>> |
No. 34547
Tom Hardy's Bane, oh my fucking god! I can't even... I can't deal.
He's hilarious! Broke the fuck out of my immersion in the movie, but I was laughing too hard to care. He sounded like some sort of cross between Doctor Orpheus, a Muppet, and a pro wrestler acting out Macbeth. It was amazing. And his eyes! I don't know how, but Tom Hardy managed to somehow overact with his eyes even more than his voice, which was about 20 decibels higher than everything else in the movie, except for maybe the music.
This is an on-going problem in most, if not all, Nolan movies, though. He tries to use the music to sort of punctuate and enhance the moment, but he does it by turning it up way louder than it needs to, and it drowns out everything else.
Bale's Batman voice is still terrible, but I've gotten better at deciphering it, and they did less of him yelling in that voice, which is good since the the yelling exacerbates the problem. Hardy Bane was more intelligible, but still got harder to understand when he was yelling.
I had heard Hathaway was supposed to be amazing in this movie, but I didn't see that. She kinda felt bored and annoyed in every single fucking scene, and I was bored and annoyed by it. The one time I thought she was really good was in the scene where she gets the cops to bust in after her employers stiffed her. I wasn't feeling any of the romance between Bruce and either Talia or Selina at any point in the movie.
Also, Tom Hardy's performance, to me, was even funnier once I realized that Bane's character was probably high on painkillers all the goddamn time, due to the mask pumping him with them all the time. It made some of those cheesy fucking lines better.
I felt like they took away a lot of interesting things about Bane so David S. Goyer could shoe in more of his hateboner for the Occupy Movement by having Bane be the "I have weaponized your lower class!" guy and making his origin Talia's. However, I dunno, I also kinda liked that Talia was the one that climbed out, I guess? Either way, I prefer Bane being born in a really messed up Super-Max prison in South America and breaking out. Making him a member of the League of Shadows also took away the revelation that he knew Batman was Bruce Wayne as we already knew that the LoS already knew Bruce was Batman in Batman Begins. Of course, as I mentioned before, that voice was silly as hell.
I liked Joseph Gordon Levitt being Nolan-verse Robin, since I called that shit months ago. I didn't like that we hardly see Batman in this movie, but then again, I was kind of okay with that, since that meant I didn't have to watch Bale growl like a mentally ill Metal singer. Also, the mask of the Batman costume STILL bugs me. I think it's the nose.
Also, is it just me, or shouldn't Jim Gordon have realized who Batman was sooner? Like, I thought he figured out in Dark Knight when Wayne smashed into the patrol car to save them, but he just didn't say anything, or he at least he figured out during the eight years since Dark knight and was being coy about it by saying "He was the Batman!" Nope. Turns out he didn't realize it until Bruce talked about the coat thing from when Jim was a beat cop and I was like "Really? Really dude? C'mon Jim, you should have known by now." Also, I was surprised he remembered giving Bruce the coat in the first place. This annoyed me so much since Blake figured it out in like five seconds. Also, Selina not realizing was kind of weird, but easier to let go, all things considered.
I was also concerned that a nuclear bomb that big, blowing up THAT close to the City would have a larger blast radius and encompass at least SOME of the city. There's also the fallout to consider, and the fact that the bay is now irradiated. No one else seemed concerned.
At some point in the movie, I just accepted that this wasn't really a Batman movie, and it was another Nolan flick, which made it easier to enjoy, but it's still hard to overlook all the flaws. I liked the ending, even if my friend wish they hadn't actually shown Bruce and just showed Alfred smiling to be a little more ambiguous, but I'm pretty alrigfht with Alfred at least getting the closure in that Bruce ends up alright in the end, just like he always wanted. I liked especially since Alfred is gone for like, 90% of the goddamn movie. I like that Blake takes on the Bat-Mantle too.
It was a little dumb that Wayne Enterprises kept all that military stuff instead of scrapping it due to not wanting anyone to get their hands on it. Same thing with the Fission generator. It kind of bugged me that, after it was finished, Bruce read an article that said "This totally could be turned into a bomb." and he didn't really consider that before, despite the thing running on nuclear power.
All in all, a decent action movie, but a rather poor Batman film, which is how I felt about the other Nolan Batman movies, so there wasn't any real drop in quality. The Superman trailer before the movie was at least cool.
|