The Dark Knight Rises - Page 45

Originally Posted by Louquid 

The Dark Knight Rises was a good movie. Borderline great, but not quite there. "Awesome", would be fitting.
I consider it an "intelligent film" for the masses. Whereas the most popular movies for the masses are things like 'Avatar', 'Titanic', and other generic storylines with hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at them. The "intelligent films" for the masses are things like 'The Dark Knight(Rises)', 'Inception', 'Shutter Island', and so on. (Being that it was a film for the masses, they couldn't let Batman die..)
I personally liked The Dark Knight, Inception, and Shutter Island (or equivalent movies). Not because I found them to be "intelligent" but because they were entertaining. I accepted them for the big budget blockbusters that they were, and enjoyed the stories as well as the production values. Nothing cooler than having your house shake as Leonardo Dicaprio falls into a tub of water.
What I'm trying to say here is, I don't know if The Dark Knight Rises needs to be broken down and dissected so much. Every movie will have issues, and all can be broken down for ages. However, doing so usually ruins what entertainment value the movie had to begin with.

Originally Posted by darthrsg 

User reported. Get this man some AVS Infractions.

Originally Posted by darthrsg 

User reported. Get this man some AVS Infractions.

Originally Posted by Louquid 

Ha seriously?

Originally Posted by Louquid 

The Dark Knight Rises was a good movie. Borderline great, but not quite there. "Awesome", would be fitting.
I consider it an "intelligent film" for the masses. Whereas the most popular movies for the masses are things like 'Avatar', 'Titanic', and other generic storylines with hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at them. The "intelligent films" for the masses are things like 'The Dark Knight(Rises)', 'Inception', 'Shutter Island', and so on. (Being that it was a film for the masses, they couldn't let Batman die..)
I personally liked The Dark Knight, Inception, and Shutter Island (or equivalent movies). Not because I found them to be "intelligent" but because they were entertaining. I accepted them for the big budget blockbusters that they were, and enjoyed the stories as well as the production values. Nothing cooler than having your house shake as Leonardo Dicaprio falls into a tub of water.
What I'm trying to say here is, I don't know if The Dark Knight Rises needs to be broken down and dissected so much. Every movie will have issues, and all can be broken down for ages. However, doing so usually ruins what entertainment value the movie had to begin with.

Originally Posted by oink 

No kidding....I guess he doesn't understand the whole POINT of this forum is to piss & moan endlessly about movies.

Originally Posted by Louquid 

Ha seriously?

Originally Posted by Louquid 

Haha. See, thats the kind of stories I've heard about with the AVS infractions. Was wondering if I really was about to get one.
So should I be afraid to post my opinion of Chris Hardwick too?

Originally Posted by darthrsg 

ENDLESSLY

Originally Posted by Louquid 

Haha. First part seemed possibly legit.

Originally Posted by Louquid 

What I'm trying to say here is, I don't know if The Dark Knight Rises needs to be broken down and dissected so much. Every movie will have issues, and all can be broken down for ages. However, doing so usually ruins what entertainment value the movie had to begin with.

Originally Posted by Josh Z 

"Bloated, over-hyped debacle" pretty much describes Dark Knight Rises to a T, IMO.

Originally Posted by oink 

Thank you for fixing my post.
Back in the old days of this site, it was common.
Over time, things have changed.
It's much looser now.
Probably because there are alot of long-time members and we have a good feel for the personalities of each other and realize the large majority of our posts are not personal or demeaning.
I guess we have just grown-up...or gotten lazy.

Originally Posted by Josh Z 

Personally, I didn't find Dark Knight Rises to be particularly intelligent or entertaining. I was bored stiff through most of it. What does that leave us with?

Originally Posted by rezzy 

Well, I don't think this was hyped nearly as much as the last installment. And don't get me wrong: Heath was awesome, but Joker completely steals Batman's thunder. And I've mentioned before that I'd like to see some films with villains as the main attraction, but TDK turns into "The Joker Show".
Ledger does turn in a "tour-de-force" performance, but that's all there really is, IMO.

