The Dark Knight Rises

[Kalyx triaD]

Originally Posted by The Mackem Bane looked like he had some sort of power in his hands, nothing in the flashback suggested a reason why he was so strong which made me think I either missed something in Bane's dialogue (which was really in and out for me at times in terms of audibility) or I just over analysed those early scenes. Did he have super strength, was it explained in the film? I feel like I missed something big there.

Nah, he's just a beast like that.

Maybe underestimating the lifetime of the tech that Bruce Wayne already had. I just assumed replacement parts and maintencance would be quite expensive for somebody without a job.

Lucious Fox isn't going to charge him for protecting Gotham.

That scene on the ice was bizarre. The henchman even showed a degree of sympathy with the guy that had been exiled, it just didn't come across well. I know Bane didn't care either way and more than likely wanted him dead whenever but why not just kill him when he killed his boss. I don't recall him re-appearing in between those two scenes. If there was a spare 'good' character lying around, it would have made more sense to me personally.

Like I said, just a scene to show how fucked up things got.

It was a good film and I enjoyed your point earlier about how it made the other two films make more sense but at times I felt the film on it's own lacked the completeness of the other two as stand alones. Maybe that's more of a result of being the film that rounds off the series. Speaking of rounding things off, I wasn't a big fan of the last scenes sho0wing brief 'this is what happened after moments'. In a long film it came across as rushed, there you go extras which is why that thing with Alfred annoys me slightly. One moment he is bawling his eyes out the next he's in Florence.

Fairly certain there's been some passive of time between each epilogue scene, perhaps into weeks. And Alfred didn't look like the happiest man on Earth. Bruce in fact did. lol

[The Mackem]

Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD Nah, he's just a beast like that. Lucious Fox isn't going to charge him for protecting Gotham. Like I said, just a scene to show how fucked up things got. Fairly certain there's been some passive of time between each epilogue scene, perhaps into weeks. And Alfred didn't look like the happiest man on Earth. Bruce in fact did. lol

Bane was a good character. He did seem to possess ridiculous strength that wasn't really addressed and I actually thought there was some sort of device behind him early in the film. I mean I get you can just say he was just abnormally strong but it was off the richter scale strong. The rest of the series didn't seem to have that sort of implasuibility behind a villain's character make up. I liked the twist with Miranda yet thought it harmed the build up that had went into Bane the character up until that point.

Blake isn't going to control his own destiny and he doesn't have a job to finance his own crusade. I guess I don't like that development. What if Fox dies, loses control of the board or goes insane? Just, hate those quick scenes at the end, regardless of how much time passes. Alfred one I indicated is the worst for me though.

To add to that river scene, something else I wasn't fond of was Foley's redemption of sort (my thought in brackets). He comes to the fight (yay), dead (oh, well, doesn't really matter).

Maybe some of it means more to Batman fans that know a bit more of the backstory. I didn't get these sort of reactions to the other two, though.