Dark Knight Rises

[Hauldren Collider]

It was a superhero take on a Tale of Two Cities. Note how the whole new world order **** that Bane pulled worked out for everyone? While the director claims it wasn't a giant jab at Occupy, it really was, since it was explicitly based on A Tale of Two Cities, which was a giant jab at the whole equality crowd from the French Revolution.

[MrFun]

Um, no it wasn't a jab at the Occupy movement. It's a message about how long can we keep economically oppressing the poor before the whole society blows up?

[Wiglaf]

It was a superhero take on a Tale of Two Cities. Note how the whole new world order **** that Bane pulled worked out for everyone? While the director claims it wasn't a giant jab at Occupy, it really was, since it was explicitly based on A Tale of Two Cities, which was a giant jab at the whole equality crowd from the French Revolution.

So Bane didn't blow the city because he wanted to prove the futility of movements like Occupy?

Why was that more important than fulfilling Ra's al Ghul's goal, and the goal of the League of Shadows, of destroying the city? What is his motivation for compromising that objective to make social commentary, especially since the first movie showed how dangerous it was to screw around with Batman?

[SlowwHand]

Saw a news report yesterday on the uninsured victims. Some of them face $1M+ medical bills when all is said and done.

This is why people without insurance in the US (who have the ability to obtain it) are idiots. Right Ben?

A Google search on "Colorado shooting victims medical bills".

News for colorado shooting victims medical bills

Christian Science Monitor
No medical bills for some Colo. shooting victims
Amarillo.com - 6 hours ago
Some of the victims fighting for their lives after being wounded in the movie-theater shooting ... No medical bills for some Colo. shooting victims ...
Smith donates money to Colorado shooting victims
Yahoo! Sports - 4 hours ago
Aurora Shooting Victims: No Medical Bills, Free Care, For Survivors At Some Colo. Hospitals (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - 1 day ago
Colorado shooting victims: Who will pay medical bills? - CSMonitor ...
https://www.csmonitor.com/.../Colora...ho-will-pay-me...
1 day ago – Enormous medical bills for those without health insurance may be the next challenge for victims in the Colorado movie theater shooting.
Colorado Shooting Victims Have Their Medical Bills Wiped Out By ...
https://www.inquisitr.com/.../colora...their-medical-...
23 hours ago – Three of the Colorado hospitals that took in victims from the mass shooting at a midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises” have announced ...
Aurora Shooting Victims: No Medical Bills, Free Care, For Survivors ...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../a...-bills-_n_1704...
1 day ago – Colorado Shooting 2012; James Holmes; Aurora Shooting. More ..... URLs and get paid! No medical bills for some Colorado shooting victims ...

[Wiglaf]

It's just such a betrayal of the whole point of the League of Shadows. They already concluded Gotham isn't worth governing and needs to go. Bane recognizes this, that's why he introduced an unstoppable nuke into the city. Why does he waste time waiting for it to decay, instead of pressing the red button, especially once he sees how stupid it was to throw Batman at the bottom of a pit?

[Wiglaf]

Um, no it wasn't a jab at the Occupy movement. It's a message about how long can we keep economically oppressing the poor before the whole society blows up?

The film pretty clearly explains that Bane's followers are mindlessly seeking to disrupt an established system that, while flawed, is a lot better than anything they can dream up.

[Wiglaf]

It reminded me of an interview the fat Michael Moore did while snarfing down a cheeseburger, when he was asked what his proposal for a new financial system was. He muttered something about one that "gives power to the people" and got big cheers for it. Hilarious.

[DinoDoc]

I guess Bane gets off on breaking people and making them realize all hope is lost prior to their death. Fine, whatever, very deep. But the second he saw Batman was back he should have realized enough's enough and detonated the bomb.

He didn't have control of the bomb at that point.

[Wiglaf]

Fine, then why did the woman fail to detonate it? She shared the goal of the league of shadows to eliminate gotham, as she explained at great length in that painful bit of expository dialogue while stabbing Batman. And why did bane give the detonator to her? Why the sham of claiming he gave it to an ordinary citizen?

[Dr Strangelove]

I like how everybody in the movie seemed so astonished that fusion power could be weaponized.

While it's true that thermonuclear weapons are initiated by atomic devices I've never heard of anyone trying to do that in any of the experiments on commercial fusion power - it would be just plain stupid. In fact I have no idea what sort of "core" of a fusion reactor would contain something likely to spontaneously undergo a nuclear or thermonuclear explosion. The typical experimental fusion reactor consists of a Tokamak device to compress and heat the fusion fuel and then something else to bring the fuel to fusion conditions. Supposedly such devices are not capable of producing a thermonuclear explosion.

[The Mad Monk]

Yep, fusion plants, out of all the more exotic types, are the least likely to go boom in a meaningful way.

On the other hand, comics.

[Felch]

My point is that harnessing fusion power to make a bomb is trivial compared to harnessing it to make electricity. Wayne's reason for not going forward was that somebody could misuse the technology. Did Edward Teller not exist in the DC Universe?

[Wiglaf]

Who cares?

[Felch]

I care deeply. It's a plot hole bigger than your mother's gaping vag. I also didn't like the cops pouring into the sewer system without any regard to common sense tactics, like maybe spreading the **** out. But I bet that gave you a raging hard on, didn't it?

[Wiglaf]

That's how the real NYPD responds to emergencies.