Originally Posted by mr. wally 

just saw batman returns last night. must say, what an unnecessarily busy plot. all kinds of contrivances that really go nowhere.
alfred leaves and the movie ends with no resolution. marion cotilliard suddenly turns to the dark side.
bane can appear anywhere and everywhere in a moments notice.
wayne can survive a nuclear explosion.
don't get me wrong, i found it entertaining, but had many, many eye rolling moments.
and by the way, oink you're a jackkass.

Originally Posted by darthrsg 

Batman Returns sucks. I would like to have seen Nolan's take on the Penguin though.

Originally Posted by Josh Z 

Personally, I didn't find Dark Knight Rises to be particularly intelligent or entertaining. I was bored stiff through most of it. What does that leave us with?

Originally Posted by mr. wally 


and by the way, oink you're a jackkass.

Originally Posted by Josh Z 

Personally, I didn't find Dark Knight Rises to be particularly intelligent or entertaining. I was bored stiff through most of it. What does that leave us with?

Originally Posted by Louquid 

The Dark Knight Rises was a good movie. Borderline great, but not quite there. "Awesome", would be fitting.
I consider it an "intelligent film" for the masses. Whereas the most popular movies for the masses are things like 'Avatar', 'Titanic', and other generic storylines with hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at them. The "intelligent films" for the masses are things like 'The Dark Knight(Rises)', 'Inception', 'Shutter Island', and so on. (Being that it was a film for the masses, they couldn't let Batman die..)
I personally liked The Dark Knight, Inception, and Shutter Island (or equivalent movies). Not because I found them to be "intelligent" but because they were entertaining. I accepted them for the big budget blockbusters that they were, and enjoyed the stories as well as the production values. Nothing cooler than having your house shake as Leonardo Dicaprio falls into a tub of water.
What I'm trying to say here is, I don't know if The Dark Knight Rises needs to be broken down and dissected so much. Every movie will have issues, and all can be broken down for ages. However, doing so usually ruins what entertainment value the movie had to begin with.

Originally Posted by DavidML3 

Wait what?
The fact that
1.Batman can walk on the ice when others fall through the ice
2. The city is in peril yet batman finds time to post a bat of fire on the bridge
3.Batman jumps out the batplane to go hand to hand combat when he can take out everything and everyone right then and there

Originally Posted by DavidML3 

Wait what?
The fact that
1.Batman can walk on the ice when others fall through the ice
2. The city is in peril yet batman finds time to post a bat of fire on the bridge
3.Batman jumps out the batplane to go hand to hand combat when he can take out everything and everyone right then and there
Just those simple 3 things show no intelligence was required when making this movie. Inception was the only intelligent movie Nolan made in the past few years. TDKR was the worst. That was the Ipad mini to the DK's Ipad. He knew people would buy it no matter how crap it was.

Originally Posted by Louquid 


Though I didn't feel this movie was long or slow.

Originally Posted by DavidML3 

Inception was the only intelligent movie Nolan made in the past few years.

Originally Posted by darthrsg 

1. He's Batman.
2. He's Batman. These movies are about symbols and such. This flaming bat was akin to the flag in the Star Spangled Banner...Gave proof through the night that our flag/bat was still there.
3. Failing to see the problem here....jumps out of plane to go hand to hand combat...like a man...in an action movie.

Originally Posted by drewTT 

I am hoping the next rehash of Batman uses a little more CGI. I definitely appreciate Nolan's gritty, real-world style but it would be exciting to see Batman more stylized with better gadgets and action sequences.

Originally Posted by Brian Conrad 

And I was disappointed in the message "telegraphed" in the story

Originally Posted by Brian Conrad 

I watched the BD last night and was a little disappointed that the BD had "mixed" aspect ratios. The theater presentation was 2:35:1 but IMDB says it was shot 1:44:1 for IMAX. Guess they figured they could take some liberties with the BD an only a few scenes were 2:35:1 the rest 1:77:1. Gives me pause to ever wanting to rent a WB tentpole film again. And I was disappointed in the message "telegraphed" in the story but enough said there before I get "infractioned."