Film Batman: The Dark Knight Rises!

[L2R]

come to sydney, bro. i have four vouchers right here.

 

[freddy47]

^lol lucky bastard.

I just checked for tickets availability back in my hometown. IMAX is sold out for the next week or so. So even if I went back now I still can't see it on IMAX

 

[L2R]

yeah i gotta wait a couple of weeks for these vouchers to work. still $12 is far better than $30! i can wait.... now

 

[L2R]

still, i went to the brand new imax in hefei last year and gorgeous as it was, it was about 30% the size of sydney's.

 

[freddy47]

^Yeah Asia really needs to upgrade their cinemas. The one in my hometown (Seattle) is one of the biggest IMAX theaters in the United States.

I would like to see more films get filmed for IMAX instead of 3D IMO. Honestly not the biggest fan of 3D. I mean it works for certain films for sure but lately it seems all the big films want to do 3D and they don't all work.

I was glad Nolan decided not to go with 3D in this film.

 

[L2R]

agreed. imax aspect ratio and clarity ftw for sure. sydney's screen is like 7 stories tall, it's ridiculously awesome. you need to turn your head!

 

[DeathDomokun]

Adelaide has shitty cinemas

 

[Kenickie]

4.5/5

only problem was the length, to be totally honest. i didn't plan on going to this movie tonight at 1am when i went into work, and then spent an hour sitting in the theatre waiting before the stupid 'behind the scenes of new abc show' even started. so maybe was entirely my fault for that.

just got home, it's 4:30am, was worth every ounce of exhaustion that gets sucked out of me as i work the next three days straight.

side note not about the movie at all:

some bros in jackets and boat shoes spent 197.00$usd buying popcorn and cokes. I stood next to them at the counter with my 15$ tab astounded. are you people fucking crazy?

 

[L2R]

fuck i hope none of you were in that theatre that just got shot up

 

[freddy47]

^Hmm? what happened where?

 

[L2R]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1670916/Shooting-in-US-cinema-wounds-20

10 dead 20 wounded at a screening of tdkr

 

[psood0nym]

agreed. imax aspect ratio and clarity ftw for sure. sydney's screen is like 7 stories tall, it's ridiculously awesome. you need to turn your head!

As cool (and democratic) as those 7 story tall IMAX screens are, the proper IMAX screen looks like the inside of a big ping pong ball sliced in half -- "OMNIMAX". These you find in American museums showing awesome nature films, but occasionally Hollywood stuff, too. The screen is molded to reflect the curvature of the cornea and so if you have a center seat no glasses are needed for the 3D effect. The problem is that only the few people sitting at the best positioned angles in the center really get the full effect. Some rich hermit cinephile fuck ought to invent an air conditioned "helmet theater" that employs OMNIMAX principals on a smaller scale so we can all have the experience with all media at home (theoretically it could be done with a set of goggles).

.... Oh yeah, "The Dark Knight Rises" was good.

 

[axl blaze]

it was good, but not fantastic, and a bit uninspiring with two many eye-rolling moments

I have some problems with this movie. first off, Batman would NEVER quit for 8 years. not for a woman, and not because of the mess the Joker and Two-Face left in their wake. Batman doesn't have super powers, he gets by because of his immense WILL. I know there are more variations to Batman's character than an MKULTRA victim (from Adam West to Superfriends to Tim Burton's or Paul Dini's Batman to name a few) - but the Bats DOESN'T QUIT. it's who he is and it's what makes him such a strong character. Gotham City needs Batman and Batman needs Gotham City. this fact from the movie almost killed it for me

Nolan tied off his trilogy decently enough by using Jonathan Crane (the Scarecrow) well and by pushing the Ra's-al-Ghul and his League of Shadows envelope back into the fold. I also liked how Batman's past array of jaw-dropping vehicles made their way into this final installment. however, there were more than a few very campy reveals that felt cheap and forced. Talia-al-Ghul's injection into the story was an eye-roller, only to have her you-know-what shortly after

Bane was a good bad-guy, but a little too Lord Humungus for me. I didn't have a problem with Bane's voice (check out this kewl article to read/hear about the gypsy bare-knuckle boxer that served as the vocal inspiration) and I hated how they degraded Nolan's Bane into basically Joel Schumaker's Bane by that once-again absurd reveal that made him to be pictured once again as nothing more than a one-dimensional guard dog. and I was a little pissed that Bane wasn't from South America, just some random spot half-way around the world (plot-hole)

BUT Nolan completely gave us a "meh" moment when Bane "broke" the Batman. this is a HUGE moment in the mythos of the Bats, and it came across as uninspiring

overall it seems like Nolan didn't know what to do after the untimely demise of Heath Ledger potentially ruined his film's final vision. Christopher Nolan comes across as the smartest kid in the classroom, but the kinda guy that isn't the most interesting to have a conversation with. it seemed like he wasn't having enough fun with Batman and Gotham City. in retrospect, I think I should have placed even more value on the performance of Heath Ledger's Joker in film before

and if you thought the Return of the King had a problem with multiple endings - holy shit, wait till you see this movie

I did enjoy the film. I just had a lot of problems with it - namely the drab breaking of the Bat scene and the fact that Nolan's Batman is a quitter... but these two problematic intricacies PALE in comparison to the "big Robin reveal" at the end. what an eye roller!

