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prfsnl_gmr wrote:

AppleQueso wrote:

BoringSupreez wrote:This Is Spinal Tap
Not overrated. So much of the comedy rings true.

It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

I love that movie so much.

Yep, good stuff.

"But this knob goes to 11."

indecks wrote:

Retrodude wrote:

BurningDoom wrote:Nonetheless, that was a stupid move and Bane should have been more than a blithering idiot like he was.

What are you talking about? Odd choice of accent aside, Dark Knight Rises did a great job with Bane. He was every bit the mad genius he should've been and I thought the way they connected him to the main villain was very well done and added a bit more depth to the character (and this is coming from a huge Batman fan, mind you). If you wanna complain about how Bane was in Batman And Robin, go right ahead, but Dark Knight Rises was a vast improvement in that regard.

Dark Knight Rises Bane wasn't a genius. He was a henchman/thug that was following orders.

Mask: wrong
Ethnicity/Accent: wrong
Origin: wrong
Modus Operandi: wrong

Guy was a henchman. Say whatever you want about 'taking Gotham hostage' blah blah blah. He was following orders. He's no better than:



Except ol' Two Ton 21 is way more menacing, and productive.

Yeah, count me in with the people who hated Bane. I see him as a joke character. It's fun to try and imitate that voice of his for comedy because I couldn't take him seriously at all. I have a lot of issues with Dark Knight Rises. It's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination, but Bane and Catwoman really sucked. At least with Catwoman, they were being true to her character. She's a bitch in the comics and is a bitch in the movie. What they did with Bane was ridiculous though. If they weren't going to do comic book Bane, at least go with something similar to what they did in Batman the Animated Series. The best part of the movie was Talia, who could have been a villain on par with Ledger's The Joker is they had built the movie around her.

The trilogy peaked with the second film, much like Raimi's Spider-Man and X-Men. Three is becoming an unlucky number for comic book trilogies.

^ Again, when I made the blithering idiot comment, I was talking about Bane in Batman and Robin. I didn't mind Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, but it still was the weakest of the 3 Nolan films.

BurningDoom wrote:^ Again, when I made the blithering idiot comment, I was talking about Bane in Batman and Robin. I didn't mind Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, but it still was the weakest of the 3 Nolan films.

I wasn't really addressing your comments specifically with regards to Bane, just the other ones made about Dark Knight Rises.

Seems we agree about it being the weakest of the trilogy though

HARVEY

Hate to admit it, but I'd never seen this classic until this weekend. I might have watched a bit of it when I was a kid, but I didn't remember any of it, thankfully. It really was thoroughly enjoyable.


THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Always a pleasure. I do love Seven Samurai more, naturally but Yul Brynner is always awesome as Chris. My favorite scene in the film is very minor, but it kinda shows how much of a modest badass Chris is. The salesman asks him "Where are you from?" and he points behind him. Then he asks "And where ya headed?" and he just points ahead of him all without saying a word. It's just awesome!

A pretty adequate crime thriller. Makes me wish more games like LA Noire were made.

indecks wrote:HARVEY

God on you. I know HARVEY doesn't have the same impact on everyone, but it is the first movie that taught me it's okay to have emotions for fictional characters. The movie is a complete marvel, and really drives home Ebert's point of (paraphrased) "Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions never lie".

I watched The Full Monty last night. I can't believe I never saw it before, I loved it! I didn't recognize Mark Addy (aka Game of Thrones' Robert Baratheon) until the very end.

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Ok I saw Olympus Has Fallen

I'm a fan of Antoine Fuqua's films and this was just another good one. I'll be seeing IM3 next as I saw the other 2, so I'ma gonna stay away from this thread till I do