The Dark Knight Rises

[RoninFox]

Better question is what would a Wheaton and a Nolan superhero collaboration look like?

I would watch the hell out of that movie.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

Why the crap did i think Wil Wheaton when i meant Joss Wheden.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

Technically Ubermensch, I mean Superman should look good naked by definition.  Kinda like Michangealo's David.

[Nunyerbiz]

I think I am the only person in the world who thought this movie was just okay.

I'm with you here, probably my least favorite of the Nolan Batman movies... as I think the scripts have gone steadily downhill since Batman Begins.

Morgan Freeman is uber inventor of military deathdealing kickassery and general technological dues ex machina madness... but dammit he just can't figure out the autopilot on the bat-o-copter... At that point, I was a tad pissed... the captain had lit the foreshadowing light... and I sat there waiting until that bitch came in for a nice telegraphed landing.... which directly led to Catwoman and Batman retiring to all day sex on the French Riviera... lol... not even Joel Schumacher tried to pull off that shit.   

Of course, like the other two in the trilogy... It was well acted and technically superb... and Catwoman actually did add some much needed levity to the whole thing... Even if stealing Batman's granny pearls, financially destroying his company and indirectly shattering his back is some fucked up foreplay...

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

I think I am the only person in the world who thought this movie was just okay.

I'm with you here, probably my least favorite of the Nolan Batman movies... as I think the scripts have gone steadily downhill since Batman Begins.

Morgan Freeman is uber inventor of military deathdealing kickassery and general technological dues ex machina madness... but dammit he just can't figure out the autopilot on the bat-o-copter... At that point, I was a tad pissed... the captain had lit the foreshadowing light... and I sat there waiting until that bitch came in for a nice telegraphed landing.... which directly led to Catwoman and Batman retiring to all day sex on the French Riviera... lol... not even Joel Schumacher tried to pull off that shit.   

Of course, like the other two in the trilogy... It was well acted and technically superb... and Catwoman actually did add some much needed levity to the whole thing... Even if stealing Batman's granny pearls, financially destroying his company and indirectly shattering his back is some fucked up foreplay...

Yup i was pretty damned underwhelmed to, this guy sums it up well for me. 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/6064-The-Dark-Knight-Rises

[Russell]

TDKR is far and away the best film to come out this year and it easily stands head and shoulders above many crime thrillers to come out over the past 3 decades or so. I would say American culture is getting spoiled, but great films like this are few and far between these days. Honestly, I could make some of the same complaints about something like say, The Godfather part 2. The plot is heavily convoluted, it's not easy to understand what's going on without repeated viewings, there's a lot of characters and events that require you to actively pay attention to everything that's going on every second of the film... but despite that, the story is still great, the acting is top notch, the world it portrays feels real and the narrative emotionally grips you.

[Tripe]

I'm glad you enjoyed the movie, it's great when that happens, but it's also okay for others not to have enjoyed it as much as you did.

[Nunyerbiz]

The Godfather series is a good comparison to the Nolan Batman movies... As stated, all films in both series feature good acting and strong technical attributes ... and both suffer from heavy handed and rather dull scripts for the sequels. I didn't think the story in either TDK or TDKR offered anything remotely surprising, or even very interesting, maybe we have seen it all before.

And it's not as if either one is a bad movie by any means... They offer entertainment in the same way most super hero movies do... in a visceral, good defeats evil chunk of pablum. Nolan likes to toy around with bigger ideas, pulling out the clown hammer and bonking you over the head with 20 minutes of "Big Brother is watching you" or "Class Warfare / Tale of Two Cities omg lol!" in the last two movies... but none of it means anything in the end.. and none of it required "actively paying attention" unless it was to expose how shallow the entire exercise was from the get-go. I was a little worried that I might miss some intricately woven and very important plot point while the bat-o-copter flew between skycrapers to avoid those missles for three minutes... guess I better plunk down ten more bucks... I mean, this actually does stand above most horseshit that Hollywood releases... so I guess it's a masterpiece via the backhanded compliment theorem. 

[D.B. Barnes]

The Godfather series is a good comparison to the Nolan Batman movies... As stated, all films in both series feature good acting...

With one notable, painful exception.

"Dad?"

[Darth Geek]

The Godfather series is a good comparison to the Nolan Batman movies... As stated, all films in both series feature good acting...

With one notable, painful exception.

"Dad?"

The equivelant of the "mah doogs are hoongrey!" guy.

[Tripe]

Yeah, her acting is about as good as the sparkling wine named after her.

[mrbasehart]

More Nolan related than Batman, but he did mention in an interview recently that he'd love to do a Bond movie at some point. 

I still want a period Bond movie, set in the 60s.  Perhaps only someone like Tarantino - the great rip-off artist he is - could do something like that though.

[Darth Geek]

More Nolan related than Batman, but he did mention in an interview recently that he'd love to do a Bond movie at some point. 

I still want a period Bond movie, set in the 60s.  Perhaps only someone like Tarantino - the great rip-off artist he is - could do something like that though.

Joe Johnston would make a great period era Bond, I think.

And keep Tarentino the fuck AWAY from Bond!

[Nunyerbiz]

I think Nolan would make a pretty good Bond director. The opening sequence of TDKR was practically a Bond love letter anyways.

[wurwolf]

I think Inception ruined me for Christopher Nolan, and probably Memento as well. TDKR was ruined for me because I felt as though it was a little too much like Inception. He seems to like that puzzle wrapped within a riddle wrapped within an enigma thing a little too much for my liking. I'm afraid he'd do the same to Bond -- which has been, from its beginning, a fairly straightforward venture.