 

[psood0nym]

check out this kewl article to read/hear about the gypsy bare-knuckle boxer that served as the vocal inspiration)

Thanks for that. The man had such a soulful voice.

 

[L2R]

axl

NSFW:

i thought the whole lost will/strength and finding even more strength from fear to have been done superbly. the breaking scene gave me a geekgasm, cuz it really took away all the god mode advantage batsy has over the lemmings. nolans take on the franchise has always been his own spin. he adapted everything a bit in his own universe to emphasise as much realism as possible. these characters are no longer two dimension and just four colours, if you know what i mean.

 

[freddy47]

I'm gonna have to side with L2R on this one sorry Axl

NSFW:

The movie was consistent with the tone Nolan has set for the trilogy. And that is realism over crazy superhero stuff. The first fight between Bane and Batman felt "real" to me. It reminded me of this one sparring session I had with this guy that was immensely stronger and tougher than me. It felt exactly the same. Batman punched and kicked and threw everything he could at him. But in the end he was just overpowered. That part when Batman screams in frustration and charges Bane only to have his punches bounce off Bane's head was exactly how I felt. It showed Batman to be nothing more than human after all. An extraordinary human but a human being nonetheless.

As for Batman quitting. Again it felt in keeping with the tone set throughout the trilogy. In The Dark Knight at that dinner scene between Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent, Dent talks about how whoever Batman is he doesn't want to do it forever. How can he? Dent was the legitimate hero of justice that Batman was supposed to pass on his legacy to. But when Dent became two-face and died Batman had to absorb his sins and become the bad guy every body needed him to be.

After he did that organized crime (what Nolan's Batman has been fighting against from the very beginning) was essentially broken in Gotham. Because of that Bruce Wayne felt like he could stop being Batman. He wasn't quitting he thought he won, he thought he could hang up the gloves while still on top. That is why during the first Bane and Batman fight Bane says "I see that victory has defeated you." Like a boxer who has been Champion for too long Batman got soft, he thought that no one else could challenge him any longer. Along comes Bane the new tougher, stronger and younger challenger. He didn't see it coming.

 

[Kenickie]

fuck i hope none of you were in that theatre that just got shot up

it's an awful thing to wake up to, and i'm still looking for people this morning. one would think that after two previous shootings at the a-town mall, we would have been ready for this. i've caught many a midnight showings at Century and this is just fucking terrible. the worst part, of lying there trying to wake up thinking about it, was thinking i knew the shooter. thankfully it looks like most of my friends made the adult choice and went downtown to the (bigger, nicer, no history of shootings) 16th street mall to see it instead of out there at the aurora mall. i'm going to be bummed as fuck if one of my friends died watching batman dude, i can't even explain how fucking awful that would be.

 

[L2R]

^i can't even imagine.
i felt like saying i hope you're not directly affected, but how can you not be affected when it's your own town. i'm sorry, keni.

 

[Carl Landrover]

it's an awful thing to wake up to, and i'm still looking for people this morning. one would think that after two previous shootings at the a-town mall, we would have been ready for this. i've caught many a midnight showings at Century and this is just fucking terrible. the worst part, of lying there trying to wake up thinking about it, was thinking i knew the shooter. thankfully it looks like most of my friends made the adult choice and went downtown to the (bigger, nicer, no history of shootings) 16th street mall to see it instead of out there at the aurora mall. i'm going to be bummed as fuck if one of my friends died watching batman dude, i can't even explain how fucking awful that would be.

When were these mall shootings?

Are guns really that big in Colorado? That is the same state that gave us Columbine. Though to be fair the Jonesboro school shooting in Arkansas was a full 2 years ahead of Columbine.

I can't imagine going to the movie theater and having to worry about someone suddenly shooting the place up. As terrible as this tragedy is, I am still super excite! to see this movie

 

[Kenickie]

the first one was just gang related in....2004? before the new 'developer' took over the mall to remake it's "ghetto mall" image. the next one was two people fighting over a female in 2008/2009? and then now this one. i've finally gotten some people on the phone but i'm still missing four people that i know were at a midnight showing last night. four boys, rather. all the girls answered their phones, because they had to be up and at work/school early, unlike all my loser boy friends who work at liquor stores from 4 to midnight or whatever. despite the new owner of the mall or whatever, it's still where people go to settle scores/slang drugs/catch a bunch of buses/there is a community college nearby. i'm praying that everyone is still just passed out and not dead. thankfully, i don't know the shooter, although we did go to college on the same campus during the same time.

eta: one of my friend's roommates is in the ICU without a spleen or a kidney. never really liked the girl but will be thinking about her anyway.