You're forgetting that the entire Nolan Batman franchise is marked by ridiculous vocal choices.indecks wrote:lol no.dsheinem wrote:Bane was a far better villain than Liam Neeson.indecks wrote:lol bane sucked SO bad. I mean SO bad.
The voice: failure
The mask: failure
His plan (I hate the League of Shadows but ima do exactly what they planned and lead them to - oh wait im just a henchman): failure
The rest of the movie was ok at best. But Bane specifically, failure.
Ra's was a far better villain in general. Neeson played Ra's pretty well to boot. Bane was a joke and followed Ra's daughter. He was a simple henchman, he couldn't even come up with his own plan. He wasn't a leader. The whole film sets him up to be 'the guy' that all these henchies are afraid to cross, when in reality, he's just a shift supervisor.
And I mean seriously. Seriously, that voice should have been caught, made fun of and tossed out as soon as Hardy tried it out in front of Nolan. If I were Nolan, I'd have said "Hey Tom, look, I know you used that voice in Wuthering Heights, and somehow it kinda sorta worked? But not here. Bane is supposed to be menacing. Not a mumbler. And first off, Bane's Mexican. So if nothing else, try to throw a bit of a spanish accent into your characterization. We don't need the Bloobidy Bloobidy thing you're trying. We're trying to make a serious movie here."
Am I the only one that thought we did get some kind of Bane back story? I don't know what it is supposed to be from the comics or anything, but I felt that I knew enough about him from the flashbacks to understand his motivations and his relationship to the true antagonist. I'm not sure what else you wanted. It was probably equally as silly as the Neeson "real Ra's" misdirection nonsense in Begins. At leas Bane felt like a comic book villain.
