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Weekly Blend #311 – Heroes Rise While Victims Fall

Posted by on Jul 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

The Dark Knight Rises gives us a lot to talk about, both because of the movie and because of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado. We offer a respectful treatment of the victims of the gunman and the situation before discussing how commenters and media have gotten out of hand with the situation, which is why this week’s episode carries an explicit tag. We then offer three contrasting opinions on the final Dark Knight chapter, with both good and bad brought up about the movie. Co-hosts: Tim, Owen, and Thomas.

 

Weekly Blend #311 – Heroes Rise While Victims Fall
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  • NotTheWhosTommy

    Didn’t mention my thoughts on Superman cause of limited time. I’ll just say this; I wasn’t that impressed by Clark Kent’s The Deadliest Catch spin-off.

  • Crw17

    If Tim ends up loving “The Dark Knight Rises” when he didn’t claim to throughly enjoy the new “Spider-Man”, I’ll be profoundly confused. The final installment in Chris Nolan’s slightly overrated trilogy was overlong, confusing (due to too much exposition about nothing in particular and inexplicable character motivations), a unfitting-in-this-series collage of scenes and characters that had no given reason to belong together in one movie (mostly when it comes to Catwoman and Bane). All the same problems as “Spider-Man 3″, but this one took itself more seriously than most Oscar fodder. Boring… pretentious. “Amazing Spider-Man” had serious issues, but at least it seemed to be aware that superheroes are inherently silly.

    Completely absent of the great action of “Batman Begins” and the fantastic (for a mainstream movie event) humanism vs. nihilism themes of “The Dark Knight”, it was an enormous disappointment.

    This has been my soapbox.

  • NotTheWhosTommy

    “All the same problems as “Spider-Man 3″.”

    Did Batman dance to jazz at any point? I DON’T THINK SO.

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