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[You still haven't given up on me?]

Bruce Wayne: You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth: Never!

...well, until part three that is, when you really need me...[spoiler]and then i'll leave, and when you 'die'... i'll cry because i've let your father down.[/spoiler]

Because that's the faithful Alfred Pennyworth we all know and love.

Can anyone explain to what the point of the Dr. Crane cameo was?
The guy was in there for litteraly two minuets, we don't even find out what happened to him.
Now I love Cillien Murphy as Scarecrow but his appearence just felt shoehorned and phoned in.

Wha-? It was a cameo - that's why he was there for a couple of minutes. Otherwise it wouldn't be a cameo. And he was obviously [spoiler]one of the escapees from Blackgate.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I agree - it was nothing more than a cameo - he had clearly escaped from arkham asylum and got himself appointed 'judge' of the people of Gotham brought before him whom he condemned to death basically (death by exile, or death) I agree it was unneeded, but I also feel talia al ghul's presence in the plot, as well as Liam Neeson's cameo are unneeded - but they are all part of Nolan's need to round off his trilogy.[/spoiler]

I think Nolan sacrificed having a decent plot just so he could tie everything up nicely.

[entertaining, well-acted and ambitious cluster-fuck]

So, it's a cluster-fuck but compared to Prometheus it's excellent, right?

Yep. Prometheus is bland, cliched and boring but as I said TDKR is an entertaining, well-acted and ambitious cluster-fuck, and compelling throughout, which is an achievment for nearly a 3 hour film.

Yeah, that's what i thought you said 

no Prometheus-style nashing of teeth or making of look at what's wrong with it-type lists at all?

Probably because it isn't that bad. TDKR is an entertaining, well-acted and ambitious cluster-fuck but Prometheus in many aspects is almost amateur.

So, it's a cluster-fuck but compared to Prometheus it's excellent, right? 

.... but Rises is just wall to wall nonsense and the film eventually buckles under the weight of it all. I'm baffled that it's been received so well and more people aren't questioning it.

It is and i am too, no Prometheus-style nashing of teeth or making of look at what's wrong with it-type lists at all?

The Dark Knight Rises: More of the Same. Also i'd rate this on par with the other two entry's in the series.
I understood Bane's plan, to free Gotham from the aristocracy forming a communist/ anarchic society where all are equel.

That wasn't Bane's 'plan' at all...his 'plan' was to wipe out Gotham and fulfil Ra's Al Ghul's/The League Of Shadows' Plan from Batman Begins...hence there being 25 days till the reactor's meltdown...? All the socialist/anarchic stuff was just pointless bullshit...
same as 95% of the film.

Batman - Heart Of Hush (Detective Comics #846-#850)...Hush origin and excellent story as a whole.

Saw it today and i'm totally bummed out...i thought it was fucking dreadful

Ah well, there's always Dredd to look forward to! 

The Dark Knight Rises

Pretty dreadful stuff i have to say, so many things wrong with it i don't think i'll even start...and that's depressing for a Batfreak like me

Went to the cinema for a Batman Begins/The Dark Knight double bill last night...great to see them on the big screen again

Dear me, your botty must have been severely numb after that. Could you walk? I like both films (although I think they're overrated, particularly the second) but the each of them is pretty lengthy.

Yeah, it started to get pretty numb around the four hour mark 

Fabulous!

Would anyone like to join my campaign to make 2000 entirely black and white again?

I'm in...

Man, i really like your work...love the inked pages on your site too.

Went to the cinema for a Batman Begins/The Dark Knight double bill last night...great to see them on the big screen again

Got mine today, beautiful stuff! Thanks to Cam and Tony for getting this together, and here's hoping for another

P.S. reading the first two collections of Scott Snyder's American Vampire...great stuff!