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Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises
Unless you've managed to not watch anything in the past three weeks, you're aware that Chris Nolan's final Batman movie is out. With Christian Bale as the low-talking caped crusader, The Dark Knight Rises is two hours and forty-five minutes of of fun. While it lacks a stand-out personal performance like Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, it is still a decent ending to this round of Batman movies. There are plenty of familiar faces, and a few new ones as well. Read below for my take on the movie, but be warned: there might be a few spoilers.
The movie starts out eight years after The Dark Knight. Batman has taken the blame for the death of district attorney Harvey Dent, and has disappeared from the public eye. Thanks to the passing of "The Dent Act," organized crime has been wiped out in Gotham, and the police find themselves increasingly obsolete. That all changes with the arrival of the villains. Since it was decided at some point in the 90s that all comic book movies needed at least two villains, in The Dark Knight Rises we have Bane and Catwoman.
Bane is played by Tom Hardy. Despite what Rush Limbaugh suggests, Bane is not connected to Mitt Romney, but was introduced in January 1993 and is best known for breaking Batman's back during the Knighfall comic series. He was even played terribly by a professional wrestler in 1997's Batman & Robin. I must admit that I was worried after reading reviews about how hard it was to hear Bane speak that the movie would degenerate into a low-talking competition between Hardy and Bale. They must have fixed the audio issues, because Bane's voice is certainly loud, if not the clearest at all times. To get an idea of what Bane sounds like, imagine Bill Cosby speaking with an English accent through a Darth Vader filter. The Bane in the movie shares little with the Bane from the comics, so he might not be to the liking of the purists, but he does a decent enough job of being a moderately intelligent juggernaut, and is the main villain in the story.
Ann Hathaway dons the cat ears as Selina Kyle, better known as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. All to often, female characters are little more than Kung-Fu cliched eye candy in comic movies. Nolan avoids this with Hathaway, but barely. Instead of a hot chick in a skin-tight, black leather outfit who is one bad fall from becoming the headliner at the local furry convention, Hathaway is a hot chick in a skin-tight, black leather outfit who plays a small but important role in the overall story arc.
Plenty of old characters reprise their roles, including Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, and Michael Caine as Alfred. Some old villains even show up for this final installment. New to the mix this time are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Modine, who play the cop everyone likes to love and the cop that everyone loves to hate, respectively.
For those of you who like the military look of Nolan's Batman vehicles over the more stylized Bat-vehicles of past movies, this one does not disappoint. The Batbike gets plenty of air time, as well as multiple Batmobiles driving around the city. This time around, the Batcopter makes its debut. While I think it looks more like something the Space Marines would fly around while fighting Aliens, it is consistent with the franchise's aesthetics.
Overall, a large portion of the story reminds me of a post-apocalyptic movie, with a Gotham that has existed in anarchy for many months. There are some decent fight scenes, including a small army of mercenaries fighting thousands of police in the streets while Batman and Bane duke it out in front of City Hall. There aren't a lot of surprises, and there aren't any stand-out performances, but there isn't a lot to dislike either. This was supposed to be the last of Nolan's Batman movies, but the ending leaves the possibility of another wide open, and I would not be surprised if another was made (assuming Rises makes enough money). So many movies — comic movies in particular — degenerate quickly with each sequel, and having to exist in the shadow of Heath Ledger is a daunting task. The Dark Knight Rises does a good job of stepping out of that shadow, however, and delivers for me, the best story of the series.
Bane is played by Tom Hardy. Despite what Rush Limbaugh suggests, Bane is not connected to Mitt Romney, but was introduced in January 1993 and is best known for breaking Batman's back during the Knighfall comic series. He was even played terribly by a professional wrestler in 1997's Batman & Robin. I must admit that I was worried after reading reviews about how hard it was to hear Bane speak that the movie would degenerate into a low-talking competition between Hardy and Bale. They must have fixed the audio issues, because Bane's voice is certainly loud, if not the clearest at all times. To get an idea of what Bane sounds like, imagine Bill Cosby speaking with an English accent through a Darth Vader filter. The Bane in the movie shares little with the Bane from the comics, so he might not be to the liking of the purists, but he does a decent enough job of being a moderately intelligent juggernaut, and is the main villain in the story.
