07-31-2012, 10:50 PM
Spoilers, no surprises...
I think I was less taken with this movie than some others were. While I enjoyed it, I also thought they tried far too hard to push too many different angles, and ended up treating them each rather superficially. Specifically, I thought the "tale of two cities" angle was very forced. The Terror was not terrifying because some random super-villain artificially creates anarchy by popping open the insane asylum and planting a nuclear bomb. The Terror is about the mob, about the price of changing the world. Bane wasn't a social villain. He didn't offer any hope of any meaningful kind. Even the Joker had a more convincing kind of anarchy than Bane did. We're not privy to why Gotham wanted to go mad in the first place, so it's not clear why a villain who lets them is popular...
The "pit" element stands as an entire other mythological arc, and doesn't play well with the whole Bane/Gotham thing. I think Nolan should have picked one or the other, and developed it better.
-Jester
I think I was less taken with this movie than some others were. While I enjoyed it, I also thought they tried far too hard to push too many different angles, and ended up treating them each rather superficially. Specifically, I thought the "tale of two cities" angle was very forced. The Terror was not terrifying because some random super-villain artificially creates anarchy by popping open the insane asylum and planting a nuclear bomb. The Terror is about the mob, about the price of changing the world. Bane wasn't a social villain. He didn't offer any hope of any meaningful kind. Even the Joker had a more convincing kind of anarchy than Bane did. We're not privy to why Gotham wanted to go mad in the first place, so it's not clear why a villain who lets them is popular...
The "pit" element stands as an entire other mythological arc, and doesn't play well with the whole Bane/Gotham thing. I think Nolan should have picked one or the other, and developed it better.
-Jester