I like Begins, I LOVE Dark Knight. Dark Knight Rises was a good theater movie but it completely fell apart for me when I saw it for a second time at home. It's one of the most baffling movies I've ever seen, really.


I had fun watching this movie, though some of that likely had to do with knowing the source material and having a childhood revolving around Batman. My girlfriend very clearly did not, and actually nodded off a few minutes before the climactic fight between the two heroes.


WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?! is the NOOOOOOO! of this franchise, though. Just because Superman's mother's name is the same as Batman's doesn't discount all the gripes Batman had against Superman's continued existence. Like, our moms have the same name, so now I'm not so worried about that time three minutes ago I punched you in the jaw and your head didn't even move before you threw me through two floors of solid brick...WHAT?!


If I'm a brilliant vigilante justice man who's comfortable in the knowledge that if I went too far a regular human being COULD potentially take me out with the right amount of planning and resources, and equally UNcomfortable in the knowledge that the same can't be said of Superman, his mom's name is not stopping me from dropping a spear in his chest.


Lastly, Lois Lane...why was she transformed into such a dummy? Dropping that spear made no sense. Also, did Perry know who Clark was in Man of Steel? Because he clearly knows who Clark is by the end of this movie despite appearing to pretend he doesn't. What's up with that?


I liked Eisenberg, maybe I just enjoyed his monologues but he was cool to me. It's just a shame he's more of a Scarecrow/Riddler amalgamation than Lex Luthor. Also, it's dumb they shoehorned Doomsday into THIS film especially since they didn't have time to explain to the audience how Lex came about that creature. They obviously could have never told Doomsday's full origin story and he's certainly a deus ex machina to the problem of Superman having a nemesis by default, but this was an awkward way to present that.


At least they didn't blow their load and drop Darkseid into things immediately. Doomsday's existence is good for that if nothing else.


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