::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?
Avengers is so much more cartoonish.
It wasn't the destruction so much as the shots of people running away that made me flinch.
I guess I should prepare for DKR to be a little disturbing then.
I just watched Batman Begins. I liked it a lot better than I remember having done the first time. I also remember calling Ducard as R'as Al Ghul the first time, but maybe that was because it was Liam Neeson. I also recall sighing over the destruction of the big beautiful house, which is my reaction anytime a big beautiful house is destroyed in a movie. Never mind the people, never mind the city, oh the HOUSE. See my issues. See my issues cry. Cry, issues, cry!
What's the next one? Dark Knight Reverberates? Onward.
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The Dark Knight undergoes Surgery? Followed by The Dark Knight gets two years of physical therapy?
OK, I was wrong: they used Trump Tower for the Wayne Enterprises building, not my work building.
I thought it was weird how obviously NYC Gotham was, and I didn't like it -- I kept trying to look at things just outside the shot and etc. (And I did have some Moments in The Avengers, for my own personal reasons...)
And any conversation between Bane and Batman just made me laugh, between T-Hard doing Sean Connery (??) and the Batvoice.
I dunno, I thought it was good, but I wasn't super into it. Although the end was fantastic.
Just saw Dark Knight, for the first time. How utterly depressing. A little too much speechifying too. But I'm ready to see TDKR! I guess.
Just came back from seeing the latest Batman movie. I've enjoyed it quite a bit although I am completely unfamiliar with any Batman lore outside of the movies, so the characters don't live in my heart like they do for many of you. Like everyone, I thought JGL was marvellous, and the movie managed to surprise me several times, which I was not expecting. Nicely done!
I had some trouble understanding Bane. I reckon I missed about 30-40% of his dialog and at some point was rather desperate for a subtitle. Not sure if that'd improve with repeated viewing. Tom Hardy was an imposing presence, despite my limited understanding of his dialog.
They filmed some of the key scenes of the movie in Pittsburgh and the local audience in my theater was very appreciative. The football field scene (seen in the trailer) was clearly filmed at the Heinz Field, and, uh, they had a rather prominent ad for my company up on the screen in the stadium. Woo-hoo, I guess? They also had (minor spoilers for the scene)
several Steelers players featured in the scene including Hines Ward, who was the player running in front, who managed to make it to the edge of the devastation. Gotham City team was uniformed in Steelers colour (black and gold), and there was quite a bit of hooting and hollering from the audience at that. That was nice of Nolan (or whoever it was that decided to throw the football-mad Pittsburghers a bone)
I also recognized a bunch of downtown Pittsburgh spots in latter parts of the film. And the big fight scene near the end was filmed just 15 minutes' walk from my house, on my regular commute route! Cool cool cool. [/Abed]
Hey, was Bane's coat swanky, or what? I want to know where he shops.
They had the three main costumes (Batman, Catwoman and Bane) on display at the Hollywood Arclight, where we saw the film tonight. The coat looks very cool close-up, too.
