Finally saw The Dark Knight Rises

[Edward Crosby]

...and I have to say that I wasn't that impressed. It took a long time for the story to develop so I was kind of bored for the first hour and a half of the movie. Also, am I the only one who was really annoyed by Bane's voice and speech? And, I had my reservations about Anne Hathaway being Catwoman before the movie came out; she wasn't as bad as I had expected but I still think they could have found a better Catwoman.

To me, The Dark Knight is still the best of all three Christopher Nolan's versions of The Batman movies.

I'm ready for Batman Beyond movies now. :)

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[Jason Service]

With retrospect, i think Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the best part of DKR.

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[Jennifer Walker]

I'd say that Bane's voice affectations filled the annoyance gap left by Christian Bale not doing his Batman voice throughout the bulk of the movie. 

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[Edward Crosby]

I absolutely agree. I haven't seen Looper yet but everything I have seen him in so far I have really enjoyed his performances. I like him a lot; he's become one of my new favorite actors. The guy is full of talent.

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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Jason Service <ser...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Cary Preston]

I was pleasantly surprised by Hathaway; she did the role justice. Bane had more than an annoying voice, his character shouldnt have been a henchman. The flaws of the movie were significant enough that they hampered my enjoyment of the story.  

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[Edward Crosby]

Yup. Between the two, though, I found Bane's the worst. I've seen parodies of Christian Bale's Batman voice that have really cracked me up. I'm surprised there hasn't been numerous ones of Tom Hardy's Bane voice yet.

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[Cary Preston]

Looper was really enjoyable. One of the better sci fi movies Ive seen in a while. 

[Luke Jaconetti]

I have not yet had a chance to see Dark Knight Rises, and honestly I don't know when I will sit down with it.  I'm just not that interested in the film, honestly.

 

Looper looks pretty cool, though.

 

Gordon-Levitt has a lot of range.  I loved him back in the day on 3rd Rock From The Sun, and he played up his hammy gravitas in GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, to my delight.  I wish he was coming back for Retaliation, honestly.  If he becomes a new Hollywood "It Guy," I would be happy.

[rave...@aol.com]

Folks were saying he sounded like Sean Connery around the release. Which is funny!

I've actually enjoyed it more seeing bits of it on airplanes and on other people's tvs in the background.

I didn't think there was any question of it being better than Dark Knight, which was an obvious peak. The most iconic villain, a great performance, etc. (though it's hard to re-watch, as some here have noted - it's probably 45 minutes too long). I think the hope for DKR was that it would wrap up the story and give us a few more thrills. Let us see our old friends again.

It had some very stoooopid parts. Bane was a mistake from the beginning. Dumb in the comics, lame in the movie, just a very surprising choice and a very poor execution. However, I thought they did a very nice job of tying together the story they started in the first one. Like, that's not easy, and I thought Hathaway and JGL were fantastic additions. Hathaway was red hot and very funny, very pleasantly surprised. JGL is putting together a great body of cult films (with big budgets). They built up so much good will, I was cool with it. 

I wish the movie had STARTED in the Bane-controlled city. That was the story.

The best thing this series did was having him feel like his parent's death was his fault for being afraid at the opera. That was a magnesium flare set off in a dark cave. It was the most brilliant addition to Batman mythology in 70 years. Magnificent, and the bit in this one about needing to allow himself to be afraid to succeed (and to recapture his humanity) is genius. It's pure, basic, distilled Batman-story genius. 

I won't watch any of them again but I enjoyed them.

Caw!

[Shag]

The Justice League movie is in development.  I'd say go with Gordon-Levitt as Batman for that film. He's got a good range.

Shag

[rave...@aol.com]

You forgot the quotation marks around "development"

That train wreck is never coming out. I mean, yes, JGL would be great, and who knows about this new Superman guy, but then what.. Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern, no one as Wonder Woman.... Aquaman? The Flash? 

Caw!

[Irredeemable Shag]

I think Green Lantern would be better cast for John Stewart. Lots of people know him from the cartoon (especially kids) and it will separate this movie from the failed Green Lantern film. 

Yes, great risk with them screwing up Flash, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman. 

Shag

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