Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

I love the Daily Mirror U.K. review: Bleak, black and brilliant (5/5)

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

IMDB and RT have the lowest of low lifes posting comments.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

The YouTube comments section strongly disagrees. -wink-

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

True, forgot about those cretins. But was thinking mostly movie discussions.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

...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".

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Ooh. BRB.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

One of the reviews on RT is I thought they were review the Batman movie not Giantrobo...

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

I'd never believe someone posting on Yahoo could be insincere.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Why would you? It's honestly pretty hilarious.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

That word is used to describe pretty much every movie these days. Seems like if it doesn't outright suck its BRILLIANT!

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

It's binary, 0 = crap, 1 = brilliant. Best scale to rate movies ever.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Christy Lemire just gave it thumbs down:

http://www.mercurynews.com/celebriti...s-epic-letdown

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

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.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Yeah, that's pretty much how I felt about INCEPTION, which I thought was overly long and dull in many stretches. I'm willing to bet THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is a 2 hr., 45 minute story that could have been told in 2 hrs.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

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.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

No.

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Yes. Well, maybe. :)

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Time Magazine review: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/0...hts/?hpt=hp_t2

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

At least that reviewer said something about spoilers. Did not read.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

I'm so glad to hear that

makes an appearance!

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

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 :lol: This is quite amusing.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

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. :(

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

Eric D. Snider gets banned from Rotten Tomatoes for this stunt:

http://content7.flixster.com/site/10...251881_ori.jpg

http://content8.flixster.com/site/10...251882_ori.jpg

"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/

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

:lol: Snider is spot on.

Re: The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012) — The Reviews Thread
 

^ 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.