the only real imax in the triangle is at marbles.

http://www.slashfilm.com/qa-imax-theatre-real-imax-liemax/




[Edited on July 19, 2012 at 10:07 AM. Reason : triangle theaters]

7/19/2012 9:43:15 AM

^^the only thing i can even find in that article is:

Quote :

"“It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood,” Democratic advisor Christopher Lehane told the Washington Examiner. “Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society"

and then just a bunch of fluff about "democrats" are doing this, and dems are doing that. but the article doesn't show any real evidence that O's campaign is "using the character Bane as propaganda".

I'm not saying they aren't, I'm just curious to see the evidence. Sorry to bring Soap Box in here.

7/19/2012 10:05:58 AM

^^ If I'm interpretting that article correctly, even marbles is not true IMAX.

The second page lists Discovery Place in Charlotte as having the only 1570 IMAX in the state. Marbles is listed as one of the Huge IMAX theaters with digital projection (which the author suggests could be much worse than LIEMAX)

7/19/2012 10:25:56 AM

^^ Seems like I could have gone without you quoting that text...looks to give away a plot point I would have liked to not have known.

7/19/2012 10:31:49 AM

my bad, if i came back to this quicker i would edit it out. but i think that's all in the comics.

7/19/2012 10:41:48 AM

3:15 tonight! How early do I need to be there to get a middleish seat?

7/19/2012 11:25:42 AM

So what is the Cary IMAX like? I saw The Dark Knight at Marbles in 2008 and it was incredible. I already got tickets for Cary on Saturday but I didn't realize it might be a smaller screen

7/19/2012 11:58:36 AM

^^When I read that I thought...

I thought the movie was coming out on the 20th.

Then I looked at the calendar. Time flies. I thought we were still in the low teens.

7/19/2012 12:35:17 PM

Last time I went to crossroads IMAX with some friends, we were all severely disappointed. I thought it was strange that they all of a sudden had "IMAX" films (they didn't always)... and then when we walked in the theater, we realized it was a smaller screen.

I only go to marbles for imax now.

Wondering what time I should get to the midnight show tonight at marbles? 9-10?

7/19/2012 12:42:51 PM

Apparently people are already lined up at Marbles for it.

7/19/2012 1:52:14 PM

Damn. I hope the 3am show is too late for most people. It definitely is for me

7/19/2012 2:00:19 PM

they're not lining up for the midnight showing, they are doing a marathon for previous batman movies ending with Dark knight rises. while i am sure this is great for some people i couldnt bear to sit at marbles for 9 hours or whatever the total runtime would be

7/19/2012 3:37:49 PM

Quote :

"The second page lists Discovery Place in Charlotte as having the only 1570 IMAX in the state. Marbles is listed as one of the Huge IMAX theaters with digital projection (which the author suggests could be much worse than LIEMAX)"

And Discovery Place is a dome. So you have to leave the state to see it as Nolan intended.

[Edited on July 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM. Reason : Virginia Beach Aquarium is the closest 15/70 flat screen.]

7/19/2012 3:41:46 PM

^^ well then, if it's a marathon, then not only did they line up early but they already have their seats for the midnight show.

7/19/2012 4:50:15 PM

In line for the marathon at marbles. 11 hours later........

7/19/2012 5:22:34 PM

I'm just going to wait a few weeks....

7/19/2012 5:44:48 PM

LOL.. Some dude in LA is selling his extra TDKR ticket so he can get laid.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/m4w/3149681813.html

7/19/2012 5:58:51 PM

the email i got from marbles said they will be an intermission between each movie and that reserving seats will not be allowed...

therefore, the people in there for the marathon are not saving their seats for the midnight show...they aren't going to allow it

7/19/2012 5:59:36 PM

^ Good for them.

7/19/2012 7:30:24 PM

Got tickets for tuesday night @ Marbles.

7/19/2012 8:42:49 PM

^i'll be there Tuesday at 7:15

7/19/2012 8:57:06 PM

considering the 6 am showing.

7/19/2012 11:41:49 PM

Just left marbles. Great movie. I'll post more of a review tomorrow when others have seen it.
The line for the 315 showing was out the door.

7/20/2012 2:59:42 AM

[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 3:29 AM. Reason : .]

7/20/2012 3:28:55 AM

Non spolier gripes....

1. For the first half, I could not understand a damn thing Bane said. It got better near the end, but damn.
2. Switching backdrop cities
3. lack of tie-in to Dark Knight. Did Batman just hang it up right after Dent's death or what?

All things considered? Solid ending to the trilogy.

