This time around, we take on the film many felt ended Christopher Nolan's tenure in Gotham on a sour note: The Dark Knight Rises.Watch The Dark Knight Rises Online the dark knight rises The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne.The Dark Knight Rises 2012 in 4K ultra HD. In Not Guilty, we look at movies that the general consensus tells us that we should feel bad for liking, but that our hearts tell us we should embrace - "guilty pleasures" we don't feel guilty about. (Visited 30 times, 3 visits today) Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham’s finest.
Eight years after the Jokers reign.The real inspiration stems from a post-comic-con chat over beers with a few of my Blastr brethren. With Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But this only partially explains how TDKR landed on the Not Guilty list.The Dark Knight Rises: Directed by Christopher Nolan. For many Bat-fans, TDKR fits that bill perfectly. Almost every trilogy suffers from what I like to call a “Feeble Threequel.” It’s when the third installment in the trilogy doesn’t live up to the previous two, and is considered the weakest link in an otherwise strong chain. Well, allow me to briefly explain.
Some even rank TDKR as the worst of Nolan's movies. Almost immediately after the movie came out, fans and reviewers expressed their disapproval. To be fair to them (not that they deserve it after ganging up on me), they're not alone in their lack of appreciation for The Dark Knight Rises.
While the Cat is sultry and seductive, she’s also vulnerable. Admittedly, I semi-subscribe to the Hathahate, although I won’t base my decision to see a movie on whether she’s in it. That being said, she rocked it as Catwoman, which is not an easy character to pull off. Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman was purrfect (sorry)There’s rarely been a time when a casting for any comic book character hasn’t been met with a considerable amount of fan backlash, and this was no exception. And now that I have a few less beers in me, I can layout exactly why I said what I said and explain why TDKR is not another Feeble Threequel.
Tom Hardy gave us the villain we deservedTom Hardy faced two considerable challenges with Bane. Considering the vastly different tones in that group, it’s really a testament to Hathaway’s acting chops and her interpretation as Catwoman that she'd be able to pull off such a trick. Hathaway brings the multifaceted feline femme fatale to life perfectly in a way very few others have pulled off, so much so that, were you to take her Catwoman and drop it in Tim Burton’s Batman or the iconic and campy TV show from the '60s, she would still work. Catwoman’s never so much looking to watch the world burn like Joker or bring the elite of Gotham to their knees like Bane and Talia al Ghul she’s just trying to make sure she lands on her feet no matter who’s in charge.
The second challenge was living up to the incredibly high bar set by Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. So the public perception of the character was already kind of in the crapper. He was a mindless henchman, reduced to a grunting brute that could barely construct a simple sentence in mildly coherent English.
Superheroes are always pulling off inexplicable and improbable feats with little reasoning, the only explanation being that they managed to do the impossible because they're superheroes. Some of them, quite honestly, are in the same vein as plot holes that, if one really wanted to nitpick, can be found in just about any other superhero movie. Mention the movie in mixed fan company, and there's one chorus you'll hear more than any other: "WHAT ABOUT THE PLOT HOLES?" About those plot holesSome of the biggest complaints about TDKR are plot holes. While he may not have surpassed Ledger’s Joker, he came damn close to tying his performance, in my opinion.But neither Catwoman nor Bane is the biggest grievance fans have had with the film. He was truly a threat to Batman in every possible way, each move he made, punch he threw, and word he spoke a deliberate and calculated evil.
They are, after all, both cut from the same cloth. If Bruce is capable of doing so, let’s assume Bane would be able to employ similar methods. Are they as detrimental to the movie as people try to make them out to be? Not even close.It’s easy to line up the suspects: How did Bane know where R&D was located? How did Bruce’s broken back heal so quickly, and essentially from the equivalent of a chiropractic adjustment? Why did all of Gotham City's PD go underground? How did a newly healed Bruce get back to Gotham with no money or ID, and make it back into the city despite its being blocked off? How did he manage to survive that nuclear bomb going off, even if The Bat was on autopilot?First off, anyone can find out anything if they have the right resources. That being said, are there legitimate plot holes in TDKR? Absolutely.
We later find out that Bruce had fixed the autopilot (which was pretty obviously foreshadowed) and is chilling on the Italian Riveria with Selena Kyle. Add to it whatever connections he has to the underworld thanks to the League of Shadows, and once again, this is a man who will get things done.Perhaps one of the biggest plot holes involves the end, when Batman flies off into the sunset and the nuclear bomb detonates, presumably killing the Caped Crusader. So odds are highly in Bruce’s favor that getting places isn’t really an issue for him. Wayne Enterprises is the eighth largest international conglomerate in the world and, in addition to primarily being a military defense contractor, has numerous subsidiaries, including Wayne Shipping, Wayne Aerospace, Wayne Aviation and Wayne Airlines. His name alone avails him of endless resources and connections that people who aren’t Bruce Wayne couldn’t even fathom. However, as the priest that runs the orphange cautions Blake, they (the bad guys) are hunting down cops, so it's very likely the majority of police have gone into hiding.As for how Bruce Wayne, one of the most famous and richest businessmen in the world, managed to get back into Gotham city undetected? Well, because he’s Bruce Wayne, one of the most famous and richest billionaires in the world.
This wasn't a documentary or a movie inspired by a true story. Moviegoers are becoming far too expectant of storytellers to be science majors, or for our entertainment to align with reality. Nuclear scientist Keith Bradley notes some key differences between real life and the movie, like how fusion is far more stable than it's made out to be in the film, and the odds of turning it into a deadly weapon would be almost impossible.While everyone is arguing about how Bruce could have survived the blast, keep in mind that this is a superhero movie and fiction, which both rely far more on movie magic and make-believe than they do science. Pavel to turn the fusion reactor into a 4-megatron nuclear bomb? In reality, controlled fusion isn't something science has figured out yet.
Everything that was essentially responsible for making him “super” is gone: no money, no Alfred, none of Lucius Fox’s magnificent creations. The rest of the time, we watch as Bruce loses everything he has, every reason he has, to continue not only to be Batman, but to go on living. We only see Batman twice on screen. Will the real Bruce Wayne please stand up?Essentially TDKR isn’t so much a Batman movie it’s a Bruce Wayne movie. That very premise alone should dictate how factual things may be. And however great a filmaker Christopher Nolan may be, this is still a story about an orphan billionarie playboy who dresses like a bat and takes on villains in outfits even crazier than his.
Bane and Talia al Ghul are essentially terrorists whose ideology drives them to attack and destroy a city and its culture solely because they are against everything it stands for.
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