But... Batman's not dead.
I think if you want to read the final shot of Alfred and Wayne as literal, it ruins the entire film. I can't see it as anything other than Alfred just having a pleasant fantasy in his old age.
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But... Batman's not dead.
I think if you want to read the final shot of Alfred and Wayne as literal, it ruins the entire film. I can't see it as anything other than Alfred just having a pleasant fantasy in his old age.
So, I saw TDKR today. Let's talk about it.
I think it's a really good film for a long time. Until about the range of Miranda revealing herself as Raas al Ghul's (never know how to spell it) kid. Not that that, in and of itself, is a terrible thing. Conceptually, it's not a bad twist and helps string the plot together. But then they try to make something remotely sympathetic about Bane and I don't know how I feel about that. It's not that I'm opposed to sympathetic villains - I support them a billion times over, really - but this felt really forced. You've got this utter fucking sadist who's basically the League of Shadows incarnate and now what, you want me to feel kind of sorry for him because he once tried to protect an innocent child? It felt forced.
Then it kind of goes downhill. The closing action car/Batplane chase scene is cool and all, but then the whole nuclear detonation thing...eh. I mean, you've got the Catwoman/Batman kiss which is super weird. Why does that even have to be a thing here? Really, I felt like Catwoman as a whole was kind of mishandled. Hathaway did a pretty good job of her, really, but she was never very important. I get that Nolan tried to use her as part of this weird sideplot of the rich vs the poor or whatever, but that entire angle was super weak. So all Catwoman really became was a plot device and weird, forced love interest. I don't know. I thought that final scene on the bridge was just really fucking weird, but Batman killing himself for the city was interesting. The idea that he died when he didn't actually have to is also interesting. The only way I can see it is that the memory of Rachel was the only thing that even kept him alive; while he was able to become Batman once he let go of her, there was also no real reason for him to live anymore, and he took the first out he reasonably could after beating Bane.
Ultimately I think the film is a great action film and a reasonably good ending to the series, but it lacks the intellectual stimulation brought on by Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which had all these brilliant ideas about fear, chaos, justice, truth, mob mentality, basically all this great shit and it just wasn't there in TDKR.
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The cartoon.
Nope. And I believe that's a separate generation of toy anyway.
Nope. And I believe that's a separate generation of toy anyway.
Harthan, you like Cesaro, right?
Watch him vs Gabriel from Superstars. 'Tis good.