The Dark Knight Rises - 1.5 out of 5 stars. Too much lame, over-egged dialogue. Too much music. Too much CGI. Too long, even though it is supposed to depict about 5 months of story time. Could barely understand a word the villain was saying. Two female supporting characters, neither of which got their kit off. Literally the most underwhelming movie I’ve seen in years.
Basically, if you took Waterworld and turned it into a Batman movie, you’d get The Dark Knight Rises. Do NOT pay to see this movie. I didn’t.
It was fucking awful.
I was surprised to see that the guy who directed the movie was a producer in two of my favorite shows of all time, Lost and Alias.
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The scene where all the supernatural creatures are freed from their cages is hilariously bad. It’s so bad that it’s good and then becomes bad again.
Very silly action comedy about Nazis hiding out on the Dark Side of the Moon who are then co-opted as part of a presidential re-election campaign. As you can imagine, it doesn’t end particularly well, but it is very funny in a lot of places and it includes a sexy young female Nazi.
Surprisingly bad. Awful script, pretty awful acting, lots of Commies getting blown up. Would be an amusing satire on US hypocrisy over ‘terrorism’, except that it isn’t a satire, it’s a military propaganda film.
Me and my basketball team started to watch that movie one time (before I knew how relevant it would be in the future) and we all hated it too, turning it off quickly. Still, I commend whatever coach of ours had the balls to put it on.
Probably. It is part of the reason I watched the original, I want to see how it differs from the remake.
Possibly, I have heard people outlining some scenarios which I think are moderately plausible but the optimist in me says it won’t happen soon. I can see a controlled political revolution happening in the US, which might look a lot like Red Dawn.
Amusing thriller about a guy in smalltown America who turns out to be a gangster trying to escape his former life. Very violent in places, darkly funny, bit of an underwritten script but rattles along very quickly. Highly enjoyable.