Posted on 07/21/2012 6:39:37 PM PDT by Bratch
From a purely cinematic standpoint, director/co-writer Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" is a genuine masterpiece. Actually, it's a triumph.
Surpassing the extraordinary hype and expectations surrounding the conclusion to his epic trilogy seemed impossible, and yet somehow Nolan achieved just that. The fact that I'm even debating whether or not "Rises" surpasses its perfect predecessor speaks volumes. Without giving anything away -- without telling you if it's tragic or happy or bitter or sweet -- let me just say that the final few minutes of "Rises" represent one of the most intensely satisfying movie moments of my life.
And beyond filmmaking skills that will surely place him among the all-time greats, what kind of crystal ball does Nolan have access to that gives him the prescient power to begin a project years ago that upon delivery would be as timely and relevant as the latest refresh of the Drudge Report? "Rises" is about many things, but it is mostly about a rousing defense of an America under siege by a demagogue disguising his nihilistic rage and thirst for revenge and power as a noble quest for equality.
Sound familiar?
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I have not been a big fan of these Batman movies but did you get the point they they were the bad guys in the movie? How can it be a recruitment for the Occupy crowd when they were portrayed as evil and the end result of their ideology which sounded so good in words but in action was on the lines of the French Revolution? Not to mention they were just the tools being used for another person’s agenda.
The original 1930-1940s batman was dark - at one point he packed heat for an issue or two. It wasn’t until the 50s that he got campy which is what the tv show was based on. Starting in the late 60s/early 70s and increasingly through the 80s and 90s he returned to his “dark knight” / avenger roots through a number of writers/artists including Neal Adams, Frank Miller, and Jeph Loeb. It’s a much more human character than the campy fair by far.
I preferred Batman over Superman--I thought he was more of a he-man. Unlike Superman, Batman had no love life and never showed emotion.
Batman may have lacked Superman's super powers, but the Man of Steel owed his life to him. In 1958, I was at a barber shop where I saw a comic book featuring a story in which Superman was in mortal peril--bad guys in a space ship had sprayed him with a green goo that was fatal to him, but to no one else. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to finish the story. About half a century later, I found out how Superman got out of that scrape--Batman came to the rescue!
However, I quickly lost interest in Batman after he swapped his big and powerful Batmobile for a wimpy compact. A few years later, I was told by a comic book fan that Batman went liberal--he was fighting "social injustice' in lieu of crime. I never found out if that was true, but given the media's bias, I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
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Exactly. Revolution from the left ends in mass murder and chaos. Self destructive.
People seemed to have missed the point. Even the Catwoman character becomes disgusted with the revolution.
Seems very in line with Tea Party. Government bailouts for Wall Street and average people pay for it. That’s not capitalism.
Ever see John Wayne in "The Searchers"?
“Infantilization of culture.”
Produced by the Culture of Narcissism.
It what every "Final Solution" grows from
I give up. Rashomon was a masterpiece. Bergman and Truffaut made masterpieces, as did Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder. Here we have childish comic book melodramas with actors dressed in homosexuality suggesting costumes, no better than professional wrestling matches, and certainly not as humourous, hailed as masterpieces.
I don’t know about masterpiece. I liked it, but it was too busy. Batman’s emotional journey had too many steps. Really the movie should have gone with an Empire Strikes Back-esque ending when Bane won. Then Batman comes back in the fourth movie. Retired and depressed, to back in the game, to defeated, to renewed, to {spoiler} is just too many beats for one character in one movie. None of the phases had time to breath and be invested in by the audience. It’s good but much like Spiderman 3 was trying too hard to put too many bows on, this kept it from the greatness of its predecessors.
You do realize that was the bad guy that labeled all the rich people evil and FORCED the masses to “revolt” under threat of blowing them up. Usually positions the bad guys take are the opposite of the message of the story.
1986, the year Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns (with Batman) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen started. And Frank was really bringing back the truly original Batman, in the early days of the comics he regularly broke spines and even shot bad guys, he was a mean nasty person.
