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.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
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Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2012 12:29:47 pm PDT #21888 of 30000
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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.
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2012 1:27:22 pm PDT #21896 of 30000
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I was fine with The Avengers. I’m pretty sure that Nolan is deliberately quoting this stuff.
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2012 1:43:03 pm PDT #21897 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::whoosh::
That makes me shudder. It's kinda like a human forced Katrina, to mix disasters. Or just pure horror, since it doesn't need a pedigree. That's why there were moments when I was thinking "Oh, God, you have no idea what's just around the corner, do you?" And even Selina, who seemed to be reaching an equilibrium--she was a perfect success of Bane's because she was going to explode like anyone else. And all of those brutes and looters? What are their days like on day 84? Was smashing up the Park Avenue equivalent apartment worth it, or was it just a blip on the radar? Would they rather have their normal life back and the rich people have theirs back, and none of this ever happened?
Also, really--what of sports franchises?