I didn't much like the movie, it aims for some form of pomp and grandeur and misses it. And unlike the first two movies, there is nothing to save it. I watched "The Dark Night" again last night and it is obvious what "Rises" is missing: a great, or even adequate, villain. There is no Joker to save the film through intense villainy, there is only this wrestler in a mask. Also, the name gives the end away, so it becomes a game of waiting to see how far he rises.
But that doesn't explain why the soundtrack, which is really just Hans Zimmer's string and electronics score, is going to be in Billboards Top 10 album charts. Here is one reason:
PEOPLE DON'T BUY ALBUMS ANYMORE. If it all it takes is 70,000 units shifted, some strange flotsam is gonna hit the charts.
And here is another, the shooting in a Denver, Colorado Movie house which left 12 dead has spurred interest in the movie to fever pitch, I wonder how tee-shirt sale doing. WB are holding back box office figues for the moment, though quite how that will change matters is beyond me.
Let's get Denver straight. A nutcase did it and he was able to do it because of hysterically inadequate gun laws.
Among those dead is a six year old girl.
Which leads me off the topic. I have a friend who is going threw an existential crises at the moment. Her claim is that since life is meaningless, and since she is miserable anyway, why bother hanging around. