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The Dark Knight Rises (Batman 3) - No Riddler

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Major Williams said:
Seriously? All of that pointless banter to raise 3 fingers and begin a shoot out? S-MY-H.
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If you can't appreciate an absolutely masterful job of building suspense to uncomfortable degrees towards an inevitable climax then I don't know what to say to you. That scene was sex in cinematic form. Foreplay, intercourse, climax and then you're dead.
 
WanderingWind said:
He was a crooked cop, too. In fact, for a few years, he was kicked off the force. He only recently was allowed back.

Seriously. Vic Mackey is exactly like Bullock, save for the slovenly appearance.
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He was kicked out for selling out the guy who shot Gordon to the mob in Officer Down.

It might be crooked...but the guy is good deep down.

He was only ever truly corrupt pre-crisis anyway.
 
Solo said:
If you can't appreciate an absolutely masterful job of building suspense to uncomfortable degrees towards an inevitable climax then I don't know what to say to you. That scene was sex in cinematic form. Foreplay, intercourse, climax and then you're dead.
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It's well paced and well directed, but be honest, Tarantino's dialogue is nearly as bad as Joss Whedon's and in all the same ways.
 
KernelPanic said:
I don't get it, based on TDK won't Gordon
not put any serious effort into catching Batman ? He knows he's not the bad guy
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That's the point. He's going to have to pretend to be hard on Batman's tail whilst secretly trying to resist bringing him down. The police are going to be all over Batman this time.
 
Crewnh said:
He was kicked out for selling out the guy who shot Gordon to the mob in Officer Down.

It might be crooked...but the guy is good deep down.

He was only ever truly corrupt pre-crisis anyway.
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All true, but nobody was saying he was bad. Just a crooked cop who broke rules. Mackey-style.
 
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
I didn't think Bullock was crooked in the comics. In the ones I've read (mostly 90s Dixon and Grant comics) he's just a cop that hates Batman but he's still a good guy deep down.
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AlternativeUlster said:
Hardy as Bullock would be nice but I would hope they wouldn't make him evil in any way though since I don't remember him being like that at all.
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This was how I remembered him, but I only knew him from The Animated Series version. He was always super pissed and hated Batman, but he wasn't a crooked cop.

KernelPanic said:
I don't get it, based on TDK won't Gordon
not put any serious effort into catching Batman ? He knows he's not the bad guy
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The idea at the end of TDK is that he doesn't have a choice anymore. The city will demand he go after him. So he'll have to do something, while perhaps keeping Batman up to speed on the investigation to find him.
 
Solo said:
If you can't appreciate an absolutely masterful job of building suspense to uncomfortable degrees towards an inevitable climax then I don't know what to say to you. That scene was sex in cinematic form. Foreplay, intercourse, climax and then you're dead.
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I didn't like the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds either. If you can't accept a difference in opinion then I don't know what to say to you.
 
EviLore said:
Now describe how you feel about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Major Williams
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:lol Seriously?

The music was pretty dang good, the plot line was so chaotic and messy, and the twins were probably worse characters than Jar Jar Binks. Incongruity between the robot world, the politics of America, and how other nations handle interstellar conflict is just dumbfounding.

Michael Bay uses cheap tricks to get the audience to laugh so that his story and character progression can hide behind these smoke and mirror tricks. Special effects are great, minus a few scenes, and in the end I think it amounts to giving the masses what they want without putting any actual thought into it.

What were you looking for in a Transformers review in a Batman thread? Or is it an exposition on me? :lol
 
Scullibundo said:
That's the point. He's going to have to pretend to be hard on Batman's tail whilst secretly trying to resist bringing him down. The police are going to be all over Batman this time.
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Which is where Bullock comes in. Almost exactly like the comics. Bullock hates Batman for the perceived crimes he committed in TDK, and goes after him full force, often putting himself at odds with Gordon.

Perfect, and true to the source material.
 
WanderingWind said:
Which is where Bullock comes in. Almost exactly like the comics. Bullock hates Batman for the perceived crimes he committed in TDK, and goes after him full force, often putting himself at odds with Gordon.

Perfect, and true to the source material.
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I can already imagine the epic scenes between Gordon and Bullock.

And that's why it probably won't happen.
 
WanderingWind said:
All true, but nobody was saying he was bad. Just a crooked cop who broke rules. Mackey-style.
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Yeah, you're right. Crooked usually has the connotations of making the person seem like they're a bad person, should have read carefully.
 
effzee said:
I can already imagine the epic scenes between Gordon and Bullock.

And that's why it probably won't happen.
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Obviously. Rule #1 of fan casting: what you're pitching ain't happening.
 
I think TDK was destined to be a mediocre movie. But Ledger, Eckhardt, and Oldman picked it up, put it onto their backs, and carried it across the figurative goal line.

I liked Inception but I felt it was superficial. As someone else mentioned, the characters were paper thin. I also thought it was a waste of potential to fall back on vanilla car chases and gunfights over and over when you have set up a story that allows the world to literally be bent by thought.
 
Solo said:
Obviously. Rule #1 of fan casting: what you're pitching ain't happening.
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Screw you!!!111

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Willy105 said:
Judging from the past two movies, there might will be two supervillains, one will die at the end, while the other will live.

Ra's Al Gul died, Scarecrow lived, Harvey Two-Face died, Joker lived.
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I'm STILL not convinced of this. I'm gonna keep a candle lit for Harvey till they close the book on this iteration.

:(

beelzebozo said:
THE DARK KNIGHT ALSO RISES, by ernest hemingway
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I love this. I missed you.
 
The Dark Knight is Ashamed of his Son, Matthew Perry

The entire movie would be Batman shaking his head in disappointment until the final climactic battle with David Bowie.
 
With the title and the ending of TDK. It seems to imply that this is pretty much going to be primarily a Batman story with the villain playing a smaller part this time. It's probably going to focus very largely on his redemption and all that.

With peoples complaints towards TDK having too little Batman...uh it had Heath Ledger playing The Joker. I think they were liable to have him be a driving force since the character was so important and the actor brought a lot of energy to it.

They just didn't have the balls to call the sequel The Joker Movie :lol
 
Discotheque said:
With the title and the ending of TDK. It seems to imply that this is pretty much going to be primarily a Batman story with the villain playing a smaller part this time. It's probably going to focus very largely on his redemption and all that.
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i like this is idea.. as someone else mentioned trying to outdo joker isnt gonna happen.
 
Just trim the title to "Dark Knight Rises" and remove the "The".

To me having the first three words as the previous title makes it sound more of an add on than a new movie. DKR sounds different than TDKR.

I can see why they eschewed from "The Dark Knight Returns" to keep a separate identity from the comic.
 
arab said:
shitty title but nolan has my complete faith
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this... the movie title doesn't mean shit( well of course it does but you know what I mean.) :p Nolan is fuckawesome plain and simple, this movie will own nubs.
 
jett said:
Harvey Dent should've gone to Guy Pearce. Why do you always forget him Nolan!?
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yeah... It's not that I don't like the actor, he's really good. But he wasn't a good 2face. I guess it was the fact that I didn't really care for whatsherface.. :lol Nolan didn't either it seems:P So, his grief, and sadness for her death and his new (self) just didn't do it for me. I wish they would have had about 50 more minutes of the joker, and didn't have 2face at all.
 
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