The Dark Knight Rises

[Fignuts]

I don't know, I've seen jacked dudes crack concrete pillars in tons of action movies.

Besides, martial artists break concrete all the time, and this character was trained by the deadliest assassins in the world. It's not like he smashed it to pieces, he just broke a piece off.

As for lifting the dude up with just his upper body, yeah, I'll give you that, but that's still just nit picking at that point. I just assumed the just over exaggerated his strength a little bit in that scene. Super powers never crossed my mind.

[The Mackem]

Originally Posted by Fignuts I don't know, I've seen jacked dudes crack concrete pillars in tons of action movies. Besides, martial artists break concrete all the time, and this character was trained by the deadliest assassins in the world. It's not like he smashed it to pieces, he just broke a piece off. As for lifting the dude up with just his upper body, yeah, I'll give you that, but that's still just nit picking at that point. I just assumed the just over exaggerated his strength a little bit in that scene. Super powers never crossed my mind.

Originally Posted by Fignuts Have no idea what the Mackem is talking about in regards to Bane's strength. Nothing he did in the movie seemed superhuman.

The strength was played up. There is something I've really misinterpreted from Bane's first physical altercations on the plane and killing Daggett because I got that super human strength impression early doors and carried it with me through the film and then outside.

The way the flashbacks were going I thought there was going to be a reveal over his strength because he seemingly went from normal but compassionate thug in prison to some super powerful guy with a mask. Just felt cheated out of an explanation. The villains from the other films didn't need this as there were no flashbacks into their characters origins. Also they didn't (in my limited assessments) have characteristics that were beyond mental issues.

That bit about his mask passed me by because it seemed to be fast paced when they were explaining. I didn't catch anything past, the prison doctors fixed him up and he has a mask.

I had no prior knowledge of Bane and I don't know how much of this is people calling on prior knowledge and how much of it is what I have missed in the film. I'll end up re-watching at a later date just to see what it was that has 'thrown me'.