Yup....I agree. We are amusing ourselves to death in this culture. We have millions of middle aged “men” in this country dressed like children....wearing team colors & baseball caps. They read comic books & worship cartoons. And, they think movies like this are conservative. Masterpieces even. Several of these grown idiots that work with us take personal days off if their team is playing a big game. Look at American civic culture from the 1950s, and look at it today.....
It isn’t THAT bad...there is something epic about this trilogy even if it is spawned by comics of the 30s - there wasn’t “dumbing down” yet so even the comics back then had more actual gravitas and vision than much of the current literary fiction. I just read the O.Henry/Pen award short stories for last year and they for the most part were crap. I think I found only 1 that seemed decent. O.Henry (William Porter) must be rolling in his grave from all the pc garbage being awarded in his honor.
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We Are In Obama’s Dark Night !
Are you aware that Barack Hussein Obama can be found in the Bible?
Proverbs 19:10 (NIV): “It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury - how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!”
Also Proverbs 30:22 (NIV) which says that the earth cannot bear up under “a servant who becomes king.”
And Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 (KJV) advises: “let thy words be few...a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.”
Although Obama is not descended from slaves, he may feel that he’s destined to become a black-slavery avenger.
Or maybe an enslaver of all free citizens!
For some stunning info on Obama and his fellow subversives, Google “Imam Bloomberg’s Sharia Mosque,” “Michelle Obama’s Allah-day,” “Obama Supports Public Depravity,” “David Letterman’s Hate Etc.,” “Un-Americans Fight Franklin Graham” and also “Sandra Bernhard, Larry David, Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman.” Also Google “Islam will purify Jews and Christians” and “Prof. F. N. Lee’s ISLAM IN THE BIBLE [PDF].”
PS - Since Christians are commanded to ask God to send severe judgment on persons who commit and support the worst forms of evil (see I Cor. 5 and note “taken away”), Christians everywhere should constantly pray that the Lord will soon “take away” or at least overthrow all US leaders who continue to sear their conscience and arrogantly trample the God-given rights of the majority including the rights of the unborn. Do we need a second American Revolution?
PPS - For a rare look at the 182-year-old endtime belief which has long neutralized millions of American patriots by promising them an “imminent rapture” off earth - which has diverted them away from being prepared to stand against all enemies, domestic as well as foreign - Google “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty,” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards,” “Edward Irving is Unnerving,” “Pretrib Rapture Secrets,” “Christ’s Return is NOT Imminent,” “Roots of Warlike Christian Zionism” and “Pretrib Rapture Politics” - all by the author of the bestselling nonfiction book “The Rapture Plot” (the most accurate and highly endorsed documentation on the pretrib rapture’s long-covered-up-but-now-revealed beginnings in Britain in 1830 - see Armageddon Books).
I can only recommend the truly incredible and virtually unknown John Burnside, plus Charlotte Rogan’s The Lifeboat, D.J. Taylor, Michael Cox, Dan Vyleta, all of them current literary fiction, and none related to the likes of Tom Wolfe’s contemptible literary Three Stooges, and other New Yorker favorites. I’m quite literally buried in books of excellent current literary fiction waiting to be read and there are more on the way from Amazon. It ain’t so bad. Oh, the latest Julian Barnes is perty good as well. Started reading Luke Williams.
"Camp" as used to describe the TV Batman series does not mean gay. It means exaggerated and self parodying.
The movie Blazing Saddles is an example of "High Camp" humor, while the "French Mistake" scene was both camp in the gay sense in its content and high camp in its presentation.
Bendy, you were in the business. Back me up on this.
“I give up. Rashomon was a masterpiece. “
When someone tries to establish their cine-aesthete bonafides by playing the hoary old “Rashomon was a masterpiece” card, well... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I bet you haven’t even seen it. When you pin ‘em down and ASK, most of the people who beat the Rashomon drum haven’t. It’s unwatchable. Interesting idea. Terrible movie. The End.
I bet you haven’t read anything besides children’s comics. Back atcha! Two can play the game.
I would rather read “Archie & Jughead” Digest than sit through “Rashomon” again.
And if you had actually seen it, so would you.
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