason for her characer to be in the movie. I found myself waiting for the twist, which was well-timed but very expected.
Overall I found this to be a satisfying, if bloated and disjointed end to the series. Could have been better, but its still much more intricate and deep than the standard action fare.
It's what I expect. Boring in some parts, thrilling in others. Overall I enjoyed (twice), I think it definitely tops the previous one, but Batman Begins was far better. I think most would agree.
Ann Hathaway was absolutely lush and IMO, she stole the show. Maybe they can spin off a movie of her own. Who knows.
I'd like to come in an reiterate after having seen the film 2 times now -- Went with my nephew and took my little girl to see it yesterday.
my complaints are a great many, but I'll narrow them down a bit.
1. If Gordon was such a good cop, then good detective and then great commisoner -- Why didn't he know Batman's true identity? Gordon Levitt sure did right off the bat.
2. How could a little girl climb out of the hole, but Bane couldn't?
3. Bane blows up half of Gotham and Bale, in prision, is little more than agitated... Yet when he sees 3 guys being flown around by helicopter he gets, as he said, "ANGRY".
4. Batman kicks the living piss out of Bane on their 2nd go around so bad it reminded me of Rocky 3's whole MR.T scenario. The comparison is so blatant and so obvious.
5. Bane's death was a joke.
6. Not one time in the entire movie did Catwoman get hit. Not one. This got on my nerves... Not because I wanted to see some dude beat her up, but because she was given a free pass the entire film at the risk of making women happy. I felt her whole character was tossed in for no other reason than, they had to do something.
7. I hated how Bane was sitting idle in the courtroom, a mere fixture, while the scaercrow was dealing out the judgments. It made his character seem weaker somehow.
8. The ending was absolute tripe. Horrible. In fact, it was so bad I think it was a pick up. all of it. I think nolan did kill Batman off in the explosion, they screened it and it got bad reviews and so Hollywood made him shoot the absurd ending we got with Bale and, of all people, catwoman at the eatery. Lame butter.
9. The atomic explosion in the ocean was so absurd... The whole scene, like the whole movie, seemed a phone in -- Much like Bane and Batman's 2nd fight, where Batman kicks the piss out of him was taken from rocky 3 -- I felt the whole lifting the bomb in the air bit and flying it out of harms way was lifted from "Angels & Demons". What really got me was, at very least, there should have been a huge tidal wave come in on the lower east end of Gotham from the explosion... Let's face it, he didn't take it too far out from the city.
10. Dialogue that had nothing at all to do with what was going on. For instance, Bale saying "I like your apartment" was so awkwardly read and placed. But there were more of these instances than just that one. The whole movie was filled with stuff like that... When gordon is in the hospital and he deems ol' buddy a detective... WTF???
I can and probably should go on -- But the whole movie, right down to toss away dialogue was sub-par. I truly hope this is the last time Nolan helms a Batman movie.
I just couldn’t let you get away with what you wrote. Just trying to put people off this film. Let me try and give you a reply:
1. If you watched the film properly you would have noticed Gordan saying to the John Blake character that he didn’t want to know who Batman was. To him he was just ‘Batman’.
2. It was NOT just a little girl. It was special girl without fear. If you truly watched the film, you would know that it wasn’t strength or sized with got you out of the pit. It was the soul. That’s the whole point of the film.
3. Now you’re just nit picking. Come on. And these people weren’t just being flown around. They were hung and displayed to the world as a message.
4. Batman does not kick the living piss out of Bane in the second fight. Bane is actually winning the fight until Batman punches his mask. Again, if you watched the film properly you would know that this mask prevented Bane from suffering extreme pain. So when it was knocked by Batman, Bane was in unbelievable pain and this gave Batman the upper hand.
5. Okay, I can agree the way Bane went out wasn’t great but how do you know he was dead. Did you see him die?
6. Again you’re clutching at straws. Catwoman’s performance was great. What you’re saying is an opinion, not an actual flaw. Her character was written perfectly. She contrasted with Batman nicely.
7. Really? It made his character seem weak. After he has been snapping people’s necks? The whole point was he was giving power back to the people. Back to the people locked up in that prison due to the lie Gordan and Batman came up with.
8. Hollywood can’t tell Nolan anything. He’s made enough money for warner bros’ to do what he likes. That’s the ending he wanted. And it tied in with Bruce Wayne and Alfred’s internal conflict. All Alfred wanted was for Bruce to stop fighting and find a life away from Gotham. And that’s what happened at the end. It was a great closure to the story.
