The Dark Knight Rises (Post-Release Discussion) - Page 14

quote Joblo.com

"Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental."

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quote CaddyZx

Seen it IMAX just. I understand more Now why they left batman to suffer. However the overall plot was to destroy gotham, for Tahlia to avenge her father. Crushing batman both physically and mentally was obviously a big part of it too, I get that now.

Are we even debating whether batman is still alive btw? Seemed obvious to me.

Also had Heath not died, they could of made a completely new film between the 5 months Batman wasn't there. Also any comic book "boys", did I see a comic once with bane crushing the joker?...on the front cover.

Batman Detective Comics #740. He never actually broke his back. And that would just be silly. And lame.

Who cares about Heath Ledger? Tbh, I hardly doubt he would have had anymore than a cameo in this. And thinking he would have had a pivotal role just doesn't make sense. Scarecrow showed up in this and TDK, and he wasn't anything special in either one.

quote Lavitz

So, my buddy got home from work and rushed down to the basement where I was chilling and said "hey, thinking about seeing Batman - but we'd have to leave RIGHT now."

Totally did it. 3rd time seeing it. 2nd time IMAX.

Still amazing. [

You lucky son of a bitch!

I want to see it about 3-4 times in theaters, but with a girlfriend, I will probably end up waiting. I need more friends with money. Luckily I'm sure this will stay in theaters for over a month like TDK did. Hell, we had it in IMAX for 2 months after it came out. It went to the local aquarium where they have an IMAX screen, and they only charged $12. Good stuff.

With all horrible things considered, this still did better than TDK during it's opening weekend.

TDK: $158,411,483
TDKR: $160,887,295