The Dark Knight Rises and DC comics...

I saw the Dark Knight Rises a few days ago and I've been pondering it a bit since then. First I will give you an overview of the movie and what I think about it, then I want to talk about DC comics and what they're doing these days...

The Dark Knight Rises is the third and final Batman film with Christopher Nolan as the director.
Everyone you would talk to would say these three movies brought back Batman, and were true to the comics... well mostly at least... but I think in most cases nobody cared where he changed things because he made them awesome; and everyone remembers Batman and robin and cringes... so anything that is done with batman that has a good storyline, and doesn't do stupid things with the characters has to be better... right? So let's talk about the DKR, the story and plot line, and see if that is true of the third installment of the trilogy.
DKR starts off where we left off with Dark Knight, well sorta... there's no talk of the joker (except references to 'the war' before)... but it centers around Harvey Dent and the law that got passed that put many convicts in prison, made Harvey out to be a great man, and Batman out to be a terrible villain. Oh and it's like 8 years later... the city hasn't seen Batman since then, and relatively speaking is at peace...
It all makes sense...
Bruce wayne, has been holed up in his manor for the last eight years as well, not showing his face... and also since he's not going to be batman, he's not been working out at all either...

Okay so plot is set up in away that makes sense... Then they set up bane, vaguely telling us who he is... and it's actually pretty cool.  Okay so at the risk of telling to much more, let's stop there and I'll just tell you I liked the plot completely.
So lets talk about what felt off or I didn't like...
First it felt like a typical 2nd movie in a trilogy... not the third. I think this had a lot to do with the joker being gone, now they really were short changed because of Heath ledge dying but I think despite that they did a good job moving on and not having the joker in the story line at all. But again I felt that it gave it the feel of a middle movie and not the ending... (though it did wrap up well like a third movie should).
Next.
Batman is awesome right? Who doesn't at least think that? But who thinks that batman stripped of his utility belt and gadgets is as good a batman as a batman with those things? In the movie I believe he only used his utility belt maybe twice... and he mostly tried to fight villains with a straight hand to hand combat... what?! Why?! Batman is great because he's smart enough to be using his supplies to get himself out of situations he's not actually strong enough to fight his way out of... that's part of what's cool about batman, he's smart enough to be better than that...
Well apparently not in this movie...
And next...
Wait nope plot wise that's it... it was wonderful. Well done and the above two things were all I could complain about...
I will mention that I think hans zimmer is better than what he did for the music of this film... the last two were wonderful soundtracks and this one was lacking...

Okay so awesome... so what does this mean for DC comics?

The last three dc comics logos.

Well it means that it's the end of their only successful movie series.

Did I say only? Well okay Christopher Reeves Superman series was pretty successful... until they did a third, and a fourth... and then later a new one (with a new actor) that rarely anyone liked... and we also got a preview for another one with the new 52 style at the DKR...
Which I'm going to throw it out there for a question, Does anyone like the New 52?
I have been trying it and trying it... and I dislike it every time I pick up a comic...
Why does dc feel the need to change everything all the time? Okay well starting over with all the series, marketing (and lets face it who really knew what was going on after all the universe crisis' happened), but what's with the logo change again? I can honestly say, in my lifetime DC has changed their logo three times in my awareness... Why? What's the point? Also we saw the superman logo has changed again too... ummm how many times does superman's logo have to change?
So what do I think this means for DC comics? As sad as this is coming out of my mouth, I think it means yay lot's of money and then a plummet as they seem to not have any idea how to make their characters into movies (green lantern, superman returns etc...) except without Christopher Nolan, who is done directing them and is only producing the man of steel... This makes me sad... I grew up loving DC comics, they were fun, and bright. Now they are gloomy and dark and hardly any good... So though I wish that with the ending of an epic series trilogy that they will put out something better or equal to The Dark Knight trilogy, I can't help but think that this is something they wont be able to do...
So should you see the DARK KNIGHT RISES? YES, Should you pray that DC comics gets it's act together after this success? YES, because if they don't this will be the start of their end...

The amazing Spiderman. Spoilers...

The Amazing Spiderman was amazing... I'm just going to say it; it was many times better than the Spiderman movie with Toby Mcguire in it... why? Here's why...

So this Spiderman movie being a reboot, has bits of it's origin story (though as far as I can tell it's not the whole story yet; the movie has an ending where a shadowy character talks about something that wasn't told...) However whole or not, it's enough. Peter Parker gets powers after bitten by a spider, he has to decide whether or not to be responsible with them, he isn't, his uncle dies and then he is... okay same as the original movie...

Here's where the movie goes from similar in plot and ideas, to awesome...
Andrew Garfield, has the actual ability to act like a smart geek. Okay so everyone's seen the 'smart movie geek'-- nerdy wears glasses and bumbles around... COME ON people has anyone actually seen a geeky person (that is truly genius material) act like that? No, they act all geeky and dumb with real life... not the math, science or whatever they're gifted in... Andrew Garfield plays that. He turns a corner and sees a math equation, and is in his element... sees a girl and cannot talk... This was a much better portrayal of life a real person... not a bumbling idiot...

Next thing to talk about is spiderman as a character... People always ask me, "WHO'S YOUR FAVOURITE AVENGER?" and my response is "SPIDERMAN" why? Because spiderman's hysterical quips in the comic books while they're all fighting is amazing! Now I can honestly say I've not read spiderman much by himself, so maybe he's not silly while he fights then, but in the avengers that I've read spiderman is always joking with everyone while  they're fighting the baddie...
In this movie, spiderman did that... and it was the best!
A car thief pulls out a knife and spiderman kneels and says...

"You found my weakness...small knives..."
These are the silly things that made me love him in the comics and love this movie version...

I also must say, I loved that it was the comic spiderman before he gained the webbing himself... That is to say he had to make his own webbing...
Which led to one of my fav scenes from the movie where he made a spiderweb and sat on it waiting for something to bump into the webbing and let him know where to go, like a spider...
Also really liked the fact that he used his webbing a lot... I don't remember the older spiderman movie using the webbing for much more than web slinging through the air... but this movie he uses it to stick arms to walls, to totally wrap the lizard up... all sorts of things... that are more like the comics I've read...

So all in all...
Loved the special effects, the Lizardman was well done and believable... flying through the air with spiderman was wonderful....
I did like the music, but I couldn't hum you the theme... but James horner is always good...
Loved the acting...
Loved the plot points, like What is wrong with Norman Osborn? And who was that at the end of the movie? Where are they going to go from here?! Either way I know where they go will be epic...
Because this movie was epic...