Ann Hathaway dons the cat ears as Selina Kyle, better known as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. All to often, female characters are little more than Kung-Fu cliched eye candy in comic movies. Nolan avoids this with Hathaway, but barely. Instead of a hot chick in a skin-tight, black leather outfit who is one bad fall from becoming the headliner at the local furry convention, Hathaway is a hot chick in a skin-tight, black leather outfit who plays a small but important role in the overall story arc.
Plenty of old characters reprise their roles, including Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, and Michael Caine as Alfred. Some old villains even show up for this final installment. New to the mix this time are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Modine, who play the cop everyone likes to love and the cop that everyone loves to hate, respectively.
For those of you who like the military look of Nolan's Batman vehicles over the more stylized Bat-vehicles of past movies, this one does not disappoint. The Batbike gets plenty of air time, as well as multiple Batmobiles driving around the city. This time around, the Batcopter makes its debut. While I think it looks more like something the Space Marines would fly around while fighting Aliens, it is consistent with the franchise's aesthetics.
Overall, a large portion of the story reminds me of a post-apocalyptic movie, with a Gotham that has existed in anarchy for many months. There are some decent fight scenes, including a small army of mercenaries fighting thousands of police in the streets while Batman and Bane duke it out in front of City Hall. There aren't a lot of surprises, and there aren't any stand-out performances, but there isn't a lot to dislike either. This was supposed to be the last of Nolan's Batman movies, but the ending leaves the possibility of another wide open, and I would not be surprised if another was made (assuming Rises makes enough money). So many movies — comic movies in particular — degenerate quickly with each sequel, and having to exist in the shadow of Heath Ledger is a daunting task. The Dark Knight Rises does a good job of stepping out of that shadow, however, and delivers for me, the best story of the series.
This was awesome clahbpah
Are we ready for frank and open discussions of this movie yet?
Too soon
captcha: bombed
To bad heath ledger died he was real good in the last movie and should of been in this one as well.
too many guns and killings. I fear that some impressionable youth will try to imitate batman and get himself hurt. Or even worse, someone will imitate the villain and kill innocent bystanders will guns.
The government needs to step in and forbid such violent movies that glorify guns and violence. PG-13 ratings by MPAA isn't working. And guns need to be banned, period. Only military and police should have guns.
way too soon.
Is it better than Magic Mike?
I didn't like it much.
It felt like the script needed another good once-over and a trim. It's a thematic mess and takes about twice as long as it ought to to introduce the characters and (poorly, repetitively) present their motivations. Some of the delivery was pretty wooden, especially in the first half, but that may have been the result of mediocre editing (there were also a couple awkward cuts, IMO, so maybe that was it) or the piss-poor dialog. Filled with painful talking-to-the-audience exposition that's so bad it was comical—again, a writing issue.
For the entire first half I was worried that I'd walk out hating the movie, but fortunately improved somewhat, nearer the end.
The audio was poor. A fair bit of the dialog (not just Bane's) was hard to pick up. Bane sounded like he wasn't even in the same room—more like a voiceover— an effect which, it seems to me, can only be called an outright mistake on the part of the filmmakers.
The ending's OK I guess?
for Warners to make a Batman movie as good as Mask of the Phantasm
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
100 people die per day on our roads.
We cannot review cars?
And you should have been in your English classes.
And why not? It's just a movie. Do you refuse to listen to Led Zeppelin I because there's a picture of the Hindeburg on the front?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Naw, it's a great time. There's a whole other thread for you to angst in.
You want to have fewer gun crime victims? I have bad news for you, not discussing a movie because of a shooting isn't going to help. You need to make it harder for a criminal to get a gun instead. Because guns don't kill people, but people with guns kill people a lot faster than with their bare hands.
