The Dark Knight Rises

[WazzuRC]

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Wait, you got a Hobbit preview before hand?!

WTF?!

Yeah I had Total Recall, The Hobbit, Oz, Man of Steel teaser, and another one or two that I can't think of.

The Hobbit looked awful, but honestly I'm not into those movies. There were literallly 6-8 Freakshows on screen at once.

[TracerBullet]

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Maybe it's a Washington thing, I got The Hobbit too. Also got Man of Steel, Neighborhood Watch, Jack Reacher, The Expendables 2, & The Bourne Legacy. Did not see Total Recall.

Nothing blew me away in the previews (in fact most of it sucked imo), but I will be seeing The Expendables. Not a fan of Superman at all.

[jmood88]

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I just had The Hobbit, Total Recall, and Bourne.

Also, more complaints!

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I really didn't like how the Nolans felt the need to explain everything about both Bane and Miranda/Thalia. There was no reason to stop the climax of the movie to have her sit there and explain her history and what happened to Bane. Parts of this movie felt like they were written by other people cause I don't remember these issues I had with Dark Knight Rises popping up in other Nolan movies.

[Blzer]

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I just had The Hobbit, Total Recall, and Bourne.

Also, more complaints!

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I really didn't like how the Nolans felt the need to explain everything about both Bane and Miranda/Thalia. There was no reason to stop the climax of the movie to have her sit there and explain her history and what happened to Bane. Parts of this movie felt like they were written by other people cause I don't remember these issues I had with Dark Knight Rises popping up in other Nolan movies.

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Maybe not in Batman, but Nolan did this in literally every other film he's directed. Following, Memento, Insonmia, The Prestige, and Inception. They may or may not have been on the same level, but he certainly has done it before.

[Mo]

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I got Neighborhood Watch, Superman, Hobbit, that will ferrell movie, Oz and total recall

[dl2518]

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Just got back from 8 am IMAX and loved it! I loved all 3 of these
Movies and not sure how I would rank them. The 2nd half was amazing!

I got the hobbit, man of steel, oz and others here in bay area!

[Beantown]

I forgot about Jack Reacher, Neighborhood Watch and Bourne. That makes it about 7 previews beforehand.

[jmood88]

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Maybe not in Batman, but Nolan did this in literally every other film he's directed. Following, Memento, Insonmia, The Prestige, and Inception. They may or may not have been on the same level, but he certainly has done it before.

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The explaining definitely wasn't as bad in any of his other movies. He has a huge action scene and then out of nowhere stops and has her go through her entire back story for absolutely no reason. The writing for that speech was awful and made no sense in the part of the movie it happened

[aholbert32]

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Maybe it's a Washington thing, I got The Hobbit too. Also got Man of Steel, Neighborhood Watch, Jack Reacher, The Expendables 2, & The Bourne Legacy. Did not see Total Recall.

Nothing blew me away in the previews (in fact most of it sucked imo), but I will be seeing The Expendables. Not a fan of Superman at all.

I got Man of Steel, Skyfall, Expendables, the Hobitt and Franken Weenie. Could be because I saw it on Imax.

[Kashanova]

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Hey can anyone confirm the fact that they trimmed an hour and 15 mins from the movie? if so I want a directors cut lol

[swac07]

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I think the ending makes a great deal of sense. Bruce wasn't afraid of dying throughout the film, and that was hammered repeatedly. He was ready to be Batman one more time to lay it all on the line and try to save Gotham. 8 years as a recluse in a time of peace, left with the pieces of Rachel's death and having to be the villain of Gotham despite him being the complete opposite, clearly drained the desire out of him. He wasn't afraid of death because he wasn't living and he didn't feel needed. Somewhere in the film, presumably the pit, the flip was switched. He realized Gotham needed him, needed Batman, needed someone to be there. Even if there's a stretch of peace, the unknown still lurks. Once he returns to Gotham, he was clearly ready to be a fully invested Batman again, and while it's a small detail the fact that he even cared to fix the autopilot on the "bat" showed he was back to giving 110% and stopped being careless. Randomly trusting Cat Woman to lead him directly to Bane was very carless and un-Batman like imo. Also not getting the pieces figured out when Cat Woman gnabbed his prints and losing everything. Bruce Wayne/Batman's strength isn't supernatural, it's his cunning and intelligence, and he was one step behind through the 1st portion of the movie.

The idea was to show that Bruce Wayne started the movie as a man who didn't care about anything and was prepared to die without fear of it. Bane wanted to break Bruce Wayne and force him to watch Gotham fall apart while he could do nothing about it, but instead it resurrected his passion that he needed to live in order to protect his city, Gotham. Thus, he became afraid to die because he had to live in order to be that guardian. The fact he used auto pilot runs congruent with the point of the movie, he isn't ready to die and is committed to be Batman, not contrarian

Everything falling into place as the movie came to a close was sweet triumph. Nolan was in a tough spot having to follow up The Dark Knight, but he managed to top it in my book (though Heath Ledger's Joker is the most memorable chapter in the trilogy by far). Sorry it's a bit lengthy but as a huge Batman fan have a great deal of thoughts on this film and on the 3 hours of sleep + coffee I'm on it's just running a bit. Look forward to chopping it up with you guys as more discuss this movie.

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This is probably the best breakdown of this movie I've read. You nailed it!! The beginning seemed slow to me[and I couldnt understand why batman was making foolish mistakes but you are right he lost his mojo and wasn't his cunning self due to being out the game for so long], but from reading this I can understand now why it was told the way it was and you put some things into perspective for me.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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My son and I really enjoyed it. Most of the surprises weren't all that shocking, and we can't wait to see it again with the wife (this time in IMAX).

[fpac]

Just got out of the movie and I don't know how I feel right now. It's not sadness that the trilogy is over but kind of feels like disappointment. I honestly don't know if I loved or hated TDKR. I'll probably wait a couple of weeks and go see it in IMAX.

The only thing I can say is IMO, BB and TDK were MUCH better.

[DJ]

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Same here. I used to live about 10 minutes from that mall and went there quite a bit when I first moved out here. I've been checking on friends to make sure they're okay all morning.

I hope they are all OK. I didn't know anyone that went to that theatre last night. This incident has really tempered my exictement for this movie. I'll see it, but I think I may wait until I get to NY next week.

My wife was pretty shaken up by the news; she was in a school shooting a couple of years ago (no fatalities, but still very scary) so it's very understandable her reaction to it all.

[Blzer]

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I would very much like a gif of...

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Bane with his rapid-fire punches on Batman when he was against that pillar.