Don't know if anybody has mentioned this, but don't waste your time/money going to IMAX at Marbles for TDKR. It's not even on film.

7/25/2012 9:47:12 AM

^what do you mean?

7/25/2012 10:04:52 AM

The entire reason I paid extra to see it at Marbles was that a large portion of the movie was shot on 70mm film, which is absolutely breathtaking. I guess i should have done my research, but Marbles isn't showing TDKR on film (they showed The Dark Knight on 70mm). Watching it on a digital projector that is of noticeably worse quality than 35mm film for $15.50/ticket after fees is a fucking ripoff.

7/25/2012 10:08:41 AM

^i see. thanks for the explanation.

7/25/2012 10:14:32 AM

Do any theaters around here show it on 70 mm film?

7/25/2012 10:51:49 AM

even still, marbles is going to be a much better experience than crossroads IMAX. the screen is still drastically bigger and the sound is much better in comparison.

I cant wait to see this tonight at Marbles

7/25/2012 11:05:03 AM

True, the sound was very, very good at Marbles.

The only NC theater showing it on 70 is IMAX in Charlotte.

7/25/2012 11:15:16 AM

IMAX in Charlotte is actually an OmniMAX dome, if you're talking about Discovery Place. The IMAX theaters at Stonecrest aren't actually IMAX screens, to the best of my knowledge.

7/25/2012 11:19:36 AM

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"even still, marbles is going to be a much better experience than crossroads IMAX. the screen is still drastically bigger and the sound is much better in comparison. "

I learned my lesson to never go to the Crossroads IMAX ever again. The screen was pathetic compared to Marbles.

7/25/2012 11:55:16 AM

I think Kodiak mentioned it a few pages ago, but the closest 70 mm IMAX is in Virginia Beach

since the Myrtle Beach one is closed

[Edited on July 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM. Reason : and yes, Charlotte's Discovery Place is a dome]

7/25/2012 12:32:10 PM

before the marbles show, the guy with the microphone said that marbles imax was the only giant screen in NC. he said it about 5 times.

7/25/2012 2:09:03 PM

^screen, yes. 70mm film, no.

7/25/2012 2:40:41 PM

Discovery Place sucks for watching movies. It's like a whole semi circle above your head, you can never see everything at once.

7/25/2012 2:43:25 PM

nobody cares. talk about the dark knight rises some more!

[Edited on July 25, 2012 at 3:44 PM. Reason : or make an imax thread]

7/25/2012 3:44:38 PM

Whatever, Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg.

7/25/2012 4:07:56 PM

7/25/2012 6:41:39 PM

totally going to be that guy here by mentioning that the basketball game in the background of the bar scene with Catwoman looked a hell of a lot like the court at PNC Arena

just sayin'

also, Bane's voice was fucking PERFECT

7/25/2012 10:48:10 PM

Sorry I was to busy watching catwoman.

BTW I loved the return of batman's "whereare they" line from TDK.

7/26/2012 12:52:17 AM

hehe, i'm sure someone will do a batman-bane video where bane can't understand a single word he says

7/26/2012 6:39:08 AM

^

7/26/2012 8:16:57 AM

More like where neither of them can understand each other.

7/26/2012 8:41:47 AM

Other Ra's al Ghul prodigies:

7/26/2012 9:27:31 AM

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"also, Bane's voice was fucking PERFECT "

What??

It was like Sean Connery fucked Darth Vader and bane was the resulting baby. I mean I guess that could be considered perfect.

And every time he spoke it was so clearly ADR'd and didn't sonically fit with the rest of the people talking at all. I know he's talking through a thing that wouldn't sound normal, but it still sounded beyond weird and out of place to me.

7/26/2012 11:52:51 AM

his inflection was perfectly creepy

7/26/2012 11:55:27 AM

maybe its because my ears work but i understood everything he said for the entire movie

7/26/2012 12:54:10 PM

thegoodlife3 I thought so too, so I paid more attention to it the 2nd time and it looked more darker than our red. Also, they show a shot of a player before you see the court and it's not our jersey style.

7/26/2012 1:26:25 PM

hahahaha

you are the only person on here that I would classify as the authority on this subject so I believe you 100%. I was looking forward to seeing it again just so I could look harder but now I don't have to worry about it

7/26/2012 1:33:21 PM

It couldn't have been a State game because wolfdawg4 was not in the shot.

7/26/2012 3:10:44 PM

SPOILERS (really shouldn't have to say at this point but whatever)

If Talia was the one who originally escaped, doesn't that make Bane's speech about being born into the darkness BS?

7/26/2012 7:49:46 PM

That it does.

7/26/2012 7:50:35 PM

Unless...

IT'S A METAPHOR!

7/26/2012 8:08:33 PM

its not a metaphor its lazy writing

7/26/2012 8:18:52 PM

did he say he was born in the prison? or just refer to darkness? i can't really remember that part

7/26/2012 8:23:16 PM

I thought he just referred to the darkness. If he said prison, consider my chipmunk un-dramatized.

7/26/2012 9:06:50 PM

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"More like where neither of them can understand each other."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMonkYBrmWs

7/26/2012 9:11:11 PM

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"If Talia was the one who originally escaped, doesn't that make Bane's speech about being born into the darkness BS?"

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"That it does."

A) I'm sure there are places other than that prison in which one could be "born into darkness." (that prison really wasn't that dark from what I could SEE)

B) There's no debating about the fact that he was definitely in the prison. He was not the one that escaped as a child, but that does not mean he wasn't born there as well. We don't know that he was, but we don't know that he wasn't.

