ScreenJunkies seems to have a good thing going with their “Honest Trailers” series, and their latest coincides with today’s DVD release of The Dark Knight Rises (see our guide to this week’s DVD releases). In keeping with the sheer number of complaints a person could have about The Dark Knight Rises, this one clocks in at nearly five minutes. That’s impressive nit picking.
“The movie that will mildly entertain you while you’re watching it, but will ultimately anger and disappoint you when you really start to think about it.”
Yup, that about sums it up for me. And yet, if virtually anyone but Chris Nolan had directed it, it’d probably be about 100 times worse. Anyway, I commend ScreenJunkies for this blatant nerd trolling. Let’s check in with the YouTube comments, shall we??
Shanil: i love all your videos but this was lame. Bane made a lot of sense. you shudve mentioned the complete lack of screen time for Scarecrows character and how hes still alive. He didn’t reveal his secret identity. Josephs character figured it out and approached him. The batman symbol on fire gave hope to the citizens of Gotham which made the commissioners partner decide to fight. Miranda told bane about the armoury, they work together. Its like you skipped bits of the movie.
walkinginwheelchair:
1. bruce stop being batman, because he thought batman was the solution to his parents death, but it results in the death of another loved one– so he correctly concludes batman has caused more pain for himself.
2. (while it was over kill to say he had no cartilage in his knees-it was obviously used for comic relief) it is still believable that his body would be pretty f-up after watchign the shit he does in TDK and BB.
3.
zakissocool: wow best nitpick ever. you even change bane’s calculations of 5 months until detonation into less than 3 months. nice job, dickhead. go suck josh whedon’s dick. won’t need any of your bullsh*t trailers. *unsubscribed
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Mmm, that’s some good YouTube commentin’. I give it t-minus 20 minutes before the first racist death threat.
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AAAAAAH NO NO NO DON’T SPOIL ‘DARK KNIGHT DVD DAY’ FOR ME NO NO NO.
There’s probably no better group of nerds to troll than Dark Knight nerds, though. They’re so haughty.
I dunno. You’re hard pressed to beat Whedonites. But his dialogue is so witty!!
But Chris Nolan isn’t making comic book movies, man, he’s making ART.
You’re probably right though; I’ve purposefully ignored everything Whedon-related so I’m kinda in the dark there.
Joss is boss.
My Cocaine as Alfie
Best joke.
I lost it at my cocaine. It just reminds me of The Trip and their Caine impressions
There’s a very enjoyable half hour to be spent trolling through youtube clips from The Trip.
Or, you know, you could just watch the whole movie/tv show, which is free on sites like netflix/hulu/amazon instant/etc.
I can never watch that scene enough.
IT WAS FUNNY WHEN THEY DID TWILIGHT AND TRANSFORMERS, BUT THIS!?!?! THEY CLEARLY DIDN’T GET THE SYMBOLISM!!! ASSHOLES!!!
*Runs away crying.*
I hope that one day, long after humanity has checked out, alien archaeologists try to piece together our society using our only remnant: youtube comments.
A million years from now, scientists will know there was a commenter named Hushpuppy and she trolled from the Bathtub.
What did they eat?
According to this archive of Yelp comments, none of them ate anywhere because the waiter seemed disinterested.
According to the digital fossil record this Ken M guy seems to have been their finest scientific mind.
This may be their finest work yet.
Saying Michael Caine as My Cocaine is the best way to get into the voice.
Now I’m reading everything in Brenden’s My Cocaine voice.
I’d sleep more soundly if I was on a mailing list that better identified these people who think Bane made a lot of sense. Not that they’re dangerous or anything but I don’t want to get caught up in them accidentally setting fire to themselves at gas stations or similar misadventure.
YouTube comments are always gold. And great fodder for Sockpuppet Theatre.
Honest Trailers more like Not Funny AMIRITE?!
Also nitpicking only really works when you get your facts straight and Honest Trailers never does.
The movie gets a lot better if you pretend the hellish gaping prison known as The Pit is Khloe Kardashian’s butthole.
Yeah, that trailer pretty much sums it up for me. And they could have done much, much longer it the wanted to.
I’m disappointed they never made an Obama/Romney joke.
The assist from the Red Letter Media guys was nice (who for the record actually really enjoyed the movie)
It is weird that Nolan’s films seemed to be held to a higher standard than everyone else. The plot of vitally every action movie falls apart pretty quickly when you take magnifying glass to it. For example take the second Xman film. A good flick that is near universally adored, however in the first few minutes a massive gaping plot hole is revealed that if it was in a Nolan movie would have send the internets into an uproar. The plot hole is Mystique impersonating Senator Kelly. Has she been doing this all the time for the past several months he’s been dead? I’m pretty sure it would be noticed if a US senator just goes missing for LONG tracks of time
Nolan has a peculiar way of only explaining anything in his plots retroactively, which it makes it natural for people to want to correct him.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I don’t recall that really happening in Batman Begins
Having re-watched TDKR just seconds ago…there be huuuuuge mothafuckin’ plotholes in that bitch.
It was still awesome, though.
So what makes us not care about plot holes? Honest question.
/dick joke
Well, at least this trailer answered ONE of my (many) questions about Dark Knight Rises: Bane was in control of Gotham for 3 months. I still don’t understand how all of those cops trapped in the sewer managed to keep their uniforms so clean for so long, though.
A “satisfying conclusion” was all I was aiming for, and I got it. I really liked TDKR, but I admit, I saw it in IMAX. My senses felt like they had been jumped and beaten by a flash mob of youths of unspecified race.
I simply opt to willfully suspend all logic and critical thinking in regard to the movie’s plot continuity. I also use the same approach on the subject of my sexual prowess. NO ONE WILL TELL ME IT’S NOT AS GOOD AS I THINK IT IS, dammit.
This was a great honest trailer. So true. Ive watched the movie once and really have no interest in seeing it again because of the lameness.
I got through 2 minutes of this honest trailer before shutting it off. It’s one thing if you just didn’t like the movie, but to sit and nitpick at tiny shit like the leg-brace shows you’re stretching and grasping. It’s called suspension of disbelief. Did you forget you were going to a movie about a guy who dresses up as a Bat? And everyone loves to shout that this movie has “massive” plotholes, and no one’s ever told me one. I’ve asked, but no one ever spells out these plotholes. The few I’ve seen people talk about can be chalked up to people not being familiar enough with all three installments and/or people just not paying enough attention.
Nolan’s films are so self serious that I can’t help but feel they invite scrutiny and a direct challenge to suspending disbelief. If you’re going to try and trick the audience into making this story real, ultra dramatic, and important for some reason, you better have your bases covered. Inception is one of the best examples of trying (and failing) to bring practicality to a totally impractical concept.