this is the first film iv went actively looking for IMAX screens and theres none over here ........GREAT!!:mad:
I really wanna see it opening weekend but Its gonna be so jammers might give it a week if I seen this film next to a gang of teens messing about on mobiles+having a laugh ill be so so pissed!!!!:D this is the BIG ONE!!:D
Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) one of thee biggest critics in America gave it 3.5 out of 4. He gives around 2 or 3 four star reviews a year so still an outstanding score.
Review -
Audiences will be arguing forever about director Christopher Nolan's capper to his Batman trilogy. Want to bitch? Start with the reactionary politics and that franchisefeeder of an ending. But the sheer scope of Nolan's vision – with emotion and spectacle thundering across the screen – is staggering. The Dark Knight Rises is the King Daddy of summer movie epics. For nearly three hours, Nolan juggles themes that took root in 2005's Batman Begins and reached doomsday perfection in 2008's The Dark Knight with the late Heath Ledger's masterful, Oscar- winning performance as the Joker.
The director and his coscreenwriter, brother Jonathan Nolan, pick up the story eight years after Batman (Christian Bale) took the rap for DA Harvey Dent. It was Dent who died going psycho as the evil Two- Face, but Commissioner Gordon (the reliably superb Gary Oldman) persuaded Batman to take the blame as an impetus for severe new crime laws in Gotham. This new era of crimebusting is built on lies, which is hell on Batman's alter ego, playboy Bruce Wayne, who's been living like a hermit in luxury – all his bat toys banished.
The final chapter in the Dark Knight saga allows Bale to move deeply into Bruce/Batman's troubled soul. Bale, up to every challenge in a tough role, gives a hypnotic, haunting performance.
What brings Batman out of his shell and back into his bat suit? It starts with his attraction to Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), a cat burglar who teases Bruce wickedly while hiding a secret agenda. Hathaway – sexy, scrappy and fast with put-downs – is dynamite as Catwoman, bringing welcome humor to a movie about to be enveloped in darkness.
And no one is darker than Bane (Tom Hardy), a battering ram of a villain, his face covered by a grille that feeds him medicine to alleviate pain he's suffered from childhood. Hardy's face is covered for 99.9 percent of the film, but his physical and vocal performance is riveting. It's Bane who initiates the attack against Gotham and the stock exchange. Is Nolan equating the legit protest of Occupy Wall Street with Bane's terrorism? You be the judge.
There's no denying the visual pow of the film, more than half of which was shot with IMAX cameras. From the opening skyjacking to the blowing up of a football field and a nerveshattering prison break, the film shakes you hard and often.
Bruce/Batman finds support in butler Alfred (Michael Caine) and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), who builds all those wonderful bat gadgets. And beautiful philanthropist Miranda Tate (the remarkable Marion Cotillard) and idealistic young cop John Blake (a sensationally good Joseph Gordon- Levitt) spring surprises no one sees coming. I can't say more without spoilers, but a refresher in Batman Begins, the League of Shadows and evil genius Ra's al Ghul really helps. Otherwise, just let The Dark Knight Rises propel you into Nolan's carefully wrought maze. You may have to fight yourself out. But a movie this potent and provocative is well worth the battle.
I have seen the film already, and I'm sworn to secrecy. But I will say this: It was an anxiety filled experience. My heart was racing throughout much of those two and a half hours.
And yet, gruff, gritty and gothic though it is, TDKR may bring a lump to your throat that isn't popcorn-related. Its chief summer challenger Avengers Assemble may have bigger zingers, but this has one thing Whedon missed: emotional engagement; a genuine sense of jeopardy; deepening human drama. (OK, three things.)
From its "wow" opening to an ending we can't reveal, "The Dark Knight Rises" is spectacular filmmaking.
It may be early to throw out the word Oscar, but this film is like hitting a grand slam and throwing a no-hitter in the same game.
It was Dent who died going psycho as the evil Two- Face, but Commissioner Gordon (the reliably superb Gary Oldman) persuaded Batman to take the blame as an impetus for severe new crime laws in Gotham.
Batman persuaded Gordon to let him take the blame. It wasn't Gordon's idea.
Hell, I'd say that anyone forecasting serious Oscar love for this lumpish, tedious film has been smoking too much of that potent, prescription California weed
The Dark Knight Rises, an audience too young to have been born, let alone old enough to read (or willing to read, for that matter), when the Bane storyline first surfaced in print.
Jeez great and completely fair review there :rolleyes:
I think I've just been spoiled on the ending. Was reading the DS review, then went to the user comments below and someone said something. Hope they were just trolling
I think I've just been spoiled on the ending. Was reading the DS review, then went to the user comments below and someone said something. Hope they were just trolling
Don't read full blown reviews. They are bound to spoil you, even if not intentionally. DS is the worst for this.
By far the most annoying thing is that critics are saying "Bane/The film isn't good cause it doens't have Ledger" its almost like they fail to realise Begins also didn't have Ledger.
I'm slightly annoyed...just got sent tickets to see it wednesday night from See Film First...and I only paid for my tickets for friday a couple of hours ago.
I'm slightly annoyed...just got sent tickets to see it wednesday night from See Film First...and I only paid for my tickets for friday a couple of hours ago.
I think i'm going to keep away from this thread for the next few days. I'm starting to get worried as i may not be able to watch TDKR on Friday when it's released and i fear peeps will come on here and give everything away!
Comments
BB remains my favorite, but then I'm a sucker for a good origins story, and BB is as good as there's ever been.
I thought theres one in Dublin
http://www.fandango.com/regalhaciendacrossingsstadium2026imax_aaopk/theaterpage?date=7/19/2012
that would be
Dublin, California:D
Ah no way!!
But...
Wikipedia lists one for Ireland
Dublin - Odeon Point Village, Docklands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_venues
TDK has the better villain, but BB is the better film.
Review -
Anyways...canno believe we are THIS close
Batman persuaded Gordon to let him take the blame. It wasn't Gordon's idea.
Jeez great and completely fair review there :rolleyes:
Don't read full blown reviews. They are bound to spoil you, even if not intentionally. DS is the worst for this.
I guess I could see it twice though...
I was shocked.
Thats what im intending to do
How could you???????
Happenend to me