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[RustyNails]

I always felt this was the weakest element of the TDKR's plot (not Talia's forced subplot). They have a long rope, and they have material from the prison cells also available (clothes, utensil, even wood). Couldn't they have easily used the rope to escape the pit? Climb to the ledge where you make the jump, throw the rope over the well using a makeshift hook and climb out.

Secondly, if you fail the jump and you start to freefall with the rope attached to your waist, shouldnt you be cut in half from the weight of your body? This is especially crazy considering that Bruce just got his vertebrae fixed.

Sorry this part bothered me the most during a re-watched for some reason (it always did, but especially more now) and I needed to vent.

 

[BlackGoku03]

Yeah I said the same thing but the music and cinematography saves it for me.

I also wondered why the hell did they keep the ridges there... wouldn't they know people would try to escape kinda like

Spoiler

Talia

did?

 

[brainzelda]

That scene is so anticlimactic too. I thought that due to the distance that Bruce would have to wall kick or something to get the extra distance. You know, something a trained ninja could potentially do.

Instead he just... jumps a little farther.

 

[Alienous]

I didn't realize the foothold was so close to the top of the pit.

Yeah, that is weird.

 

[Atilac]

I found it odd batman was motivated by a bunch of rapists and child molesters in some hole in the ground.

 

[J_Viper]

Yeah I said the same thing but the music and cinematography saves it for me.

Same here. It's silly on paper but I think Nolan made it work.

It does feel a bit rushed though. I've never read Knightfall, but isn't Bruce supposed to be out of the game for a good long while after having his back broken?

Here, it seems like Bale just did a few push-ups and he was good to go.

 

[SpaceWolf]

The weakest part of The Dark Knight Rises was Anne Hathaway's Catwoman outfit.

 

[- J - D -]

The pit, the climb...it's all symbolic. best not to dwell on the details.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

The weakest part of The Dark Knight Rises was Anne Hathaway.

Fixed.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Fixed.

Not really, no.

 

[Two Words]

Drake would have just climbed up using all of those protruding stones.

 

[Mariolee]

Same here. It's silly on paper but I think Nolan made it work.

It does feel a bit rushed though. I've never read Knightfall, but isn't Bruce supposed to be out of the game for a good long while after having his back broken?

Here, it seems like Bale just did a few push-ups and he was good to go.

IIRC he was gone for nearly half a year.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Not really, no.

You're right.

The worst part of The Dark Knight Rises was Anne Hathaway

Now it's fixed.

 

[BlackGoku03]

Same here. It's silly on paper but I think Nolan made it work.

It does feel a bit rushed though. I've never read Knightfall, but isn't Bruce supposed to be out of the game for a good long while after having his back broken?

Here, it seems like Bale just did a few push-ups and he was good to go.

Yeah it took a while and he was doing Bruce Wayne shit from a wheel chair. He's saved (comic spoilers)

Spoiler

by a black woman who can heal with magic. She dies shortly after so she can't be a dues ex machina anymore.

 

[massoluk]

The Lazarus Pit concept was the worst part of the otherwise good movie. I wonder who came up with that nonsense, Goyer or the Nolans. Here's a prison... it's an unguarded pit with tv in the cell and resident bone doctor. We throw our arch-nemesis in there and don't keep track of him. Such an assault on logics even for a movie with a guy dressed like a bat.

 

[WadiumArcadium]

Fixed.

Nah. Bane being a servant was the most disappointing aspect. Actually, scratch that. It was Talia's death.

 

[sfedai0]

Not really, no.

Hathaway didnt even play Catwoman. Just a random thief that dressed in a leather suit. Then again, that was only one of the many glaring issues with that hot mess of a movie.

 

[TemplaerDude]

Nothing in the movie made any sense. If you actually sit and critically think about any part of that movie it falls apart.

 

[Alienous]

Nothing in the movie made any sense. If you actually sit and critically think about any part of that movie it falls apart.

What? It was a six-month long suicide fission bombing.

The triggerman!

 

[Merguson]

That scene is so anticlimactic too. I thought that due to the distance that Bruce would have to wall kick or something to get the extra distance. You know, something a trained ninja could potentially do.

Instead he just... jumps a little farther.

Wasn't the problem the rope though? I thought the rope was too short so people couldn't make the jump. Only did Bruce make the jump when he ditched the safety of the rope. At least that's what I remember.

 

[S1kkZ]

i hated the fact the every cop gets trapped underground. they sit there for weeks and when batman frees them, they all look super clean. also: no beards.

 

[Karkador]

Catwoman was good in spite of Nolan constantly bungling women in his movies, but it was pretty bad all around.

 

[Alienous]

i hated the fact the every cop gets trapped underground. they sit there for weeks and when batman frees them, they all look super clean. also: no beards.

There's a deleted scene regarding that.

"No more bearded cops!"
"Ahh, the beard revolution rises. Get these men their shavers"

 

[jmdajr]

Not a bad jump considering his knee was totally shot.

 

[LakeEarth]

i hated the fact the every cop gets trapped underground. they sit there for weeks and when batman frees them, they all look super clean. also: no beards.

Yup, every cop. Every single one. Not a single police officer was left behind to, you know, man the Police stations, to respond to 911 calls, or guard the jails. Nope, they all left their posts to go underground.

 

[zma1013]

I imagine through the writing of this script, they said this to themselves quite often, "Aww fuck it, who cares if it makes sense, lets just get it done, we have a deadline."

