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Permalink Reply by Mr. E on March 20, 2012 at 4:38pm

"the shot of the Joker running off into a parked SUV from Wayne's penthouse was cut out"

Dam, they REALLY should've left that one in, because the scene is retarded in the movie without that. Hell, even with it, it doesn't answer why Batman would just let him go, but at least there would be SOME kind of logical closure to what happened there.

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Permalink Reply by J. Moriarty on March 20, 2012 at 4:55pm

It most likely was a time decision. Although it makes me wonder why Nolan hasn't released a director's cut of The Dark Knight or Batman Begins yet.

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Permalink Reply by PvtSnafu on March 20, 2012 at 7:23pm

@Mr. Erreebus

EXACTLY!

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Permalink Reply by Mr. E on March 21, 2012 at 2:21am

All very valid reasons, but with length, I don't think another minute would've hurt, especially since the resolution to that scene was the biggest head scratcher in the film for me as I was sitting in the theater.

I would've rather seen some slightly awkward pacing that at least put some kind of reasonable spin on the situation, then have it just end as abruptly and un-fulfilling as it did in the actual film. Hell, just having you mention that this additional scene was even filmed makes me feel at least some what better about it.

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Permalink Reply by Arthur on March 20, 2012 at 5:49pm

nolan repeatedly stated that everything we see in film is almost everything they shot. there is not 10-minutes of deleted scenes from TDK

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Permalink Reply by Cthulhu R'lyeh on March 21, 2012 at 2:18am

Sounds more like Cronenberg.

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Permalink Reply by DHood90 on March 21, 2012 at 8:47am

It wouldn't make sense business wise. Theaters will want constant patrons coming in and that means more movie rooms to open up. A four hour film would simply take too much space in the sense that while it would be a crowd draw, theaters would only have maybe one-two rooms showing that and they can't kick out the other movies they're showing or they'd piss off the distributors. A two hr and half movie would allow more showing times and that in turn gets a steady flow of patrons coming in rather than have one group every four and a half hours to see the movie, leave, rewind the film, and clean up the seating area.

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Permalink Reply by Cthulhu R'lyeh on March 21, 2012 at 10:53am

It ain't about the amount of footage taken. It's about the coverage. 

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Permalink Reply by Dominick on March 22, 2012 at 8:55pm

Hell, the original Avengers cut was 3 hours! We can only hope for a Direcotr's Cut edition.

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Permalink Reply by Whos Yo Daddy on April 13, 2013 at 3:34am

That would have been awesome but Rises is still a near perfect film.

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