Dear "Batman Voice" haters, It's a microphone in his cowl for crying out loud! That is why Batman's voice sounds like that, alright? It's so people can't hear his voice, do a sound recognition thingy on it, and figure out who he is. Okay?! Get it? Got it? Good. Now lets talk about things that actually don't make any sense at all, like the The Dark Knight Rises, which features a bat-plane without wings (see above), a nuclear bomb without a radiation fall-out, a villainous twist that made zero sense, and a Batman that travels around the world faster than Superman at the end of his 1979 big screen debut. Then there's the moment where the movie replaces Batman with something that looks like a mall store mannequin, and has his back 'broken' despite the maneuver looking like a good way to fix a crick in the small of your back. Yeah if by this point in the movie you didn't realize all was not well in the state of Denmark, you may need to get a better map. When Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman mythos, he focused on a realistic world with realistic characters, and dark, gritty, undertones. Supernatural elements were limited, and most things that happened in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are...plausible, if not a little over-the-top. More over, despite being a 'super hero' movie, the best moments in The Dark Knight involve character drama, and not action - save that incredible chase sequence. The Joker turning Harvey Dent via his words. Joker escaping from the Gotham Jail, the final showdown between Dent, Gordon, and Batman. All of these moments could hypothetically be done in any crime or noir film or hell, Shakespearean tragedy, and that's what made the movies so good - they were, more-or-less, realistic and believable across the dramatic and action movie elements. For The Dark Knight Rises to largely disregard this plausibility felt like a batarang to the gut. The movie raises so many questions about what's actually happening in the film, and violates the laws of physics in so many ways, that you can't help but question every single element of the movie as it occurs, like how Batman got halfway across the world at the end of the movie, the aforementioned bomb stuff, how exactly, every cop in Gotham got trapped underground, and countless more you can surely share in the comments section. And again, it'd be easy to forgive some of these, but the movie brought this on itself by being deliberately 'dark' and 'gritty' and 'grounded in reality' in the prior two movies. Ultimately The Dark Knight Rises betrayed itself. It wasn't a bombastic superhero movie, it wasn't a gritty noir, and it certainly wasn't The Dark Knight. What it was, was....strange, caught in an uncanny valley of 'realistic' visuals with thoroughly impossible happenings surrounding them. Oh, and Mr. Nolan? Do you know how annoying it is to talk about these movies now? "Did you see The Dark Knight?" "Which one?" "The second one," "The second Dark Knight? Rises?" "No, the one with the joker," "The second one," "No, the first Dark Knight," "But it's the second movie in the series," "Yes," "What about it?" "I forgot,"
Yeah if by this point in the movie you didn't realize all was not well in the state of Denmark, you may need to get a better map. When Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman mythos, he focused on a realistic world with realistic characters, and dark, gritty, undertones. Supernatural elements were limited, and most things that happened in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are...plausible, if not a little over-the-top. More over, despite being a 'super hero' movie, the best moments in The Dark Knight involve character drama, and not action - save that incredible chase sequence. The Joker turning Harvey Dent via his words. Joker escaping from the Gotham Jail, the final showdown between Dent, Gordon, and Batman. All of these moments could hypothetically be done in any crime or noir film or hell, Shakespearean tragedy, and that's what made the movies so good - they were, more-or-less, realistic and believable across the dramatic and action movie elements. For The Dark Knight Rises to largely disregard this plausibility felt like a batarang to the gut. The movie raises so many questions about what's actually happening in the film, and violates the laws of physics in so many ways, that you can't help but question every single element of the movie as it occurs, like how Batman got halfway across the world at the end of the movie, the aforementioned bomb stuff, how exactly, every cop in Gotham got trapped underground, and countless more you can surely share in the comments section. And again, it'd be easy to forgive some of these, but the movie brought this on itself by being deliberately 'dark' and 'gritty' and 'grounded in reality' in the prior two movies. Ultimately The Dark Knight Rises betrayed itself. It wasn't a bombastic superhero movie, it wasn't a gritty noir, and it certainly wasn't The Dark Knight. What it was, was....strange, caught in an uncanny valley of 'realistic' visuals with thoroughly impossible happenings surrounding them. Oh, and Mr. Nolan? Do you know how annoying it is to talk about these movies now? "Did you see The Dark Knight?" "Which one?" "The second one," "The second Dark Knight? Rises?" "No, the one with the joker," "The second one," "No, the first Dark Knight," "But it's the second movie in the series," "Yes," "What about it?" "I forgot,"