Author Topic: The Dark Knight Rises (Read 52304 times)

Great Rumbler · « **on:** July 16, 2012, 10:21:03 AM »

Quote from: Variety

Retains the moral urgency and serious-minded pulp instincts that have made the Warners franchise a beacon of integrity in an increasingly comicbook-driven Hollywood universe.

Quote from: Hollywood Reporter

Big-time Hollywood filmmaking at its most massively accomplished, this last installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy makes everything in the rival Marvel universe look thoroughly silly and childish.

Quote from: Rolling Stone

Potent and provocative, The Dark Knight Rises is the King Daddy of summer movie epics.

Quote from: IGN

The Dark Knight Rises is a fitting emotional and narrative conclusion to this particular interpretation of the enduring story of Bruce Wayne the man and Batman the legend.

Quote from: Daily Telegraph

After a breathless, bravura final act, a nuclear payload of catharsis brings The Dark Knight Rises, and Nolan's trilogy, to a ferociously satisfying close.

Quote from: MSN Movies

The Dark Knight Rises only rarely starts to tremor under the weight of its own portent, and is not without its own sly humor. Well done.

Quote from: TIME

For once a melodrama with pulp origins convinces viewers that it can be the modern equivalent to Greek myths or a Jonathan Swift satire. TDKR is that big, that bitter -- a film of grand ambitions and epic achievement.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight_rises/

30 reviews, 97% positive. 8.9/10 average rating.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:32:15 AM »

Nope.

Eric P · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:45:05 AM »

didn't really like the other two at all
will be seeing this regardless
i don't know why either

Diunx · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:45:59 AM »

Spurgeon · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2012, 11:04:17 AM »

I'm so tempted to read the reviews, but I know at least one will divulge way too much info.

Also am curious as to what kind of movie Nolan is going to do next.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2012, 11:05:16 AM »

Quote from: Spurgeon on July 16, 2012, 11:04:17 AM

I'm so tempted to read the reviews, but I know at least one will divulge way too much info.

Yeah, comments at RT mention lots of spoilers in some of the reviews. Stick with the excerpts for now.

Mupepe · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2012, 11:06:24 AM »

I'll be seeing this during a matinee

Robo · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2012, 11:11:35 AM »

boner rises

Tasty · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2012, 11:41:04 AM »

Seeing it a week from tomorrow in I M A X (not Liemax.)

Quote from: Spurgeon on July 16, 2012, 11:04:17 AM

I'm so tempted to read the reviews, but I know at least one will divulge way too much info.

Also am curious as to what kind of movie Nolan is going to do next.

Hopefully something original yet awesome like Inception.

Or Inception 2.

Either or.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:16:09 PM »

I'm with Eric, I'm the guy who thought TDK was overwrought and silly and that the trailers for this one make it look worse. I'm still going next Thursday.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #10 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:27:21 PM »

i'll probably wait until the end of the month.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #11 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:29:49 PM »

I commend people who didn't like TDK since day one. I was too distracted by Heath's haunting performance at the time and enjoyed it except for the weak final 3rd. Rises, however, maybe the the biggest movie in recent memory that I was immune to its hype and ads. I just feel nothing. I'm still going to watch it, and hopefully enjoy it, though.

Timber · « **Reply #12 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:37:35 PM »

Quote from: IGN

The Dark Knight Rises is a fitting emotional and narrative conclusion to this particular interpretation of the enduring story of Bruce Wayne the man and Batman the legend.

I just about guffawed at this.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #13 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:42:25 PM »

Have the rumors about batman quoting Heidegger been confirmed? I seriously heard this was happening and I can't wait to see how awkward it is.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:52:55 PM »

Quote from: Barry Egan on July 16, 2012, 12:42:25 PM

Have the rumors about batman quoting Heidegger been confirmed? I seriously heard this was happening and I can't wait to see how awkward it is.

Original German or Nolan's a hack.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #15 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:58:25 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on July 16, 2012, 12:33:00 PM

POPULAR MOVIE HATE THREAD PART 654

So thoughts on the rumor about JGL's true reason for being cast?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Popular opinion is that he's a sort of hybrid of the Robin character and Azrael, with people suggesting he may take over as Batman while Bruce is wounded/out of it. I'm not so sure about that, but I am sure that he'll be one of Batman's biggest allies.

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #16 on:** July 16, 2012, 12:58:46 PM »

Bane: Do you think of yourself as a true bat, Mr. Wayne?
Batman: The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism
Bane: Okay

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:08:07 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on July 16, 2012, 12:33:00 PM

POPULAR MOVIE HATE THREAD PART 654

Mojo knows what's up. These hipsters are killing me, man.

Robo · « **Reply #18 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:11:29 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on July 16, 2012, 01:08:07 PM

Quote from: mojovonio on July 16, 2012, 12:33:00 PM
POPULAR MOVIE HATE THREAD PART 654

Mojo knows what's up. These hipsters are killing me, man.

