I was just thinking of 28 Days Later and assuming his accent was legit.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 22/07/2012 01:31:03 AM
The big "twist" wasn't a twist or surprise to anyone vaguely familiar with Batman's story or the casting news. It was a natural progression for the story to take, and it was an understandable surprise for Bruce, who had no reason to believe Bane wasn't the child who had climbed out of the pit and who in his close association with Ra's Al-Ghul had reason to believe the latter had no surviving family.
I was only going on my perception that someone SAID Bane got out as an adult, plus the story of his mouth injury. I didn't quite see the daughter coming, but Miranda's character screamed 'bad guy' all along. Otherwise, it's too much of a coincidence that Bane's plan depended on knowledge of a secret technology Wayne Enterprises is sitting on, as well as their developing it in the first place. She was the one who pushed it through, after all, and her key role in marking the truck seemed like an obvious chance for betrayal. That's what I mean about satisfying plot twists. I didn't figure this one out because I read Nolan's mind, but because it was organic to a movie in a plot that makes sense (for a given degree of making sense, of course). Other plot twists generally have the bad guy's plan depending on amazing coincidences, and foreknowledge of how their first plan will fail to have set up an amazingly thorough and complex backup plan. Miranda was suspicious not because you could see an overused trope coming, but because she was doing suspicious things.
Also, good twists were similarly easy to identify, like Alfred's fantasy ending scenario (I thought the brief glimpse of Selina's face could be interpreted as exasperation that they have to keep coming to this cafe so Bruce can make it come true for Alfred) and as a result, Batman faking his death. The trilogy did a good job setting you up to believe that Batman could and would die in this one with all the talk of the legend being more than the man, and different men filling the same role or the line about "you either dying fighting or live long enough to become the villain" and the otherwise unnecessary role given to a leading actor and Nolan veteran. But the movie made it plausible that Blake had the motivation to be Batman, and the fate of Dent and the lessons Bruce learned in this movie made his retirement a case of "epic win" rather than a lame cop-out.
Cannoli
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
Dark Knight Rises anyone?
- 21/07/2012 12:22:24 AM
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I really liked it.
- 21/07/2012 12:42:10 AM
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Any three month olds in the theater???
- 21/07/2012 06:29:39 AM
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??? *NM*
- 22/07/2012 01:31:31 AM
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There was a 3mo old and a 6yr old baby/kid at the midnight screening in Aurora... *NM*
- 22/07/2012 07:42:30 PM
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I was mocking the idiots that took their little kids to the movie. *NM*
- 24/07/2012 02:21:02 AM
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bet you also really enjoyed (Spoiler Warning)
- 21/07/2012 05:46:58 PM
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They used weapons and violence
- 21/07/2012 09:20:17 PM
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Eh. The "political message" was a sham, a smokescreen. There wasn't one.
- 01/08/2012 02:46:50 PM
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Cillian Murphy is Irish
- 21/07/2012 11:27:38 PM
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I was just thinking of 28 Days Later and assuming his accent was legit.
- 22/07/2012 01:31:03 AM
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It had a few issues, but overall I thought it was great. *spoilers*
- 22/07/2012 06:00:57 PM
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I too thought it was great. - a SPOILERish reply ...
- 23/07/2012 07:37:26 AM
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ESPECIALLY since the theme of the first two movies is "Gotham PD is corrupt"
- 01/08/2012 02:51:03 PM
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They were charging in to ARREST the thugs, not to wipe them out. That's the point of cops
- 03/08/2012 03:38:13 PM
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I liked every part of that movie that didn't involve Batman. (spoilers)
- 23/07/2012 04:32:32 PM
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I wonder what you could possibly have liked.
- 23/07/2012 05:49:12 PM
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...you do understand that my reply was not a personal attack on your opinion, right?
- 23/07/2012 08:33:30 PM
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- 23/07/2012 08:33:30 PM
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Re: ...you do understand that my reply was not a personal attack on your opinion, right?
- 28/07/2012 04:03:51 PM
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- 28/07/2012 04:03:51 PM
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Who was Catwoman's friend?
- 25/07/2012 01:06:23 PM
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I liked it, but have nitpicks
- 01/08/2012 03:33:11 PM
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Re: I liked it, but have nitpicks
- 01/08/2012 06:46:14 PM
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Re: I liked it, but have nitpicks
- 02/08/2012 04:03:52 AM
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That probably went against his philosophy.
- 02/08/2012 04:23:28 AM
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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
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Also, guys with guns have SO MUCH success against Batman, right?
- 03/08/2012 03:26:55 PM
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