I heard Nolan was just paid a lot to put his name on the new Superman, but then I saw he's writing part of it, so I'm not really sure what to think. Practically everything he has touched has been absolute gold. I'm generally no fan of comic book movies, but I loved this trilogy, and The Dark Knight is one of my all time favorites. I'll have to give Nolan the benefit of the doubt. This movie was crazy unrealistic, and I was more than willing to suspend that disbelief for 3 hours. It seemed like I spent 2+ hours thinking "there's no way he can find a good way to find a satisfying ending to this," or "it will be impossible to tie all of this off," but he kept doing it. This was a movie with an unrealistic plot, a bunch of flashbacks, references to comic books, cameo appearances, and a bad guy and a hero who were hard to understand clearly at times, and I was still able to follow it and love it for almost three hours. That's the Nolan effect.
Yes to everything except Anne Hathaway sucks. My hatred for her is so deep that it is irreversible regardless of actual acting performance at this point. Also, the new vehicle is ****ing retarded. I would say more as to why, but don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't seen it. But seriously, it's retarded.
I apologize for having a dissenting opinion. I hope I will still get my invite to the "In" luncheon once dates are finalized.
My observations: I thought it was good. I don't have deep comic book roots, so I'm not as hard to please as some comic book folks are. It was entertaining, and that's all I ask. Don't think it was better than the 2nd one. Joker was just so good. After playing Arkham City and seeing this movie, Catwoman is HOT. Possibly my favorite part: as I was leaving, a group of kids were talking about how unbelievable they thought it was that Catwoman got on the motorcycle and was instantly good at it. I thought it hilarious that cracking an uncrackable safe, all the acrobatics, jumping off a building, et al, that was all fine, but riding a motorcycle well was too unbelievable.
Riding a motorcycle like that, with no previous possible experience, is a lot harder to believe than her being a master thief and having a background in gymnastics. I agree with the kids.
But seriously, if she can beat up a bunch of dudes, crack an uncrackable safe in no time at all, and do all that acrobatic junk, is it hard to believe she can ride a motorcycle? Maybe that was part of Master Thief School.
Well, the fusion reactor that could turn into a neutron bomb and became MORE unstable as it decayed was completely lazy science writing. Made no sense.
She's more beautiful than sexy, though. And, yes, there is a difference. The latter being dictated by the all-important "movement test" and therefore being substantially more important than the former.