Tom Hardy is one of my favorite young British actors and I'm happy that Hollywood noticed him. I recommend watching mini-series "The Take" where he delivered probably the best performance of a criminal/sociopath I've seen lately.
And why not? It's just a movie.
There will be a time to talk about this movie as a work of entertainment or art, independent of what just happened in Colorado. I don't have an ETA on when that will be, but right now is not the time.
And when you catch the criminal, who has dyed his hair the color of the Joker, you take the criminal and you torture him for years. You beat him and cut him and bleed him to the point of death, then resuscitate him, and start over. You make every single moment of his vile worthless life an unimaginable horrific agony, over and over and over again. And then, after ten years of that, you shove him out the door into the real world to let him live with everything that he did and everything he has become.
Be American.
Make a violent movie where people shoot each other, advertise it 24/7.
Make it legal for weirdos to buy assault rifle and tear gas.
Get surprised when some weirdo shoots people at the violent movie.
But DC and Warner Bros. may find some sensitive way to respond that gets even more fans in the seats.
If any of the deceased or wounded were/is an artist or writer, they could release something as a tribute.
Otherwise they'll have to come up with something appropriate on their own. Finding some way to say Batman wouldn't let the terrorists/criminals/nutjobs win might be a tad difficult, but they'll find a way.
Saw it yesterday after the the Citrix Wow to How 3 seminar (great job on that Brad Peterson, very informative and well done presentation!). (PS: To any Slashdot geeks support Citrix, sign-up for next year to get an early preview of whatever movie is going to come out then.)
The movie was pretty good. It had a nicely flowing narrative with the main story and plenty of other side stories to keep it flowing nicely. Christian Bale performed as expected with a top notch performance, Tom Hardy did a great job as Bain showing a completely calm and serene villain standing up to anything that Batman threw at him and then outmatching him. Great performance there, hope to see more of Tom Hardy in future movies. The audio from Bain's filtered voice mask was very loud and clear and fully understandable with a very nice English accent. The mask did cover a lot of Tom Hardy's face and you really had to look down at his neck to even notice that he was actually the one talking because you can't see any movement. The performances of the other cast members were also very good with great character play.
There were of course a few plot issues and unbelievable things that you had to ignore with the police being trapped underground for 3-months and then finding out that it was only 3,000 officers. I grew up in NYC and I know that the NYPD has 36,000 officers so it was very hard to imagine so few out there in Gotham as the GPD force. That didn't jive with me. Also if you're trapped underground for 3-months without light and no access to clean water and food things don't go very well for you. Also NYC (Gotham in the movie) has so many access tunnels into the underground that it seems far fetched to be stuck down there without a way out.
Anyway, like the movie overall and am looking forward to the next set of Batman movies in the future. I don't mind this franchine being remade every few years because it attracts a lot of money from the studios and talented actors. (Heath Ledger being the most memorable, damn those Olsen twins!)
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Mate. Look up your Asperger's handbook about proper ways to deal with this situation.
Most "neurotypicals", as you call them, realise that this review is badly timed and shows insensitivity. Sure, it may not make logical sense to those with no emotional intuition, but the air needs to be cleaned about this piece of shit killer before discussing the movie. Especially as it's only been one day.
I hear the special effects in Colorado were killer.
I am so going to hell for that one.
How was the film?
Does the whole world have to stop every time some crazy person snaps? If you knew the victims, I'm sorry for your loss. I didn't, so I'm more interested in the review.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Okay so one of the theaters got shot up by an unnamed WhackADoodle killing 12 and wounding 50 (some of whom may be dead later). Life Must Go On (for those that survived).
If we downplay His Name (focus on his victims and the recovery of the wounded sure) then the next guy might not think this is a good idea.
otherwise
[putting on a green wig and purple suit] WHY SO SERIOUS???
and besides how many folks in that theature did NOT get injured??
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you where going to hell before that one, how on earth does that make a difference?
I am intrigued by your comment and wish to mail-order your Asperger's Handbook.
