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[Seán]

exciting, needed more development of certain characters and it felt rushed even though it was supposed to take place over maybe a year? (too vague on that for how fast it was going) but what i'm bothered about most is

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when Bruce Wayne loses all his money but gets to keep his house, how come they shut the power off that night? he'd have been paid up for sure with his previous wealth, but they didn't even wait to see if he could pay the next bill? ridiculous

[crab man]

At least nobody shot you while you were watching.

[Seán]

yeah that was my favourite part.

[Whisky]

What a jerk thing to do at the opening of such an anticipated release

[w00dy]

thats got mentalism written all over it (not seen the flick but i want to so i cant read seans op)

edit: i watch sami ramis spiderman 2 last night and it really feels old, i was thinking it felt a bit old for a reboot but now y'know... i only say that coz tim burtons batman only seems like twenty years ago dontchyathunk and this reboot frachise is ended allready

Edited by w00dy, 20 July 2012 - 11:11 AM.

[gusdotcom]

I've heard the new Batman is to die for.

[Orchestrazia Ardwick]

Just saw it. Quality film, and a great way for Nolan and Bale to bow out. They'd better leave it at a trilogy and not do any more.

[Seán]

this is the end for this group. i've heard rumours about an immediate reboot but short on details so far.

[Orchestrazia Ardwick]

Well I hope they don't do that, because it's never going to come close to this trilogy. Either they play it dark, in which case it'll just be inferior, or they camp it up a bit, which'll take things right back into Schumacher territory.

[Spongeyguy]

They could take it to Batman Beyond territory, which could be pretty good, or pretty terrible.

[Seán]

from what i've heard there are two being planned. one geared towards kids and another that Frank Miller will be in on. again nothing to back these up but some casual chatter on the internet but i could understand making one for kids. the Frank Miller one seems a bit of a waste after these ones though.

[Mick!]

Bloody tremendous.

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A bit curious why they bothered with the whole Robin storyline if that's the last film, though...

[Seán]

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the way i saw it was to emphasize that Bruce isn't coming back. he's passed it on to someone else, there's no need for him now, and since Robin's already an established character in the DC universe it's an obvious and easy choice.

[Naan]

Wait till the rest of us has seen it dammit!...

[Seán]

we are, that's why it's all spoiler tagged.

[James_Coolidge]

I saw that you had made this thread and didn't come here for three days because of it. I saw the movie today though, and now I can return from my exile.

My verdict: Excellent.

[wooooogiecrisp]

i didnt like it. it was too long, drawn out and painfully predictable. there wasnt a lot of actual fighting and when there was it wasnt all that great.

[Blueswallaby]

Hmmm....yeah, it was a bit of a mess, and only occasionally a great one. I see what sean meant about it feeling rushed, it was oddly incoherent. It had all the ideas, and a bunch of set pieces that should've been great, but somehow feels less than the sum of it's parts. Bit of a let down.

[Blueswallaby]

Also it has an awful lot of deus ex machinas

[Blueswallaby]

Also also, perhaps the most disappointing aspect of all was that the bad guy was ######ing dull and two dimensional. How they can take a character, set him up as being maybe some militant face of anti-capitalist 99%ers or whatever - i remember stories of them going along to the Occupy protests with cameras - and make him so completely unsympathetic, I don't know.