The Dark Knight Rises prologue

LoganMackay

LoganMackay

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Anyone else check it out last night?

Nolan and Pfister seem to be improving as far as action goes, it looked great. Really excited for next summer to say the least.
 
Liked it, but it wasn't a patch on the TDK prologue IMHO.... not sure I'm convinced by Bane yet, though that new poster is pretty ace ;)
 
I was a little underwhelmed by it. Seemed so far removed from belonging to a Batman film that when it was over, I turned to my friend and said, "Someone wants to direct a James Bond movie REALLY badly."...The short tease of the rest of the film after the prologue looked great though. After BB and Dark Knight, in Nolan I trust.
 
I was fairly underwhelmed too. Mostly because I couldn't understand a word Bane was saying. It would have been a pretty cool scene if I could figure out what it was all about. Hopefully they fix up Bane's audio in the final cut.
 
Batutta said:
I was a little underwhelmed by it. [..] After BB and Dark Knight, in Nolan I trust.
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Jordan Scott Price said:
Yea, I give Nolan and Pfister a lot of leeway. I have great faith in TDKR. Their reputation speaks for itself.
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I don't have watched it yet, but from what I've read in this thread, I simply couldn't agree more!
They've made their proofs in the first two, the last one can't be anything than better compared to the first movies.
 
Batutta said:
I was a little underwhelmed by it. Seemed so far removed from belonging to a Batman film that when it was over, I turned to my friend and said, "Someone wants to direct a James Bond movie REALLY badly."...The short tease of the rest of the film after the prologue looked great though. After BB and Dark Knight, in Nolan I trust.
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Good shout, as I also felt it was very 'James Bond' as was the 'snow sequence' in Inception. I'm not sure how Nolan's WB contract is structured, but the Bond producers would no doubt kill to have Nolan helm a Bond film or two...
 
I don't get how the guy who seemed to understand Batman so well in Batman Begins insists on having so much take place during the day. It was one of my problems with The Dark Knight and looks to be doubled-down on in this one. Batman is a nocturnal character; it's part of his psychology and his M.O. -- but more than that, if you take him out of that element, the chances of him looking silly go way up.
 
It was a conscious choice by Nolan to do more daylight scenes in The Dark Knight. He said it seemed logical that if Batman was a nocturnal presence, criminals would start doing more of their work during daylight hours. Batman would eventually have to be drawn out into the day. Anyway, Batman isn't part of the prologue at all. It's a Bane-centric scene so time of day doesn't matter. Much of the montage at the end was nighttime stuff.
 
I don't think it's a good choice -- not for Batman. And it also kind of plays into the idea of Nolan really wanting to make a James Bond movie. (Which I think he'd be good at.)
 
I'd be more worried if he didn't pull it off so well in The Dark Knight. I didn't see much silliness. Did we lose the sense of Gotham City being a noir, fantasy setting? Yes, but I think that's a minor quibble when everything else was done so right. That the prologue felt like something out of a Bond had less to do with the daylight and more to do with the particulars of the scene itself...I will say though that the money shot, where the plane falls away around Bane as he's lifted on a rope, was pretty awesome. Loved that they held on the shot all the way to the plane hitting the ground. Looked like they did it for real. They might not have, but it looked like they did.
 
Nolan's take on Batman is a world that's a bit more realistic and less fantasy to start with. He wanted Batman to be shown with a bit more credibility and I think it works. :)
 
I think Inception was better than the The Dark Knight as a whole, but The Dark Knight was the best Batman film, in my opinion.

There were parts of The Dark Knight that I simply didn't like - the 20 minutes of boat scenes 2 hours into the film with extras I don't care about; the James Bond-esque fight scenes near the end, with the completely incompetent hoards of SWAT teams (because anyone can be SWAT and a rappel down a skyscraper, right?)

If The Dark Knight Rises is just as good as Inception, which I believe has none of the problems The Dark Knight had, I'll be very pleased.

The prologue sure leaves me wanting more :D
 
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