7/20/2012 4:28:03 AM

Non spoiler

Great movie. Felt immensely satisfying to end a trilogy on. Pacing was definitely a slower than the previous two - not that that's bad, it just felt a little slower.

^ Missed probably 10% of dialog, some from Bane, some from IMAX LOUD.

7/20/2012 6:22:31 AM

Just woke up for work this morning...UGHHHHH. Still worth it though. I thought the movie was great & on par with the previous movie. Loved the Cillian Murphy cameo!

7/20/2012 7:44:29 AM

so a gunman killed 14 people in a Colorado theater during the midnight premiere of TDKR.

7/20/2012 7:48:37 AM

Saw midnight showing last night.

Overall enjoyed it. It was a bit too predictable, or maybe I just knew too much about the characters, but won't go into any details as most would be spoilers.

I thought I'd hate Bane's voice, but it really wasn't that bad. I did find it strange that in the first part of the movie he sounded like Sean Connery, and then his accent faded, haha.

I'd say it falls somewhere between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Overall great trilogy.

7/20/2012 8:26:00 AM

My post will contain spoilers, so avoid it if you haven't seen the movie yet...























I thought it was a pretty decent movie. I just wish there had been more "batman". The batman scenes were quick. There was a lot of brawling by batman, but not a lot of other stuff. I was hoping he would have a new tumbler or car or something.
Bane was good as a villain. The accent and voice sounded strange in parts, especially when he did the inflection at the end of a word or sentence.
The only gripes I have about the movie are the main plot device (time bomb)... the whole time bomb thing is so played out I wish there had been something different.
The other gripe is I wish it was more directly tied to Dark Knight... They should have at least mentioned the joker or something...(I understand why they didn't)
It wasn't as dark as the other ones.. maybe because more of the action scenes were in daylight..

I like 2 the best, then 3 and 1 are tied.


















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[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM. Reason : end]

7/20/2012 8:35:28 AM

I thought they did a good job of tweaking the character stories from the Dark Knight comics just enough so it wasn't TOO predictable and still had some small surprises.

[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 8:38 AM. Reason : .]

7/20/2012 8:37:28 AM

I never thought I'd say this but here goes....

meh

7/20/2012 10:40:32 AM

I think that perhaps my opinion of this movie has been tainted by the ridiculously awesome story of Arkham City... I too felt kinda "meh" by the end. I agree that there wasn't enough Batman. It wasn't bad by any stretch, though!

7/20/2012 11:55:07 AM

I thought it was amazing.

7/20/2012 3:41:01 PM

They should have called it "poopmetheus"

7/20/2012 3:42:04 PM

Loved it. Only complaint about the trilogy as a whole is that I wish we'd seen more of the Arkham Asylum and the Narrows from Batman Begins in TDK and TDKR. Specific to the movie though I wish there were just more scenes with Wayne as Batman and I feel like they tried to include too many new characters too quickly in the first half of the movie. The second half legitimately stacks up against anything I've seen in a theatre in a long time.

7/20/2012 5:11:04 PM

I enjoyed the SHIT out of this movie. I thought it was significantly darker, bleaker, and more tense than either of the other two films. I don't think this one had quite the depth of TDK, and I don't think Bane is nearly as iconic as The Joker, but he was a great villain nonetheless. Probably the most hardcore villain I've ever seen in a superhero movie. I thought it was an outstanding end to an outstanding trilogy.


*** SPOILERS ***








My only three gripes are as follows:

1. Selina Kyle says "I just know you should be as afraid of him as I am". When I heard this, I was expecting there to be more of a story between her and Bane. I might have misinterpreted something but this is never revisited or explained in detail.
2. The "twist" at the end where Miranda reveals herself to be al Ghul's daughter felt a little tacked on to me. I felt like this could have been better incorporated into the story line because it's just dropped on you right before the ending.
3. I felt like there could have been better transitions from TDK. The Joker isn't even mentioned a single time throughout the entire film and there's not really any explanation as to why Batman hung up his suit outside of injuries or his girl dying.






</spoilers>

7/20/2012 5:30:21 PM

I have a feeling that joker would have been mentioned if not for Heath Ledger's passing... Just my opinion.

Also, I felt TDK was wayyyyyy darker than this one... I watched all 3 of them yesterday and they are fresh in my head.

spoiler:









My favorite scene in the whole movie was the 2nd brawl between batman and bane when they are on the steps to the courthouse... Bane started throwing punches left and right really quick and the music picked up and it was epic....











