Folks were saying he sounded like Sean Connery around the release. Which is
funny!
I've actually enjoyed it more seeing bits of it on airplanes and on other
people's tvs in the background.
I didn't think there was any question of it being better than Dark Knight,
which was an obvious peak. The most iconic villain, a great performance, etc.
(though it's hard to re-watch, as some here have noted - it's probably 45
minutes too long). I think the hope for DKR was that it would wrap up the story
and give us a few more thrills. Let us see our old friends again.
It had some very stoooopid parts. Bane was a mistake from the beginning. Dumb
in the comics, lame in the movie, just a very surprising choice and a very poor
execution. However, I thought they did a very nice job of tying together the
story they started in the first one. Like, that's not easy, and I thought
Hathaway and JGL were fantastic additions. Hathaway was red hot and very funny,
very pleasantly surprised. JGL is putting together a great body of cult films
(with big budgets). They built up so much good will, I was cool with it.
I wish the movie had STARTED in the Bane-controlled city. That was the story.
The best thing this series did was having him feel like his parent's death was
his fault for being afraid at the opera. That was a magnesium flare set off in
a dark cave. It was the most brilliant addition to Batman mythology in 70
years. Magnificent, and the bit in this one about needing to allow himself to
be afraid to succeed (and to recapture his humanity) is genius. It's pure,
basic, distilled Batman-story genius.
I won't watch any of them again but I enjoyed them.
Caw!
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From: Edward Crosby <[email protected]>
To: TUG group <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 6:18 am
Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Finally saw The Dark Knight Rises
Yup. Between the two, though, I found Bane's the worst. I've seen parodies of
Christian Bale's Batman voice that have really cracked me up. I'm surprised
there hasn't been numerous ones of Tom Hardy's Bane voice yet.
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Have a Better One,
Edward Crosby
http://about.me/edwardcrosby
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Jennifer Walker <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'd say that Bane's voice affectations filled the annoyance gap left by
Christian Bale not doing his Batman voice throughout the bulk of the movie.
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote:
With retrospect, i think Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the best part of DKR.
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote:
...and I have to say that I wasn't that impressed. It took a long time for the
story to develop so I was kind of bored for the first hour and a half of the
movie. Also, am I the only one who was really annoyed by Bane's voice and
speech? And, I had my reservations about Anne Hathaway being Catwoman before
the movie came out; she wasn't as bad as I had expected but I still think they
could have found a better Catwoman.
To me, The Dark Knight is still the best of all three Christopher Nolan's
versions of The Batman movies.
I'm ready for Batman Beyond movies now. :)
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Have a Better One,
Edward Crosby
http://about.me/edwardcrosby
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