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THEY DID NO MAN'S LAND
THEY MOTHERFUCKING DID FUCKING NO MAN'S LAND SWEET CHRIST
I GOT INTO BATMAN COMICS AFTER HAVING FIRST SEEN BATMAN BEGINS AND WHEN I READ NO MAN'S LAND I WAS ALL 'OH HO HO I SEE HOW NOLAN DREW ON THIS SERIES WHEN HE ISOLATED GOTHAM IN THE FILM' AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS ALL THE NO MAN'S LAND I WAS EVER GOING TO GET
AND THEN SUDDENLY BAM NO MAN'S LANDED RIGHT IN THE FACE
Seriously if you enjoyed the whole military cuts Gotham off, city goes all power to the people dystopian storyline and you've not read No Man's Land read No Man's Land. It is basically the best Batman storyline ever. I will legit upload it if need be. (I started rereading it this evening in celebration, and only two issues in I am shrieking in delight at all the visual references Nolan squeezed in. THE APPLE! SHRIEKS!)
All that aside, just. hotdamn. I loved it. There was such a constant feeling of dread building up and up through the whole thing, I was practically writhing in my seat in dread by the time Bane started detonating his explosives. I loved loved loved Hathacat and her incongruous goggles (WHAT PURPOSE DID THOSE GOGGLES EVEN SERVE IN A GOGGLING CAPACITY?) and her knife heels and her sass. Gary Oldman! ALFRED, OH SWEET BELOVED ALFRED! And HANS ZIMMER DOES IT AGAIN! And the child in the pit, omg, theoret spoiled me like five minutes before the film began that apparently Talia was in the film but then it was all so Bane I just totally bought the implied backstory and IT WAS THE MOST SURPRISING TWIST EVER. She was amazing. I wiiiish we could have had more of her being Talia. I need to go back and watch it again with my Talia Spotting hat on.
Tom Hardy was so unrecognisable it was crazy and he really, really looked capable of beating Bruce up. And I was so happy to see that classic BREAKING BAT'S BACK ON YO KNEE Knightfall image :') Although, lol, oh, my few criticisms of the film: a) just cannot take Bane's voice seriously at all, not ever. He sounded like Yoda sometimes, with those intonations. b) cannot take Bane's mask seriously at all, not ever, because once I realised it looked like a black goatse I just could never unsee it. c) the batsuit cannot be taken seriously when wet, either. Once he got drenched in the first fight with Bane, the suit went all shiny and the cape was just so soggy and sticking to him, OH POOR BATS, IT LOOKED SO SILLY.
Also on a more serious criticism note, in that one scene when Gordon had gathered together all his top cops to discuss how to track the bombvan, I was really, really struck, to an impossible to ignore extent, by how there was not a single woman in that room. Half a dozen men. Terrific.
But, that bummer aside. Bruce. Just, Bruce. My sweet. My precious crazy Bruce. Way to stick the title character in a GIANT HOLE for three months and make it work, Nolan. HE WAS IN A HOLE. BATMAN WAS LITERALLY IN A HOLE AND I LOVED IT. I swear, that tiny little flashback to his dad and the 'why do we fall?' made me tear up a bit.
And then Batman flew a bomb out of his city to save the population (and thus got an engraved invitation to join Iron Man and Cap's self sacrificial bomb disposal squad club?) and I was like, wow, terrific, this is a great film--
AND THEN THE ENDING MONTAGE HAPPENED AND I WAS LIKE, WOW, TERRIFIC, THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER HOPED FOR IN THE FINAL BATMAN MOVIE
ROBIN. ROBIIIIIIIIIIIN. ROBIN JOHN FUCKING BLAKE. SHAKES AND CRIES.
I mean, obviously right from the off when Blake revealed that he recognised Batman in Bruce because he too was an angry, angry orphan, I was like, right, yes, he is here to fill the Robin role. But only symbolically, surely? Nolan's disinterest in Robin in his franchise is well documented and has filled me with woe for years, right?
WRONG, APPARENTLY.
SOB.
AND THEN ENDING ON A SHOT OF THE NEW DARK KNIGHT ON BRUCE'S SURPRISE WATER PLATFORM LITERALLY RISING.
SOMEONE HOLD ME.