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"Unless you've managed to not watch anything in the past three weeks"
(This is by NO means an attack on the movies...I'm just sharing my personal experience)
I haven't had "TV" for 6 years. While I've seen advertisements for this movie online, I didn't know it was anything different than the one with Heath Ledger...becasue "Dark Knight" was used in both. I haven't seen that one and don't plan to see this one. I'm sort of shocked that I'm just now realizing that they wouldn't be advertising the one with Heath Ledger in it. I guess I just care so little about the titles that I'm only now realizing that fact.
It's actually quite amazing how the human mind works when you don't submit it to advertisements all the time. During family gatherings (Thanksgiving for example) it becomes very obvious to me the power of these advertisements, especially on TV. When everyone is watching the football game, I could care less (I'm not a sports fan) so I don't watch the TV. When a commercial comes on however, my eyes are GLUED to the TV and everyone begins talking amongst each other and ignoring it because they've seen all of them a hunder times or more.
Are you serius? because if you where serius, you would be saying that now weapons are banned in USA, but since people don't care, politicians don't care, and nobody is going to change anything, because nobody care enough about these deads to change some stupid law, and some absolutelly minor profit thing, people like these that have died will die again. And then, nobody will do anything about it. And them more people is doing to die. And Again. And Again. And nothing will change, because the tone deaf is not slashdot, is the culture of USA. Thank you, very much, I will laugh at whatever is fun, and life is a joke.
-Woof woof woof!
Not your call, but it is your choice to not talk about it...makes me wonder, why are you talking about it?
And what my dear sir, is gained by doing that? You've just become worse than the worst criminal yourself.
i suppose you never read the US constitution, specifically against cruel and unusual punishment.
It seems the dark ages where more to your liking, may i suggest you leave this life and try and get one back then,
Does the whole world have to stop every time some crazy person snaps? If you knew the victims, I'm sorry for your loss. I didn't, so I'm more interested in the review.
When you know that a particular article is tied to a recent tragedy and is likely to attract many lame attempts at humor directed at the tragedy, maybe it wouldn't hurt to wait a day or two before publishing it so friends and relatives of the victims who are searching the news for articles pertaining to the tragedy don't have to read flippant comments like "I hear the special effects in Colorado were killer", "atleast 12 people were dying to see it...", or "Yeah, it sucked watching it made me want to go out and shoot people.". Leave the infantile comments to sites like 4chan where they are expected and appreciated. Would you want to see the "funny" comments about a tragedy where you may have lost a child or friend?
That is the compassionate conservationism that bush always claimed, good job on your astounding ability to remove yourself from others feelings. I am sure you could of found a review without immortalizing your lack of compassion.
Batman is probably the biggest anti-gun superhero around. He knows the dangers. His parents were killed by a gun. And he beats the people with the guns. Does he use violence? Sure, but it's only when he has no other choice.
The anthropocene needs real news for real people.
When did this site slip so far off the radar that anyone thinks it's appropriate to use it to host a fluff piece like a new Batman movie?
I'm disgusted that this passed the smell test for Slashdot. The Anthropocene denizen, especially in those with enough intelligence to be interesed in anything tech, need a reality check. There's plenty of relevant stories about real applications with practical value, and there's plenty of need for them, worldwide.
The consumer crap world isn't hurting one bit. Take a stand and make them crawl into someone else's niche to market their garbage to people who would rather put on a bat suit and fight the imaginery demons instead of opening their eyes and taking on the ones that exist all around us.
I remember Slashdot when I could count on more interesting discussion of things that actually did matter.
I believe it's on life support now.
Psst buddy. I've got a clue for you. You know all those neat debating tricks you learned as a freshman from arguing with kids in your dorm? Forget them, you'll just be a laughingstock when you have to talk to adults.
C'mon guys... this is not hard. Twelve people dead, 50 wounded just hours ago. This is no time to talk about how fun the damn movie was.
Wh... seriously? SERIOUSLY? What, if I wasted my time with -1 posts in all the other articles made since then, would I see the same thing there, too?
"Who CARES about a unique type of chemical bond in white dwarfs? There was a SHOOTING in Colorado!"
