I am so glad that I'm not the only person who totally failed to connect the dots with Talia. I KNEW he had a daughter, but I guess it's hard to figure out where they'll follow canon and where they won't.

JGL IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER. That one I did figure out, that he was going to take over in some way. But man, he was good. I kind of felt like this was his movie.

I was expecting it to feel long, but it really didn't. I had a fun time playing spot the actor -- five separate actors from Inception, Tom Conti, Burn Gorman, Aidan Gillen...

I think I will have more thoughts on is as I think them. Except that when they started taking over the stock exchange, I thought "Man, the 99% are pissed."

Probably my only complaint about the movie (because I really want to hug Nolan). He exceeded my expectations.

Is that I wish there were more Batman. There was quite a lot of Bruce Wayne - as it should be, but I love me some Batman.

I think this decision was made because there was so much Bane and the probably figured too much mask on mask action might be a little much.

Nolan loves his cast from Inception. No lie.

I love this Inception meme, and I love this iteration of it: [link]

Why do movie ticket purchase sites list seats as available, and then tell you it's not a valid seat when you try and buy it? Surely...they know, right? Can't they just make it NOT FUCKING AVAILABLE in the first place, or have some text explaining why you can't choose a seat one seat away from another sold seat (although, really, relying on me to read is silly--if you know I can't buy it, don't offer it for sale).

This might be on my mind because I just bought a TDKR ticket for a showing in an hour. La la la. This time I wear the batshirt (last time I went with a Supernatural shirt, just because I can never not hear Dean saying, gleefully, "I'm Batman").

Oh, so, I did not get a Hobbit preview, and I am grumpy about that. I did get a Superman Returns preview, which I found very distracting because the music that played over it was the Elves' lament for Gandalf from Fellowship of the Ring.

I did get a Superman Returns preview, which I found very distracting because the music that played over it was the Elves' lament for Gandalf from Fellowship of the Ring.

"You won't believe a man can fly, you fools!"

"I am no man."

Fool of a Kent!

Tom Hardy did some impressive eye-acting.

He really did. Especially then, that was when I noticed.

Because I was where P-C was.

I think what did it was that everyone assumed she was Talia, but then they gave her this Miranda Tate name, so I just figured, okay, they are wrong. And then I just never thought about it for months. It wasn't even on my mind as a possibility, an idea. I didn't read a lot about the movie, so there wasn't a lot of Talia Talia Talia in my head. So it completely blindsided me.

because he moved with such grace and assurance and menace

I love the way he moves after breaking him. It's that trailer shot where he saunters away and tosses away the mask.

And I think the bat-voice seemed to be less growly? It never bothered me much, but was it less ridiculous for people who found it ridiculous?

I think...I think it was still kind of ridiculous. I could hear some snickering almost every time he spoke. But there were a few times where his Bats voice sounded almost Bruce-y.

That really gave me chills, because I knew what was going to happen, but now there was context--I couldn't work out precisely what or why before, and this made it all so horrible.

Yeah, I knew what was going to happen, but I wasn't prepared for all the bombs all around Gotham, and then I realized that must be when the bridges were going to blow too, and then HE BLEW UP THE MAYOR, and then things just got worse.

I love this Inception meme, and I love this iteration of it: [link]

Ahahaha, I was actually looking for a Leo cameo. I thought I might have spotted him in the stock exchange, but I was wrong.

Oh, can someone explain how Blake knew Bruce was Bats? I couldn't follow that. I got that he recognized Bruce as a fellow orphan who could understand his pain and anger, but I didn't hear any actual experience with Batman that led him to connect the dots.

Also, I wonder how they explained that Bruce Wayne died on the same day as Batman. Well, I guess a lot of people died that day. But I wonder how he was supposed to have died.

All I can hear now is Abed doing the Batman voice.

Hey, was Bane's coat swanky, or what? I want to know where he shops.

All I can hear now is Abed doing the Batman voice.

Tim said, like ita, that he thought the growly Bat-voice was less ridiculous this time, but I said that all I could think, every single time he did it, was Abed.

I think...I think it was still kind of ridiculous.

I did, too. It always makes me just roll my eyes and want to offer him tea with honey.

Also, I wonder how they explained that

Okay, yeah. Tim and I talked about that for a long time last night -- the city knew that Batman "died" to save them, but was it just assumed that Bruce Wayne was killed in the Bane-inspired mayhem? I was REALLY unclear on that.

I also missed that Bane killed Batmanuel. Damn it!

The scene where everything was exploding all around Gotham, and the fucking bridges collapsing was HORRIFYING to me.

There were a lot of moments I had my hands over my mouth in shock -- that was one of them. Another was when Bane came up through the tunnel floor into Wayne Inc.'s R&D department. I think I actually said "HOLY SHIT!" audibly, but that was such a loud scene, no one heard me. (I also said "Holy SHIT!!!" at the Talia reveal, and everyone heard me, because the theater was fairly quiet.

Let me tell you, I was SO ANNOYED at the idea that Bane was Ra's Al Ghul's son, because you just don't mess with that big of a part of canon. So the Talia reveal was satisfying on so many levels for me. (She never addressed Batman/Bruce as "beloved," did she? Because that always, ALWAYS annoyed me in the comics.)

It didn't feel like he was in the same sound landscape as the other characters

Maybe that was my issue with Bane's dialogue -- I said he sounded sort of like a sports announcer, but maybe it was more just being in a different sound landscape. But he really did have an edge of sideshow barker to his voice that was really close to yanking me out of the story -- but not quite, thankfully.

I am tickled especially pink (no mean freest when you're high yellow) that Steph is so explosively joyous about it.

I realize this will be the third time I've posted this sentiment, but I CANNOT get over that final shot. I am crazy in love with it.