THEY DID NO MAN'S LAND
THEY MOTHERFUCKING DID FUCKING NO MAN'S LAND SWEET CHRIST
I GOT INTO BATMAN COMICS AFTER HAVING FIRST SEEN BATMAN BEGINS AND WHEN I READ NO MAN'S LAND I WAS ALL 'OH HO HO I SEE HOW NOLAN DREW ON THIS SERIES WHEN HE ISOLATED GOTHAM IN THE FILM' AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS ALL THE NO MAN'S LAND I WAS EVER GOING TO GET
AND THEN SUDDENLY BAM NO MAN'S LANDED RIGHT IN THE FACE
Seriously if you enjoyed the whole military cuts Gotham off, city goes all power to the people dystopian storyline and you've not read No Man's Land read No Man's Land. It is basically the best Batman storyline ever. I will legit upload it if need be. (I started rereading it this evening in celebration, and only two issues in I am shrieking in delight at all the visual references Nolan squeezed in. THE APPLE! SHRIEKS!)
All that aside, just. hotdamn. I loved it. There was such a constant feeling of dread building up and up through the whole thing, I was practically writhing in my seat in dread by the time Bane started detonating his explosives. I loved loved loved Hathacat and her incongruous goggles (WHAT PURPOSE DID THOSE GOGGLES EVEN SERVE IN A GOGGLING CAPACITY?) and her knife heels and her sass. Gary Oldman! ALFRED, OH SWEET BELOVED ALFRED! And HANS ZIMMER DOES IT AGAIN! And the child in the pit, omg, theoret spoiled me like five minutes before the film began that apparently Talia was in the film but then it was all so Bane I just totally bought the implied backstory and IT WAS THE MOST SURPRISING TWIST EVER. She was amazing. I wiiiish we could have had more of her being Talia. I need to go back and watch it again with my Talia Spotting hat on.
Tom Hardy was so unrecognisable it was crazy and he really, really looked capable of beating Bruce up. And I was so happy to see that classic BREAKING BAT'S BACK ON YO KNEE Knightfall image :') Although, lol, oh, my few criticisms of the film: a) just cannot take Bane's voice seriously at all, not ever. He sounded like Yoda sometimes, with those intonations. b) cannot take Bane's mask seriously at all, not ever, because once I realised it looked like a black goatse I just could never unsee it. c) the batsuit cannot be taken seriously when wet, either. Once he got drenched in the first fight with Bane, the suit went all shiny and the cape was just so soggy and sticking to him, OH POOR BATS, IT LOOKED SO SILLY.
Also on a more serious criticism note, in that one scene when Gordon had gathered together all his top cops to discuss how to track the bombvan, I was really, really struck, to an impossible to ignore extent, by how there was not a single woman in that room. Half a dozen men. Terrific.
But, that bummer aside. Bruce. Just, Bruce. My sweet. My precious crazy Bruce. Way to stick the title character in a GIANT HOLE for three months and make it work, Nolan. HE WAS IN A HOLE. BATMAN WAS LITERALLY IN A HOLE AND I LOVED IT. I swear, that tiny little flashback to his dad and the 'why do we fall?' made me tear up a bit.
And then Batman flew a bomb out of his city to save the population (and thus got an engraved invitation to join Iron Man and Cap's self sacrificial bomb disposal squad club?) and I was like, wow, terrific, this is a great film--
AND THEN THE ENDING MONTAGE HAPPENED AND I WAS LIKE, WOW, TERRIFIC, THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER HOPED FOR IN THE FINAL BATMAN MOVIE
ROBIN. ROBIIIIIIIIIIIN. ROBIN JOHN FUCKING BLAKE. SHAKES AND CRIES.
I mean, obviously right from the off when Blake revealed that he recognised Batman in Bruce because he too was an angry, angry orphan, I was like, right, yes, he is here to fill the Robin role. But only symbolically, surely? Nolan's disinterest in Robin in his franchise is well documented and has filled me with woe for years, right?
WRONG, APPARENTLY.
SOB.
AND THEN ENDING ON A SHOT OF THE NEW DARK KNIGHT ON BRUCE'S SURPRISE WATER PLATFORM LITERALLY RISING.
SOMEONE HOLD ME.