Anyone else a little disappointed by TDKR?

Kennkaru

I was definitely on board with the hype for "The Dark Knight Rises." I loved the first two Nolan Batman films and am quite familiar with the comic story arc. I finally saw the film on Sunday afternoon.

The Batman stories are fantastic, but this particular film made very little use of them. It just blazed everyone through a lot of explosions and people getting shot/ their necks being broken, and that seemed to be the focus of the movie. They tried to wrap everything up at the end WAY too fast, and it was just..way too convenient. The connections between characters were a little bit too "magical" for a franchise which makes its success from avoiding magic. The narrative and the character development were extremely sub-par (which wasn't true of the first two) and they took existing characters from the comic with excellent stories and simplified them, changed them...essentially made their stories suck. The only character whose story was really even moving was Gordon's, and they treated it as very secondary. They built up Bane to be this serious killer with this super vendetta (and a mysterious face), then by the end they had just shrunk him down to being the extremely uninteresting Talia's flunkey who needs a breathing apparatus. I would say that the way it "tied back" was actually pretty desperate and involved a lot of flailing- this film RELIED on the first two to even make sense, which is something the second one wasn't guilty of. There were far too many plot-holes and convenient story-fixes. I would have accepted some of these if Wayne was still super rich, because money can make a lot of unlikely things happen, but in this film, he was supposed to be broke. They tried to do too much with too much material, ended up reducing it down to a very disappointing alternate medium with mediocre writing. That being said, the casting and acting were great, and it was visually pleasing... but those things don't win me over on their own. It was a big, flashy, expensive "meh."

I'm certainly not looking to fight with anyone who loved the film. I enjoyed watching it. It was worth my $7.50. However, did anyone else experience some disappointment?

Erisad

Nope, I liked it. Bane was intimidating but entertaining and Catwoman was awesome. The action was also fun, although the plot did have a couple holes in it (How did Batman get back to the city so quick? Why exactly was Bane creating this chaos again?) but I still enjoyed it anyway. *shrug*

meggawatt

I loved the movie and can't wait for the DVD to come so I can add it to all the other Batman movies I've collected. BUT I did not like that the writers took such liberty with the characters. I felt like the villians were completely different from how they were introduced to us in comic books and earlier movies. Maybe that was the point, I don't know but it was a bit annoying.