All of his points are fundamental misunderstandings of TDKR's story. I'm going to go over why each of them are wrong.
[spoiler] 1. The Catwoman thing is fairly obvious. It's ridiculous to not want her in the film since Anne Hathaway did a fantastic job capturing her character and her presence in the film spurred Bruce into leaving the mansion after eight years.
2. Bane never fought Catwoman.
3. Blowing up the football stadium, murdering the mayor of Gotham, breaking Batman's back and locking him in his former prison, freeing the inmates of Blackgate and establishing his mercenaries and thugs as Gotham's intermi government, and threatening the city with a nuke to keep them contained so everyone in Gotham is killed isn't enough for you? Besides, wanting Bane to be "chaotic" isn't what his character's about--he's working for Talia, he wants to destroy Gotham in an orderly and controller manner. The Joker is about chaos and anarchy--Bane is about power and control.
4. If you paid attention to the movie you'd know that Batman lost to Bane the first time because he didn't fear death. The old blind man in the prison cell told Bruce that the child who escaped the pit did so because she feared death and valued her own life, as symbolized by making the climb without a rope. When Bruce did the same thing, he came to fear death and realize his life was too precious to throw away. Besides that, his dedication to freeing Gotham was intensified over the course of three months of watching Bane's antics on television, and he trained his body extensively in the meantime.
5. Bane isn't a "mere pawn"; if you think he's less of a villain simply because he answers to Talia, you apparently think the movie would be better off without Talia, in which case you actually believe that having Bane be the son of Ra's al Ghul is acceptable. If you've read the comics you know it's not, and this way it's much more faithful to the established lore.
6. Bane was already beaten the moment Bruce climbed out of that pit. If you think his demise was "anticlimactic", I suppose you think Harvey Dent's death was too. At its essence, The Dark Knight trilogy isn't about cliched "epic battles"--it's about the symbolism and deeper meaning behind Batman. [/spoiler]
princeofshapeir
[spoiler] 1- I said, I didn't agree with number 1
2- This is correct, however she's like "oh a bunch of mindless thugs lol" and all of a sudden she's sacred to death of Bane with no reason other than picturing him as the main villian in the movie?? sorry, but she deserved an ass whoop in that movie.
3- Can't say I disagree... probably didn't pay enough attention to the initial point.
4- Yes, I understand that but the execution wasn't as good IMO... you see, Batman did kick Bane's ass but it was ruined by the whole revealing of Talia, and that was so anti-climatic if you ask me. What good is it to have your main threat beaten if he's gonna get back up on his feet and have you to the brink of death?? The way I see it, the fight between Bane and Batman should've come after Talia takes off. That way we could've ended with a triumphant picture of Batman over Bane without anything ruining this victory.
5- Might as well because, if you've read the comics you should know Talia doesn't hate Batman, but otherwise... and certainly doesn't love Bane. So in the end, it's like f**k the comics we'll do it our way and we want Talia to be the top cat in the movie just because she's the son of Ra's Al Ghul and she has a motif. And of course, I wasn't too happy to think Bane was Ra's son but at least it was consistant on why he was as badass as Batman without his venom.
6- And yet he had Batman about to recieve kick on his ass if it wasn't for Catwoman. I don't mind the fact that Batman was ssaved by her, but it was a lame end for a great villian. What about "Catwoman stops Bane from killing Batman with a couple kicks, Batman gets up to fight him and asks her to follow Talia while he deals with Bane"?? [/spoiler]
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