Steph, I pretty much agree with your whole post.
Seconded. I totally believed it too for all the reasons you mentioned. Also, ita !, SERIOUSLY THAT KISS FOR FUCK'S SAKE EVERY SECOND COUNTS HERE SELINA.
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Polter-Cow - Jul 21, 2012 12:20:58 pm PDT #21886 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2012 12:28:01 pm PDT #21887 of 30000
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P-C, that is EXACTLY my reaction to that kiss!!! Like, are you people NUTS?!?
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2012 12:29:47 pm PDT #21888 of 30000
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I’m with Jessica; the NYC visuals made it too real for me. I wish I could have enjoyed it as much as you all did.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2012 12:36:16 pm PDT #21889 of 30000
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Tom, a large part of why I was horrified by the scenes of parts of Gotham and the bridges being blown up is precisely because it was so obviously NYC.
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2012 12:42:34 pm PDT #21890 of 30000
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The building they used for the Wayne Enterprises exterior was the building I was working in on 9/11.
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2012 12:44:59 pm PDT #21891 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm lucky that I don't have sense of the general geography of New York, so as a whole--basically, if I don't see a big landmark like Central Park (and there are few for me) I just think "Island city...like NY or Mtl..."
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2012 1:12:03 pm PDT #21892 of 30000
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The building they used for the Wayne Enterprises exterior was the building I was working in on 9/11.
Daaaaaang. To say that's unnerving is a vast understatement.
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2012 1:15:47 pm PDT #21893 of 30000
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The ferry boats in the last film were worse; that’s how I got home on that day, since the trains weren’t running and the bridges and tunnels were closed.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2012 1:19:31 pm PDT #21894 of 30000
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Good lord. How did Avengers strike you, given that New York was pretty torn up? Bane's calculated terrorism seems (to me, the midwesterner) very different from Holy Shit Aliens Are Here.
Dana - Jul 21, 2012 1:27:16 pm PDT #21895 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Avengers is so much more cartoonish. Though for that reason, I did enjoy it more.
I can totally see why Batman would be unnerving.