Topic: The Dark Knight Rises with SPOILERS

[TJ Spyke]

Yes it was. Even if "based on a true story" take liberties, it still is based on true things.

Saw TDKR yesterday, really liked it. Not as good as TDK, but much better than BB.

[BranDonk Kong]

Dark Knight Rises - still #1 at the box office. Pretty impressive, all things considered. At 3 weekends it's only 10% behind Dark Knight's 3 weekend total.

[ThePerm]

in the future i hope to turn this into a scary ass movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWSxLU0ME8

[UncleBob]

An hour long lecture that puts you to sleep?

[ThePerm]

they touch a little bit on it on slther....

[BlackNMild2k1]

Hollywood has no original ideas?

Schindler's List
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
District 9
Poltergeist
Halloween (the original John Carpenter version)
Ridley Scott's Alien
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
The Fifth Element
The Matrix
Fern Gully
James Cameron's Avatar
Brad Bird's The Iron Giant
Pretty much everything Pixar makes
The Simpsons
South Park

Hollywood has no original ideas?
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

As much as I love Blade Runner, it was based upon a very successful novel. It could also be argued that The Fifth Element was taken directly from a Heavy Metal short and that The Matrix is little more than an amalgamation of various anime sources. Also, most of the "original" films you list were made decades ago. :

Wasn't Schlinder's list based on a true story?

and don't forget that Avatar wasn't so original either





Even stole the name of a far superior Nickelodeon series that preceded it by atleast 3 years.

[Chozo Ghost]

Dark Knight Rises - still #1 at the box office. Pretty impressive, all things considered. At 3 weekends it's only 10% behind Dark Knight's 3 weekend total.

If by "all things considered" you are referring to that shooting, its possible that did more to help it than hurt it... because it put it on the news and everyone was talking about it. They say there's no such thing as bad press, and that's true.... also look at Chick-Fil-A and they are having record sales now because of that controversy. Whether people love them or hate them, they are talking about them and hearing about them so it ends up being a good thing for them.

[BranDonk Kong]

Chic Fil-A thing is in no way comparable to what happened in Colorado, whatsoever. The shooting did not help the box office - it may not have hurt it THAT much, but at the very least it did not help.

[ThePerm]

I never liked Chick-fil-A to begin with. The only thing I ever liked form them was their waffle fries. Their main chicken sandwiches aren't any better than McDonalds and they're more expensive. They have annoyed me on multiple occasions. One of them I was just wanting a chicken sandwich really bad, so i drove up through the drive through, only to be greeted with a sign explaining that because of magic people they can't be open on Sundays. I was ugh. So, I went to El Pollo Loco to get some chicken from a place with sanity. I wrote a scene in one of my screenplays about it, but now this....I won't be eating there for like 10 years.

[Chozo Ghost]

Yep, they are closed on Sundays. But if that makes them nuts, what about the Post Office and every other government thing? They are closed on Sundays as well. It all comes down to religion, because Sunday is the Sabbath and you aren't supposed to work then. That is a little more excusable in the case of Chick-Fil-A which is a private business and they can do what they want, but what about the government? There's supposed to be a separation of church and state, right? So we should be able to send and receive our mail on Sundays. The government shouldn't celebrate the Sabbath. They are supposed to be separate from religion.

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

Finally watched The Dark Knight Rises yesterday. Won't go into too much analysis, as I am about to go out, but I will commend it as an entertaining action film and a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. The theme of the Batman being a multi-faceted symbol rather than the typical preternatural superhero that's portrayed in so many films really came to a head in this final chapter. Furthermore, I am so happy that Catwoman and Bane both meshed as well as they did with this style, because I went in thinking that neither of them (based on my very limited knowledge of DC Comics) seemed like a good fit for this grittier take on the Batman universe. But they totally work, so kudos to Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy for pulling their respective roles off. Although I will say that I never really figured out what Hardy was going for with the voice - the accent doesn't seem to settle anywhere from what I could tell and occasionally, his responses felt kind of incomprehensible (not in terms of not being able to hear him, but in terms of not understanding what he was talking about.)

I still like The Dark Knight more, though I don't know anything in this film could have topped my view of The Joker in that film. Regardless, there aren't really any better reasons to go to the cinema this summer, so you owe it to yourself to check out TDKR.

[ThePerm]

I think the post office should be open on Sundays. There are plenty of people willing to work on Sundays.  I hear talk they will close on Saturdays too. That seems like it would terribly back up mail and make the mail situation even worse. During the 90s postal workers were shooting people, thankfully the rise of the internet has made that decline. Want your mail to get some place faster? Your best bet is to mail it Wednesday, or Thursday. Those are the days with the least amount of crossover from the backup days. If you mail something cross country and you don't pay extra for express delivery don't mail it on Friday, it'll take 2 more days to get there then it should.
Sunday shouldn't take the country hostage. Anyways, though I think we should veer off from this discussion. It is too close to religious, or political for these forums and has little to do with TDKR.

