The Dark Knight Rises Villains Announced (1 Viewer)

[Snotbubbles]

The best character in this series by far was Michael Caine's Alfred

You mean other than the character who's actor actually won an Oscar.

 

[mad sweeney]

The best character in this series by far was Michael Caine's Alfred

You mean other than the character who's actor actually won an Oscar.

Coutillard?

 

[mad sweeney]

Finally got to watch "Dark Knight Rises".

I can't imagine how anybody over the age of 12 thinks this is a good movie.

OK, I've tried to complete this movie 3 TIMES. I've gotten as far as just after the football game. I just can't do it. This thing is terrible.

Caught it on HBOLT and it was amazingly better when you don't have to listen to Bale strain his voice to play Batman.

Yeah, I really don't get that. They took so much heat about it in DK I was surprised it was as prevalent again. Really takes away from the film. I'm not a huge fan of Bale to begin with. I think he's just slightly above Keanu when he's playing an American, with very few exceptions. I think Nolan is as good as there is currently out there when he's doing his own material but when he's saddled with a groupthink project like Batman then his touch becomes watered down and then we get growling Baleman.

 

[Kenny Powers]

The best character in this series by far was Michael Caine's Alfred

You mean other than the character who's actor actually won an Oscar.

Coutillard?

Ledger

 

[Kenny Powers]

Finally got to watch "Dark Knight Rises".

I can't imagine how anybody over the age of 12 thinks this is a good movie.

OK, I've tried to complete this movie 3 TIMES. I've gotten as far as just after the football game. I just can't do it. This thing is terrible.

Caught it on HBOLT and it was amazingly better when you don't have to listen to Bale strain his voice to play Batman.

Yeah, I really don't get that. They took so much heat about it in DK I was surprised it was as prevalent again. Really takes away from the film. I'm not a huge fan of Bale to begin with. I think he's just slightly above Keanu when he's playing an American, with very few exceptions. I think Nolan is as good as there is currently out there when he's doing his own material but when he's saddled with a groupthink project like Batman then his touch becomes watered down and then we get growling Baleman.

I dont think Bale is anything special in the Batman series, but whenever he's in a movie with a decent script he's almost always good or better - The Fighter, 310 to Yuma, The Prestige, Rescue Dawn, Harsh Times, The Machinist, Equilibrium, American Psycho

 

[Chase Stuart]

The best character in this series by far was Michael Caine's Alfred

Excellent casting decision. He was just in every scene he was in.

He was great in the first two, brutal in the third.

That seems like a silly statement. He was exactly the same in all three, his comments about watching a child he raised die were perhaps the most authentic moments in all three films.

He turned into a sniveling, whiny, baby in the third movie. I found his performance very distracting, after he had such a strong character in the first two movies.

To be fair, it was more the lines he was given, not Caine's acting per se.

Again, how is being truly horrified at seeing the child you raised die, and praying to God for a better outcome equivalent to being a "sniveling, whiny, baby"? I agree the lines weren't the best but the sentiment was possibly the most sincere and heartfelt of the entire series (and I give credit to Caine for making them so).

It's been awhile since I've seen the movie; my complaints were more with him in the beginning and middle of the film, but I can't recall them specifically. I just remember thinking his character was very annoying in this one (and I loved him in the first two) and I find it off-putting.

 

[mad sweeney]

If tomorrow goes like today and I'm trapped in the rafters doing lighting effects, I'll never get to meet him, but I am doing camera/fx tests on his new movie this week. He's right below me right now. I'm hoping to meet him tomorrow but chances are slim since I drew the shirt straw on being up high. As good as BBatman Begins was, his non-BM movies have been better. Anxious to see how he does with sci- fi.

