How bad was the the final batman scene in the final batman movie (Dark knight Rises)?

badabing106

One of the most embarrasing, insulting to the fans endings to a movie ever. The movie had a real authentic natural ending 5 minutes earlier .This was the ending the movie was building up to for years, and then complete dopey sappiness.

It was as if they were thinking about new fans watching this movie for the first time , and hoping for another sequel. Pathethic stuff

Chazz Michael Michaels

I hate that film.

Mickeroo

Thought it worked great myself.

Tipsy McSwagger

Awful ending to a disappointing plot hole ridden movie.

Sad Professor

It’s not the ending I would chosen myself, but it’s perfectly consistent with the themes established in Begins. Nolan was always concerned with Bruce’s individual salvation and I guess in his worldview an ending in which Batman sacrifices himself for a society that is probably beyond saving would have been rather meaningless.

I like the existential themes running through Nolan’s trilogy, but I prefer Burton’s more psychologically believable take on Batman, which would never have ended with him sitting in the sun drinking espressos with Selina. This is the crucial difference between Bale and Keaton’s Batman - Keaton’s Bruce is already lost, much like the city he’s trying to save, where as there was always hope for Bale.

Tipsy McSwagger

Inception - spinning top ending, wtf happens? Perfect ending.

TDKR - Bruce Wayne the famous billionaire playboy fakes his death and then goes for coffee in a tourist hotspot.

The film should have ended 5 minutes earlier or in the cafe with Albert looking up and nodding his head.

pixelburp

Strange choice for a thread topic to throw up, considering the film is long released now and was pretty well discussed here for the longest time afterwards (arguably over-debated with some eye-watering pedantry and bickering at times that went on & on). Do we really need to go over this ground again?

Worst Ending Evah? Hardly, heck I don't even subscribe to the idea that it was a bad ending at all: the Nolan Batman trilogy was always the story of Bruce Wayne redeeming himself through the saving of Gotham; for him to sacrifice himself would have negated all the development he went through over the course of the films, just to satisfy this belief that a tragic ending is more legitimate than a hopeful or optimistic one. Or that Nolan's CV apparently demands he ends on a note of mystery and ambiguity. Sometimes the big win doesn't require you to give up your life - where's the common sense in that?

It was made perfectly clear from the outset Batman was merely a tool, a symbol to be used to raise Gotham up from the gutter. In the end, he did that by letting the Bat die for the city. As a result, Wayne got to attain some kind of salvation - it wasn't a perfect ending but it was consistent with the preceding 3 films and the themes throughout. And there are certainly worse treatments of cherished genre fiction out there - Batman's done well on the big screen tbh...

Frank Bullitt

Not this again.

fluke

OP come back to us when you've watched something recent and have an original comment to make.

Chefrio

fluke wrote: »

OP come back to us when you've watched something recent and have an original comment to make.

Firstly 2012 is recent, secondly why does it need to be recent?

jeepers101

Chefrio wrote: »

Firstly 2012 is recent, secondly why does it need to be recent?

Because if its not recent it has more than likely been discussed before.

razorblunt

I've ye to watch the movie since I saw it in the cinema, at the time I felt incredibly disappointed. As was posted at the time a simple nod of the head and wee smirk from Alfred would have been enough to finish on, for a series that treated it's audience with some bit of respect showing Wayne having coffee was a hit with a sledgehammer. JGL finding the Batcave irked me too.

jacksie66

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fluke

Chefrio wrote: »

Firstly 2012 is recent, secondly why does it need to be recent?

True, it is recent enough. I just think a lot of the threads on the film forum are becoming littered with 'shoehorn in trollish comment about much discussed film'

Chazz Michael Michaels

jeepers101 wrote: »

Because if its not recent it has more than likely been discussed before.

But we can't bump old threads. So, we may never discuss this film again?

MagicMarker

They shouldn't have shown Wayne at the end, they should have cut it as Alfred looks into the camera, with the beginning of a wry smile on his face, but not so obvious that he's clearly just seen Wayne.

A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.

johnny_ultimate

Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »

But we can't bump old threads. So, we may never discuss this film again?

That's not true - you can certainly bump a thread if you have something constructive to add to it, or want to reignite discussion about a film The Dark Knight Rises thread isn't exactly ancient either. It's only when a thread from years and years ago (often with users who haven't been online since) is bumped for little apparent reason that we lock it and encourage a new thread instead.

Although having had to moderate that nightmarish Dark Knight Rises thread, I wouldn't object to it never being bumped again :pac:

cloud493

Wait do you mean the actual last scene of batman (in his suit) or the bit at the end with Alfred?

MJ23

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Inception - spinning top ending, wtf happens? Perfect ending.

TDKR - Bruce Wayne the famous billionaire playboy fakes his death and then goes for coffee in a tourist hotspot.

The film should have ended 5 minutes earlier or in the cafe with Albert looking up and nodding his head.

I must have missed that bit. Who is Albert?

Chazz Michael Michaels

MJ23 wrote: »

I must have missed that bit. Who is Albert?

his dog