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Dark Knight Rises anyone? Cannoli Send a noteboard - 21/07/2012 12:22:24 AM
*Dodges tumbleweeds*
I liked it. I liked the silly voice Bain used. I liked Batman's growly voice (and he talked more normally when speaking to allies who knew his identity, which IMO, lends credibility to the whole concept that he's trying to conceal his identity with the infamous snarl). I didn't like how hard it was to understand most of the dialogue, what with Batman's voice and Bain's voice, and the accents of Miranda Tate(and what the hell was she going for with that? American? Irish? Liam Neesonish? ) and Alfred, and Commissioner Gordon and Bruce Wayne acting pained all the time. It got to the point where I would have LOVED a conversation between Selina and Lucius, just so I could be sure of following everything they said. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure Christian Bale & Cilian Murphy are English, so why'd they & Gary Oldman have to fake American, and not Cain? And for that matter, shouldn't an English butler talk like the Alfred of the first four movies, rather than the Doolittle-like accents he & Bale used for their magicians in The Prestige? And how the hell did Joseph Gordon-Levitt make into Christopher Nolan's clique without some sort of absurd foreign blather? He's just about the only American actor to make it from Inception to the Batman trilogy.

But it's Batman, so it's not like a punch isn't going to clarify things a little bit later.

It was a strange thing, but the movie was really satisfying despite the utter predictability of each plot twist. I think that was actually the secret. The plot twists were predictable because they made sense. A lot of times, it seems like movies or TV shows have characters do some things that are really an absurd amount of trouble in hindsight, in order to preserve the mystery for a plot twist. In this movie, however, the reveals of secret connections or characters having done something off-screen to surprise the other characters don't come across as incompetent for being obvious.

There were also fights and explosions, and as in Dark Knight Period, a lot of little details don't hold up (Catwoman's apparent age wide array of obscure high-level skills; the rate at which spines heal; the ease with which caves, tunnels and secret vaults are secretly excavated in Gotham, etc), but character-wise and philosophically, there is nothing wrong here, and it kind of unifies all three movies together into a single coherent story.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
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Dark Knight Rises anyone? - 21/07/2012 12:22:24 AM 2578 Views
I really liked it. - 21/07/2012 12:42:10 AM 857 Views
Re: I really liked it. - 25/07/2012 12:40:30 PM 989 Views
Edit: replied to wrong place. *NM* - 25/07/2012 12:55:08 PM 466 Views
Re: I really liked it. - 26/07/2012 09:03:43 PM 966 Views
Any three month olds in the theater??? - 21/07/2012 06:29:39 AM 856 Views
??? *NM* - 22/07/2012 01:31:31 AM 520 Views
I was mocking the idiots that took their little kids to the movie. *NM* - 24/07/2012 02:21:02 AM 487 Views
RACHEL!!!!! ... oh wait *NM* - 21/07/2012 03:13:14 PM 519 Views
Didn't really like it. *NM* - 21/07/2012 03:32:33 PM 726 Views
bet you also really enjoyed (Spoiler Warning) - 21/07/2012 05:46:58 PM 1034 Views
They used weapons and violence - 21/07/2012 09:20:17 PM 858 Views
you miss the point - 22/07/2012 09:56:19 PM 1038 Views
I had the feeling ... - 22/07/2012 11:01:31 PM 892 Views
That wasn't the point. - 24/07/2012 01:01:42 AM 905 Views
Come on. - 24/07/2012 12:50:53 AM 822 Views
Suck it up, whiny-boy. - 22/07/2012 01:15:47 AM 920 Views
Eh. The "political message" was a sham, a smokescreen. There wasn't one. - 01/08/2012 02:46:50 PM 1100 Views
Cillian Murphy is Irish - 21/07/2012 11:27:38 PM 917 Views
Re: Cillian Murphy is Irish - 24/07/2012 01:04:31 AM 841 Views
It had a few issues, but overall I thought it was great. *spoilers* - 22/07/2012 06:00:57 PM 878 Views
I too thought it was great. - a SPOILERish reply ... - 23/07/2012 07:37:26 AM 780 Views
The Pit is not really a - 23/07/2012 04:07:52 PM 957 Views
Can't it be both? - 23/07/2012 07:47:09 PM 885 Views
I liked it a lot. - 24/07/2012 01:18:05 AM 808 Views
Who was Catwoman's friend? - 25/07/2012 01:06:23 PM 772 Views
"Jen" according to the cast list. - 25/07/2012 01:25:50 PM 834 Views
I had a check over at wikipedia - 25/07/2012 01:30:48 PM 796 Views
I thought it was great despite of a few flaws - 25/07/2012 01:25:13 PM 870 Views
It was Satisfactory. - 30/07/2012 01:10:38 PM 847 Views
Re: Daylight fighting - 30/07/2012 05:40:29 PM 862 Views
I liked it, but have nitpicks - 01/08/2012 03:33:11 PM 1039 Views
Re: I liked it, but have nitpicks - 01/08/2012 06:46:14 PM 970 Views
Re: I liked it, but have nitpicks - 02/08/2012 04:03:52 AM 709 Views
That probably went against his philosophy. - 02/08/2012 04:23:28 AM 867 Views
Well, his goal is despair. It'd be even more effective if there was a guard at the top. - 04/08/2012 03:12:45 AM 803 Views
That's not the theme of it, though. - 04/08/2012 04:02:20 AM 774 Views
Also, guys with guns have SO MUCH success against Batman, right? - 03/08/2012 03:26:55 PM 875 Views
Re: I liked it, but have nitpicks - 03/08/2012 03:33:59 PM 818 Views
They might have, but there was no mention of it at all. - 04/08/2012 03:16:04 AM 731 Views

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