The Dark Knight Rises

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Great article by Ebert.

I'm not as passionate about gun control as some, but this is definitely true.

This would be an excellent time for our political parties to join together in calling for restrictions on the sale and possession of deadly weapons. That is unlikely, because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a federal takeover of personal liberties that many politicians feel they cannot afford to advocate gun control.

[SKO]

I saw it the next night. It was awesome. As of right now I'd say it was somehow even better than The Dark Knight. When the adrenaline passes in a few days maybe I'll come to a more objective evaluation, but holy shit, greatest movie trilogy ever.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

[Gilgamesh]

Great article by Ebert.

I'm not as passionate about gun control as some, but this is definitely true.

This would be an excellent time for our political parties to join together in calling for restrictions on the sale and possession of deadly weapons. That is unlikely, because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a federal takeover of personal liberties that many politicians feel they cannot afford to advocate gun control.

Why even listen to those clamoring for more gun control when Americans will have forgotten about this whole thing in two weeks or so?

[SKO]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

You're truly amazing Chuck.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

I haven't seen it yet. That wasn't really my point at all.

[Gilgamesh]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

I haven't seen it yet. That wasn't really my point at all.

Excuse me, stewardess, I speak Thrill.

Chuck, I believe Thrill and SKO were objecting to your ridiculous analogy more than anything else.

[SKO]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

I haven't seen it yet. That wasn't really my point at all.

Excuse me, stewardess, I speak Thrill.

Chuck, I believe Thrill and SKO were objecting to your ridiculous analogy more than anything else.

The analogy was awful, awful, but I was definitely objecting to the "weakest of the three"  statement. I personally found it better than The Dark Knight. I'll not quibble with anyone who prefers TDK, as that was undoubtedly a masterful film, but, as much as I like Batman Begins, TDKR was much better.

[Bort]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

I haven't seen it yet. That wasn't really my point at all.

Excuse me, stewardess, I speak Thrill.

Chuck, I believe Thrill and SKO were objecting to your ridiculous analogy more than anything else.

The analogy was awful, awful, but I was definitely objecting to the "weakest of the three"  statement. I personally found it better than The Dark Knight. I'll not quibble with anyone who prefers TDK, as that was undoubtedly a masterful film, but, as much as I like Batman Begins, TDKR was much better.

I'm not sure it's better than TDK (though it may well be...I need some time to digest it), but it was better than Begins.

And that analogy couldn't have been more Gitlesian without references to Cheers, M*A*S*H, and Airplane. Or more awful, awful.

[PenPho]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

I haven't seen it yet. That wasn't really my point at all.

Excuse me, stewardess, I speak Thrill.

Chuck, I believe Thrill and SKO were objecting to your ridiculous analogy more than anything else.

Just wanted to say that I enjoyed this comment.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I saw it. It was fucking awesome.

It was good. Like Monsters Inc. good where Dark Knight is Nemo and Batman Begins is Toy Story 2.

No, Chuck.

It was easily the weakest of the three.  That doesn't make it bad.

I haven't seen it yet. That wasn't really my point at all.

Excuse me, stewardess, I speak Thrill.

Chuck, I believe Thrill and SKO were objecting to your ridiculous analogy more than anything else.

Just wanted to say that I enjoyed this comment.

I, too, laughed.

[Quality Start Machine]

I saw it the next night. It was awesome. As of right now I'd say it was somehow even better than The Dark Knight. When the adrenaline passes in a few days maybe I'll come to a more objective evaluation, but holy shit, greatest movie trilogy ever.

We never thought anything would top the Star Wars prequels.

[Yeti]

So, have enough seen it to discuss what happens?

[R-V]

So, have enough seen it to discuss what happens?

Yes. SKO and Slaky are right, it was the balls. No point in responding to Chuck.

The initial fight between Batman and Bane was just brutal. And although you knew he was going to make the leap in the prison, it didn't make it any less satisfying when it happened. The one quibble my wife had was how Batman got back into Gotham so easily what with it being entirely cut off. It took me a minute but then I realized: it's because he's fucking Batman.

It sucks that Ledger died after the last one. Considering that there were callbacks to basically every major character from the first two, you just have to think he would have been involved somehow.

[SKO]

So, have enough seen it to discuss what happens?

Yes. SKO and Slaky are right, it was the balls. No point in responding to Chuck.

The initial fight between Batman and Bane was just brutal. And although you knew he was going to make the leap in the prison, it didn't make it any less satisfying when it happened. The one quibble my wife had was how Batman got back into Gotham so easily what with it being entirely cut off. It took me a minute but then I realized: it's because he's fucking Batman.

It sucks that Ledger died after the last one. Considering that there were callbacks to basically every major character from the first two, you just have to think he would have been involved somehow.

SPOILER ALERT

Nah. It'd be impossible to involve the Joker in that one and not make it his show. I love Christopher Nolan because he based all three movies off of my favorite Batman story arcs and yet went way beyond the original material so I had no idea what would happen. Batman Begins was based on Batman: Year One, while The Dark Knight combined The Long Halloween and The Killing Joke. This one was Knightfall. I spent the entire movie waiting for Bane to break his back. When it happened I was somehow still shocked and traumatized. The ending of this film was beyond satisfying. I'd have been perfectly content had he lived or died, since he pulled off both so well.