[Morari]

and don't forget that Avatar wasn't so original either

I've never seen it before. It essentially looked like Dances with Wolves though.

[BranDonk Kong]

Chic Fil-A sandwiches are light years ahead of any other (besides maybe Hardees) fast food chicken sandwich for many reasons - the way it is cooked, the fact that it is prepared in-house, where the chicken comes from, etc. This belongs in the fast food thread though.

[oohhboy]

Avatar committed the Ultimate Sin in cinema for me. It bored me. Even bad movies have some level of engagement or fun factor because of how bad they are as you internally riff trax them. The obviousness of how James Cameron was attempting to pull the emotional strings was insulting. They spent years developing a planet, yet the whole exercise came off mostly pointless as the whole movie felt like a single biome planet. Cartoon villains with equally cartoon combat. Flat characters with one played by Hollywood's most hopelessly overvalued and boring actors, Sam Worthington.

As for gay marriage, I am not sure what's the fuss it about. This will sound exactly like a comedy routine, but if Gay people want to be at miserable as other married people, so let them. It's a choice that has zero negative impact to anybody else. With all the extra marriages, you would think people would welcomes the extra business either way. Think of it as an economic stimulus(ation).

[ThePerm]

Chic Fil-A sandwiches are light years ahead of any other (besides maybe Hardees) fast food chicken sandwich for many reasons - the way it is cooked, the fact that it is prepared in-house, where the chicken comes from, etc. This belongs in the fast food thread though.

Maybe where you live, around here it really is mediocre. My favorite is Popeyes though.

and actually now that i remeber it wasn't El Pollo Loco that I went to instead, it was Pollo Feliz

[ShyGuy]

WHAT IS THIS GAY CHICKEN TALK IN MY THREAD BATMAN SHOULD KICK YOUR TEETH IN AND THROW YOU OFF A BUILDING

Dirty Soviet Communists tried to screw with the length of the week and it failed horribly. one day of rest after six days of work seems to fit with our biological system. Take Mondays off, I don't care.

[Oblivion]

Even stole the name of a far superior Nickelodeon series that preceded it by atleast 3 years.

YES.

[Oblivion]

Avatar committed the Ultimate Sin in cinema for me. It bored me.

What did you think of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?

[ThePerm]

the reason why weeks are 7 days is because a month is between 28 and 31 days. If you take 28 and divide that by 4 you get 7.

I was going to make my own calender that had 30 day months and then every 4 years was a leap month that was 3 weeks or 21 days long. The months would have 28 days where they would follow they typical week calender, but at the end of the month there would be a 2 day holiday. Those days would have to have different names though. Unlike the regular calender the days wouldn't shift year to year. I'm thinking Eightsday Ninesday. The olympics are every 4 years. So it would be ideal to have the leap month in the summer. They wouldn't follow the moon very well though, but they don't really do now.

[Chozo Ghost]

Actually, the word AVATAR was invented by the Hindus. Their usage predates Nickelodeon by thousands of years, so James Cameron didn't steal ****... at least not from Nickelodeon anyway.

Avatar committed the Ultimate Sin in cinema for me. It bored me.

What did you think of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?

I read the books like 5 years before the movies came out, and that fatass Peter Jackson changed everything and turned it into a dumbed down action flick just like he did with King Kong and every other single thing he does. He's as bad as Michael Bay.

[ShyGuy]

MODS LOCK THIS THREAD BEFORE I BREAK MY ONE RULE

[TJ Spyke]

King Kong was not a bad movie, nor was the first LOTR (the only one i've seen.

[Chozo Ghost]

King Kong was not a bad movie, nor was the first LOTR (the only one i've seen.

I didn't say it was a bad movie per se. But it deviates from the book and the vision of the author (Tolkien). If you've ever read the book you would understand. Entire chapters were ripped out for the sake of trying to cram it all in a 2 hour movie. Where was that whole thing with the Barrow Wight? Where was Tom Bombadil and the whole chapter about that? Alot of things like this were stripped out, and then to add insult to injury he went and gave some of Tom Bombadil's lines to Treebeard.

[TJ Spyke]

It was actually 3 hours long, and EVERY book turned into a movie or TV show has things changed because they need to be changed to be adapted to that form of media. Even if they wanted to put everything in, it probably would have made the movie 4-5 hours long, and even 3 was pushing it. I think it still maintained the vision of Tolkien. I think Tolkien was aware of the idea of books being changed for movies and TV to have stuff like pacing fit better.