Greetings Movie Lovers and Movie Makers! This month we will be discussing "The Dark Knight Rises". I loved this movie. It is no "The Dark Knight" (2008) which was perfectly made but it does its job as a finale and closing movie. Jack "The Film Lover" says... I am a Batman fan. I loved it from Adam West to Tim Burton's "Batman" (1989). Has it been that long already?! There have been tons of Batman movies as well as TV shows and they are all good in their own way. From Adam West to the animated series I use to watch from 1992 to 1995. They all have their own little spice to them. It's like trying to argue which is the best pizza Italy's or New York's. It's all taste and there are different pizzas and Batmans for everyone's taste! What a great world! There are a bunch of little Easter eggs and treats for the batman fan in this movie. From surprise characters to throw backs even returning cast members from previous films. This movie is a fun ride, with mixed emotions and lots of stress. "The Dark Knight Rises" is the end of a great trilogy and sometimes that's a little hard to swallow. That's why this movie has been criticized by some. It's hard to understand that you can close a story and finish it just right. Going into details will spoil the film for you but you have to remember that Bruce Wayne is a human with no super powers. The movie had to end the way it did. Jack "The Filmmaker" says
When you make a trilogy there are rules to follow. One of the rules is to treat all three movies as one, with a first, second and third act. In the first film you are introduced to the characters (boring). Second you create havoc and put them in horrible places, which is awesome. Third you close it all and end it with a bang which causes sadness, joy and tons of other mixed feelings. "Batman Begins" showed you that Batman can be real and someone can train and build costumes and armor for such an undertaking as becoming a super hero. "The Dark Knight" showed you what a sequel should show you. Everything falling apart around the beloved characters we all learned to love from the first film (Think about "Empire Strikes Back"). The Dark Knight Rises" closes the trilogy in great fashion. Bane was awesome! Aside from sounding a little bit like Sean Connery, he was maniacal, and very tactical. He was no thug, having a plan since the first scene and he was smart. Also to point out one of the best beginning sequences ever! I am not going to say Michelle Pfeiffer is the one and only Catwoman but I AM going to say that her Catwoman WAS Catwoman! Anne Hathaway's character was a Catwoman type of a thief in this movie but not the Catwoman she could have been. Then again, you wouldn't have the ending you got. So in actuality she was the prefect, (see what I did there?), Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's Batman universe. Jack "The Parent" says
The movie is rated PG-13 and well you know how I feel about the rating scale. I think as a parent we all individually need to judge movies ourselves. The whole ripping the heart out of a man's chest and casting him to the fire scene in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" only got that film a PG and if it was released today it would have been R. Be that as it may, there are some dark issues in "The Dark Knight Rises" so keep it 13
Review of The Dark Knight Rises
