The Dark Knight Rises

either way it still makes almost no sense how Batman was able to escape from the explosion, not because of the fallout but because of the blast radius

pretty sure they describe it as a neutron bomb in the film - ie a nuclear bomb designed to minimise the destructive blast but maximise radiation output.

  On 8/21/2012 at 8:45 PM, Awepittance said:

either way it still makes almost no sense how Batman was able to escape from the explosion, not because of the fallout but because of the blast radius

Yes, this was harder for me to swallow. Also, the interminable catwoman snog prior to flying the bomb a safe distance away.

  On 8/21/2012 at 8:45 PM, BCM said:

pretty sure they describe it as a neutron bomb in the film - ie a nuclear bomb designed to minimise the destructive blast but maximise radiation output.

I missed that. It's just fucking bad writing, then.

  On 8/21/2012 at 8:45 PM, Awepittance said:

either way it still makes almost no sense how Batman was able to escape from the explosion, not because of the fallout but because of the blast radius

Comic books.

Superheroes.

I can't tell you how sorta saddening it is to see that people can't have the Burton and Nolan Batman films to have their own respective niches. I find it sorta pathetic really. Say what you will, they both have plenty of flaws, but still garnered critical acclaim and inspired their own generations to love what was my favorite childhood superhero again.

The mere fact that these men probably got younger kids to check out the Animated Series is a flawless victory AFAIC.

I like both the Burton and Nolan versions. I don't love either one, but I like them. It's just Batman, but they both got more right than wrong (BF and B&R are instructive here as examples of Batman getting everything wrong).

Batman was probably the high water mark of Burton's career, tonally and stylistically, before everything started to look like Tim Burton's^tm faux-expressionist filmic wank fantasies over Depp/Bonham Carter in black/white/red horizontal striped leggings. He's fucking awful now, but the 1989 Batman felt fresh and exciting.

I still remember being 7 or 8 and getting absolutely silly with excitement at the little teaser half-revealed-batlogo posters for the '89 Batman.

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  On 8/20/2012 at 3:22 PM, usagi said:

saw this on R***** just today, coinkydink

 

I was listening to the How Did This Get Made? Podcast with him on it as a guest and he seemed full of praise for the Burton Batman.

Just wanna say, finally got around to seeing TDKR this past weekend and I really loved it. I thought the story was pretty interesting and the action was very good. The Dark Knight will still be my favorite of the three, but this one was awesome. I also had a hard time understanding Bane, and it took a good wikipedia plot summary afterwards to full understand everything that happened. That comic up above points out that terribly awkward and forced Clean Slate discussion that had me cringing in the theatre but other than that I thought overall this was a great movie, with a great ending

the story was a little far fetched but with Nolan at the wheel it avoided being a car crash

best one of this trilogy but still not a definitive take on Batman as a whole for me

  On 9/5/2012 at 12:15 AM, soundwave said:

the story was a little far fetched but with Nolan at the wheel it avoided being a car crash

 

Nolan co-wrote the story and screenplay.

  On 9/5/2012 at 1:19 AM, jefferoo said:

  On 9/5/2012 at 12:15 AM, soundwave said:

the story was a little far fetched but with Nolan at the wheel it avoided being a car crash

 

 

Nolan co-wrote the story and screenplay.

 

i thought his brother did?

Also, that comic was pretty funny, but Ive noticed that a lot of critics of TDKR have no problem pointing out its plotholes exceptionally well in some cases, but completely missing it in others and ironically ending up making themselves look stupid for failing to point out the stupidity of a certain scene.

Case in point: Wayne escaping the pit. IT DOESNT FUCKING SAY HOW HE GOT BACK BECAUSE IT DOESNT HAVE TO. Is there a finite time between him escaping and showing back up in Gotham? No? Then he could have returned by a number of ways, all of which involve different variants of time. This is not hard to grasp. Its not like you watch a TV adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo and suddenly "DERP DERP HOWD HE GET OUT DAT HIDEYHOLE AHURRHURR"

In addition, would you really want to watch an extra half hour of Wayne begging for change in some Calcutta-esque city in order to afford a ticket back to the States? Or whatever the fuck else he might have done to get back to Gotham?

The only thing I loved about this movie was Bane. What a cool badass bad-guy. I could really relate to his hatred and I hoped he would do bad stuff to Gotham. But then that cheap...

  On 9/5/2012 at 1:35 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 9/5/2012 at 1:19 AM, jefferoo said:

  On 9/5/2012 at 12:15 AM, soundwave said:

the story was a little far fetched but with Nolan at the wheel it avoided being a car crash

 

 

Nolan co-wrote the story and screenplay.

 

 

i thought his brother did?

 

His bro co-wrote the screenplay with him.

Chris co-wrote the story w/ some other dude.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/fullcredits?mode=desktop

new rumors that JGL has signed on to play Batman in Justice League and possibly his own series:

http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/exclusive-is-joseph-gordon-levitt-already-set-to-play-batman-in-justice-league

  On 11/27/2012 at 7:14 PM, Rubin Farr said:

new rumors that JGL has signed on to play Batman in Justice League and possibly his own series:

 

http://www.hitfix.co...-justice-league

eh....JGL would make a great Nightwing..he has the face and maybe physicality for it....but Batman? the man doesn't look imposing at all.

however I was wrong about Heath Ledger becoming the Joker, so, who knows.