9. Again with the nit picking. If you nit-picked this much on your favourite films, you would find things which may or may not be flaws.
10. I’m not even going to entertain your number 10. I don’t even understand it. It’s like you want to find reasons to hate this movie.
The irony is the film did have flaws and you didn’t even state one. Talia’s switch at the end was a bit too rushed. Catwoman got a bit lost during the second part of the film. The war at the end could have been more of a war (more brutal).
Other than those gripes (could be more) it was a brilliant film. 9/10 for me. Just as good as The Dark Knight.
I just couldn't let you get away with what you wrote. Just trying to put people off this film.
This is your problem... You've given me too much power.
And if memory serves, since I've spent a total of about 60 bucks on IMAX viewings around the house for seeing this film, Bane was huddled up by a statue with Batman on the approach -- Talia stabs Batman and thus the only reason Bane didn't get a further beatin'. So, yeah, Batman kicks the piss out of Bane on his second go. Just like Rocky beat Lang on his 2nd go.
Also, how the hell did Bane eat; from a straw, carefully slipped in through the side?? That puzzled me.
I liked it overall, but it's not as great as The Dark Knight. The biggest problem is the eight years, and they tried to cram too much into this story.
SPOILERS!
My problems:
How did Bane and Talia know so much about Bruce Wayne? A lot of people would say research on part of Talia, however, how would the audience know? This could've been fixed if they had someone from the first movie show up that was a witness to Raz identifying Bruce as Batman.
The second fight. It couldv'e been handled better since Batman was hitting Bane's face a lot during the first fight and nothing happened. Only in the second fight did Bane's mask gets damaged? C'mon. I would also think that Bane could have foresee this to be problem and have it fixed.
I think it should've gone has so: 1st fight, Batman exposes Bane's weakness with the mask. But Bane still kicks his ass. 2nd fight, Bane fixes the problem, and it's an all out battle between him and Batman.
They should've cut the Gordon Levitt story line. But I think Mr. Nolan did it cause of Warner Bros, and that he wanted the Batman franchise to continue with someone else.
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I enjoyed the movie, but I don't think that it was as good as it's predecessors.
There was one minor detail that I found that annoyed me. Bear with me, I'm nitpicking here. So Batman and friends manage to open up the tunnels with all the cops stuck in them. Now we know months had gone by at this point, and I realize that they where getting some limited supplies, but I'm supposed to believe they come out in clothes looking as good as the day they went in and not exhausted at all to immediately get into a fight with Bane's men? No sir.
Captain James T. Kirk: I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
I'm supposed to believe they come out in clothes looking as good as the day they went in and not exhausted at all to immediately get into a fight with Bane's men? No sir.
Push-ups, man... C'mon... We just seen Bale doing sit ups and push-ups while in the pit -- This, coupled with a shitty diet is surely enough to over come even the most insurmountable odds.
If you can suspend belief long enough to buy Bale getting the piss kicked out of him by Bane in the previous fight -- A Bale who had been training, eating properly and back into the swing of things as Batman -- then we must suspend belief long enough to think that
A) Push-ups and sit-ups are enough training to take down Bane.
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B) The cops who were banished underground probably got wind of Bale's awesome work-out regiment
But, shhhhhhhhhh.... Don't tell any of the pony pissers the that you know the truth. They don't like that. It's "over thinking" the movie when you do that.
Bale secretly had a copy of the old Charles Atlas dynamic tension series and when the camera was off, he'd resort to this routine. He push and sit up were purely for show.
Great movie, but I could tell the "Robin" angle was probably an executive decision forced upon Nolan to keep a fourth installment a possibility.
Bruce Wayne's pushup routine in a matter of months was a bit unrealistic. Also, I don't know how anyone can escape a nuclear bomb unscathed. Even the lifting of the nuclear bomb itself is suspicious... it looked like he was flying 25 miles an hour and he had a minute left to put a nuclear bomb far enough to avoid damage to the city....
Other than that, it was good -- better than Spider Man, imho.
Bale secretly had a copy of the old Charles Atlas dynamic tension series and when the camera was off, he'd resort to this routine. He push and sit up were purely for show.
Bale secretly had a copy of the old Charles Atlas dynamic tension series and when the camera was off, he'd resort to this routine. He push and sit up were purely for show.
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