The Dark Knight Rises = 9/10 - A terrific way to end the series (until the next reboot...which is probably already being worked on by some hack) and will be the last superhero movie I ever watch. Thank fucking God for that.
No other comic hero movie or series-of-movies has come close to the quality of Nolan's Batman movies and I'm betting they never will. Fuck Ironman 3, fuck the Avengers 2, fuck Spiderman 5 and - with the full force of my pelvis - fuck all future superhero movies in the ear.
and here's why i'm really not looking forward to it (well, not beyond morbid curiosity):
Gavin Hood (born 12 May 1963) is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi (2005). He is the director of the 20th Century Fox film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on 1 May 2009.
i guess i should be fair and mention that most of what i read on the interwebs about Hood blamed fox for the travesty that that "wolverine" movie turned into. before that he had a good reputation, so maybe OSC being anal about keeping the studios' filth away from Ender and giving Hood some actual creative control might work out for the best? casting looks promising.
Oh yeah...I forgot to mention: I saw Prometheus once more before they removed it from the IMAX 3D. Rather than wanting to see the movie again, it was actually an experiment to compare it to the regular theatre when I saw it the first time. I felt it was the perfect opportunity for me to see insanely beautiful sci-fi visuals in the supposed "highest caliber" without having to duck, because Ridley Scott isn't retarded enough to exploit the 3D as other directors would.
Besides the fact that at one point I couldn't wait for the movie to end, I've decided that I won't be seeing anything in 3D again, including TDKR.
I've concluded that 3D is an effect that is there to simpy enhance the effect of how things move in 3D space rather than how they look. Anything that moves in a 3D movie looks horrible with the blurriness and the streaking. Therefore, since any visual advantage of the 3D effect is actually detrimental to viewing, I've decided to stop defending 3D as part of an "immersive" movie experience that other snobs such as myself hoped it would be, and simply state that it's a gimmick that adds nothing visual and only seeks to convert the movie going experience into a theme park ride. So, in closing, the 3D effect is only there to make audiences duck in their seats.
plus, you think those glasses go through some kind of cleaning process before they end up on your face from the previous 500 disgusting fucks that use them?
They just go from the return bin, back to circulation. I bet both of my nuts on that.
GONNAFISTYA wrote:Oh yeah...I forgot to mention: I saw Prometheus once more before they removed it from the IMAX 3D. Rather than wanting to see the movie again, it was actually an experiment to compare it to the regular theatre when I saw it the first time. I felt it was the perfect opportunity for me to see insanely beautiful sci-fi visuals in the supposed "highest caliber" without having to duck, because Ridley Scott isn't retarded enough to exploit the 3D as other directors would.
Besides the fact that at one point I couldn't wait for the movie to end, I've decided that I won't be seeing anything in 3D again, including TDKR.
I've concluded that 3D is an effect that is there to simpy enhance the effect of how things move in 3D space rather than how they look. Anything that moves in a 3D movie looks horrible with the blurriness and the streaking. Therefore, since any visual advantage of the 3D effect is actually detrimental to viewing, I've decided to stop defending 3D as part of an "immersive" movie experience that other snobs such as myself hoped it would be, and simply state that it's a gimmick that adds nothing visual and only seeks to convert the movie going experience into a theme park ride. So, in closing, the 3D effect is only there to make audiences duck in their seats.