JD
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The more I think about it, the more I dislike this movie.
How terribly uncharacteristic of Batman, who took up the fight against crime upon the death of his parents to simply up and quit and become a hermit after the death of the 'love of his life' Rachel? The 'love of his life' that the supplanted by not one, but two different characters in this movie (Miranda Tate and Selina Kyle)! That alone lessens any motives he had for his bat-hiatus.
Bats basically gets his ass handed to him by Bane. He then spend several months in prison... I'm not sure how much time he spent with bulging verterbra before it was so surgically repaired (um, yeah), but he then spent another bit of time doing push-ups and pull-ups and other-ups to "train" to fight Bane again. No real preparation to fight someone who almost killed him last time...
And then there's the unsatisfactory ending to Bane. We don't know how to kill Bane so first we'll totally demasculate him by first explaining it wasn't him that escaped the prison then we'll let you know it was all because of love that he did all this. Then because we're out of ideas, we'll just have (don't call her Catwoman) Selina Kyle off him so quick and so fast, you'll barely know what happened. You have Batman's biggest enemy, the one who broke him, basically castrated and killed in less time than it took to promote John Blake at Gordon's hospital bed (um, yeah).
Let's add in all of the Gotham PD marching into the sewers in force. No subtlety, no investigation - let's just all go in plain as day and unprepared as to what they're up against. Then, we'll drop half the city on top of them and close them up for months - and when they come out, they're well prepared to to fight the Bane army.
Good thing Bane knew exactly where Wayne and Fox kept the arsenal. They didn't even attempt to explain that one bit... Bane just knew exactly where all the Wayne military weapons (and by Wayne military weapons we mean a few Tumblers) were kept.
The more I think about it, the less I like this film. Nolan's a deceptive filmmaker - he fools people into thinking they're good movies.
How terribly uncharacteristic of Batman, who took up the fight against crime upon the death of his parents to simply up and quit and become a hermit after the death of the 'love of his life' Rachel? The 'love of his life' that the supplanted by not one, but two different characters in this movie (Miranda Tate and Selina Kyle)! That alone lessens any motives he had for his bat-hiatus.
Bats basically gets his ass handed to him by Bane. He then spend several months in prison... I'm not sure how much time he spent with bulging verterbra before it was so surgically repaired (um, yeah), but he then spent another bit of time doing push-ups and pull-ups and other-ups to "train" to fight Bane again. No real preparation to fight someone who almost killed him last time...
And then there's the unsatisfactory ending to Bane. We don't know how to kill Bane so first we'll totally demasculate him by first explaining it wasn't him that escaped the prison then we'll let you know it was all because of love that he did all this. Then because we're out of ideas, we'll just have (don't call her Catwoman) Selina Kyle off him so quick and so fast, you'll barely know what happened. You have Batman's biggest enemy, the one who broke him, basically castrated and killed in less time than it took to promote John Blake at Gordon's hospital bed (um, yeah).
Let's add in all of the Gotham PD marching into the sewers in force. No subtlety, no investigation - let's just all go in plain as day and unprepared as to what they're up against. Then, we'll drop half the city on top of them and close them up for months - and when they come out, they're well prepared to to fight the Bane army.
Good thing Bane knew exactly where Wayne and Fox kept the arsenal. They didn't even attempt to explain that one bit... Bane just knew exactly where all the Wayne military weapons (and by Wayne military weapons we mean a few Tumblers) were kept.
The more I think about it, the less I like this film. Nolan's a deceptive filmmaker - he fools people into thinking they're good movies.