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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
(3D) PG-13
12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15
BRAVE (DIGITAL) PG
11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
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MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
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BATTLESHIP PG-13
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DARK SHADOWS PG-13
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DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX PG
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THE HUNGER GAMES PG-13
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THE HUNGER GAMES
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1:00, 7:00
MAGIC MIKE (DIGITAL) R
11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10
MEN IN BLACK 3 (DIGITAL)
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11:40, 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00
SAVAGES (2012) (DIGITAL) R
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STEP UP REVOLUTION
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TED (DIGITAL) R
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Directed
by Christopher Nolan. Screenplay by Jonathan
and Christopher Nolan, based on a story by the
Nolans based on characters created by Bob Kane.
Cinematography, Wally Pfi ster. Editor, Lee Smith.
Music, Hans Zimmer. Starring Christian Bale, Michael
Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy,
Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman. Warner Bros.
Pictures, 2012. PG-13. 165 minutes. 00211
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG-13)
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN IN REAL D 3D (PG-13) ★
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igh expectations sometimes lay
you low, and the very word “su-
perhero” spurs one’s anticipation
of a movie adaptation to leap tall multi-
plexes in a single bound and travel faster
than a speeding bullet to the box offi ce. It
can’t be helped. Walking into the July 20
midnight premiere of The Dark Knight
Rises, my hopes were high. I assumed that
this grand fi nale would be not only a step
above all predecessors, but also well worth
the particular discomfort of cramming into
a packed theater at midnight. Neither of
these assumptions panned out.
Don’t get me wrong: The Dark Knight
Rises isn’t complete bat guano. It has
enough redeeming qualities to allow for
some people to overlook the glaring fl aws.
First off, the fi lm has guts, confronting
our fears of terrorism and militant police
states, as well as full-blown economic
collapses. Director Christopher Nolan
(who also helmed the fi rst two fi lms in the
trilogy) plunges the viewer into a Gotham
City that metastaticizes from peaceful and
prosperous to dangerous and defunct.
And don’t worry: In the end, all those
bat-toys come out to blow stuff up in
fi ne fashion. The special effects will not
disappoint you, the soundtrack is superb
and the cinematography is solid. Here’s
the fi rst problem, though: The Dark Knight
Rises is two hours and 45 minutes in
duration and, at that length, screenwriting
brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan’s
story arc could not be properly sustained.
The movie needs to be way shorter,
and even then it should contain more
connective tissue.
The Dark Knight Rises opens with a
scene of Abu Ghraib-style black-bagged
prisoners being driven to some airstrip in the
middle of nowhere. A CIA agent oversees
the prisoner transfer, the plane takes off and,
within moments, moviegoers are treated to
a spectacular mid-air hijacking. Enter Bane
(Tom Hardy), the new Batman bad guy who
looks like a hybrid of Darth Vader and Vin
Diesel. Unfortunately, Bane’s character
presents the movie’s second serious
stumbling block.
Granted, after the late Heath Ledger’s
bloodcurdlingly epic portrayal of the
Joker, any ensuing Batman mega-villain
has some pretty nasty boots to fi ll. Bane,
however, just doesn’t present a quality
super villain — that is to say, he is not
super; he’s just a villain. Bane’s iniquity
is more suited to something out of the Die
Hard movies, where he’d be fi ne playing
opposite Bruce Willis. Not only does Bane
lack the charismatic fl are required of a
Batman baddie, but his villainous voice
is nearly impossible to understand. Just
because you’re wearing a souped-up SARs
mask and need to counterbalance Christian
Bale’s raspy Batman voice doesn’t mean
you can be aggravatingly inaudible.
Other places where the fi lm falls short
include a distended storyline; a lackluster
Cat Woman (Anne Hathaway); Bale
spending more time as an emo Bruce
Wayne than as an ass-whooping super
bat; and a generic cohort of mercenaries-
turned-terrorists who all somehow happen
to be black, Middle Eastern, Asian or just
very tan Europeans.
This last dynamic is rather interesting.
Given that Gotham is intended to mirror
the look and demographic of cities like
New York and Chicago, the fi ctional
city’s inherent lack of diversity among its
residents is curious. They’re pretty much
all white, excluding Morgan Freeman,
some football players and a cop or two.
I wanted to like this movie. I returned
the following day to see it again, despite the
horrifi c shooting less than 24 hours before-
hand in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 people
and injured 58 more at the midnight screen-
ing of The Dark Knight Rises. I wish I
could tell you I was paying full attention to
the movie, but I can’t. My eyes kept scan-
ning the emergency exits, just like the dude
next to me. The collective consciousness of
moviegoers that night — and perhaps for-
ever — was seriously rattled.
So maybe I didn’t get the best second
look at The Dark Knight Rises. And yet, for
the periods of time I wasn’t memorizing
the exits and premeditating the best escape
route, I did enjoy the movie a bit more.
Maybe it really is better the second time
around. Or maybe it’s just that those high
expectations were no longer present. ew
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