Comments on: The Dark Knight Rises: Two Reviews http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/ Movies, TV, Internet, Video Games, and E-Books Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:26:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Christopher http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/#comment-23533 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:26:41 +0000 http://www.screencuisine.net/?p=2095#comment-23533 In reply to Ed Fenning.

1) It’s kind of funny that in the Batman universe, someone looking at Bruce Wayne and figuring out that he was Batman qualifies as a plot hole, while in the real world, that’s something we would all immediately do. I mean, who the hell else could Batman be, besides Bruce Wayne, the guy who is rich enough to be Batman and whose timeline coincides perfectly with Batman’s comings and goings?

2) Yeah, you’d think Batman might have, say, pulled the knife out before sitting quietly for her entire backstory.

3) I didn’t have a problem with Bruce Wayne getting back to Gotham, really. If we know anything about the uber-wealthy, they have secret bank accounts everywhere and they’re never really, truly broke.

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By: Ed Fenning http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/#comment-23531 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:40:17 +0000 http://www.screencuisine.net/?p=2095#comment-23531 It’s nice to find someone reacted to this film the same way I did, I was beginning to wonder if maybe I was just too cynical a guy with quite a few of my friends raving about what I felt was just a decent film.

Some other stand out incongruous parts –

1) Robin/Gordon Levitt Cop figuring out Bruce Wayne was Batman due to the look in Bruce’s Eye when he visited his orphanage. I mean, that’s a pretty tangential thing, seeing that someone else is also an angry orphan but then deducing that this must mean they’re Batman. But then his brief glimpse of someone’s eyeball a decade ago is apparently strong enough grounds to drive straight up to a billionaire’s house after his boss is shot and confront Bruce with his suspicions. And Bruce figures, hey, this is a fair cop, I can’t really deny this to what is effectively a complete stranger.

2) How long Evil Lady held that knife in Batman’s side for. There was a good 5 minutes of exposition/gloating with Bruce just stood there, stabbed. Maybe he just digs that sort of thing from chicks.

3) After finding out what makes you really good at jumping is jumping good, Bruce manages to travel from Pit, India to Gotham City, America. I’m quite jealous of his ability to globe trot on what is zero dollars and a broken back.

What you mention here reminds me of this though, which is amusing if you haven’t seen it already Chris – http://www.jest.com/article/185011/dark-knight-rises-newspaper-headlines

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By: mawpp http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/#comment-23530 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:56:59 +0000 http://www.screencuisine.net/?p=2095#comment-23530 Eh, I thought Bane was a fine villain. It felt like there wasn’t much they could do with Heath Ledger dead and the story is less villain-centered than TDK, which is probably a good thing.

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By: AceRay http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/#comment-23529 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:59:38 +0000 http://www.screencuisine.net/?p=2095#comment-23529 If there’s one thing I didn’t like, it was the (BIG SPOILER SPOILER SPOILERS) artificial twist that Bane wasn’t the real but instead was Miranda. I mean, the background for the main bad guy worked really well for Bane and it gives him backstory and characteristics. However, you then hand that over to Miranda/Talia, who’s really killed off a couple of minutes after the “I’m evil” speech. Bane then loses that backstory and is now just some bodyguard dude. We basically have one villain with lots of personality and no backstory and another villain with no personality and lots of backstory. That’s my main problem with the film, along with the time skips, although it was still awesome.

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By: Niteowl http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/#comment-23528 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 05:02:31 +0000 http://www.screencuisine.net/?p=2095#comment-23528 Awesome review, almost beat out by Dan there.

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By: Dan http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/movies/the-dark-knight-rises-two-reviews/#comment-23527 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:54:48 +0000 http://www.screencuisine.net/?p=2095#comment-23527 This is supremely humorous and makes many laugh. Evaluating Hollywood movies is a tug of war game between tired anger and genuine amusement.

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