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Permalink Reply by Jvegi on July 19, 2012 at 1:00pm

Travis, you magnificent bastard.

Should I listen to it, or should I wait? It's still 8 days for me... Nah, I'll listen.

Permalink Reply by Mr. E on July 19, 2012 at 2:05pm

@ Trav - You're fucking AMAZING as usual. :-)

Nice non-spoilery review guys. Had a screening of Batman Begins at my house on Monday, and everyone is coming over again tonight to watch TDK, and we all have tickets to the 6:20 showing tomorrow. Can't wait. :-)

Permalink Reply by Mr. E on July 19, 2012 at 4:11pm

On my 2nd listen of the review, and I missed this the first time.

The new Tag Line on any of the promo's they release now should be:

"11 ELEPHANT DICKS OUT OF 4 PEPPERS." Says Porter of NQP. (Said in deep serious announcer voice with Hans Zimmer music blaring over it.) :-)

Permalink Reply by The Humungus on July 20, 2012 at 12:07am

It'll come up after Roger Ebert's summary ; )

Permalink Reply by PvtSnafu on July 19, 2012 at 4:23pm

Bane: "a hipster college student lifting weights."

Now you've given me all kind of thoughts now.

Permalink Reply by Travis Pickle on July 19, 2012 at 5:19pm

Oh so tempting... but I really canny do it!!!

off to watch Batman Begins with a big bowl of coco-pops

;)

Permalink Reply by PoopaPapaPalpatine on July 19, 2012 at 8:13pm

I agree, fellas. I think I can take Tom Hardy.

Permalink Reply by The Humungus on July 20, 2012 at 12:06am

Wear him down with your Walken voice, then melt his head off with your Brennan-death-stare? ; )

Permalink Reply by PoopaPapaPalpatine on July 20, 2012 at 12:37am

That's how you get 'em. Earn their trust with your charisma, get them to underestimate you...

Then, you show them your power...

WAM BAMMY WOWIE ZOWIE!

Permalink Reply by Scrump Bolymeux on July 19, 2012 at 11:12pm

Yeah I had the exact reaction as Paul when hearing Banes voice in the opening scene having been so used to hearing his voice in the Ghost Protocol prologue. His voice in the film sounded so flamboyant in his inflections that I was a little worried. Not gonna lie, there were points where I wasn't too sure what Bane said, or I'd have to register in my head right after he said something (like you guys said, there were many points I couldn't hear what certain characters said). 

Regardless Hardy was excellent, his voice really did boom our theatre and he really did look like a tank. He had an animalistic ferociousness when he fought which I liked, so quick at killing people. Really reminded me of The Dark Knight Returns' Mutant Leader. In fact, and I might get slaughtered for saying this... but this film kinda made Knight's Joker fiasco kind of irrelevant in terms of purpose, scale, threat. I'd say that Joker planted the idea of madness and Bane actually pulled it off, but Bane's intention harkens back to Begins, so essentially Joker was just an interloper to the series; which I suppose was the point.

Really liked Catwoman, lots of fun and stole the scenes she was in. Nothing we haven't seen before in the Batman lore but she was more of a character I could get behind than the Returns one, as iconic as she is.

Not sure what else to say. I'm pretty much on the same page as you boys.

Oh, and these two are totaly twins.

Permalink Reply by The Humungus on July 20, 2012 at 12:04am

"...this film kinda made Knight's Joker fiasco kind of irrelevant in terms of purpose, scale, threat. I'd say that Joker planted the idea of madness and Bane actually pulled it off..." - right there with you mate.  Like I said in the review, it was my interpretation that the Joker did what he did for his own gratification, for the sheer joy he got out of corrupting good and honest people, where as Bane is still operating under the M.O. of the League Of Shadows, despite having been excommunicated by Ra's.  The Joker got close, but Bane turned Gotham into Snake Plissken's New York!

One thing I didn't mention in the review was that I fucking loved when Batman first fractures Bane's mask; the way he lashes out like a wounded Lion, as if the pain starting to rise up in him somehow makes him stronger, if only for a few seconds.

And I gotta disagree on Burn Gorman.  That guy is Willem Dafoe's lovechild...

Permalink Reply by PoopaPapaPalpatine on July 20, 2012 at 12:20am

No, no, no. Burn Gorman is somehow a middle of this kid and this guy.

Also, what was the image that Funny Junk was supposed to lead to? I just got redirected to the front page.

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