 

[bostonfred]

Tried watching bits and pieces on hbo again. The thing that bothered me most in the movie was the contrast between the normally realistic storytelliing of nolan and the absolutely unbelievable plotlines. You want to have a gritty bane who beats batman half to death and successfully executes an awesome plan to ruin gotham? Fine, but then don't give the guys in the pit of despair a tv hookup for bruce to find out how screwed he was, and don't make scarecrow the judge in the kangaroo courts, or have grown men walk out on thin ice instead of trying to lie flat so they spread their weight out a little. And the football scene from the Day After Tomorrow was brutal.

But by far the least realistic thing in the movie was the bomb itself. I don't mean the horrid ordinary citizen line. I don't mean the painfully stupid kiss between anne and bale when there's an atomic bomb set to go off in seconds. I mean a bomb which is made of a fusion thingy which is so unstable that its halflife is like a few days or something and then its going to blow up. How the #### would that thing have a timer on it that was precise to the second? Just horrible

 

[shadyridr]

If tomorrow goes like today and I'm trapped in the rafters doing lighting effects, I'll never get to meet him, but I am doing camera/fx tests on his new movie this week. He's right below me right now. I'm hoping to meet him tomorrow but chances are slim since I drew the shirt straw on being up high. As good as BBatman Begins was, his non-BM movies have been better. Anxious to see how he does with sci- fi.

just dont piss him off

 

[mad sweeney]

If tomorrow goes like today and I'm trapped in the rafters doing lighting effects, I'll never get to meet him, but I am doing camera/fx tests on his new movie this week. He's right below me right now. I'm hoping to meet him tomorrow but chances are slim since I drew the shirt straw on being up high. As good as BBatman Begins was, his non-BM movies have been better. Anxious to see how he does with sci- fi.

just dont piss him off

Go back to your crybaby thread.

 

[Brady Marino]

Tried watching bits and pieces on hbo again. The thing that bothered me most in the movie was the contrast between the normally realistic storytelliing of nolan and the absolutely unbelievable plotlines. You want to have a gritty bane who beats batman half to death and successfully executes an awesome plan to ruin gotham? Fine, but then don't give the guys in the pit of despair a tv hookup for bruce to find out how screwed he was, and don't make scarecrow the judge in the kangaroo courts, or have grown men walk out on thin ice instead of trying to lie flat so they spread their weight out a little. And the football scene from the Day After Tomorrow was brutal.

But by far the least realistic thing in the movie was the bomb itself. I don't mean the horrid ordinary citizen line. I don't mean the painfully stupid kiss between anne and bale when there's an atomic bomb set to go off in seconds. I mean a bomb which is made of a fusion thingy which is so unstable that its halflife is like a few days or something and then its going to blow up. How the #### would that thing have a timer on it that was precise to the second? Just horrible

Agreed on all counts. The football scene is just plain stupid.

 

[shadyridr]

If tomorrow goes like today and I'm trapped in the rafters doing lighting effects, I'll never get to meet him, but I am doing camera/fx tests on his new movie this week. He's right below me right now. I'm hoping to meet him tomorrow but chances are slim since I drew the shirt straw on being up high. As good as BBatman Begins was, his non-BM movies have been better. Anxious to see how he does with sci- fi.

just dont piss him off

Go back to your crybaby thread.

lmao wtf? You do realize he has a pretty famous tape out there when a crewmember pissed him off?

 

[mad sweeney]

If tomorrow goes like today and I'm trapped in the rafters doing lighting effects, I'll never get to meet him, but I am doing camera/fx tests on his new movie this week. He's right below me right now. I'm hoping to meet him tomorrow but chances are slim since I drew the shirt straw on being up high. As good as BBatman Begins was, his non-BM movies have been better. Anxious to see how he does with sci- fi.

just dont piss him off

Go back to your crybaby thread.

lmao wtf? You do realize he has a pretty famous tape out there when a crewmember pissed him off?

You do realize I'm talking about Nolan? Now, go back to your crybaby thread.

