Applaudable is Nolan's effort to make a movie that doesn't reply on fist strikes and gun shots to make it's most powerful moments, yet there are still numerous combat bits (less than TDK) though. Do you think that TDKR's absence of Batman in action, pummeling his foes in the ground and narrowly esca...

The Dark Knight Rises 8/10 "The Dark Knight Rises lacks the shine and polish that it's predecessor has, but it rises above it's frustration with a grim life-affirming story and a convoluted take on morality that makes it compelling in it's own right." With the immense success of TDK, TKDR was given...

With the immense success of TDK, TKDR was given a gold standard that most films probably couldn't have met. TKDR does have the framework, but doesn't come together as well as it's predecessor did. Lots of critics have called it dark, murky and dull. One even saying "why so serious". It's a superhero...

I'm not saying this movie is perfect and completely free of flaw - no movie is. But there are no significant or meaningful flaws. Any flaws from this film are just nitpicks.

To the above poster, I would not completely rule out the fact that one boat has prisoners on it as an irrelevant factor. It gave the non-prisoner ferry a greater incentive to CONSIDER blowing up the other boat. They did at least vote on it, even if they didn't detonate it. If the other boat were ful...

I'm going to give an answer that goes a little against the grain of what everyone else wrote: Batman won. But his victory was Pyrrhic (meaning he won, but at a huge cost). Think of the Civil War, when General Lee would lose certain battles, but weaken Grant's forced by attrition, overall giving the ...

Uncanny valley. The point was to make the CGI look as dramatized as possible. If the wounds looked realisitic, people would be offended the whole film.

There's nothing to suggest that the passengers on either boat doubted Joker's threat.

The point is that the most logical decision is not always the easiest decision to make emotionally.

Technically yes it was murder (manslaughter), but in context, I don't think he violated his principles. This was [technically] murder because it was direct. People who died indirectly don't count. Occam's razor would make that hard to calculate. But 1. It was unintentional 2. There was no other opti...

Joker is nihilistic, sociopathic, malicious, sadistic, but not insane (unlike the people are working for him).

Sanity involves perception of reality.