 Hey guys! Happy July 20th for you today. Now, there is a specific reason why I'm doing this video today and most of you probably would know what it is, at least for those of you who are, I don't know, in your 20s or older. Today is the 10th anniversary of the Dark Knight Rises and I have to say that this was still a huge monumental moment for me. I know that the film doesn't have the greatest track records. I know it doesn't really have as strong of a story and a presence as the Dark Knight or even, in some cases, the Batman Begins. I know it has the really silly death scene by Maryam Kaltar. I know that it has a very kind of haphazardly happy ending. I know that there were issues and kind of audio issues as well as story and narrative issues, but when quarantine was almost in its full effect and the movie theaters were still trying to figure out what to do when they had no film schedules, my local theater, my IMAX theater, actually just for the shits and giggles, started to re-release all of the Christopher Nolan Batman movies in IMAX. I did not get to see Batman Begins in IMAX, which I was a bit upset about, but I did see the Dark Knight, which reminded me exactly why I saw that movie in theater six times, and then I saw the Dark Knight Rises right afterwards. And I guess to try and kind of put a little bit of a current day spin on it, the reason why I enjoyed that movie so much is the same reason why I enjoyed going to the theaters to see the Top Gun movie, the newest one. It really took advantage of exactly what you get from a theater experience that you can't get from home unless you have a fucking auditorium the size of a gymnasium and I don't know, even a personal theater I don't even know could do this, maybe. But the reason why I've always enjoyed going to the IMAX theater, despite the fact that some of its tech is a little outdated now, is the sound and the presence and the feeling you get. I like having my eardrum slightly damaged. I know that's probably not the best of things to wish for you, but in terms of a contributing score, in terms of putting you in the movie, Hans Zimmer has been doing that for decades. He's always given a really good score to a lot of his projects. Is it starting to get a little bit on the terms of kind of predictable and maybe a little bit repetitive? Sure, but hell, he introduced the Pirates of the Caribbean theme in Broken Arrow with Christian Slater and John Travolta in the 90s and that was a John Woo directed film. So the guy can always do it and you can almost relate to John Williams too. John Williams has always taken very simple notes, very simple kind of structures and always made something incredibly memorable out of them. And Hans probably did the best contribution in terms of putting your heart rate up with the Dark Knight Rises soundtrack. Comparison would be what Junkie XL did for the Mad Max Fury Road films. His score is fucking lit in Dark Knight Rises. It is screaming at you in a melody form. The bombasticness of the entire film's presentation is why I went and saw that movie also six times in theaters when it came out. I actually did see it in two different formats aside from IMAX. I saw it in AVX and I saw it in regular and that was it. The other aside from the opening midnight showing the other three times after those two other ones were all IMAX showings. I went out of my way to spend money on the more expensive ticket because I wanted the better experience. And that is what the Dark Knight Rises and IMAX gave you. Sure the story was a little bit silly here and there but oh my good Christ rewatching the Bane fight scene, rewatching Bruce climb his way out of the tunnel, rewatching the battle for Gotham. My heart was pounding. I was gripped in that seat even though I had seen this movie so many times and it was eight years after having seen it in theaters. I was in absolute glee to rewatch this movie in theaters. Does it excuse the storytelling issues that it has? Maybe not but I also feel that this movie was a bit of an experiment for Christopher Nolan in terms of his obsession with IMAX. And it really did also kind of bring that aspect that he was so adamant about in terms of theaters and movie theaters keeping movies in theaters is you couldn't have got an experience like this film at home. You couldn't have. Like I said even if you had a personal at home theater it wouldn't have done the same thing that an IMAX screen which technically speaking what that's like I don't know several maybe hundred thousand dollars worth of sound equipment and projector screens like the goddamn IMAX cameras back in the day were so loud that every audio had to be done post because the camera was um yeah it didn't feel like just a regular going movie experience it felt something far more personal far more entertaining far more of an experience and again making that comparison of the Top Gun movie you can't get that experience in at home. You're not going to when that movie comes out in theaters even if you maybe have the best sound system it's still not going to be great. If you do have a chance to go and see that movie in some form of theater I would suggest going to see it even maybe even seeing in a regular theater the fact that they don't have it in D-Box anymore I finally popped my D-Box cherry with that movie oh my god I was a fucking nine year old in that chair just move back to the Dark Knight Rises. Some article I just read from I09 mentioned that the Dark Knight Rises was the end of solitary superhero movies because then everything had to be a fucking universe after that right and it's true Nolan didn't want any sort of connectivity hell when they were talking about the Dark uh the Man of Steel movie Warner Brothers wanted him to direct that Warner Brothers wanted him to have that as an association with the Dark Knight Rises and Warner Brothers basically was Christopher Nolan's cock-boy while they did have their own ambitions of making their