The first hour is pretty great, the next three hours not so much.

Having it look like a video game doesn't strike me as an appealing feature.

Having it look like a video game doesn't strike me as an appealing feature.

I'm just going to go ahead here and jump in three years late to this thread. I've been watching True Blood over the last month and just got to this episode and I just wanted to say that the whole Fellowship of the Sun storyline while great has also bugged me for the same reasons as …

I don't even think of it as a real part of the Metallica oeuvre. It's so utterly batshit insane that it feels like it exists in another world.

I don't even think of it as a real part of the Metallica oeuvre. It's so utterly batshit insane that it feels like it exists in another world.

You know, ReLoad is a pretty benign album (with a handful of great moments: Fuel, the intro/main riff of Bad Seed, Fixxxer) compared to St Anger/Loutallica. You just want to go back to the about 2000 and say to the Metallica fans "guys, you think these albums are bad, you haven't seen Lars Ulrich talk about his…

You know, ReLoad is a pretty benign album (with a handful of great moments: Fuel, the intro/main riff of Bad Seed, Fixxxer) compared to St Anger/Loutallica. You just want to go back to the about 2000 and say to the Metallica fans "guys, you think these albums are bad, you haven't seen Lars Ulrich talk about his…

It occurs to me that if he did cut to credits on Alfred's smile, it would be another complaint people were making all over the internet: "Nolan is addicted to ambiguous endings" "Nolan is a one-trick pony".

It occurs to me that if he did cut to credits on Alfred's smile, it would be another complaint people were making all over the internet: "Nolan is addicted to ambiguous endings" "Nolan is a one-trick pony".

@avclub-ee0fbae41b96c8e0ffbc0f8466290c5a:disqus nailed it. The self sacrifice thing is entirely the point of the sequence. What the Joker chooses to do is out of their hands, the only choice facing the people on the boat is whether or not they kill the people on the other boat. The choice is between taking part in an…

@avclub-ee0fbae41b96c8e0ffbc0f8466290c5a:disqus nailed it. The self sacrifice thing is entirely the point of the sequence. What the Joker chooses to do is out of their hands, the only choice facing the people on the boat is whether or not they kill the people on the other boat. The choice is between taking part in an…

Which is why The Joker is swiftly dispatched with 10-15 minutes to go and we move on to the real climax of the movie: the three way standoff between Dent/Gordon/Batman. And, circling back to the discussion about Bane's death in this thread, why Bane is dispatched swiftly with 15 minutes to go in TDKR, because the…

Which is why The Joker is swiftly dispatched with 10-15 minutes to go and we move on to the real climax of the movie: the three way standoff between Dent/Gordon/Batman. And, circling back to the discussion about Bane's death in this thread, why Bane is dispatched swiftly with 15 minutes to go in TDKR, because the…

@avclub-7aefa9e2af18cd9e2fde628a5e813aa5:disqus  I am reading through all this now too. This has some of the best discussion I've seen about this movie. I like that most people here are being a bit more nuanced compared to other places.

@avclub-7aefa9e2af18cd9e2fde628a5e813aa5:disqus  I am reading through all this now too. This has some of the best discussion I've seen about this movie. I like that most people here are being a bit more nuanced compared to other places.

I agree that the actual moment of Bane's death was definitely rushed, but there was some catharsis in the moments leading up to it. Having said that, Nolan dispatches The Joker pretty swiftly in The Dark Knight - he gives his little speech and then the SWAT team comes in but we cut away before we see anything else.

I agree that the actual moment of Bane's death was definitely rushed, but there was some catharsis in the moments leading up to it. Having said that, Nolan dispatches The Joker pretty swiftly in The Dark Knight - he gives his little speech and then the SWAT team comes in but we cut away before we see anything else.

Yeah, actually. I got that vibe too. The movie didn't dwell on it so i didn't either, but it definitely seemed to strongly suggest it.

Yeah, actually. I got that vibe too. The movie didn't dwell on it so i didn't either, but it definitely seemed to strongly suggest it.