The Dark Knight Rises (NO UNTAGGED SPOILERS!)

«‹›174 »

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Dark Knight Rises (NO UNTAGGED SPOILERS!)

Saul Goode: Feb 20, 2011; Great, now I'm gonna have that stuck in my head all day

Danger posted:

Surprised we didn't see Batman walking horizontally up a building.

It's been a while since I've seen it but isn't that sort of how he escapes the pit?

# ? Dec 31, 2012 22:42

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? May 26, 2013 03:50

Rake Arms: Sep 15, 2007; It's just not the same without widescreen.

Saul Goode posted:

It's been a while since I've seen it but isn't that sort of how he escapes the pit?

All it need was for Robert Downey Jr. to stick his head out a window and say something funny halfway up.

# ? Jan 1, 2013 02:36

Yoshifan823: Feb 19, 2007

I found someone who is so, so close to getting it, but just can't/won't.

quote:

1) Bruce Wayne is a man of action, at his very core he is a man who genuinely cares about Gotham and Batman or not will do anything he can to help. In TDKR Bruce Wayne stops donating to charities, and lets his fathers entire company go to hell, probably leading to layoffs and paycuts.

2) Bruce Wayne trained 8 years, to be Batman for 2 years, to retire for 8 years, to be Batman for 6 months (WTF). Apparently, Bruce Wayne still watched Gotham from his cave just in case he needed to be Batman again, but didn't keep his body in shape just in case that day came. This leads to my next complaint, Nolan Batman is a dumbass.

3) Batman's single greatest superpower that truly makes him stronger than any other hero is his intellect. Forget his strength, forget his gadgets, at the end of the day his mind is what wins him his battles.

Nolans Batman has never been a genius but he at least showed flashes of brilliance. TDKR turned Batman into a mindless brute. In TDKR, Batman fights Bane in a fist fight, TWICE. The first time, he uses two dumbass gadgets instead of useful gadgets, like say a ****en stun gun you can get from walmart. The second time, instead of creating useful gadgets for the next fight, he spends an enormous amount of time creating a bat symbol on a goddamn bridge, and fights Bane with the same game plan that got his rear end beat in the first place.

BATMAN GOT STUCK IN A GODDAMN HOLE FOR 6 MONTHS, EVEN ADAM WEST BATMAN KNEW HOW TO CREATE AN ANCHOR AND SOME ROPE, WHAT THE FLYING ****?

I cannot accept a dumbass version of Batman that can't find. In making Batman this way, you bastardize the very core and fabric of his being. The Avengers at least stayed true to it's character. That was just the tip of the iceberg btw, don't make me bring up the rest of dumbass Batman.

quote:

I would also like to add that Batman didn't need to beat Bane, and it wasn't that Batman failed that I disliked this movie. It is the way in which it happened. Had Batman used smart, tactical, useful gadgets against Bane, and Bane stopped him at every turn, I'd be singing a different song. Had Bruce done everything in his power to keep his company afloat, but got bankrupt anyway, THAT would also be acceptable. But, EVERY SINGLE FAILURE BRUCE/ BATMAN WENT THROUGH IN TDKR WAS A RESULT OF HIM BEING A PATHETIC DUMBASS.

# ? Jan 1, 2013 21:43

P.d0t: Dec 27, 2007; I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over...

So I kinda caused a derail over here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...5#post412337271

Anywho, am I misunderstanding something to just say "Bane is a sick rear end in a top hat who wanted to torture a whole city and make Bruce watch" and that this is kinda the only halfway-decent execution of a James Bond-esque "I could kill you now but I won't because reasons" thing?

# ? Feb 9, 2013 06:35

«‹›174 »

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Dark Knight Rises (NO UNTAGGED SPOILERS!)