Has anyone gotten out to see this?
I saw it last night and had mixed feelings about it.

For starters, while it is 2hrs 40min I enjoyed my time watching it for the most part.

Batman vs. Bane round 1 was an absolutely brutal fight. I thought it was filmed fantastically with Catwoman looking on like "oh fuck, this shit just go real" and Bane's henchmen standing around impassively. Also, did you notice there is absolutely no score at this point in the movie? It's just the sound of two dudes beating the shit out of each other. really well done.

I even thought Bane worked pretty well as portrayed and I didn't think I'd like him at all.

What I didn't like:
-the fucking bat-cycle. It defies explanation (and physics) why this thing exists. So lame.
-the fucking bat-plane. Oh. My. God. Were they contractually obligated to introduce progressively lamer vehicles to this series? because mission afuckingcomplished.
-Bane's plan. The entirety of his plan was pointless. Was he trying to make a political statement? or blow up Gotham? It seemed like he was trying to have it both ways.
-Batman. Seriously, Batman never gets chumped this hard. I don't mean physically necessarily, but to not see the "twist" coming? To have no back up plan? and I don't think I've ever seen Batman get the shit kicked out of him and respond with simply, "let's try that again"
-Which brings me to the end... so Batman literally gets broken by Bane, to the point where his spine is poking out his back... rehabs in a prison with no real medical assistance... does pushups, pullups and situps for, let's say 3 months, and returns and his plan is to... fight Bane again? Stupid. and then, to have him saved by a missile fired from his stupid bat-cycle by Catwoman? Not my Batman.
Then Nolan decides to follow up this cop out of not giving us Batman vs. Bane Round 3 with a fight involving ALL of the stupid fucking vehicles from all three movies. Great.

The acting was superb, however. Catwoman worked WAY better than I expected.

To sum up:
It's a movie worth seeing, but not worth seeing twice.

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I agree. I'm glad to have it added to my bluray collection. I'm glad to have the trilogy ended. I'm glad Anne Hathaway didn't ruin it for me.

I agree about the bat flyer and the craziness of Bruce recovering at superhuman speeds to the point where he can beat Bane.

I think over time I'll still enjoy TDK over this one. Batman never did it for me until this trilogy, and I'm glad it concluded as a trilogy and didn't necessarily open it up for the series to continue.

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It was a fantastic film, as a film. As a Batman film, I feel it wasn't Batman centric enough.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

I think the biggest problem for me... the part that kind of nags me is that this Batman comes back from losing a fight to Bane... Decisively... and... picks a fight with Bane?
I don't care if he learned to fear death, or learned from losing or whatever else.
Batman, when presented with a fight and can't win, does NOT just dust himself off and try again. He changes the game.

That's the coolest thing about Batman, for me, and no movie has ever really gotten that.

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I disagree: I think it was a well made film, a well acted film but I don't think the script (for more reasons than my previous 'not my batman' rant) held up its end of the bargain.

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I agree. This is the same as The Punisher.

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That's why I said it was good as a movie, but not a Batman movie. It didn't focus on Batman enough, it didn't concentrate on who Batman really is. It was just a fight. As a film, I enjoyed it, but other than that, it wasn't a good interpretation of Gotham's hero.

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'The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.'- Steven Erikson

Batman or not though, it wasn't a great film. Parts of it don't even make sense. Bane's "plan" is moronic. And the idea that he could get so many people to go along with it is ludicrous.

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One of the things that really bothered me from the trailers is that Batman seems to constantly be active during the day. That seems really out of character.. does this happen a lot throughout? If so, is it explained well?

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In a 2 hr 40 min film, when we did see Batman, he was getting beat up or robbed, i would say there was a solid 20 mins that he was in it, and he was awesome. While i initially walked out of the film loving it, i later think that i loved the "idea" of loving it. As a standalone film it was riddled with plot holes, that no fault of anyone, just couldn't be explained in enough time, that film could have been split into 2 separate films, and things could have been explained more. (ie. how did Bane figure out where Batman kept his gadgets if they were "off the books", or that Blake knew Batman's identity just by looking at him?) with more time they could have explained better.

My other big problem with this film, is that some of the ideas were ridiculous and we just had to go with them because there was no there choice. (ie. Bane's prison with no guards and a rope to throw down to let the rest of them out?)

I thought the film was a great conclusion to an epic series, but i think that the conclusion was rushed, and the last 5 mins of the film could have been much more dramatic and played out into an entire 3rd act had the film been split in 2.

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