The Dark Knight Rises (Official Third Nolan Batman Thread)

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So is this a Dark Knight-Inception crossover? We just need DiCaprio or Ellen Page.

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It seems like he'll most likely be Black Mask now. I can't really get too excited over that prospect either to be honest.

What if he's Jean Paul Valley, like come of the comments in that article speculate?

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I have a queston.

Bane told Batman that he was born in the dark. Except we all know that he is not the child of the pit. So why did Bane seem to suggest he was. I didn't get the feeling that Tate/Bane were actively trying to trick Bruce into thinking Bane was the pit-child, because it doesn't really matter that much to their plan. So was it just a continuity error? Am I missing something?

Well, the thing is, in the comics Bane really was born in a prison. He was the son of an English mercenary too. Only the mercenary was a character called King Snake, not Ra's Al Ghul. So my interpretation of it was that Bane's background was very similar to Talia's and that was part of the reason why he bonded with her and became her protector in the prison. They really should have done a better job of clarifying that though.

I got the sense that it was a Darth Vader-esque "true from a certain point of view" quote. That is, the masked villian "Bane" was created in the prison, even if the person he was before wasn't born there.

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Did anyone else think that the agent in the very first scene looked like a younger, slightly more attractive Rick Santorum?

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I've only seen it once, but Rises was my favorite, with Begins number two. The Dark Knight just isn't very interesting honestly. Ledger did a great job, but the movie's rather mediocre beyond that; it's just a bit boring and drags on forever (Rises is longer, but it doesn't feel long. In fact it feels like it could have easily been longer). As far as Rises goes, I think Hardy did a marvelous job too, and I actually preferred Bane as a villian due to him actually being threatening. If Batman wanted to, he could have snapped the Joker's neck, but, for most of Rises, it felt like Batman had no shot against Bane. Plus the stakes were so much higher in Rises, and I tend to enjoy more grandiose movies with the highest (reasonably) possible stakes. Hathaway, Caine, and JGL did pretty great jobs as well in Rises, plus I think Bale had to actually act as opposed to most of the rest of the series.