"Why are you wasting our time with reports of 2.4 million voter records compromised? Privacy? Ontario?!? PEOPLE got SHOT!!"
"Book reviews? Who cares about books? Books are dumb! A FEW PEOPLE DIED IN AURORA ALREADY!"
"A MOVIE THEATRE! PEOPLE! DEAD! GUNS! We don't have time to discuss police impersonating people on seized smartphones! Who cares, let 'em do whatever, MY EMOTIONS ARE RUNNING WILD RIGHT NOW AND I NEED TO ACT ON THEM!!! NOOOOOWWWWWWW!"
Really. There is a time and a place to discuss is, and it was back in the other thread where we discussed this.
Oh, don't pontificate. And don't bullshit. You'd like to see this guy hogtied and chained to the trailer hitch of a pickup truck and driven around thirty times just as much as anyone.
Thank you, thank you, Slashdot...for proving me wrong. I thought you had no sense of humor. The twisted, macabre timing of this review, as well as the discussion within, have provided me with pants-pissing, falling-out-of-chair laughter. Seriously, I haven't laughed this hard in a year. You have made this Friday afternoon all the more sweet. I will be checking up on this review later, with gusto. I never thought you had it in you.
-- Ethanol-fueled
If you can't write a review without spoilers, why bother?
I hear the special effects in Colorado were killer.
I am so going to hell for that one.
You aren't the only one.
What can be "new and exciting" in yet another Batman movie, I wonder...
Spoiler alert: The alien bursts out of Batman's chest and kills Bane as his first victim :-)
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I am a I suspect a borderline nutjob, I don't empathize with people in general and I have never felt what most people would classify and deep emotions myself. I have never felt any kind of fear at all and I have done a lot to try to experience it. however I am fascinated by people who do and is one of the reason's why I enjoy movies so much. Had I been at this theater this man would have been dead by my hand if I survived the first burst of fire. I go every where armed with blades or a gun. This guy would would be dead at my hand simple as that, not because I give a shit about the people around me but because he interfered with my movie going experience. It is remotely possible he would kill me instead but I doubt it. If more people took responsibility for there own safety by arming themselves events like this simply not happen or the headlines would read more like "Maniac brandishes weapon briefly before being gunned down by movie goers"
Could have been worse... you could have been watching this movie with James E. Holmes...
See CNN's coverage of someone who took the film a little too seriously, it seems...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
No, we're acting like the world has come to an end because one lunatic committed a heinous crime. We need to stop living in a climate of unnecessary fear. I've read stuff on twitter today where people are saying things like "Who knew there were so many crazies out there?" There aren't so many. There was one. In a country with 300 million people. One. Others saying what a terrible world it is where you can't even go to the movies in safety. You can. Nearly everyone did. Nearly everyone does, every day.
This is not to say this wasn't a heinous crime. It was.
It's not to say this isn't a horrible tragedy for anyone who knew the victims. It was.
It's not to say we don't all share their sadness. We do. Well, most of us do. I do. I considered seeing this movie last night. I've taken my kids to midnight shows. As they say, there but for the grace of God go I.
It is to say we need to continue living our lives. It's entirely inappropriate to make jokes about the shooting. It's fine to like the movie, and it's fine to talk about the movie.
This is the Internet. It's never too soon.
Fuck man, we were making 9/11 jokes by lunchtime.
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"Oh, don't pontificate. And don't bullshit. You'd like to see this guy hogtied and chained to the trailer hitch of a pickup truck and driven around thirty times just as much as anyone."
No, actually most of us here are not vengeance-loving redneck morons like you.
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Most "neurotypicals", as you call them, realise that this review is badly timed and shows insensitivity. Sure, it may not make logical sense to those with no emotional intuition, but the air needs to be cleaned about this piece of shit killer before discussing the movie. Especially as it's only been one day.
And once the "air is clean", people with "emotional intuition" will find a review here that, quite conveniently, has already been written. Or to put in other words, the time period in which this review will be useful to people without emotional baggage (many years) will be much longer than the period in which overly touchy (*) people will bicker, so why wait?
