Movie Review Thread

[Lemur]

Watched this last night on Netflix. Outstanding documentary, tough to watch if you have any sympathy for animals.

[Martok]

Finally saw Men In Black 3 about a week and a half ago. I wasn't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised: Good action, funny lines, and a great performance by Josh Brolin as the younger Agent K.


Nothing hugely special, but it was a fun summer popcorn flick. I'd rate it a solid 4/5.

[Major Robert Dump]

Season of the Witch.

Terrible cheesefest with a lame "gotcha" ending. I should expect no less from mainstream nick cage these days. He was so much cooler in raisiing arizona and moonstruck, this crap blows

Hannah was actually pretty good. A mystery/action flick with some good laughs at the expense of british pop girls

God Bless America was pretty horrible. the paralleles to todays crap pop culture were cute, and the idea of killing people who deserve it is very dexterish, but the movie was full of sopabox speeches and that crap gets old real quick. way too preachy and factually iannacurate

now off to watch The Other Guys, which will probably be better than the aforementioned 3 movies put together

[Major Robert Dump]

REVENGE OF BATMAN WAS REALLY GOOD I WAS SO HAPPY TO FINALLY SEE YODA FIGHT. ALSO CAT LADY WAS AWESOME AND BAIN WAS AWESOME I THOUGHT HEATH LEDGERS JOKER WAS KIND OF DULL THIS MOVE HAS SO MANY COOL PEOPLE IN IT LIKE AN ALL STAR CAST YOU NEVER SEE THAT IN HOLLYWOOD EVER EXCEPT IN THE EXPANDBLES 2 BUT I HEARD STALLONES SON REALLY HATED IT A LOT

[Fragony]

I HEARD STALLONES SON REALLY HATED IT A LOT

Meh that's not funny

[Vuk]

Meh that's not funny

No...not at all.

[Centurion1]

REVENGE OF BATMAN WAS REALLY GOOD I WAS SO HAPPY TO FINALLY SEE YODA FIGHT. ALSO CAT LADY WAS AWESOME AND BAIN WAS AWESOME I THOUGHT HEATH LEDGERS JOKER WAS KIND OF DULL THIS MOVE HAS SO MANY COOL PEOPLE IN IT LIKE AN ALL STAR CAST YOU NEVER SEE THAT IN HOLLYWOOD EVER EXCEPT IN THE EXPANDBLES 2 BUT I HEARD STALLONES SON REALLY HATED IT A LOT

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Thats the line you just crossed

[Strike For The South]

This is what you people get indignant over?

[Major Robert Dump]

They obviously have something against autistic people. Or trolls. Not sure which

[Fragony]

Meh, making jokes about somebody who just lost his son isn't the only thing not funny about Batman, what a horrible tragedy in Aurora

[PanzerJaeger]

The new Batman definitely suffers from the trilogy curse plus the old Batman movie issue of an unceasingly expanding list of characters and the contrived storyline and hokiness that accompanies it. Interestingly enough, I thought the new movie would suffer from not being able to replicate Ledger's Joker, but Bain and the actor who played him is a great character in a completely different way.(Although his eventual demise is a bit anticlimactic.) I left the theatre wanting more in the same way that I couldn't get enough of the Joker. It is story elements that bring the movie down.

All that being said, by itself the movie would be a solid offering. Following The Dark Knight, it is a huge letdown.

[Fragony]

It's Bane, why do you hate Romney ;)

[rajpoot]

I'm never generous with praise, but TDKR is awesome.
Favourite scene, where Batman finally kicks Bane's butt.

[Prussian to the Iron]

One thing I never understood while watching the new Batman:

In The Dark Knight, the Joker has Batman pinned down, and Batman shoots the...spike things out from his arm, injuring the joker and forcing him off. Even during his first encounter with Bane, he had to have known that the mask would have been some kind of weak point. Why didn't he just shoot the spike things at him this time? Or, in the final fight with Bane, when he knew that Bane was going to end millions of lives, why didn't he at least use the spike shooting mechanism to severely injure (but not kill) Bane? It seems to me like a simple and obviously possible solution.

[rajpoot]

The blade/spike things on his gauntlets appear to be an emergency button for sticky situations. He did not seriously injure the joker. He merely cut him and then pushed him off.

Plus Bane is supposed to be a lot more durable than the Joker. A few cuts wouldn't have stopped him.

[Prussian to the Iron]

fair enough. but he did use them when punching to

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mess up Bane's mask. why couldn't he shoot them instead, and not get his back broken earlier?

[Fragony]

One thing I never understood while watching the new Batman:

In The Dark Knight, the Joker has Batman pinned down, and Batman shoots the...spike things out from his arm, injuring the joker and forcing him off. Even during his first encounter with Bane, he had to have known that the mask would have been some kind of weak point. Why didn't he just shoot the spike things at him this time? Or, in the final fight with Bane, when he knew that Bane was going to end millions of lives, why didn't he at least use the spike shooting mechanism to severely injure (but not kill) Bane? It seems to me like a simple and obviously possible solution.

