"A film of empty spectacle, its actual content (formulaic violence, humorless dialogue, unvarying solemnity) runs second to the blatant process of supplying a pre-sold audience with brand-name characters and predictable action.""Kids don’t realize Nolan is peddling used goods (The Matrix III: Revolutions); or how short he falls of cinema’s classic visionary style and existential paranoia–which Fritz Lang mastered almost a century ago. For adults, Nolan’s continued exploitation of 9/11–from a shameless “Star Spangled Banner” tease to devastated urban landscapes–merely sells real-life horror back to us and without depth of feeling. (“What’s that?” Avengers fans say.)Unlike The Joker’s maniacal outrages, The Dark Knight Rises is just dull, obvious calculation. Nolan’s cynicism is symbolized by a mushroom cloud climax that wastes one of the most profound specters of the modern imagination. In pop terms, Nolan hasn’t got the wit to “nuke the fridge” (Spielberg’s rich, still-misunderstood anthropological jest). But in commercial terms, the way Nolan turns comic book frivolity into hipster nihilism drops a bomb on our cultural economy."http://cityarts.info/2012/07/20/bat-guano-economics/
I don't want to agree, but... His points are fairly solid.
ARMOND HAS SPOKEN
Where's your god now Nolanfags?
Armond is just a contrarian. I think the film looks really boring, but I don't believe a word he's saying. Sorry Armond, we can't go on together with suspicious minds.
why does he use such big words that I don't understand
You know I have to give it to Armond, at least he's actually a film critic. he gives his reasons and analyzes things unlike idiots like Ebert.
BRAVO ARMONDBRAVO JOSS
Did Armond just spoil the fucking ending for me? What a cunt.
>>24453535tomorrow my child, tomorrow>inb4plinkett
>>24453584>kermode>plinkettKill yourself
lel Nolan got ownd hard
>Spielberg’s rich, still-misunderstood anthropological jest
>Armond Whitefigures he'd bust out the usual snobby claptrap for this movie
>liked Jack & Jill>point immediately void
>>24453557He's a contrarian, but he's pretty damned intelligent about it. He almost always makes good points.
>>24453629>criticising armond's superior taste
this was the same fucker who called toy story 3 awful and was called upon roger ebert as a troll.
>>24453600 implying i like plinkett>INB4
>>24453660>this was the same fucker who called toy story 3 awful He was right
>>24453677You like Kermode so suicide is still your only option
>>24453704Kermode is ROTYAY
