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Originally Posted by Derek
But Nolan presented the movie as something more than just a fun superhero movie.
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you're right, of course. nolan is a dark motherfucker, and "memento" is his defining work. with him it's all about atrocity and revenge.
however, don't come to batman looking for deep philosophy or the meaning of life. it's just not there! the fact that
it takes itself seriously doesn't mean it is
really serious.
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Originally Posted by Derek
It's not 'fun' at all, it's extremely drawn out with a very serious tone. I don't think critical analysis is moot because it's a superhero movie.
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fine, i'll play, but on my own terms.
things i found ridiculous:
- the police, for fucks sakes, don't know better than to lead a straight charge right into the mouths of fortified machine guns? i mean, how the fuck old are they, and don't they have any sense of tactics or strategy? for fucks sakes. where the fuck is the SWAT team.
- and then batman shows up in his supervesselwarmacheen, blows up the tanks, and he can't take 5 more seconds to blow up the barricades where the cops are charging into? fucking 1 percenter in his chariot cares little for the
hoi polloi!
- timing the exact moment 5 months hence when an unstable nuclear reaction will reach critical mass and create an explosion? i laugh, good sir. it should have been more like a russian roulette.
- what the fuck is a "league of shadows"? srsly.
having said all that, i couldn't care much about this ridiculousness because i was too busy looking out for cat lady's fabulous legs.
additionally:
- bane: sometimes all i could hear him say was "thop thop thop thop thop" . this didn't bother me because it was hilarious.
now on the subject of "nolan doesn't know about camera angles" i'll reply "what the fuck are you talking about???" kindly provide a concrete example of a fuckup and we can discuss, otherwise it's just silliness. screen-cap maybe?
and i thought the editing was great, the problem wasn't the editing, it was that they were trying to cram too much story + backstory in the 2nd half of the movie. so i can't even remember how the fuck is it that they killed all the prisoners and the prisoners are still there. and why was the doctor left in the hole after the dad came to rescue? wasn't he supposed to be a friend? anyway, too rushed to really take it all in, but that's not "editing", that's writing. if anything i think the editing did a great job of presenting all that excess material.