The Dark Knight Rises was one of the best movies I've seen in my life.
No spoilers ahead.
It is not what you expect of a superhero film. It's not a story of a superhero.
It's a story about a fight much bigger than that.
I will blog more about the film's plot and characters more next time after more of you watch the film, but for now I'll just tell you why you should watch it.
The cast was incredibly strong since Batman Begins. But this finale to the trilogy by Nolan pushed the actors and gave them such a good script to work with that the range of emotions they could portray was incredible. The movie was no simple popcorn action flick, but something much deeper than that, because the actors were given the space to explore their characters, and they did that with such finesse.
Plot wise, this movie was so strong. I greatly feared for this movie after the successes of the first 2. How do you possibly top a brilliant psychopath that Ledger played? But Nolan pulled it off by shifting from a psychological maniac to a more sociological revolutionist. Now there are bigger things at play than just the 2 masked characters fighting like in every other movie.
The movie fit so perfectly into the other two that it felt like it was planned from the start to end this way; The 3rd film references the first 2, starting exactly where the second ended and picking up the pace from there. The last time I saw something this consistent was The Lord of the Rings, in which all 3 films were filmed back to back. This film was not planned for until long after the second movie was done, and that just shows the genius of Christopher Nolan.
This movie is worth a re-watching, unlike The Avengers, which was fun, but didn't make you think much.
And one more thing...
No spoilers ahead.
It is not what you expect of a superhero film. It's not a story of a superhero.
It's a story about a fight much bigger than that.
I will blog more about the film's plot and characters more next time after more of you watch the film, but for now I'll just tell you why you should watch it.
The cast was incredibly strong since Batman Begins. But this finale to the trilogy by Nolan pushed the actors and gave them such a good script to work with that the range of emotions they could portray was incredible. The movie was no simple popcorn action flick, but something much deeper than that, because the actors were given the space to explore their characters, and they did that with such finesse.
Plot wise, this movie was so strong. I greatly feared for this movie after the successes of the first 2. How do you possibly top a brilliant psychopath that Ledger played? But Nolan pulled it off by shifting from a psychological maniac to a more sociological revolutionist. Now there are bigger things at play than just the 2 masked characters fighting like in every other movie.
The movie fit so perfectly into the other two that it felt like it was planned from the start to end this way; The 3rd film references the first 2, starting exactly where the second ended and picking up the pace from there. The last time I saw something this consistent was The Lord of the Rings, in which all 3 films were filmed back to back. This film was not planned for until long after the second movie was done, and that just shows the genius of Christopher Nolan.
This movie is worth a re-watching, unlike The Avengers, which was fun, but didn't make you think much.
And one more thing...
Cat Woman > Black Widow
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