Out of Pod Experience

While i am a big fan thus far of Christopher Nolans adaptation of the Batman Series i cannot help but wonder where it is all headed, the third in this re-imagined franchise shot and written in a substantially darker tone than previous releases.

I like how batman is perceived as more frail, human, and mortal in the series of movies, especially this one where he basically was put out of commission by the Joker and Harvey Dent from the last movie, i mean, what normal human being that survived that kind of experience would NOT be at least somewhat crippled, both mentally and physically. And we already know Batman is kind of a nutjob.

But this movie... Raish Agul, Bain, Miranda Tate... i don't know man, i'm not a huge batman buff, but has bain EVER really been a CRUCIAL tie in the batman series, like.. so crucial as to be connected with Raish Agul and Miranda?

Also, WTF is up with the connection between Bain, Bain Capital, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and a "Free" Gotham?, is there some sort of political message there i'm supposed to get? because i really don't get it. Many villains that get sympathy are the ones that hate society for its decadence, because many of us can relate to the disgusting nature of a lot of the lifestyles people live.

The scene where miranda dies was horrible, i cannot even believe they kept it in the movie....

Also, Robin... they have foreshadowed at least 3 more batman characters to return in a new batman movie or offshoot, Robin, Killer-Croc, and i can't remember the last one, but if catwoman is involved now with batman, which at the end it looks like they will be together again in the next movie, i bet poison ivy will make her way into the plot.

For such a LONGGGGG ass batman movie, i felt that batman wasn't such a badass anymore, and rightfully so after the joker/harvey ordeal, and getting his back broken by bain, i mean, batman, you're getting old in this timeline and beat up, what left is there to do?
and if a problem comes up in gotham, how is a rickety old fart like you gonna do anything about it?

i do think the casting director make a great choice with the casting of bain, if you haven't already, go check out a movie called "Bronson", its a movie based on the life of Charlie Bronson, same guy who plays bain, and it is excellent. IMO it was this movie that got him the role of bain in batman.

but yeah, LONGGGGGGG movie. And i'm not so sure any of the actors from the past 2 movies will want to do ANOTHER batman, and this movie hardly tied a neat ribbon on this time-line.

Do not worry. This franchise has been announced a long time ago that it is a trilogy only, and Mr. Nolan is now finished.

Any further Batman films will be a different iteration like what has been happening with the Superman films.

It wasn't about Bain, it was about someone moving on with their life and redeeming themselves from the past.

All that stuff with Bain was just a backdrop texture to give the canvas a border, and the focal point of the painting was Batman rising.

In other words; it was Batman versus himself.

I succumb to the idea that stories have only 3 plots/frameworks:

man v man
man v machine
man v nature

The Dark Knight Rises was man v man (himself).

The film also has a more poetic feel to it, encompassing the idea of "the thing that you ultimately seek is the thing that will ultimately destroy you" and the moment you gain that knowledge is the moment you achieve a sense of "oneness" - hence the term 'atonement'; literally meaning At-One-Ment.

Balancing both sides of your wants, physical and psychological, and morphing them into a reconstructed purposeful existence is a difficult concept to achieve in cinema. I think where this film/trilogy succeeds critically is where The Matrix trilogy utterly failed.

'The Matrix' dealt with the construction of Neo, 'Reloaded' the deconstruction and 'Revelations' (ironically) dealt with the re-construction, especially at the end where Neo realises he chooses to fight or (not) fight Agent Smith and it is this thought which determined conflict, not the conflict itself. Wachowskis went way over the top in too many areas for the audience to focus on this crucial point, like all of the Zion 'fluff' and the film was poorly received, but they made a gazillion bucks so w/e.

The Dark Knight Rises is an excellent film all round, and does have a solid framework beyond comic book characters wearing silly outfits and using silly voices.

AK

the third batman sucks, the way i see it its a freaking joke, cheesy cheesy fight scenes, bane beats the crap out of batman but then lets him live, omg i cant even articulate how much i hate that stupid movie

Here's my favourite part; batman chilling with catwoman on top of some roof, he turns around and she has disappeared... in his raspy badass voice he says, "oh so that's what that feels like..."

It's such a huge downfall from the dark knight

I facepalmed after watching it, like picards double facepalm thing that's what I did, it's not even worthy to write about this movie but I do it anyway out of the kindness of my heart, chris nolan your movie sucks.

Edited so I sound less like a jerk

I thought bane was poison ivy's pet

I don't know anything about Bane being a pet for anyone honestly. I'm assuming this is in regards to Batman and Robin back in '97. I barely survived Batman Forever with 10% of my brain cells still intact and just couldn't bring myself to watch another abomination.

Relevent

Still its the second best Batman film made to date right after this one

Well, why stop at batman 7. Let's take it all the way to 30.

In fact, every action movie should now feature batman. New protagonists are too risky.

This version makes more sense, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMPZ7WeDck

Go figure people who play Eve don't like it when someone takes something they think they understand and they do something thought provoking and...egads...different.

No theme parks, just pablum please!