The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

[Dochollerin]

Originally Posted by Enigmatical

watched it again, fourth viewing since release. two things i cant get over. one, the action/fight scenes are forced, rehearsed and gimmicky at times. second, how bane dies. outside of that, movie is still amazing.

I thought the action sequences were masterfully choreographed and filmed, and Bane dies perfectly. Batman already showed he was the true master, and Bane was going to kill him when he was stabbed. Why would Batman need to fight him again to show he was the master? It was perfect to have Selina come in and just blast him.

Movie was incredible, best in the series IMO.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by moviecriticsonline

It's pretty much sold out at all the Best Buy's and some bids are already reaching $40 bucks for it. So it must be pretty limited enough for it to be sold out.

Still available at the website. I think most of the bids your seeings are people outside the US who can't buy it from BestBuy.com

[moviecriticsonline]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Still available at the website. I think most of the bids your seeings are people outside the US who can't buy it from BestBuy.com

Not all of locations have been updated. Several locations said in stock, but when you called in, it was sold out.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Yes, and the exclusive doc.

Wait. So the steelbook has the exclusive doc ON the disc? The regular edition does not?

[Early Memphis]

Originally Posted by Petyr_Baelish

He's says no autopilot because he wants everyone to think he is going to be dead. The ending with Morgan Freeman clearly shows that he fixed the autopilot. He didn't just fix the one at Wayne enterprises and not his own. That wouldn't make sense. Plus there would be no other reason to have that ending scene in the movie. It's not a plot hole, it's a detail you are overlooking.

Originally Posted by gregmasciola

Well, it started because the original poster said that the first time he's done it is with this release, so actually, it kind of does have something to do with a release. Asking mods to get rid of everything that is a little off topic is silly, in my opinion. I can understand if the conversation gets extremely out of hand and uncivil, but really, the debate only takes up about one page in this thread. All you have to do is either avoid the thread or scroll past those posts. I do it all the time when about a hundred people post that their copy shipped or didn't ship.

Originally Posted by thebard

I dn't have the cowl, but I think it was 30 or 35,000.

35,000 in the U.S.

Originally Posted by rickah88

¾ of the film was in IMAX? I thought it was a little over an hour, which would be maybe half? That more than doubled TDK's 28mins of IMAX footage.

43.64% of 165 minutes is closer to half than 3/4.

Originally Posted by jjbsn5192

i am so lost

Lost because you're going to ... south? Or because you find this thread of the thread boring?

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by Beast

Rewatched it today with my Brother. He also really enjoyed it, while not being a huge fan of the first two.

But rewtaching it made me realize how little Batman is actually in the movie. I think I heard 33 minutes?

I didn't even notice that on first viewing, I was enjoying the film so much. But it's really noticeable on the second.

It is noticeable, although I prefer Bale's Bruce to his Batman (can't stand the TDK/TDKR Batvoice). TDK really dropped the ball in focusing so much on other characters instead of giving better focus to Bruce. I really enjoyed Bale's performance in this one. There was a passion in his eyes that we didn't see last time around. This was a return to his BB form. He seemed to be going through the motions for most of TDK, and I don't blame him given how the script so heavily focuses on the Joker and Dent.

[CodyCourtBlack2]

Bane sounded like Sean Connery.

[AreaUnderTheCurve]

Originally Posted by Beast

Rewatched it today with my Brother. He also really enjoyed it, while not being a huge fan of the first two.

But rewtaching it made me realize how little Batman is actually in the movie. I think I heard 33 minutes?

I didn't even notice that on first viewing, I was enjoying the film so much. But it's really noticeable on the second.

I like that and I'm sure it was purposeful. The movie is about Bruce finding himself again.

[Early Memphis]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Wait. So the steelbook has the exclusive doc ON the disc? The regular edition does not?

Yes.

Originally Posted by saprano

The target digibook kinda sucks. It's not even a real digibook. The pages is a comic, nothing about the movie. I want to return it but i already opened it. Whats target's return policy? BB steelbook is much better. Which i also have.

Originally Posted by saprano

I returned my target digibook because it was a comic. It no production notes about the movie.

Granted it wasn't the majority of pages, but word is that there were 8 pages of production pictures in addition to the 32 page comic, right (someone please post a correction if I've got those numbers wrong)? Did you miss those because you were so turned off by the comic? Your posts are unfortunate because some folks are taking them as straight news, which they're not. You don't have to like the Target DigiBook, but maybe some editing, spellchecking and accuracy would be nice. Personally, I thought it looked great in the video.

video

[MercsOwnz]

Originally Posted by TheBully

Sums up my feelings. I'll use the captions too.

Regarding about the Bat.

[Show spoiler]Theres a part after Talia dies when Catwoman asks Batman about how he's going to fly the Bat, he replies quickly by saying "autopilot". It was so fast most people might have missed that part. So I'm guessing when he flew by the buildings and it exploded with a dust of smoke, he ejected in some of break away capsule like how the Batbike came out of the Tumbler. It's probably like the original Batman where the Penguin was controlling the Batmobile in a mini Batmobile. Anyway I think Batman was in the the miniBat plane or whatever controlling the Bat as it exploded.

He actually says "No autopilot."

EDIT: I see its already been addressed lol

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by PixarPerfect

Bane sounded like Sean Connery.

Nothing wrong with that. I love his voice.