Come on, now. We both know this is more or less (500) Dark Knights of Summer.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #19 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:13:08 PM »

I didn't watch (500) Days of Summer but I appreciate the joke.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #20 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:15:48 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio

Boring and derivative bulllshit indie movies

Quote from: mojovonio on July 16, 2012, 01:13:59 PM

500 Days of Summer

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #21 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:17:37 PM »

this is why I'm not going on opening week

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #22 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:20:15 PM »

I'll be seeing it in poopy pleb-vision in Ohio this weekend, but once I get back to Nashville I'm seeing it again at the amazing IMAX theatre at Opry Mills. One of the best theaters in the world. Can't wait.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #23 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:23:14 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on July 16, 2012, 01:21:02 PM

How much of the movie is shot in IMAX? The ratio switching for TDK was incredibly irritating.

Something like 70+ minutes of it is in IMAX. Considerably more than TDK.

tiesto · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:24:10 PM »

Hopefully will be going to see it next Friday with this short and horny Italian chick I know.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #25 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:41:38 PM »

something will RISE

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #26 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:44:37 PM »

it will look suspiciously like gary oldman

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27 on:** July 16, 2012, 01:58:43 PM »

Quote from: tiesto on July 16, 2012, 01:24:10 PM

Hopefully will be going to see it next Friday with this short and horny Italian chick I know.

avoiding the nerds AND taking an Italian dime. my nicca

EvilBoris · « **Reply #28 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:19:05 PM »

hesitating on taking the IMAX EXPERIENCE with Nolan again...

I might be wrong but I'm not recalling the format's fanfare during the production and release of Inception. I only just caught up with that one and Nolan similarily waxes about the 'grand canvas' and recapturing his youth experience of the bigscreen; the same ideal. Why didn't he go for it?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #29 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:34:36 PM »

Quote from: EvilBoris on July 17, 2012, 12:19:05 PM

I might be wrong but I'm not recalling the format's fanfare during the production and release of Inception. I only just caught up with that one and Nolan similarily waxes about the 'grand canvas' and recapturing his youth experience of the bigscreen; the same ideal. Why didn't he go for it?

He wanted to use IMAX with Inception, but didn't think he could make it work with what they were doing in the movie.

bork · « **Reply #30 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:37:53 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on July 16, 2012, 10:45:05 AM

didn't really like the other two at all
will be seeing this regardless
i don't know why either

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on July 16, 2012, 12:16:09 PM

I'm with Eric, I'm the guy who thought TDK was overwrought and silly and that the trailers for this one make it look worse. I'm still going next Thursday.

I liked the last two movies, but something about the trailers for TDKR just put me off. Plus Bane looks so fucking stupid.

And yet I'm also going to see it....next weekend at an IMAX theater. $:-\$

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #31 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:39:45 PM »

Can someone explain to this filthy 3rd world poor who never watched something shot in IMAX what's this all about and what kind of difference are we talking here? I've never cared before because of its unavailability.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #32 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:40:42 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on July 17, 2012, 12:39:45 PM

Can someone explain to this filthy 3rd world poor who never watched something shot in IMAX what's this all about and what kind of difference are we talking here? I've never cared before because of its unavailability.

Diunx · « **Reply #33 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:49:44 PM »

They should built an IMAX theater here instead of another fucking metro.

Diunx · « **Reply #34 on:** July 17, 2012, 12:51:46 PM »

Gary is such a pimp

Eric P · « **Reply #35 on:** July 17, 2012, 01:36:44 PM »

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The review aggregation site has temporarily suspended user comments on reviews across its site after readers reacted angrily to two negative write-ups of "The Dark Knight Rises" and made threatening and derogatory remarks about the critics who wrote them.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/rotten-tomatoes-halts-reader-comments-amid-dark-knight-furor/

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #36 on:** July 17, 2012, 01:41:23 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on July 17, 2012, 01:36:44 PM

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The review aggregation site has temporarily suspended user comments on reviews across its site after readers reacted angrily to two negative write-ups of "The Dark Knight Rises" and made threatening and derogatory remarks about the critics who wrote them.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/rotten-tomatoes-halts-reader-comments-amid-dark-knight-furor/

That's been going on for years!

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #37 on:** July 17, 2012, 01:41:29 PM »

I'm not mature enough to separate movies from fans, and I have a feeling they're gonna make me hate it.

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 17, 2012, 01:41:23 PM

That's been going on for years!

I bet the crazy that will ensue from this will be unprecedented though. Nolan/Batman fans are Batshit insane.

Robo · « **Reply #38 on:** July 17, 2012, 01:42:35 PM »

That was pretty dumb of them, though. Writing disparaging things about the messiah Nolan is like criticizing sexual pleasure.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #39 on:** July 17, 2012, 02:21:00 PM »

tards will rise

Steve Youngblood · « **Reply #40 on:** July 17, 2012, 03:48:00 PM »

It's not really that surprising since it's practically always occurred, but I'm always slightly dismayed by how personally people take criticism not just about stuff they happen to like, but even more by how personally people take criticism against stuff they think that they like without actually having experienced it.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #41 on:** July 17, 2012, 04:14:13 PM »

People want their personal tastes to be validated and consider opinions to the contrary as personal attacks.

