'The Dark Knight Rises' links: Must-read reaction pieces, and a must-see video

John Serba | By John Serba |
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on July 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, updated July 27, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Dark Knight Rises Bane.jpgDoes Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" really sound like "a jovial Sean Connery dying at the bottom of a well"?

I hesitate to call it "backlash," but "The Dark Knight Rises" has experienced some type of lash.

That's what happens to one of the most anticipated movies of the year, I guess. In the week since the third film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was released, the internet has exploded with commentary from lovers (I'm not one of them), haters (I'm not on of these people, either) and in-betweeners (yeah, that's me).

Here are two must-read pieces (WARNING: spoilers abound, so click at your own risk) and one must-watch short spinoff parody film that had me chuckling. Call it laughlash:

  • First: The Controversy of Bane's Voice. Who hasn't tried to satirically emulate the goofy intonations that Tom Hardy gave the bulky villain, who speaks through a Darth Vader-esque talkbox? One of my Twitter friends described his voice as "Professor Bane, PhD in talking through a cardboard tube." He didn't make Indiewire's list of creative descriptions for the voice, which range from film critics to Twitter snarksters. A couple of my favorites: "a jovial Sean Connery dying at the bottom of a well" and "Darth Vader shouting, while playing a bass accordion through a Harley Davidson exhaust pipe." [Indiewire]
  • Second, The Logical Inconsistencies of the Plot. While watching the film a second time, it occurred to me to make a list of all the little niggling plot holes that kept interrupting my enjoyment of the film. Slashfilm beat me to it, posting "15 Things That Bothered Us About 'The Dark Knight Rises'," which pretty much covers it. It addresses how Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character intuits Batman's secret identity, and how Bruce Wayne gets back to Gotham from India. Lovers of the movie had their own answer to the latter question. [Slashfilm]
  • Finally, Woodhead Entertainment shared a short film titled "Extremely Dark Knight," which addresses Batman's interrogation techniques, and inspired many Laugh Out Louds from yours truly ("On a scale from one to 10?"). Give it a watch:

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