This is the problem with some the "fanboys" defending a shit movie
Did you even bother to look up what I say about Rises? I always preface that the movie isn't perfect and I understand why it's hated by so many. Here's the first thing I wrote about this movie after I joined the site: "It's overblown and has some very basic editing mistakes." I acknowledge the flaws. I don't try to excuse them. I don't try to find excuses for the way Talia's death was handled, or how there are terrible extras in some shots. But I still like the movie and consider it to be one of the few good end-chapters in the superhero movie genre.
LMAO. Nolan tries to make his Batman movie as realistic as possible.
Now that's some BS. On the official documentary for TDK trilogy Nolan blatantly explains that his aim was never to make a hyper-realistic movie. His aim was to make a believable word. A cinematic reality, not direct reality. This world doesn't have characters like Killer Croc or Clayface, but it has some of the wacky comic book gadgets that can't exist in real life.
One of the worst fight/action choreography ever.
Dude, this horse has been beaten to death and there's not even a carcass left. Yes, TDK trilogy does not have the most exciting, well-filmed fight scenes. Yes, there are movies and superhero movies that have a much better executed fight scenes. Yes, there are bad takes with guys falling down for no reason. Been there, done that. But that doesn't make or break the movie. The same way a comic drawn by Neal Adams will not look as cinematic and realistic as an Alex Ross comic, but at the end of the day it's about the story and how the art style serves the story and I can enjoy comics with different art styles that don't look alike even if some art styles aren't that visually impressive compared to others.
That's what happen when you have a director with an ego who doesn't do many takes.
Technical flaws don't diminish a movie for me. I love the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man, but that movie is filled with bad script supervising. Like when Peter goes after the guy who killed his uncle, and after he punches him through the glass in the warehouse, the guy loses his gun, but then in the next shot he has gun in his hand again. Or the most prominent example of what is one of the best movies ever made: The fight between Carlo and Sonny in The Godfather is worse than any fight scene in TDK trilogy. The actors are fighting the space around them, not each other. Or the killings in the restaurant, when Michael shoots one of the mafia bosses in the head, and there's an establishing shot right before he pulls the trigger, in which you can see that the bloody dot on the actors' head appears before Michael shoots him. Nobody is immune to mistakes.
And it's not about ego. Nolan and ego should not be in the same sentence. If Nolan actually had an ego, he would be acting like it, saying that he is superior to everyone else and his style is brilliant. He would be like Ridley Scott, pretty much,. If Nolan had an ego, the first thing he would do after Dark Knight got nominated for 8 Academy Awards was to shit on Schumacher's era of Batman and say how he saved this franchise and made it from one of the worst things into one of the best things. Which he didn't do, because he respects people and their work, even if he doesn't like it. So cut the bullshit.