[TheBully]

Is that Tom Hardys real voice and accent? Or he was just acting?

[Show spoiler]"..with no survivors!"

[davcole]

Originally Posted by Brahby

Soooooo.... regarding the picture quality. I went back and played the 2d Avengers disc last night and it looks substantially better than the 35mm shots of this film. While I will easily agree that the IMAX shots could be labaled "reference", the 35mm are definitely not. They are soft, and to quote a fellow member, "out of focus". I honestly wonder the source some people are using and their seating distance. Maybe its possible that its just more noticable on my TV. I will try rewatching in the bedroom on the 46" that is about 14' away, although that is way beyond the recommended viewing distance. To be fair, I also did not watch the whole movie yet. I only got to the wall street chase scene.

Finally someone agrees with me!!

I was actually surprised how poor some of the 35mm shots looked. In fact, some of the IMAX shots are far from reference!

[Monkey_Boy]

Originally Posted by jag2007

Watching the batmobile doc now.....WOW!

I wasn't expecting much, but it was pretty good! When Jeff Dunham came up on the screen, I was like, "What the crap is The Wife's favorite comedian doin' in MY Batman special features?" How surprised was I when I found out what he got on eBay?! Lucky bastard!

[42041]

Originally Posted by davcole

Finally someone agrees with me!!

I was actually surprised how poor some of the 35mm shots looked. In fact, some of the IMAX shots are far from reference!

That's how the 35mm stuff looked in theaters. Take it up with Nolan

[nolfoc]

so i have a question that has been bothering me about this trilogy.. i love it to death however something always bothers me when i watch them, maybe i missed something so hopefully someone can answer my question.. Okay so in Batman Begins we see a run down Gothem looking very "batmanish" which was cool, then in the Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises that world just disappears and we see a clean city with zero run down elements.. did they ever explain this in the sequels?

[metal134]

Originally Posted by AreaUnderTheCurve

Maybe some of us don't care about plot holes and instead try and gauge whether or not a filmmaker did what was intended.

I am proud to say that I am not one of those people. That's not to say that I can't enjoy a movie with plot holes, but I do care.

[thebard]

Originally Posted by nolfoc

so i have a question that has been bothering me about this trilogy.. i love it to death however something always bothers me when i watch them, maybe i missed something so hopefully someone can answer my question.. Okay so in Batman Begins we see a run down Gothem looking very "batmanish" which was cool, then in the Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises that world just disappears and we see a clean city with zero run down elements.. did they ever explain this in the sequels?

That's kind of an underlying theme in the series - that Gotham could be saved, could be brought back to the gleaming state it was in when Bruce's parents were alive - and did not need to be destroyed as the League of Shadows wanted. Bruce's whole motivation was the belief that people could elevate their lives & surroundings if they had a symbol that was uncorruptable to give them hope. They had that, first with Batman and then with Harvey Dent.

[BStecke]

Originally Posted by nolfoc

so i have a question that has been bothering me about this trilogy.. i love it to death however something always bothers me when i watch them, maybe i missed something so hopefully someone can answer my question.. Okay so in Batman Begins we see a run down Gothem looking very "batmanish" which was cool, then in the Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises that world just disappears and we see a clean city with zero run down elements.. did they ever explain this in the sequels?

In TDK no, not really. In TDKR I think you can assume that the impact of the Dent act has had some affect on the overall state of the city.

But that's one thing that's kind of bugged me too. In Begins, Gotham was really made to be its own city . . . you had the big metropolitan area contrasted with the run-down Narrows, which last we heard were "lost", and that idea was never revisited. But (at least I couldn't) you really couldn't look at it and say, oh they shot that in XX. The elevated train added another point that kind of made it look unique. In TDK Gotham was VERY easily recognizable as Chicago and in TDKR even more recognizable as NYC in many parts (especially with the damn Empire State Building and Freedom Tower that stick out like sore thumbs), and they didn't really do anything to try to make it look like anything other than Chicago and NY.

[nolfoc]

Originally Posted by thebard

That's kind of an underlying theme in the series - that Gotham could be saved, could be brought back to the gleaming state it was in when Bruce's parents were alive - and did not need to be destroyed as the League of Shadows wanted. Bruce's whole motivation was the belief that people could elevate their lives & surroundings if they had a symbol that was uncorruptable to give them hope. They had that, first with Batman and then with Harvey Dent.

Originally Posted by BStecke

In TDK no, not really. In TDKR I think you can assume that the impact of the Dent act has had some affect on the overall state of the city.

But that's one thing that's kind of bugged me too. In Begins, Gotham was really made to be its own city . . . you had the big metropolitan area contrasted with the run-down Narrows, which last we heard were "lost", and that idea was never revisited. But (at least I couldn't) you really couldn't look at it and say, oh they shot that in XX. The elevated train added another point that kind of made it look unique. In TDK Gotham was VERY easily recognizable as Chicago and in TDKR even more recognizable as NYC in many parts (especially with the damn Empire State Building and Freedom Tower that stick out like sore thumbs), and they didn't really do anything to try to make it look like anything other than Chicago and NY.

yep, i mean it didn't take anything away from the franchise for me, i just always figured what happened to that gotham look.. the train leading in the Wayne tower was destroyed so maybe they just took it down but the who slums just disappeared.. made no sense at all