106050, TOP 10 ALL-TIME GOOD SHITTY MOVIE (G.S.M.)!!!!!! (Spoilers) Posted by Orbit_Established, Sat Jul-21-12 10:14 PM
*Bruce Wayne Chillin in France Smile*
What an absolutely delightful steaming pile of shit.
Fans of 'The Last Boyscout' should beware.
In all honesty, I'd say its below 'Demolition Man' and above 'Tango and Cash'. Its about as good as 'The Last Boyscout'. In the very elite of G.S.M.'s ever made.
Or at least I'm telling myself that. Those IMAX tickets were pricey.
For those of you that don't know, GSM's are a genre of movie that can be enjoyed to death when you suspend any standard of a good movie and fixate on the awesomeness of a handful of scenes or one cool character. When examined through a standard lens, the acting in these movies is almost always horrid, and the storyline is usually full of massive, unforgivable gaps.
TDKR delivers perfectly.
Like most GSM's, the story in DKR was absolutely horrid at worst and irrelevant at best. Thankfully, Christopher Nolan didn't care about the storyline, because even he knew that it was dogshit to the point where he didn't bother making it cohesive or interesting. I was watching this film and literally SAW where Nolan was like "Man, fuck this, let's plan an explosion, I'm tired of this bullshit story."
Here are the facts:
- By movie #3, nobody cares about the league of shadows anymore. It was tiresome by the end of BB. The "bring chaos to Gotham" angle is so unimaginative that the movie almost sounded like an Austin Powers movie (honestly).
- The entire plot is basically filler to keep us busy while we focus on a few things:
a) Batman getting broken and healing and beating Bane (we're sitting and waiting for this shit the whole movie)
b) Robin being born
c) The scenes between Batman and Catwoman
Everything else is noise. Children being born in/climbing out of prison; chaos; bridges, league of shadows.... ...we don't fucking care. We're like "Break Batman's back, have him heal so I can go home and get some sleep."
- Which brings me to Bane. We literally take him as seriously as Dr. Evil; We don't care about Bane because Nolan doesn't need us to. He's a vehicle, not an actual villain, which is why we can't fucking understand 60% of the things he says. He sounds like Destro talking underwater. Thankfully, his voice could have been mute the whole movie, because I doubt that anything he says would have added anything.
- In regards to Catwoman, we're mildly intrigued, and not only because we want Batman to die having fucked a woman hotter than Maggie Gyllenhall. Her Robinhood story and enlightenment were forgettable but they could certainly have done worse with her. Good job overall.
-The birth of Robin was well done. Probably the only cohesive story told the entire movie. The guy who played him was good. His intentions had rhyme and reason. Nolan actually sat down and scripted those scenes. Well done.
- Commissioner Gordon was cool. I dig the range, him being forced into difficult circumstances. He can act.
- The whole "finding yourself" thing with Wayne climbing out of prison...LOL...we already learned that lesson in the Karate Kid movies, guy. I mean, geez. Just delete that shit, we didn't need it.
- Not a fan of Alfred. The whole "I dream that I see you in France" thing was a direct ripoff of Ben Affleck "I hope to not see you in the morning" scene from 'Goodwill Hunting'. Think about it. Its a DIRECT ripoff. Alfred deserves better than to be crying in half his scenes. Have him do some ESSENTIAL shit in the movie. Don't have his character go out crying like a fucking pussy. Seriously.
- Again: the league of shadows angle was dumb. I almost spit out my gummi bears (damn right I ration them out during the WHOLE movie...got it down to a science) when Liam Neeson showed up, like Ben Kenobi's evil brother. I almost expected Bruce Wayne to reach out and go "Ben!! Ben!! Degaba system...must go to the degaba system!!!"
- LMAO @ the Scoobie Doo "twist." It worked perfectly because nobody cared about the bitch at the center of the twist. Like, who the fuck was she? Nobody was paying her any attention. We were happy Wayne tapped that, I guess...but... really, who the fuck was she? Oh, she was that baby who climbed out the sewer? Oh, ok. I mean, we all saw that mark on her back, so we KNEW she was a bad guy, but...we didn't bother to think about it because she wasn't interesting.
- Lastly, Christian Bale was GREAT. His lines were dumb. his interaction with Alfred was LOL but Bale KILLED his scenes. He finally GOT Bruce Wayne. Shame, because its the end of the trilogy. He's only now starting to really get it. Dude had the whole game on lock.
- Which takes me to the best scene in the movie:
Nope!!!! Wayne was CHILLIN IN FRANCE!!! That smile was GOLDEN!!! Ninja was CHILLIN with his thug bitch in Europe grinnin' at Alfred from across that cafe!!
Bwahahahahah
That's the stuff of a great GSM, folks.
Easily the best scene in the movie
Just an amazing smile, no homo. He deserve an academy nomination JUST for the way he was posted up at that table. I was CHEESING just like him.
Summary: I'm trying to like it, guys. There was enough cute stuff to qualify as a good GSM....but my god, Nolan makes it difficult.
He need to take a vacation. Direct some rap videos or some shit because movies just aren't his thing.
Thankfully for him, only about 8 people think for themselves, which is why people like Christopher Nolan and Big Sean have careers. And good for them.
Personally, I prefer good directors and rappers.
I think my views on Nolan would a tad less harsh if Joss Whedon didn't just teach us what a really good film made my an actually smart, good filmmaker looks like.
Whedon was supposed to bring balance.
And now we have this shit again.
Oh well
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