Innovator

I saw TDKRises last night, though I enjoyed the movie, I was also very disappointed with it.
My issues were mostly with how the endings played out.

I didn’t like how Talia was so underwhelming. I mean she’s supposed to be a trained League of Shadows assassin that was also the legendary person who escaped the inescapable, yet all she does is stab Batman, and then gets killed in a truck wreck.

I liked that the movie was leading on that John Blake will be Robin/Nightwing. I mean his parents were killed like Bruce's, he looked up to Batman and was technically a ward of Bruce’s since Bruce was the beneficiary of the orphanage he came from, and he was a police officer and a skilled detective. I was like oh yeah, he’s Dick Grayson that had his name changed due to the circumstances of his parent’s death, as that would have fit in the context of the mythos and would have been a great intro for the character. However, when he said his real name was Robin, I was like what the hell? My friend who watched the movie argued, maybe they didn’t think that Dick Grayson’s name wouldn’t have resonated with the audience unfamiliar with the mythos, but I really can’t see how most people on this planet wouldn’t by now know who Dick Grayson is.

I liked that Alfred preached to Bruce how he’s wasted the past several years by not doing anything after retiring from being Batman, and that the world could have used and needed Bruce Wayne during that time, and that Gotham needs Bruce more than it needs Batman. Alfred was completely right, but then Bruce listens to none of it, instead he decides to just kill himself off at the end so he never fulfills the legacy of his parents. Batman may have had to die to give an ending to the series, but there was no reason for Bruce to do so as well. It didn’t make sense to me, as his fruition just made him seem like the selfish prig that the beginning of the movie made him out to be, which really peed me off, as it just steps on the central idea that permeated the film.

Overall, I thought the movie was a good one, but with a better ending, it could have been much greater. This movie may have served as resolution to the franchise, but it never really serves to resolve itself as a standalone film.

My guess is that Disney has learned the hard lesson of todays economics...you can't make cartoons in 3D.

Isn't the main complaint against WB superhero flicks by critics is that they focus entirely too much on the villains already?

Didn't Rhodey steal the Mark 2 and turned it into War Machine?

Hmmm...the conspiracy theorist in me is wondering if may be somehow related.

My babysitter's son had a collection of comic books he let us read. I remember that the first book I picked up and read was Daredevil #1.

Pouring liquid admantium on any terminator would pretty much destroy them. All the Avengers would need is Ant-Man.

I don't think Cap's shield ability to absorb impact in the movie does not work as well as it does in the comics, else Bucky should not have been blown out of the train when he blocked that attack in the Cap movie.

Well today's episode pretty much sinches Beast Boy's origin, and Connor's "condition". And Gar calls M'gann Sis!

Who's doing a Marvel movie marathon tommorow? I and my friends are, seems like others are as well. I needed to buy a new Blu-ray of Ironman 2 since mine went missing, couldn't find Blu-rays of Ironman, Ironman 2, and Incredible Hulk anywhere in my town. Best Buy even had a display with all the Marvel Movies (to capitalize on The Avengers premiere) and those Blu-rays were sold out. I managed to get a used Blu-Ray of Ironman 2 at Rasputin, it was the last one they had.