Steve Youngblood · « **Reply #42 on:** July 17, 2012, 04:21:21 PM »

Yeah, I know. Really, it's just mildly baffling to me the degree to which people will react without even a modicum of shame.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #43 on:** July 17, 2012, 05:03:23 PM »

that's just because you like pedestrian trash

Eric P · « **Reply #44 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:57:44 PM »

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The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale has come out as an LMFAO fan.

The Batman actor was introduced to the oeuvre of the US pop-rap duo - known for their hits 'Party Rock Anthem', 'Sexy And I Know It' and 'Sorry For Party Rocking' - by his seven-year-old daughter, Emmeline.'

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-dark-knight-rises-star-christian-bale-likes-dancing/275775

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #45 on:** July 17, 2012, 08:09:09 PM »

boycott this trash now

Barry Egan · « **Reply #46 on:** July 17, 2012, 08:29:45 PM »

Yikes.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #47 on:** July 17, 2012, 08:33:20 PM »

Most movies are 'okay', and I am sure this one will be too.

ManaByte · « **Reply #48 on:** July 17, 2012, 10:34:15 PM »

Rotten Tomatoes & Nolan fans. $:-\$

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #49 on:** July 17, 2012, 10:39:04 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on July 17, 2012, 10:34:15 PM

Rotten Tomatoes & Nolan fans. $:-\$

Yeah, because the fans of every other major movie are perfectly reasonable and calm people!

Boogie · « **Reply #50 on:** July 17, 2012, 10:51:36 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on July 17, 2012, 10:34:15 PM

Rotten Tomatoes & Nolan fans. $:-\$

Yes, let me taste your tears of hate, manabyte.

Mandark · « **Reply #51 on:** July 17, 2012, 10:57:14 PM »

Like a billion years ago.

Also: Rush Limbaugh claims ‘Dark Knight’ movie is liberal attack on Romney.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nobody tell him about Willard.

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Barry Egan · « **Reply #52 on:** July 17, 2012, 11:11:35 PM »

I wonder if Manabytes internally constructed nerd hierarchy could be played out in a visual diagram or something. Like could we quantify the difference between how terrible a Twilight fan is compared to a Nolan fan? The metrics involved are probably pretty complex.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #53 on:** July 17, 2012, 11:19:27 PM »

Quote from: Barry Egan on July 17, 2012, 11:11:35 PM

I wonder if Manabytes internally constructed nerd hierarchy could be played out in a visual diagram or something. Like could we quantify the difference between how terrible a Twilight fan is compared to a Nolan fan? The metrics involved are probably pretty complex.

He probably operates in the same black/white world as other nerds do. To him, it's Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR (iirc he wrote a 8 page review of the first movie on IGN), Disney, and Spiderman vs. Twilight, Christopher Nolan, and other shit that I can't be assed to remember.

Edit: Left out Disney

Mandark · « **Reply #54 on:** July 17, 2012, 11:53:13 PM »

Quote from: Barry Egan on July 17, 2012, 11:11:35 PM

I wonder if Manabytes internally constructed nerd hierarchy could be played out in a visual diagram or something. Like could we quantify the difference between how terrible a Twilight fan is compared to a Nolan fan? The metrics involved are probably pretty complex.

Well, Manabyte's not a fanboy, but an outright partisan. He doesn't actually dislike movies or directors, he just needs to protect his heroes from the competition. So the horribleness of certain fanboys is probably a function of how much Manabyte loves the person he's stanning for (George Lucas and Walt Disney first, Joss Whedon and Peter Jackson second) and how big the perceived threat is (like Avatar grossing a gazillion dollars and starting Cameron vs. Lucas arguments).

Twilight is probably an exceptional case of They Don't Get What It's Really About plus some miscellaneous misogyny.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #55 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:01:05 AM »

Fascinating. I'd really like a Cruncheons episode modelled after the Ricky Gervais show with Manabyte standing in for Plinkington. Can you set this up Eel?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #56 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:03:09 AM »

I must admit I hope TDKR doesn't break any of The Avengers' records, just to shut up Nolan fanboys. All while simultaneously hating on The Avengers every chance I get, despite not seeing it.

Guess that makes me the Ron Paul of this box office season

Himu · « **Reply #57 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:05:54 AM »

It makes you a dumbass

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #58 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:11:38 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on July 18, 2012, 12:03:09 AM

I must admit I hope TDKR doesn't break any of The Avengers' records, just to shut up Nolan fanboys. All while simultaneously hating on The Avengers every chance I get, despite not seeing it.

TDKR will have a tough time of beating The Avengers's worldwide numbers because Batman hasn't done the huge overseas numbers that other big movies in the past few years have.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #59 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:17:45 AM »

Plus no dead Heath Ledger

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Author Topic: The Dark Knight Rises (Read 52304 times)