Re: Dark Knight Rises
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goatphius</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not sure if I saw the same movie.
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The fight scenes were terribly acted and poorly choreographed. No gadgets and no detective work.
Don't get me started on the big battle scene between the cops and bad guys holding the city. Bad guys have three tanks and all are equipped with assault rifles and are holding the high ground. While the cops have pistols and shotguns and just bum rush the enemy position; no use of tactics no formation just run down a street while being fired upon and somehow only two cops go down....
Batman has a cool new batcopter that no one manages to find sitting on a roof for 5 months, with a huge camo tarp over it blowing in the wind. And in the final chase scene instead of taking out the enemy tanks from behind (which can be blown up with one shot from the batcycle) he flies in front of them so they can use their main weapon system and shoot rockets at him....
Cat woman had no back story and was never even once called cat woman or had any feline attributes; not even claws.... Not to mention one of the most 2D performances in the film.
Robin, let's see what the main parts they got wrong were. Obviously the name. His parents dying's back-story was nowhere near right. Robin was a trapeze artist not a detective. If anything they could have introduced Nightwing or some other batman hier, but Robin, the quintessential side kick???
Bane, this movie didn't do him justice. They downgraded his physical abilities and destroyed his backstory; which I don't mind since they were trying to fit him into the league of shadows storyline. But they kept playing on the backstory that Bane was excommunicated from the league by Ra's Al Ghul, and you would assume it's because he is such a loose canon or too vicious. But in the end it's because Ra's Al Ghul couldn't see him for anything but a monster because of the disfigurement on his face that he got from protecting his daughter????
Batman puts on a mechanical knee brace that gives him the ability to walk and function normally again. Ok I buy that, but it also gives him the ability to kick the corner off a brick wall without injuring his foot or ankle!? Well shit that's cool, but throughout the rest of the movie he never goes around putting boot to chest or doing much of anything with his legs.
Miranda's (Ra's Al Ghul's daughter) death scene was the worst acting of the movie.
Officer Blake (Robin) knew Bruce Wayne was Batman based on a face he saw him make!? Because he had been making the same face his whole life??? But Commissioner Gordon never could figure it out??? And then Batman's vague reference at the end of the movie about wrapping a coat around a boy and telling him the world isn't going to end somehow turned the light bulb on? How many times in a city as fucked up as Gotham do you think Gordon has consoled a child?
Batman handing an explosive to Officer Blake and telling him to throw it in 5 sec, I was happy to see batman finally using some gadgets, but the blast doesn't do anything to the ruble and he ends having to fire a rocket from his batcopter to blast a hole in it. What was the point of the tiny explosive? And why didn't he use the same rockets to take out the tanks in the final chase scene.
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I could've sworn i read this exact statement in a IMDB thread.
For the fights honestly they haven't been that great in any of the movies. Begins probably had the best fighting scenes, other than that it's pretty much the same shaky camera, batman kind of looking mechanic and slow. Though the second fight scene suck IMO compared to the first in the movie.
Mad about changing Robin and Bane to fit Nolan's Batman is kind of redundant. There is no way to incorporate Bane's true comic character into the movie as the story we become even more unbelievable than most hold it.
As for Robin knowing who he was, i'm with you on that one i didn't get it. Watched it a second time and just couldn't follow exactly how he knew who batman was.
Yes Marion Cotillard's death sucked kinda, didn't really bother me near as much as Bane's.
Honestly beyond some nitpicky things, which really are nitpicky when you consider it's about a caped crusader beating gunman to a pulp. The movie really just needed to be longer, it covers too much time IMO to show thorough development of all the characters in 2hrs and 45 minutes.