 

[Insein]

Tried watching bits and pieces on hbo again. The thing that bothered me most in the movie was the contrast between the normally realistic storytelliing of nolan and the absolutely unbelievable plotlines. You want to have a gritty bane who beats batman half to death and successfully executes an awesome plan to ruin gotham? Fine, but then don't give the guys in the pit of despair a tv hookup for bruce to find out how screwed he was, and don't make scarecrow the judge in the kangaroo courts, or have grown men walk out on thin ice instead of trying to lie flat so they spread their weight out a little. And the football scene from the Day After Tomorrow was brutal.

But by far the least realistic thing in the movie was the bomb itself. I don't mean the horrid ordinary citizen line. I don't mean the painfully stupid kiss between anne and bale when there's an atomic bomb set to go off in seconds. I mean a bomb which is made of a fusion thingy which is so unstable that its halflife is like a few days or something and then its going to blow up. How the #### would that thing have a timer on it that was precise to the second? Just horrible

Agreed on all counts. The football scene is just plain stupid.

I only hear rapping when I watch that scene now.

 

[Mario Kart]

Watched this again recently. The movie is great. On par with Batman Begins but have to give the nod to Begins.

1a - Batman Begins

1b - Dark Knight Rises

.

.

3 - Dark Knight

 

[dickey moe]

Watched this again recently. The movie is great. On par with Batman Begins but have to give the nod to Begins.

1a - Batman Begins

1b - Dark Knight Rises

.

.

3 - Dark Knight

You have that basically perfectly backwards.

 

[Mario Kart]

Watched this again recently. The movie is great. On par with Batman Begins but have to give the nod to Begins.

1a - Batman Begins

1b - Dark Knight Rises

.

.

3 - Dark Knight

You have that basically perfectly backwards.

Um, no.

 

[Hawks64]

Watched this again recently. The movie is great. On par with Batman Begins but have to give the nod to Begins.

1a - Batman Begins

1b - Dark Knight Rises

.

.

3 - Dark Knight

You have that basically perfectly backwards.

Um, no.

Um, yes.

 

[Insein]

No one in their right mind thinks Rises is better than Dark knight. Its fun but it is easily the worst of the trilogy. Should have been two movies.

 

[Kumerica]

My enjoyment of the movies is essentially in the same order of their release.

1) Batman Begins

2) The Dark Knight

3) The DVD Special Features from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight

4) The Dark Knight Rises

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Yeah not sure how this is even a discussion. The Dark Knight Rises is by far Nolan's worst film, a stain on the trilogy.

 

[Zow]

Watched this again recently. The movie is great. On par with Batman Begins but have to give the nod to Begins.

1a - Batman Begins

1b - Dark Knight Rises

.

.

3 - Dark Knight

Shirley, you can't be serious.

 

[Chase Stuart]

Batman Begins was the best movie. TDK has the Joker, which is the best character in the series, so TDK is basically neck and neck with Batman Begins. There are parts of each that I kind of want to fast forward through (origin story parts in Begins, anything involving the two ships in TDK), but both are great, great movies. TDKR is a good movie but it's not quite the other two. It really should have been two movies, or more should have been cut. Frankly, the Dent stuff was so rushed at the end of TDK, that they could have extended that a half hour, and added an extra 75 minutes to TDKR to make this a 4-part series.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

TDKR may have the worst pacing of any movie I can think of. It just skips around all over the place, stuff happens so fast with no build-up. The whole movie was like the showdown on Around the Horn when they only have 10 seconds to get their argument in so they just talk really quickly in broken up sentence fragments that you can barely follow.

 

[Corporation]

Batman Begins was the best movie. TDK has the Joker, which is the best character in the series, so TDK is basically neck and neck with Batman Begins. There are parts of each that I kind of want to fast forward through (origin story parts in Begins, anything involving the two ships in TDK), but both are great, great movies. TDKR is a good movie but it's not quite the other two. It really should have been two movies, or more should have been cut. Frankly, the Dent stuff was so rushed at the end of TDK, that they could have extended that a half hour, and added an extra 75 minutes to TDKR to make this a 4-part series.

 

[Abraham]

Batman begins is awesome. Because, ninjas. You know?

