Bye Bye Big XII said:
Since when do you write for Rotten Tomatoes?
Though I understand where you're coming from, I think that if they added all the filler the movie would've been close to 4 hours long. Do tell me how the despair in Gotham is contradictory.
Not sure what you mean by the bolded part.
Because critics at RottenTomatoes are a bunch of idiots who when critiquing a movie make a bunch of silly remarks to down play the movie. I'm not saying that you're making some silly remarks about the movie but I'll try and answer your questions that concerned you about the movie in what I gathered from the movie.
Here's the thing - the script is a movie's foundation, and the foundation of TDKR is extremely weak. You don't have to make a film four hours long for it to make sense. In fact, there were several ways they could have cut scenes or reworked them to add more with the same amount or less. We get an idea of what's going to happen in the first half of the film, and then the second half does not deliver on what the first half promises.
I watched this movie for the second time yesterday and it went extremely fast. I didn't feel like I was sitting through a 2 hour and 45 minute flick. I don't think a lot of us saw what was going to happen at the end because there were a lot of people who didn't know whether Batman would live or die at the end nor did A LOT of us think a certain sidekick would appear in this movie.
Here's an example, specifically relating to the despair in Gotham. How is it a high ranking police official is nestled cozily in his home, while thousands of criminals/mercenaries roam the streets? You don't think with Bane's prowess and the hundreds of criminals on the street they wouldn't have found him in five months?
That officer you're talking about didn't go back to his cozy home until there was 24/48 hours until the bomb would go off I believe. Why would Bane go looking for one man when he's close from completing his objective?
Why are people running for their lives in one scene, then freezing outside of a building the next?
Didn't you see the mercenary's/prisoners going through all of the rich peoples homes vandalizing and stealing anything and everything? Most of the people all grouped up a certain locations like the library (I think it was the library) or other locations.
Why are a bunch of people getting warm in an open atrium when the special forces guy shows up, only to have a full on shootout take place moments later?
I would think that that Tate chick warned Bane (her guardian at the prison) about this upcoming meeting with the Gotham Police and Special Forces. Remember Tate was at that same location as everybody else.
I'm going to have to see the movie again so I can be more specific with my examples. Nolan, a director who eloquently disturbs time in many of his films, came out looking like he had no idea what to do with the second half of his film. I don't think the movie was terrible, like several critics do, but it's definitely not what it should have been. Given Nolan's previous work, I expected a lot more, to put it simply.
I'd say see it again and you'll understand the whole story a lot better. I watched it again and caught some things I didn't see/hear the first time and the story made a lot more sense. Its weird because when I saw it the second time it didn't seem like it lasted almost 3 hours but like it was an hour an a half movie. I had to watch Inception a second time to understand the story a bit better.
