The Dark Bond Rises

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I know many critics made the comparison, but after seeing the Dark Knight Rises repeatedly on blu-ray last week, and having seen Skyfall in the IMAX theater last month, I just have to comment on the many similarities.

1. Both are the third installment, and sort of a conclusion, in their respective character arcs.
2. Both start out as defeated, scruffy (uncharacteristic facial hair), decrepit, unpopular, emotional wrecks.
3. Bond faces a foe that offers no international intrigue or multinational threat--which were key calling cards of all Bond foes. Javier played a very basic psychopath who was just a good spy gone bad. The villain in TDKR had a more bond-like quality, involving a nuclear threat. Both relied on a psychothriller element.
4. Both arcs brought the hero back where they were as a child so that it was more of an inner struggle than about phsycially defeating the bad guys or outwitting them.
5. The constant reminders about both heroes being orphaned, losing their parents and coming to terms with their loss.
6. Both arcs were very similar in tying up the father/mother figures in their lives who had come to replace their parents. In the case of TDKR, the Michael Caine butler figure and in the case of Bond, it was Judy Dench as M.

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Topic - The Dark Bond Rises - Jazz Inmate 21:52:13 12/12/12 (9)

Simple, Nolan ghosted this edition of Bond....... - mr grits 13:34:20 12/13/12 (6)

Really? Dark Knight Rises was a fookin' mess of a movie... - musetap 21:36:59 12/13/12 (5)

Skyfall wasn't "that" good . . . the future looks promising. * - mr grits 15:17:01 12/14/12 (1)

Good? It sucked. That fake castle, ridiculous scenes on the moor, a decrepit and bloated - tinear 19:35:37 12/17/12 (0)

what was messy about it? - Jazz Inmate 22:08:15 12/13/12 (2)

RE: what was messy about it? - musetap 12:20:37 12/14/12 (1)

RE: what was messy about it? - Jazz Inmate 15:27:16 12/16/12 (0)

Good work connecting the coincidental dots. Here's another one. - free.ranger 23:24:57 12/12/12 (1)

I liked Hardy in Inception and Black Hawk Down. He has good range and can play refined, charming and desperate - Jazz Inmate 01:59:01 12/13/12 (0)

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