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It's not a goddamn "superhero" movie. It's a hero's journey, definitely, but I didn't see any super human powers or activity. Christ, they even turned Bane's mask into an opiate inhalant device to avoid to whole "Venom" superstrength bullshit. That was deliberate.
It was a totally human film, and it was epic and allegorical and poetic. It deserves to be acknowledged as something more than a cheap-thrills fantasy film. It's not THOR, or the fucking Hulk. At the very least it deserves to be analyzed on a different dimension than those movies. It should be compared, if anything, to the Godfather, which is the only other trilogy that I can think of to compare it to.
I still need to see it again. I'm starting to wonder if there was any expository explanation for why Batman was able to defeat the man who so pitifully whooped his ass just a few months earlier, especially since he was recovering from a multiple-vertebrae fracture-- apart from finally realizing that when the guycrowds who's kicking your ass is breathing through a mask, you HIT THE FUCKING MASK andinto dont, for instance, try to "scare" him byget turning off the lights-- because I didn't catch anything the first time around.
Also, I want to see if Bruce managed to literally walk across the world in a realistic time frame, which given his complete lack of funds, and his only recently healed BROKEN BACK, does not seem likely.
I agree that the movie should have been longer. I would not haveI complained if it had been 3+ hours.
It has now been 2 weeks since I saw of, and I haven't stopped thinking about it for more than a few hours here and there.
I am thinking Best Picture and Best Director nod. The academy expanded that category to ten films because of the shit they took after excluding the Dark Knight.
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