 

[massoluk]

i hated the fact the every cop gets trapped underground. they sit there for weeks and when batman frees them, they all look super clean. also: no beards.

The supplies provided by Bane include shaving cream, duh

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Nothing in the movie made any sense. If you actually sit and critically think about any part of that movie it falls apart.

Best part is wondering how Bane somehow got cable TV with the GNN channel hooked up to a Television literally on the other side of the world in a prison deep underground where no satellite reception is possible.

Normally I wouldn't care but this is Chris "Ultra-Realism" Nolan so it deserves scrutiny.

Oh, and Catwoman fighting in high heels. FFS.

 

[Kinyou]

Nolan really did a bad job of setting up that rope. I remember being really confused where it actually was attached to.

 

[zma1013]

Best part is wondering how Bane somehow got cable TV with the GNN channel hooked up to a Television literally on the other side of the world in a prison deep underground where no satellite reception is possible.

Normally I wouldn't care but this is Chris "Ultra-Realism" Nolan so it deserves scrutiny.

Oh, and Catwoman fighting in high heels. FFS.

I'm trying to imagine Bane on the phone talking to Time Warner Cable support. Lmao

Bane: "I can't understand what you're saying, can I talk to someone with less of an accent?"

 

[Alienous]

I imagine through the writing of this script, they said this to themselves quite often, "Aww fuck it, who cares if it makes sense, lets just get it done, we have a deadline."

They shouldn't have let him make Inception before The Dark Knight Rises.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

i hated the fact the every cop gets trapped underground. they sit there for weeks and when batman frees them, they all look super clean. also: no beards.

Steinbrenner ran the Gotham police.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

I'm trying to imagine Bane on the phone talking to Time Warner Cable support. Lmao

You dont have to imagine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB4aBaOKBQ

 

[RustyNails]

Wasn't the problem the rope though? I thought the rope was too short so people couldn't make the jump. Only did Bruce make the jump when he ditched the safety of the rope. At least that's what I remember.

No it wasn't the length of the rope. You ditch the rope to signal that you are psychologically confident to make the jump and don't need a safety net. That's when you make the jump successfully.

 

[Majmun]

It's a film about a man in a batsuit. It shouldn't make any sense.

 

[HoodWinked]

Nah. Bane being a servant was the most disappointing aspect. Actually, scratch that. It was Talia's death.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Hathaway didnt even play Catwoman. Just a random thief that dressed in a leather suit. Then again, that was only one of the many glaring issues with that hot mess of a movie.

You can blame Nolan for what you consider a bad Catwoman, not Hathaway, who gave a perfectly fine performance. She also had nothing to do with the messy storytelling or other characterizations one could nit-pick to death, or how anti-climatic the villains turned out to be.

It had far bigger problems.

 

[Alienous]

You dont have to imagine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB4aBaOKBQ

That was funnier than I expected.

 

[STILLethal]

cam into post this, wtf was Nolan thinking, wouldve made her re-do the scene

 

[massoluk]

It's a film about a man in a batsuit. It shouldn't make any sense.

It should make more sense than this. There's some leaps in logic in Begins and TDK, but it's not this outrageous.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

That was the worst part.

 

[spindashing]

lmao too good

 

[Dunedain_Ranger]

Best part is wondering how Bane somehow got cable TV with the GNN channel hooked up to a Television literally on the other side of the world in a prison deep underground where no satellite reception is possible.

Normally I wouldn't care but this is Chris "Ultra-Realism" Nolan so it deserves scrutiny.

Oh, and Catwoman fighting in high heels. FFS.

i hated the fact the every cop gets trapped underground. they sit there for weeks and when batman frees them, they all look super clean. also: no beards.

Well usually I'm pretty good at nitpicking and this never even crossed my mind smh

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

There is no weakest part, the entire movie is a shit show.

 

[mugoldeneagle03]

People pinning this lame movie on Anne Hathaway is bullshit. Her scenes/dialogue were probably some of the better parts of the entire film.

Nolan should take the blame. TDKR felt like he knew no matter what he did there was no topping TDK so he took the safest route possible, teased some major characters just for hype & threw in some stupid twists/scenes he hoped blew the audience away.

It didn't work. But then again I also heard he took Heath's death very hard so I can't imagine even wanting to do another Batman after what took place.

6.5/10

 

[jelly]

That was the worse part.

Bat petrol drone spray....

Nolan is incredibly sloppy in his films and if you don't hang on the exposition with the subtlety of a hammer to your face, the films have glaring holes and mistakes.

 

[Sorcerer]

Hathaway was the best part of the movie.

I would take her in a solo movie over DKR anyday.

I seriously think Nolan couldn't stop thinking about Interstellar and just wanted to wrap this as quickly as possible. Sloppy!!!

I kind of think his Robin thing at the end was an F you to the fans, he teased it but didn't have to deal with it.

 

[SpaceWolf]

Joker: I THINK YOU AND I ARE DESTINED TO DO THIS FOREVER!

(Bruce immediately retires as Batman the next day)

(Joker is neither seen nor heard from again)

 

[Jarmel]

There's a lot of logistical stuff that drags down TDKR. It feels like Nolan's heart wasn't really into it but he still somewhat tried.

 

[Karkador]

Also, FWIW, repurposing the concept of the Lazarus Pit (which IMO is a really annoying part of the Batman canon) into a prison obstacle course was an interesting idea, but poorly executed in the movie.

The jump especially fails as a climatic turning point of Bale's blank and barren characterization of Bruce Wayne. It came off as a jump and nothing more, despite what that whole thing was supposed to mean.