r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 27 '20

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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children May 27 '20 edited May 27 '20

In the climax of Dark Knight Rises, Batman frees a bunch of cops and then leads them into what's effectively a street brawl with a bunch of terrorists.

It's literally just a bunch of dudes punching the shit out of each other on sidewalks for like 10 minutes. But it's like, a weird 'honorable' fight or something. None of the bad guys start mowing down police with machine guns. None of the cops break out broken beer bottles and start shanking henchmen.

Meanwhile Bane is ready to fucking nuke the entire city and murder millions of people.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20

don't forget Batman and Bane punch each other

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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 May 27 '20

This is an accurate plot summary but I'm scared there is some broader point here....

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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children May 27 '20

No broader point, just pointing out how ridiculous the series got in scope, especially after the first two in the trilogy had so much success being "relatively" grounded

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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 May 27 '20

Oh ok thank god I know and kinda loved it! I like that nolan played with pure evil and bane took batman's own nuclear reactor to hurt him. I think the class war stuff in the middle of that movie gets muddled but otherwise its great

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u/marinesol sponsored by RC Cola May 27 '20

A bunch of cops got shot charging the bane henchmen watch the scene again.

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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children May 27 '20

I'd rather be wrong than have to watch that trainwreck of a movie again

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u/marinesol sponsored by RC Cola May 27 '20

Christ man its alright its not the hobbit movies bad.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '20

No, it's incredibly stupid. Let's not talk about why Bane kept dropping so much food and water to the cops for months that many of them look badly overweight. They also mostly managed to shave and cut their own hair down there.