Easy with the spoilers please, it will take some time before it's released here

[PanzerJaeger]

One thing I never understood while watching the new Batman:

In The Dark Knight, the Joker has Batman pinned down, and Batman shoots the...spike things out from his arm, injuring the joker and forcing him off. Even during his first encounter with Bane, he had to have known that the mask would have been some kind of weak point. Why didn't he just shoot the spike things at him this time? Or, in the final fight with Bane, when he knew that Bane was going to end millions of lives, why didn't he at least use the spike shooting mechanism to severely injure (but not kill) Bane? It seems to me like a simple and obviously possible solution.

You're thinking way too much, and the whole trilogy falls apart when you do that. Why didn't anyone ever think to just shoot Bane anywhere on his totally unprotected body? All the super fighting skills in the world aren't going to stop a bullet. There are about a hundred more sensible options to deal with pretty much every situation any of the characters find themselves in. Just try to enjoy it as it is presented, and mind the pot plot holes.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Easy with the spoilers please, it will take some time before it's released here

Apologies, spoiler'd.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

One thing I never understood while watching the new Batman:

In The Dark Knight, the Joker has Batman pinned down, and Batman shoots the...spike things out from his arm, injuring the joker and forcing him off. Even during his first encounter with Bane, he had to have known that the mask would have been some kind of weak point. Why didn't he just shoot the spike things at him this time? Or, in the final fight with Bane, when he knew that Bane was going to end millions of lives, why didn't he at least use the spike shooting mechanism to severely injure (but not kill) Bane? It seems to me like a simple and obviously possible solution.

Evil triumphs because good is dumb.

Anyway, I liked TDKR. I'm willing to suspend disbelief for some of the plot holes and nitpicks because they weren't that bad. Even though it's a more realistic take on Batman than the TV show from the 60's, it still exists in a comic-book world. Sometimes things happen because it advances the story rather than it strictly follows laws of physics or something.

[Strike For The South]

You're thinking way too much, and the whole trilogy falls apart when you do that. Why didn't anyone ever think to just shoot Bane anywhere on his totally unprotected body? All the super fighting skills in the world aren't going to stop a bullet. There are about a hundred more sensible options to deal with pretty much every situation any of the characters find themselves in. Just try to enjoy it as it is presented, and mind the pot plot holes.

Batman doesn't use guns.

I saw the movie today and felt a bit cheated

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He should have died, eject was a cop out way to end the trilogy.

[rajpoot]

A part of the film was shot in my home-city.

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When Bruce and the little kid climb out of the well, and the scene with Ra'as Al Ghul and the warlord's daughter, the fort in the background is Mehrangarh Fort

Somehow I didn't have an inkling of this till I actually saw the movie.

Batman doesn't use guns.

I saw the movie today and felt a bit cheated

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He should have died, eject was a cop out way to end the trilogy.

What the ending is actually meant it up for debate.

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I read someplace that after the funeral scene we're seeing things from Alfred's perspective, and so what we see, is a devastated old man hallucinating that his wish came true.

[Vuk]

I think it was the best Batman yet, though I liked the Joker far more as a villian.

[Lemur]

Bain and the actor who played him is a great character in a completely different way.

I really like that actor; you should check him out in Bronson.

[Prussian to the Iron]

What the ending is actually meant it up for debate.

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I read someplace that after the funeral scene we're seeing things from Alfred's perspective, and so what we see, is a devastated old man hallucinating that his wish came true.

I could see that, but then again Morgan Freeman's character was told that

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the autopilot had been patched and fixed for a long time

Trust me though, I hate

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all the happy "twist" endings to movies, where the character supposedly dies but is really alive. I wish there would be some sad endings; let him die, let the movie end sad. Have people coming out of the theater with watery eyes.

[Major Robert Dump]

I really like that actor; you should check him out in Bronson.

He was also the protaganist in Sexy Beast, a vastly odd yet rewarding film

[Lemur]

He was also the protaganist in Sexy Beast, a vastly odd yet rewarding film

Are you thinking of Ray Winstone? Pretty sure Tom Hardy was not in Sexy Beast (a film which I dig, BTW).

Did an IMDB check, Tom Hardy was not in Sexy Beast, which is not surprising, since that film came out in 2000 and Hardy doesn't have any credited roles before 2001.

That said ... everybody should watch Sexy Beast and Bronson.

[Major Robert Dump]

I must be on crack. I wasn't even looking at names. I thought Ray Winstone was Bane for some reason. Must be the mask. Why did I think he was in batman, was he a villain in another movie recently???? They don't even look alike. Senile

[johnhughthom]

What an actor!

[Major Robert Dump]

Whoring yourself for cheesy commercials is no worse than whoring yourself in terrible movies. It's better, I would say, because it is shorter work weeks and you get endorsement money, and eventually, the terrible commercial will go away. Movies, meanwhile, are forever: