I disagree.
If 2 armed robbers with body armor could get the upper hand on the LAPD for an hour, a trained ninja with billionaire resources could easily evade them for years.
There are still dozens of murderers at large being sought out by FBI and other federal agencies. None of them have Batman's training or money. You do the math.
The constant distraction by the ever looming stock update of Facebook on his mind will kill him.Let's say Mark Zuckerburg was Batman you are telling me with all his money if he took the next 7 years to train he could not get away with being Batman.
TDKR was VERY realistic.
CIA in Kazakhstan, Patriot Act/Dent Act, Lazarus Pit in Syria/Arab Spring, LOS/Al-Qaeda...
The only surreal things in the film are some of the gadgets (Bruce's knee brace, Bat-Pod, Selina's identity wiper).
The Bat might as well be an F-22 so I'll keep that off the surreal list.
I thought TDKR was the most "comic book-y" of the 3. That's not a bad thing... I was just surprised by it since TDK was probably the most grounded Nolan Batman movie.
I disagree.
If 2 armed robbers with body armor could get the upper hand on the LAPD for an hour, a trained ninja with billionaire resources could easily evade them for years.
There are still dozens of murderers at large being sought out by FBI and other federal agencies. None of them have Batman's training or money. You do the math.
Just having 3 costumed characters was a bit unnerving for me, as before, nobody but Batman himself had a costume (I wouldn't classify what Joker wore as a costume per se)
Really? Joker wearing a purple suit, clown make up and green hair is not a costume to you?
What would you call it then?
Well I agree that the prospect of Wayne trying to find a way into Gotham City was necessary, but I don't think the way Bruce finds Selina was meant to be in simplistic nature that it just becomes a coincidence.
It's makeup & dirty clothing he pieced together
and that's when he decided to wear it, which wasn't all the time.
That's kinda my point though, the way it's presented in the movie, it comes off exactly that way, at least to me.
Perhaps, but one of the great fallacies of the movie IMO was Bruce's return to Gotham. I don't know why Nolan didn't show us any of the ingenuity Bruce surely would've needed to use to not only get back to Gotham from seemingly a world away but also re-enter a City under a militaristic occupation. It couldn't have made the movie that much longer, and it would've went a long way to making it more plausible, not to mention more heroic had we been privy to exactly the steps he needed to take to accomplish it with enough time to stop Bane.
"By the way the suit it wasn't cheap. You ought to know you bought it"
He used the mob's money he stole from them to get it. But even if he had made it himself, how would it still not be a costume? He was making himself look like a scary clown. The Joker. Punctuated by the Joker cards and clown make up and cut smiles he put on his victims. It was all a costume to promote his image as The Joker.
The only times he didn't wear it was when he was in disguise so he wouldn't be spotted:
- In the bank robbery
- Loeb's funeral
- The hospital
He'd have stood out like a sore thumb in his purple suit in those situations. Bane didn't wear his traditional clothing in the prologue on the C.I.A. plane, or when he crashed the stock exchange because like Joker he was trying to be inconspicuous.
Because the movie was already pushing three hours.
I still feel this movie's greatest flaw is not being a two-parter. I feel this movie would have been better served having two parts with Bane and Talia being the overarching villains throughout both, with different minor villains in each.
Agreed, although I don't feel showing quick clips of Bruce during his journey at different intervals would've extended the run time that much. I would've liked to see this movie given more room to breath overall though, certainly.