The Dark Knight Rises

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

I thought this movie was anti-conservative because Bane is a homophone for Bain Capital, the financial company Mitt Romney founded. /Limbaugh

He didn't actually say that, did he?

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Professor S

He didn't actually say that, did he?

He did. He really did.

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Professor S

He didn't actually say that, did he?

Here you go

[Bond]

I just saw this movie, so please pardon the late comments.

Let's not take a comment from Rush Limbaugh seriously. He is a buffoon.

As far as where the trilogy sides on debates over terrorism, occupy wall street, etc. I think it's actually quite an evenhanded approach. And due to that evenhandedness, it's possible for either side to see what it wants. Nolan's creation is amorphous, if you will. But that's just my best guess.

Example: Lucius Fox is reluctant to monitor the cellphone sonar system Wayne concocted (I believe he calls it "too much power for one man") in the Dark Knight Returns. But Fox uses it, and via its capabilities, Batman is able to apprehend the Joker. Of course, Wayne triggered the system with a self-destruct mechanism once Fox entered his name. Did Fox or Wayne enjoy or revel in the system? I don't think so, but they saw it as a necessary evil in a time of crisis. Do the ends justify the means? It seems as though Nolan points to yes, but I think it's open for debate ... some of those "necessary evil" choices come back to haunt the characters in Rises.

[Fox 6]

This just really didnt feel like a batman movie as much as the other 2 tho. It seemed more of a Superman or James Bond plot. I mean Nuclear bomb? Where is oddjob?

[Teuthida]

Still have yet to see it, but the previous two didn't feel like Batman movies to me, so I can't help but wonder what I'll think of this one. Maybe it will be so far removed I'll be able to enjoy it as a James Bond movie. Then again, not the biggest Bond fan.

Does he do any detective-ing in this one? That's one of my mine gripes (other than the voice) in the others. He's basically a soldier dressed like a bat rather than the world's greatest detective.

[Ginkasa]

That's really a problem with most of Batman's mass media appearances. Heck, he hardly really acts like a detective in a lot of the comics as well. The problem, really, is that he doesn't investigate "mundane" like murder or drug rings or whatever in the movies since they have to be bigger than that. Supervillains typically aren't played as so subtle that "detectiving" would be necessary.