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7/20/2012 5:33:48 PM

^^

*** SPOILER ***








This was my main gripe of the movie. She really did feel tacked on - it could've been about 10 mintues shorter and cleaner without her and just having Bane be the guy to the end. I mean she was there to set up the bomb, but they could've done it easily anywhere else. It was a 'twist' but I wasn't that impressed

They used Harvey Dent as a transition between then and now, but a minute of generic montage news reports (What happened to Batman, Joker locked in Arkham, etc) would've helped.

I think it was a little darker than TDK. TDK was a rollercoaster of climaxes, and this was more of a slow slow buildup. Joker murdered a bunch of people but they kept a lot of it offscreen. Bane going around just murdering people with his bare hands was pretty damn brutal.



*** NOSPOIL***

[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 6:16 PM. Reason : .]

7/20/2012 6:14:49 PM

Really disappointed by this movie.

In most ways the dark knight worked, this did not work.

7/20/2012 6:53:25 PM

I thought it was quite good. Very satisfied

7/20/2012 6:54:27 PM

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many in the theater laughed when Cotillard 'died' lol














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7/20/2012 7:58:33 PM

overall i enjoyed it, do have a few complaints


***************Spoilers**************************

Quote :

"many in the theater laughed when Cotillard 'died' lol"

I definitely laughed when she did, her acting was terrible at that moment.

like a few people have said, Batman did not get anywhere near enough screen time, the movie was 164 minutes i believe, i would say the amount of time we saw Batman in his suit, on screen, was around 20-25 minutes.

i had no problem understanding Bane's voice, although MANY of the other characters had lines that i could not understand

so apparently Wayne fell in love with Miranda Tate. Wait, what...when....how...nevermind. its not like they seemed to have only met a couple of times and then she shows up at his house and they are somehow in love. Oh, wait. I guess thats just how Wayne rolls though, because he then fell in love with catwoman (who was throwing off some lesbian vibes) after having spent literally 15 or so minutes of his entire life with her.

but the ending made me walk out happy, i did get a little giddy like a school girl when she said his name was Robin.

also, if ledger had been alive, i think he would have been in place of Scarecrow as the judge, there is an episode of Batman the Animated Series where he is just that - judge of a criminal ruled court:

that would have been unbelievably awesome in my mind















***************SPOILERS**************************

[Edited on July 20, 2012 at 8:42 PM. Reason : $$$]

7/20/2012 8:41:38 PM

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I thought Bane's 'doom' deserved a little bit better than just the bat motorcycle shooting him
























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7/20/2012 8:50:11 PM

^agreed on that point as well

7/20/2012 9:01:11 PM

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I also think the end explosion could have been better... all we see is a mushroom cloud and then people cheering and stuff...

should have been a louder noise, more blast, etc... i dunno..just seemed weird and cheap


















end spoiler

7/20/2012 9:33:50 PM

So whyasre critics saying tom hardy sucked as bane?

7/20/2012 9:50:20 PM

Probably my least favorite of the 3. I thought Catwoman was well done and MUCH better than expected. The rest was kind of a letdown. imo

Part of what makes batman cool is that he outsmarts his enemys, not so much in this movie. Just punch for punch. ehh.

7/20/2012 10:57:37 PM

Just got back. Heres my take on it (and responses to comments in here)...

I dont understand the griping about a lack of connection to TDK. Just because the Joker wasn't named specifically, but that movie wasn't about the Joker. It was about Harvey Dent and what he meant to Gotham. The Joker was the best part of that movie and what made it #1 of the trilogy, but he was a plot device just like the bomb. They made it very clear that after Harvey Dent died they made the Dent Act or whatever so Batman hung it up. I'm glad they went that way with it because it made the 2nd movie matter.. what Batman and Gordon did with Two Face's death was worth something, they traded Batman for strong legal means to take criminals down.

Catwoman was good. Glad they never specifically called her by that name though. Considering shes one of my least favorite characters in the batman universe I thought she was enjoyable.

JGL's character arc was great. I'm definitely glad they decided to flat out call him Robin rather then just have him finding the cave.

Bane was ehh... I thought his voice was too high pitched. He was a good brute though.

My wife (who doesn't know much about batman) said "He is really bad at fighting". I told her Batman wasn't a fighter, he was a detective who out smarted his opponents... she responded he that he didn't really do that either, and she was correct. For the most part he didn't really do much in the way of thinking, he just kept throwing himself at Bane while those around him did the thinking.

And the scarecrow cameo was A+++.

7/20/2012 11:30:37 PM

I thought hardy was a great bane.... He was smart brutal and gigantic... What more could you ask for?

7/21/2012 12:48:31 AM