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The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
07-16-12, 01:00 PM
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I love the Daily Mirror U.K. review: Bleak, black and brilliant (5/5)
07-16-12, 01:05 PM
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07-16-12, 01:11 PM
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07-16-12, 01:22 PM
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07-16-12, 01:53 PM
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...be glad none of you have spent time in the Yahoo comments sections. That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think "fucking morons".
07-16-12, 01:57 PM
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07-16-12, 02:09 PM
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One of the reviews on RT is
I thought they were review the Batman movie not Giantrobo...
Bleak, black and brilliant.
07-16-12, 02:20 PM
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Why would you? It's honestly pretty hilarious.
07-16-12, 02:21 PM
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07-16-12, 02:29 PM
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It's binary, 0 = crap, 1 = brilliant. Best scale to rate movies ever.
07-16-12, 02:47 PM
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Christy Lemire just gave it thumbs down:
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebriti...s-epic-letdown
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebriti...s-epic-letdown
Nolan's approach is so coldly cerebral that it's a detriment to the film's emotional core. It's all doom and gloom and no heart. There is no reason to care about these characters, who function more as cogs in an elaborate, chaotic machine than as real people whose souls are at stake.
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07-16-12, 02:56 PM
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That's sort of an issue I've had with every Nolan movie, kind of surprised she's just now calling him out on it. His characters are less people than they are pieces of a puzzle/"cogs in a machine". I have no real problem with it, though it is why I like Batman Begins more than The Dark Knight, Dark Knight was mostly process, Batman Begins at least had something resembling character.
07-16-12, 03:03 PM
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That's sort of an issue I've had with every Nolan movie, kind of surprised she's just now calling him out on it. His characters are less people than they are pieces of a puzzle/"cogs in a machine". I have no real problem with it though. It's actually why I like Batman Begins more than The Dark Knight, Dark Knight was heavily just process, Batman Begins at least had something resembling character.
07-16-12, 03:06 PM
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I don't know about that, Nolan seems to use most of his run time pretty well, but it's almost always all plot and very little character. Now there is a chance that we get a superfluous chunk of plot, and I have a feeling the
will make it feel like a movie and its sequel in one.
Inception over-explained things and had an overly drawn out action scene (Snow level), but is one of the few movies I enjoyed more on repeat viewing than I did initially.
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Inception over-explained things and had an overly drawn out action scene (Snow level), but is one of the few movies I enjoyed more on repeat viewing than I did initially.
07-16-12, 03:14 PM
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07-16-12, 03:26 PM
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Time Magazine review: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/0...hts/?hpt=hp_t2
07-16-12, 04:08 PM
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Time Magazine review: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/0...hts/?hpt=hp_t2
07-16-12, 08:43 PM
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Interesting how whenever a critic posted a negative review for Prometheus people took it to heart that maybe the movie wasn't that great, but with this one it's a sign they have their head up their arses. Remember, Ridley Scott has been mentioned by Nolan as one of his biggest influences
EDIT: The negative reviews each have over 500 comments
This is quite amusing.
EDIT: The negative reviews each have over 500 comments
This is quite amusing.
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07-16-12, 08:51 PM
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Given that TIME review it sounds like THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is basically ripping off THE WRATH OF KHAN'S ending/climax, doesn't it? I don't think I need to spoiler any more than that. Yet no review has made the comparison yet. Reminds me of when TITANIC ripped off SOMEWHERE IN TIME's ending and no critic noticed. 
07-16-12, 09:10 PM
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Eric D. Snider gets banned from Rotten Tomatoes for this stunt:
"Which leads me to Eric D. Snider. He thought it would be funny to post a negative review link on Rotten Tomatoes that links to his own site. He misrepresented his review link. (In case you didn't know, some critics post their own reviews, and my staff posts some -- it's about 50/50). By attributing the link to Film.com, he misrepresented that organization. This is not the first time he's done this, nor is it the first time his journalistic ethics have been brought into question. In our opinion, by knowingly posting a link that isn't a review (and he hadn't seen the movie), Snider has abused our trust, and therefore, his reviews will no longer apply to the Tomatometer."
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_...e_nice_things/
"Which leads me to Eric D. Snider. He thought it would be funny to post a negative review link on Rotten Tomatoes that links to his own site. He misrepresented his review link. (In case you didn't know, some critics post their own reviews, and my staff posts some -- it's about 50/50). By attributing the link to Film.com, he misrepresented that organization. This is not the first time he's done this, nor is it the first time his journalistic ethics have been brought into question. In our opinion, by knowingly posting a link that isn't a review (and he hadn't seen the movie), Snider has abused our trust, and therefore, his reviews will no longer apply to the Tomatometer."
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_...e_nice_things/
07-16-12, 09:16 PM
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^ That's the flaw with Rottentomatoes, it seems to entice people to post negative reviews for no other reason than to draw attention to themselves.
I am going to make a call that the critic for New Yorker will not like TDKR, as he did not like Dark Knight, the first Iron Man, and seems to dismiss anything that isn't scripted by Charlie Kaufman or art house fare.
I am going to make a call that the critic for New Yorker will not like TDKR, as he did not like Dark Knight, the first Iron Man, and seems to dismiss anything that isn't scripted by Charlie Kaufman or art house fare.