. . . . . .
(*) Some of us, i.e. so-called "people without emotional intuition", do in fact realize that those who haven't been there actually aren't hurt that much to be offended by this - unless they are oversensitive - and that those who *were* actually present at the massacre couldn't care less whether someone writes a review on an obscure site they will most likely never visit, since they're damaged regardless.
Ezekiel 23:20
Now is not the time to troll. I don't when it will be the time to troll so why don't you hold off until I let you know.
This time it's not approved by the Film Board and lacked the certifications of MPAA & RIAA... ... ... ... ...
In Soviet America movies shoot you!
Dude, everyone's going to Hell. Didn't you get the memo?
There's only like three people in Heaven. Sitting around all day on a cloud singing songs?
BO-RING!
Come on down and party in Hell!
Sure, you're dancing on a coal! But at least you're dancing!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Mass shooting at the Batman opening at an Aurora, CO, theater. 12 killed, 59 wounded. "Police say Holmes, 24, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the Century 16 theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene." He apparently thought he was the Joker. He's in custody, and bomb squads are disarming the booby traps in his apartment.
Weapons were provided by Bass Pro Shop in Denver and Gander Mountain Guns (sale on assault rifles this week!).
I thought he was about to have a conversation with the characters from Peanuts.
The Joker's performance this time round should snag Heath Ledger another post-humus Acadamy Award (quite an accomplishment all things considered).
Also slashdot is mostly pro-guns. So I would advise you to avoid slashdot until gun nuts are under control.
And I would like a source for the statements "He apparently thought he was the Joker" and "disarming the booby traps in his apartment".
Most "neurotypicals", as you call them, realise that this review is badly timed and shows insensitivity.
Huh? Do you really think nobody is going to go see Batman this weekend out of some sort of twisted feeling of moral obligation to societal guilt?
Plenty of people will appropriately separate the movie from the atrocity and go see it because they've been wanting to.
Actually, if I were WB, I'd pledge all of Sunday's profits to a victims' fund, just to keep the ball rolling.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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I knew nobody who died in 9/11. So I said fuck it... let's go to the movies.
No, we're acting like the world has come to an end because one lunatic committed a heinous crime. We need to stop living in a climate of unnecessary fear. I've read stuff on twitter today where people are saying things like "Who knew there were so many crazies out there?" There aren't so many. There was one. In a country with 300 million people. One. Others saying what a terrible world it is where you can't even go to the movies in safety. You can. Nearly everyone did. Nearly everyone does, every day.
This is not to say this wasn't a heinous crime. It was.
It's not to say this isn't a horrible tragedy for anyone who knew the victims. It was.
It's not to say we don't all share their sadness. We do. Well, most of us do. I do. I considered seeing this movie last night. I've taken my kids to midnight shows. As they say, there but for the grace of God go I.
It is to say we need to continue living our lives.
For sure. When stuff like this stops being a major story then we'll have a problem. Even in countries i'd be too terrified to visit mass shootings still make the news. I think the fact that this stuff happens so rarely means we are doing something right.
It's entirely inappropriate to make jokes about the shooting. It's fine to like the movie, and it's fine to talk about the movie.
It's a terrible thing that happened. Making jokes is one way that people deal with it. Making the joke in front of someone directly affected by the issue would be inappropriate, but otherwise it's just one of the ways people cope with stuff like this and stop the unnecessary worry that could drive further people insane.
I would like a source for the statements "He apparently thought he was the Joker" and "disarming the booby traps in his apartment".
CNN: "The suspect in the mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater screening of the new Batman film early Friday had colored his hair red and told police he was "the Joker," according to a federal law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation."
Denver Post via Mercury News -- "Aurora shooting suspect left apartment "booby trapped," music blaring": "Oates said Holmes made a statement to officers about possible explosives in his home. That prompted police to evacuate five buildings nearby and begin searching his third-floor apartment using a police robot and camera attached to a long pole. Inside, officers found trip wires attached to 1-liter plastic bottles that contain an unknown substance. Police Chief Dan Oates said the explosive devices were "pretty sophisticated." "We could be here for days," he said at midday."
