What's The Last Movie You Watched? XIV - - Part 15
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The Dark Knight Rises
8/10
It's too long and there are a number of things I disliked about the plot, but man, I loved the ending.
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It's too long and there are a number of things I disliked about the plot, but man, I loved the ending.
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Don't really know what to make of this movie quite yet. There were moments that I completely loved and the visuals on IMAX are no doubt exhilarating but it was plagued by narrative issues and character motivation 360 turns that were just a a bit too much at times.
Need to watch it a second time to give it a rating. When I first came out of Batman Begins I was in love and with TDK while not completely enamored still left a big impression on me.
TDKR however has been a mixed bag for me. Begins always edged out TDK as my favorite of the Nolan Batman films as I had a few issues with it but TDKR has really made me appreciate TDK's tighter and far more coherent story and arc which I used to sort of take for granted.
Maybe my opinion will change during my second viewing of Rises. We'll see.
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The Dark Knight Rises: 5/5
Okay, I loved it. I'm still trying to comprehend what I just saw. I felt in some aspects it lacks compared to the previous two, but I need to see it again I think.
Okay, I loved it. I'm still trying to comprehend what I just saw. I felt in some aspects it lacks compared to the previous two, but I need to see it again I think.
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The Cable Guy. I'm pretty sure that movie is a horror film
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I agree with everything you said about TDKR. It just lacked something to be a great movie like Begins and TDK IMO.
Don't really know what to make of this movie quite yet. There were moments that I completely loved and the visuals on IMAX are no doubt exhilarating but it was plagued by narrative issues and character motivation 360 turns that were just a a bit too much at times.
Need to watch it a second time to give it a rating. When I first came out of Batman Begins I was in love and with TDK while not completely enamored still left a big impression on me.
TDKR however has been a mixed bag for me. Begins always edged out TDK as my favorite of the Nolan Batman films as I had a few issues with it but TDKR has really made me appreciate TDK's tighter and far more coherent story and arc which I used to sort of take for granted.
Maybe my opinion will change during my second viewing of Rises. We'll see.
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Batman Begins - 10/10
The Dark Knight - 10/10
The Dark Knight Rises - 10/10
I would have posted this yesterday but it was before I saw it for a second time. And the first time I'll admit, I was disappointed. I thought things were rushed, a couple of characters weren't needed and didn't add much to the entire story, and was a bit confused and irked by the ending. With The Dark Knight as soon as it was over, I shot up in my chair and declared how much I loved it. Here, I sat in my seat troubled. But I culdn't get it out of my head and after thinking about it, then going here to see what people said about the ending, I approached it with a different mindset and new enthusiasum going into my second viewing. And boy, the second time was so much better. Now that I knew what happened and the approach to the set up of the ending and the meaning, which has been there since Batman Begins. I just saw my own lense but Nolan saw a different one, and guess what? Nolan's was better than mine in the end, like it always is. The plot itself the second time is actually well done for a film this long (which doesn't feel like 164 minutes) and my complaints of characters disappearing for other characters and their stories to come in are actually a compliment to the film now. Everything melded together and it all came together by the finale.
Bruce Wayne's journey in this film is the thing that I love the most. It is the thing I have been looking forward to the most. And I had a different idea of his journey and how he might conclude it carried over from the previous films. It's something we've never seen before. Yet we're reminded that Nolan's Batman is his own, but his vision here as completed is bold, new and different, yet it still stays true to the core of Batman from the comics. And that conclusion works so well and I ended up loving it to death. Bale's performance as Wayne could be his best here. This film is his last hurrah. Where Bruce is needed once more to save his city from a rising evil. But in order to do that, he must remember why he does what he does and what motivates him and what makes him truly live. The mirror image of him and Hardy's Bane is so well done in this film, I didn't really mind the twist now.
Bane, as a main villain, is a damn great villain. I'm not even gonna bother him comparing the Joker to him. Because they're two different types of evil. Bane is, "Neccessary evil." It takes great skill as an actor to emote through a covered face where we can only see his eyes to emote. We hate him and enjoy watching him. All through his eyes and body language, and sheer dominance in presence. He really is the ultimate Batman villain here in the last step of Bruce's journey. He is the last obstacle, and God, what an obstacle. We first see that in their first confrontation and it's one of the stand outs of the film, and the best fight scene of the trilogy.
Hathaway's Selina Kyle, like I thought, is fantastic. She is Selina Kyle. I would have liked more scenes between her and Bruce and perhaps maybe explore the duality of Batman and Catwoman, but it's fine. We already got that in Batman Returns.
