HONEST TRAILER : DARK KNIGHT RISES
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From director Christopher Nolan,
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Comes the obligatory finale to his Dark Knight
Trilogy…
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That clearly peaked with the Joker.
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The Dark Knight Rises…
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The epic final chapter that will mildly entertain
you when you’re watching it…
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But will ultimately anger and disappoint you
when you really start to think about it.
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Revisit the iconic Bruce Wayne…
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A man who turned the pain of his parents death
into a Superhero.
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But for some reason, mopes around for eight
years after his sort-of-girlfriend dies
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Suit up, as he spends the first 45 minutes…
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Hobbling around on canes…
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Getting knocked over easily…
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Growing a gross depression beard…
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And be told that his body is in complete shambles…
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Even though in the entire trilogy…
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He has only clocked in maybe a year and a
half as the Batman.
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But chaos will arrive in the form of BANE…
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A villain who no one can fully understand.
BANE
“?Days has casty ya strength?”
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“Where I learn the truth about despair”
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“The bat never ‘scaped”
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“I bon your schedule captain.”
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Prompting mope-man
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To un-retire and plop on a magic knee brace
that will instantly cure him.
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So he can take Bane head-on for a few minutes…
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Until he’s crippled again…
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For a huge chunk of the movie
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Leaving this mumbling warlord…
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To fulfill his overly-complicated plot…
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Of terrorizing Gotham for 3 pointless months…
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Which prompts only one riot and no gridlock…
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Seriously, where is everybody?
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Get ready for a nearly 3 hour Batman movie.
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Where Batman only shows up for about 33 minutes…
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And when he does show up, He’s so terrible
he…
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Reveals his secret identity to complete strangers.
JOSEPH
“When you started, why the mask?”
BRUCE
“Protect the people closest to me.”
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Never conducts background checks on his maids…
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Or his board members…
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Uses ineffective gadgets…
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Stands atop random buildings that are way
too dangerous to balance on…
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And wastes several hours painting a bridge
in gasoline.
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A story so large in scale that it was partly
shot in IMAX…
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Which becomes super-distracting…
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When it’s constantly changing aspect ratios.
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And a film so poorly paced…
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It moves slow for 2 hours…
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Then it randomly zooms through 3 months of
time without telling the audience …
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Forcing this completely rushed ending that
will leave you asking questions like…
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Why are the criminals constantly hitting Batman
with their guns instead of shooting him?
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Why would the CIA let masked men on to their
plane without checking who they were first.
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How did Bane know about the existence and
exact location of Batmans secret armory?
Especially after Luscious said it was off
the books.
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And why has no one stumbled upon his huge-ass
airplane?
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How did Bane and his henchmen hide motorcycles
inside the stock exchange?
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How is it possible that Bruce Wayne completely
healed his broken back in less than 3 months?
Didn’t he need a…doctor?
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How did Batman get from the hole in the middle
of nowhere into the quarantined Gotham money
or equipment?
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Why would they send the entire Gotham City
Police Force into the sewers all at the exact
same time?
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If Tamalore knew he was Batman, why did she
let him wander off with Luscious?
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Why didn’t she just kill him when she had
the chance?
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In fact, why didn’t she just detonate the
bomb right then?
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And why does Batman talk to Catwoman in his
Batman voice when she knows he’s Bruce Wayne?
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How come everybody in Gotham could figure
out that Bruce Wayne was Batman.
except for Commissioner Gordon?
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Even the character with down syndrome, played
by Joseph Gordon Levitt, figured it out.
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Why did Bruce Wayne show up in a French Café
after being pronounced dead?
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Think that would have attracted the attention
of the media.
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How did Batman eject and swim nine miles to
survive if he only had 5 seconds on the bomb?
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Didn’t anyone in Gotham think it was weird
that Batman and Bruce Wayne both died on the
exact same day?
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Bruce Wayne was Batman!?
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Ugh, I’m pretty weird about Man of Steel
now.
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Thanks to Red Letter Media, be sure to check
them out.
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