own universe they were too flimsy to ever disagree with Nolan they never wanted to disagree with the dude and to be honest would you he was their fucking golden boy until they decided to do the whole HBO Max thing without telling anyone until 30 minutes prior to the announcement and he pissed off well they pissed off uh the Navy Nude they pissed off Nolan to the point where Nolan left Nolan will not work for Warner Brothers again as far as I know and that is a huge loss because he brought something that while maybe he hasn't so much done with the last few movies he's made Dunkirk was an interesting experience I guess to say in terms of how he put that movie together Tenant I Feel and Still Feel was a disappointment I think Nolan thought he was making something a lot more intrusive than he thought he was. Oppenheimer I'm kind of interested in seeing because I don't know how he can make a this movie a hundred million dollars unless he's going to recreate war scenes and maybe I don't know somehow recreate an atomic bomb I don't know how he's gonna do it but yeah no I've been a massive fan of Nolan's Batman movies for years I took this Dark Knight cardboard poster from the movie gallery before they were going to toss it in the recycling bin and despite the fact that this thing is sun bleached barely standing up on its own two feet I will keep this for as long as I possibly can because I was a massive fan of these movies and I still am I can't say that I've ever had as much of an anticipatory experience for movies it probably is a combination of my youth I wasn't as jazzed for the Avengers movie as everyone else was I thought it was okay but I actually still prefer the Dark Knight Rises over it just because of like I said that movie going theater experience and Han Zimmer's score um and then I don't know any the other the only other movie I can say that's ever put me into that kind of trance and then that terms of oh my god I can't believe what I'm watching and fold in front of me would be Gravity Mad Max Fury Road Infinity War I guess because of how the story ends and most recently Top Gun Maverick it's kind of strange to feel that movies are not made for the theater anymore because in a sense they aren't there is this kind of divide between streaming services and um it kind of mid-tier platforms and what not but Nolan really made this movie for the theaters he made the Dark Knight Rises to be seen in a movie theater he's got the volume at 11 he's got the insanity with his spectacleness at 11 like I said earlier I think he was doing this as an experiment he wanted to see what he could do what he could get away with what were the limitations with IMAX cameras what were the limitations with what he wanted to do because a lot of those aspects that he put into that he used a little bit in Interstellar and then more so Tenfold with Dunkirk so much of Dunkirk was shot in IMAX camera I think he even shot the entirety of Tenant in IMAX camera but at that time they switched over to digital because they made digital IMAX cameras for Infinity War yeah I would say that Dark Knight Rises still stands today as one of my favorite film going experiences movie theater going experiences of my life I would never say that I didn't not enjoy that movie even if certain things were silly even if certain aspects of the film kind of didn't make much sense even if it's really a bit of a stretch to believe that someone could just punch your back in even though it's broken I loved it I remember taking the last time it was an actual theater run back in 2012 I took my mom to see it and when Bane was beating the shit out of Batman she went oh no how is he going to get out of this one and that was probably one of my favorite moments of seeing that movie again just seeing my mom go oh no how is Batman going to get out of this knowing full well that he's about to get fucking punked yeah anyways those are my kind of just ramblings today I like doing these things because admittedly this is a little bit easier of course I've been absolutely bleached out by the sun here so I apologize for that but it's nice to actually have some sun we haven't had much of this in um in BC of late we've just had a lot of overcast and a lot of wet and a lot of fucking mosquitoes but compared to how the rest of the world is going especially over in Europe with the heat waves and Texas and whatnot I guess I should count my lucky stars that I don't have another heat wave out here again anyways let me know what you guys think what did you guys think of the dark night rises when you saw it do you still remember seeing in theaters did you see it in theaters there it's an original run and do you kind of get where I'm coming from in terms of that bombasticness that sense of oh my god I can't believe I'm seeing this on the screen sort of feeling and I'm not talking about the story aspect I'm just talking about how that film was put together technically um I know that Warner Brothers tried their utmost to get that movie nominated for fucking everything which was just insane like Ann Hathaway for best actress give me a fucking break buddy um they Michael Keaton for best supporting actor they they tried so many stupid fucking things it's like guys these movies have never won these awards no one keeps winning the sound editing awards and the sound mixing awards just focus on that and in the end they didn't even win that they didn't even win those awards if I'm correct and that that's awful because it was so well done except for Bain's voice the first time around anyways that's all from me hope you guys enjoyed this little video hope you guys are enjoying your day happy 10 year anniversary to the dark night rises congratulations to christian bale nolyn oldman morgan freeman michael kane tom hardy mega uncle terry all of them you made a movie that's going to stick with me for the rest of my life regardless of how it was received that's all guys see you guys next time