Nolan Batman #3: The Dark Knight Rises

[Gold Samurai]

Goodbye statement from Nolan

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=92842&offset=20

Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.

The End

 

[StriderXXX]

to all the TDKR Haters....at least there are no Bat Nipples...:rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[Dr Kain]

I saw it. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the second movie.

Well that was to be expected. Anyone that went in expecting it to top TDK would have been disappointed.

With that said, I agree with you. I thought it was great, but it is like Return of the Jedi in that it is heavily flawed, but still excellent and a great ending to the series.

Sort of off topic, but what trailers were shown?

A LOT of garbage. We had that awful looking Neighborhood Watch movie that shows you all the best scenes in the trailer. Then there was a trailer for Man of Steel that did nothing to even tell you about the movie. On the other hand, that new Denzel movie looks interesting, but it is Denzel, and he does not make bad movies. Oh, another piece of **** Will Ferrel movie and the new Bourne movie which looks worse with each new trailer.

I'm just happy I never have to deal with The Savages trailer anymore, because I was really getting annoyed at seeing that.

 

[Dr Kain]

I loved that it had Talia! That I thought was fantastic. Great twist that did some cred to the Batman mythos.

My problem is, I knew Marion was Talia the moment they casted her in the movie. Even though they did not say she was Talia, just knowing the Batman mythos and that this was going to feature the League of Shadows stated such. Nolan would have been a fool to not put Talia in the movie. My issue is that Talia is supposed to be the true love of Bruce, not Selina, so I was a little disappointed with the way they handled her.

But that was another problem. I felt Avengers and John Carter were better at things I love most, like world building.

I'll agree it was not better than Avengers, but John Carter is one of the worst movies I have seen this year, and I have seen some really horrific movies this year (Underworld Awakening, Ghost Rider, Abe Lincoln, Dark Shadows).

I want a Batman where Etrigan could be around the corner, where Killer Croc could be waiting. I want the Batman from the last two video games, basically. The Detective, the world, and the fun.

I wanted an excellent set of Batman movies and that is what Nolan gave me. Plus, he gave us characters that were obscure. I mean, in all three movies, we have had:

Batman
Alfred
Fox
Gordon
Flask
Loeb
Scarecrow
Ras'al Ghul
Talia
Mr Zasz
Falconi
Maroni
Two-Face
Catwoman
Holly
Dagget
Joker
Bane

I'm surprised Nolan did not sneak Thorne and Sionis into the serie.

When WB reboots the series, they can do a more comic book-like world, but they are going to have A LOT of work ahead of them, because they have to top this trilogy as a whole, and if anything else, they have to find a way to top The Dark Knight.

I will say, the main thing I was disappointed with in this movie was that there was too much action and not enough detective work.

 

[musashi03]

I will say, the main thing I was disappointed with in this movie was that there was too much action and not enough detective work.

To be fair, almost all of the Batman movies had the same level of detective work... Using the supercomputer to figure out something LOL. I guess Nolan just wanted it to be emotionally engaging rather than mentally. Perhaps the next reboot will do so, hopefully.

 

[StriderXXX]

This...

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[Kivat]

Saw that earlier today...the total is that bad. It's kind of cheap, to be honest. His grappling hook launcher looks like a real version of BeetBuster's Morphin Blaster.

Sorry, disregard the Sentai talk. lol

 

[musashi03]

Fan made, but still awesome.

"Robin" John Blake as Nightwing

 

[Kivat]

Not bad, just proof that he would indeed dawn the suit nicely.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Everyone is following that custom look

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