C) Maybe he was referring to himself in regard to his current state (requiring the mask and what not) as being born in darkness since that happened to him in the prison. Or perhaps he's referring to a "rebirth" in the league of shadows (probably a lot of darkness in the shadows afterall... and batman was in the league of shadows and he's really into darkness and stuff).


IDK, seems like the line could work in a variety of ways.

[Edited on July 26, 2012 at 10:31 PM. Reason : /quote]

7/26/2012 10:31:12 PM

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"maybe its because my ears work but i understood everything he said for the entire movie"

7/26/2012 10:34:49 PM

I agree that the audio was way off on Bane's voice. so obviously ADR'd, never sounded quite right.

I enjoyed the movie though. trying not to overthink it because there is a lot there to nitpick, but who cares. I still think Batman Begins is my favorite of the three. Dark Knight my least favorite.

7/26/2012 10:35:30 PM

Spoilers?









I loved bane's death.

Such a theatrical fuck getting unceremoniously blasted and never mentioned again was amazing.

7/26/2012 10:40:34 PM

spoilers?



^ that

and

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"B) There's no debating about the fact that he was definitely in the prison. He was not the one that escaped as a child, but that does not mean he wasn't born there as well. We don't know that he was, but we don't know that he wasn't. "

was my take as well.

saw it a second time tonight. liked it better the second time through.

7/27/2012 1:37:33 AM

He could also have been intentionally misleading Batman in case he ever started digging into that background. Anything to keep Talia safe and undiscovered.

7/27/2012 7:47:24 AM

How did bane figure out batmans identity?

7/27/2012 9:04:12 AM

Something I was thinking about after I left but have not seen again. What was the rope in the pit tied to? Instead of tying it to their waist I was just thinking where they would end up if they just climbed the rope?

[Edited on July 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM. Reason : Can't spell for shit]

7/27/2012 9:23:33 AM

^^Haven't seen the movie, but doesn't Ra's al Ghul and by extension the League of Shadows know Batman's secret identity?

7/27/2012 9:42:03 AM

^^ it was tied to a point about half way up the wall

7/27/2012 10:05:49 AM

^^it was anchored 1/2 way up the climb, giving some limited help if you couldn't make the jump. If you made it much higher, the rope wouldn't help anyways.

7/27/2012 10:09:03 AM

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"How did bane figure out batmans identity?"

This drove me nuts as well. I know Bane is supposed to be extremely intelligent and figured out Batman's identity based on his own research in the comics (IIRC), so I was waiting for some kind of reveal like this to occur. When it _never_ got mentioned, I figured the writers just assumed we knew that Bane knew because Raj al Guul knew and therefore the entire League of Shadows knew (sooooooo bad).

They could have easily fixed that by changing Bane's one line where he calls out Bruce to something like "The League of Shadows never forgets . . . Mr. Wayne". It ticks me off that a point like this wasn't well established, but then we get a terrible hand-holding scene about the Clean Slate program:

"Where is the Clean Slate program?!"
"The Clean State program? You mean the program where you can enter anyone's name into the interface input and remove all traces of their past, effectively giving them a clean start???"

That's not word-for-word, but lines that are clearly directed at the audience (in non-subtle manners) really breaks the tension.

Bah.

7/27/2012 10:49:26 AM

^ Looking back at the movie, I assume he knew because Talia knew. Not much to figure out.

7/27/2012 12:45:40 PM

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"He could also have been intentionally misleading Batman in case he ever started digging into that background. Anything to keep Talia safe and undiscovered."

Exactly.

I thought it was pretty fantastic overall--both Bane and Catwoman worked well for me. I didn't have trouble understanding what he was saying except for a couple of times only. I did have a few questions/gripes though:

-How exactly did Bane know the location of (and existence of) Batman's arsenal? Mole inside the company? Miranda shouldn't have known about it early enough for it to make a difference when they started digging.
-It does seem like the scene where Blake gives Gordon a hard time about the criminals being locked away without parole due to the Dent act being a lie, doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the framework of the story. Maybe it was supposed to add characterization of why he leaves the force?
-I respect Nolan's decision not to mention the Joker out of respect for Ledger, but it does leave a void in the storyline--seems he'd be first in line to get another shot at Batman once Bane's thugs open up Arkham (or wherever he is).
-Agree that Gotham seems to have been toned down/lightened up too much, and that it is just an undisguised NYC here. Unless the incident with Ra's caused them to take down the entire above-ground transportation system (doubtful) it does seem an important piece of Wayne Enterprises' work that is simply gone.

[Edited on July 27, 2012 at 5:40 PM. Reason : up]

7/27/2012 5:38:53 PM

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"-I respect Nolan's decision not to mention the Joker out of respect for Ledger, but it does leave a void in the storyline--seems he'd be first in line to get another shot at Batman once Bane's thugs open up Arkham (or wherever he is)."

i just don't agree with his logic. Ledger created an incredible take on an iconic character, and his way of respecting that is to pretend like he never existed? I completely understand not recasting it or even having someone else try to voice him, but this is THE iconic batman villain, so i think it would have been a lot more respectful to at least allude to him and his impact.

just another random gripe, and i'm sure it was done for the ratings, but Bane snapped like 3 dudes necks, and broke the Bat, some breaking sound effects would have been nice. They were completely left out. i was just like "oh, i guess that dude is dead now since Banes hand has been there for a few seconds"

overall i still like the movie, but i think it really falls apart if you start thinking too much about it

[Edited on July 27, 2012 at 5:50 PM. Reason : $$$]

7/27/2012 5:49:34 PM