It was well shot apparently.
At least it didn't mention that.
Probably because I made it up of course.
I believe a most difficult man to provoke.
And yet the shooter would be "dead at your hand", not because you care about anybody else, but simply because he interrupted your film going experience?
The problem with psychopaths is A) that they don't realize how broken they are, and B) they manipulate at every opportunity as a function of their basic existence.
I misread your post and for a moment thought you meant asking Frank Miller for his opinion.
Just the thought of what that lunatic's comments might be made me want to gag.
I dont understand this logic. Where you trying to punish yourselves by not going to the movies? Or where you trying to help someone who was affected by 9/11. Or where you trying to help prevent another 9/11? If not why would you not go to the movies?
Use poison to attack poison, use evil to fight evil.
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Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
I like getting the dead tree in the mail for I get to see what the world was like yesterday. In the review of the Dark Knight Rises in the WSJ the last line in the article, which was written and printed before the Colorado incident is, "Happy days are done and gone."
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Thanks at least for Walpole paraphrase. Learned something new.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Agreed. As much as I loath his actions I do not wish him harm. He had probably endured a great deal of suffering up to that point. Not to say he will not or should not be dealt with, it is just that it is strange to genuinely feel like you want to do this to anyone.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Grow up.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Hatta, your mom is calling! Your chocolate cake and cheetos are ready. She's waiting at the top of the basement steps.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Paid posters apparently have no shame :(
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Oh yeah, I`m sure he`ll be a MODEL citizen after that... Abuse can do strange things to a person, and frequently turns them into an abuser.
First of all, don't call people mate if they are not your friends.
Second, don't assume someone who doesn't share your view of mandatory empathy has Asperger's.
Most people can discuss a movie and not let a tragic event control their life or prevent them from enjoying something they have been waiting for.
Asshat.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
I'm autistic. Autism has no inherent relation to lack of empathic response.
Psychopaths don't feel at all, and so don't express it. We feel, but we generally don't know how to express it in ways which are consistent with social norms, and so end up offending/upsetting people as a result.
There's a big difference.
Personally i thought the movie was to die for.
Why bother with the postage when you can simply e-mail the guide (or at least the link): http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aspies_Book
Of all of the content on Wikimedia projects, this one is certainly something to really look at. I'd dare you to even try and make an edit on the page as well (although the author likely has moved on to something else.... but you are warned!)
Ah, the self-righteous defender of all that is noble and proper by lecturing others about how to socialize on the blogs. Welcome!
When you're done with your self-imposed vicarious victimhood, I sincerely hope you enjoy the movie.
Then again, something like 300 people died today in Syria, and I'm sure there'll be more tomorrow, so, remain vigilante against anyone having any fun.
Concern troll somewhere else. Those messages are going to show up whether Slashdot runs this review or not. Assholes will be assholes wherever they're able to be assholes. A voluntary moratorium on movie reviews isn't going to do anything other than stop people from reading movie reviews.
What'd y'all think of the Lazaras Pit?
The only thing worth seeing at the moment? when I eventually see it i'm guessing it wont live up to the hype.
At the end of Batman Begins, Zsasz (Tim Booth) was shown walking out of the opened jail, and is (for all we know) still at large, doing unspeakable things to the children of Gotham. Won't somebody think of the children?
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There, I've just summed up every Batman movie ever.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
and cut down on the blood and screams. Jeez, I could hardly hear my cell.
All 'emotional intuition' means is intuition about how neurotypicals think and feel. You're in the majority, does that make your thoughts and feelings automatically more correct? The review is badly timed in the opinion of neurotypicals. 40,000 people die of starvation and poverty every day. Perhaps we shouldn't review restaurants either. I mean, it's too soon, right?