Nolan has really upped the ante. This is his biggest film yet. Despite the spectacle of the action, the true spectacle are the characters, especially Bruce's. This is his movie. And this is his series. And here, we see him own it and why.
The ending had me in tears, I cried for one of my favorite superheroes because I've loved him since I could remember and to see him conclude his journey, a three film series with the samedirector and actor, and to conclude in the most satisfying way, just makes me proud. My love and pride as a Batman fan right now is shown in The Dark Knight Rises, and I'm glad everyone else has seen why.
The only other trilogies I have given all 10/10's to are Toy Story and The Lord of the Rings. But this is different because it's Batman. What a perfect ending.
The Dark Knight - 10/10
The Dark Knight Rises - 10/10
I would have posted this yesterday but it was before I saw it for a second time. And the first time I'll admit, I was disappointed. I thought things were rushed, a couple of characters weren't needed and didn't add much to the entire story, and was a bit confused and irked by the ending. With The Dark Knight as soon as it was over, I shot up in my chair and declared how much I loved it. Here, I sat in my seat troubled. But I culdn't get it out of my head and after thinking about it, then going here to see what people said about the ending, I approached it with a different mindset and new enthusiasum going into my second viewing. And boy, the second time was so much better. Now that I knew what happened and the approach to the set up of the ending and the meaning, which has been there since Batman Begins. I just saw my own lense but Nolan saw a different one, and guess what? Nolan's was better than mine in the end, like it always is. The plot itself the second time is actually well done for a film this long (which doesn't feel like 164 minutes) and my complaints of characters disappearing for other characters and their stories to come in are actually a compliment to the film now. Everything melded together and it all came together by the finale.
Bruce Wayne's journey in this film is the thing that I love the most. It is the thing I have been looking forward to the most. And I had a different idea of his journey and how he might conclude it carried over from the previous films. It's something we've never seen before. Yet we're reminded that Nolan's Batman is his own, but his vision here as completed is bold, new and different, yet it still stays true to the core of Batman from the comics. And that conclusion works so well and I ended up loving it to death. Bale's performance as Wayne could be his best here. This film is his last hurrah. Where Bruce is needed once more to save his city from a rising evil. But in order to do that, he must remember why he does what he does and what motivates him and what makes him truly live. The mirror image of him and Hardy's Bane is so well done in this film, I didn't really mind the twist now.
Bane, as a main villain, is a damn great villain. I'm not even gonna bother him comparing the Joker to him. Because they're two different types of evil. Bane is, "Neccessary evil." It takes great skill as an actor to emote through a covered face where we can only see his eyes to emote. We hate him and enjoy watching him. All through his eyes and body language, and sheer dominance in presence. He really is the ultimate Batman villain here in the last step of Bruce's journey. He is the last obstacle, and God, what an obstacle. We first see that in their first confrontation and it's one of the stand outs of the film, and the best fight scene of the trilogy.
Hathaway's Selina Kyle, like I thought, is fantastic. She is Selina Kyle. I would have liked more scenes between her and Bruce and perhaps maybe explore the duality of Batman and Catwoman, but it's fine. We already got that in Batman Returns.
Nolan has really upped the ante. This is his biggest film yet. Despite the spectacle of the action, the true spectacle are the characters, especially Bruce's. This is his movie. And this is his series. And here, we see him own it and why.
The ending had me in tears, I cried for one of my favorite superheroes because I've loved him since I could remember and to see him conclude his journey, a three film series with the samedirector and actor, and to conclude in the most satisfying way, just makes me proud. My love and pride as a Batman fan right now is shown in The Dark Knight Rises, and I'm glad everyone else has seen why.
The only other trilogies I have given all 10/10's to are Toy Story and The Lord of the Rings. But this is different because it's Batman. What a perfect ending.
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Dark Shadows.
I was annoyed at the very thought of Burton/Depp/Bonham-Carter together again. But this was simply hilarious. I laughed a lot and even when far from perfection, it was a nice movie I want to see again.
4/5
I was annoyed at the very thought of Burton/Depp/Bonham-Carter together again. But this was simply hilarious. I laughed a lot and even when far from perfection, it was a nice movie I want to see again.
4/5
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Same here, I always liked BB a tiny bit more than TDK and there was something missing in TDKR that didn't make me love it on first viewing. I'm seeing it a second time tomorrow and I'm curious as to how I'll feel with another viewing.
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Toy Story 3. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it irked me that the mother was so quick to kick Andy out of the house. My whole family, when a child moved away for college, the parents always kept the bedrooms until the kids either found a place of their own after college, or, in most instances, the kids just come back and end up inheriting the property. I found that cold on her part.
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Same here but still it's 10/10 for me. It's the first time third movie doesn't suck.
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