 

[rascal]

They are all above average films that I enjoyed.

 

[BigJohn]

FOUR IN THE THEATER DOOR!!!!

 

[packersfan]

Batman Begins holds up much better on re-watching. Scarecrow is underrated.

Yup. I think there's way too much Katie Holmes bashing and it ignores how good the film really is. Plus, she's not horrible in my opinion.

I've watched the first two films each a few times. I think both are very good. I've only watched Rises once. Didn't think it was all that great and I honestly understood maybe 5% of everything Bane said. I knew going in that there were a lot of issues with his muffled voice so I was trying extra hard to pay attention to what he said and I still missed out on just about everything. That really hurt the film for me.

 

[B Maverick]

Batman Begins holds up much better on re-watching. Scarecrow is underrated.

Yup. I think there's way too much Katie Holmes bashing and it ignores how good the film really is. Plus, she's not horrible in my opinion.

I've watched the first two films each a few times. I think both are very good. I've only watched Rises once. Didn't think it was all that great and I honestly understood maybe 5% of everything Bane said. I knew going in that there were a lot of issues with his muffled voice so I was trying extra hard to pay attention to what he said and I still missed out on just about everything. That really hurt the film for me.

Katie Holmes bashing? She was SOOOO much better then Maggie Gyllenhaal

I liked all 3. TDK, Begins, TDKR for me mostly because of the joker

 

[packersfan]

Batman Begins holds up much better on re-watching. Scarecrow is underrated.

Yup. I think there's way too much Katie Holmes bashing and it ignores how good the film really is. Plus, she's not horrible in my opinion.

I've watched the first two films each a few times. I think both are very good. I've only watched Rises once. Didn't think it was all that great and I honestly understood maybe 5% of everything Bane said. I knew going in that there were a lot of issues with his muffled voice so I was trying extra hard to pay attention to what he said and I still missed out on just about everything. That really hurt the film for me.

Katie Holmes bashing? She was SOOOO much better then Maggie Gyllenhaal

I agree but at the time she was criticized pretty heavily. I don't think there was ever any consideration to bringing her back for the sequel.

 

[B Maverick]

Batman Begins holds up much better on re-watching. Scarecrow is underrated.

Yup. I think there's way too much Katie Holmes bashing and it ignores how good the film really is. Plus, she's not horrible in my opinion.

I've watched the first two films each a few times. I think both are very good. I've only watched Rises once. Didn't think it was all that great and I honestly understood maybe 5% of everything Bane said. I knew going in that there were a lot of issues with his muffled voice so I was trying extra hard to pay attention to what he said and I still missed out on just about everything. That really hurt the film for me.

Katie Holmes bashing? She was SOOOO much better then Maggie Gyllenhaal

I agree but at the time she was criticized pretty heavily. I don't think there was ever any consideration to bringing her back for the sequel.

Interesting. I had always heard/read it was a tom cruise/scientology thing and he didnt allow her to act in the next one. But I never really researched it or anything.

 

[packersfan]

Batman Begins holds up much better on re-watching. Scarecrow is underrated.

Yup. I think there's way too much Katie Holmes bashing and it ignores how good the film really is. Plus, she's not horrible in my opinion.

I've watched the first two films each a few times. I think both are very good. I've only watched Rises once. Didn't think it was all that great and I honestly understood maybe 5% of everything Bane said. I knew going in that there were a lot of issues with his muffled voice so I was trying extra hard to pay attention to what he said and I still missed out on just about everything. That really hurt the film for me.

Katie Holmes bashing? She was SOOOO much better then Maggie Gyllenhaal

I agree but at the time she was criticized pretty heavily. I don't think there was ever any consideration to bringing her back for the sequel.

Interesting. I had always heard/read it was a tom cruise/scientology thing and he didnt allow her to act in the next one. .

You could be right. I'm not sure what all happened. I just don't recall there ever being a time when she was even considered to be in the second film. But maybe she was and Cruise squashed it. That wouldn't be a surprise.