For Nolan, Gotham City looks like one of those maps of LA or NY that shows the rest of the World as being about the same size. Some dude is in Hong Kong that has information you need, that's like a day trip for Batman. If you were to squeeze the events going on globally into a city, and scale down the wars being fought, it would be just like a Batman movie.
I have lived in 5 countries and visited even more. In every single placed I've lived and visited, there were bad parts of town you knew were not safe and even the good parts of town were not always safe. My Dad missed an IRA pub bombing by about an hour, when he caught an earlier train to get home. When we lived in Greece, there was a coup. In Belgium, 5 of my friends lost their Dads and it seemed suspicious to the rest of us. I don't have any illusions of safety anywhere.
What I don't understand is how this guy was able to walk out and back into an emergency exit. I don't understand how he was able to go to his car and retrieve everything without someone seeing him. If someone had closed the door behind him, this might be a totally different story.
Like the TSA fiasco, we will do the stupidest thing possible in response.
You have just repeated the same mistake that liberals have been making since the 60's, that somehow making it harder for criminals to get guns is going to affect this. First, he wasn't a criminal until he did this. Second, there are over 250 million guns in American society, so trying to prevent access to them is about like trying to prevent access to acorns in an oak forest. Not happening.
The REAL way to keep this from happening is EXACTLY the opposite. What you do is to make it EASIER for the LAW ABIDING to have guns, esp. carry them in public. A friend of mine's son is an ex Army Ranger, and absolutely deadly. Had he been there with a weapon, this guy would have been very unlikely to have gotten off a second shot. And myself, I learned from qualifying to go to Iraq last fall as a civilian sci/tech support to the Army, that I'm not a half-bad shot myself, and would have at least tried. Get people shooting back at this creep and it'd be all over in a couple seconds, like the 71 year old man that recently took out the robbers in the internet cafe. Self defense with a firearm works best.
Yea, I saw Batman there and he was running from the fake gunman like a pussy. Shorter than I expected..
Fuck man, we were making 9/11 jokes by lunchtime.
Lunchtime? I started before the second tower fell...
Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money.They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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If one stops, maybe one can reflect on why things happen. I don't know any of the victims. However as I have an ounce of empathy I can realise the tragedy that it is.
I have nothing against guns myself... but picture yourself there:
Dark theater, loud sounds from the movie itself is playing, smoke suddenly appears out of nowhere, then someone dressed up like a good percentage of the other patrons starts going on a rampage.
Now people are panicking, you still can't see shit and aren't sure what's going on, and your response is to whip out your firearm out your firearm and start shooting in a room full of innocents. Puh-leeeze...
But isn't a tragedy about some inevitable fate such as Oedipus fucking his mother and then becomes blind as a punishment, whereas this shooting could have been easily prevented by investigating why an ordinary guy needs to purchase 4 guns and 6000 rounds of amunition within 60 days?
I don't know why I keep coming here, holy shit. MOVIE REVIEWS? And not for something like Primer which everyone may not know about, but for a superhero movie that the whole goddamn world is going to see. I have an idea, let's take it further off-topic all talk about how people got shot at a theater that was playing this movie and the merits of gun control! I guess next I'll go and comment on some YouTube videos
Well at least he wasn't purchasing illegal narcotics.
If you don't have a shot, then you don't have a shot, and you don't fire. But if you can identify the target, then you take it out. Nobody that knows what they're doing fires wildly.
Before the second tower fell? We started before the planes even took off!
So if the city has no crime and police continually appear to be obsolete, when the fighting breaks out how do they suddenly have thousands of police officers fighting in the streets? Yeah, it's a movie, it's a fantasy, realism goes out the window and then Michael Bay shows up...
Besides, I heard the movie was to die for.
The arch foe.
There's only like three people in Heaven.
Didn't they say it's 144k?
Only catch is, they're all Jews...
I realize it's a tragedy. I nonetheless have not stopped living my life because of it.
This movie reminded me a lot of Akira (the manga, not the anime). It's going to be very difficult for the live action Akira to get made now, as it would have to be at least this good.
Fuck the MPAA, and those who watch and promote this movie giving them fuel.
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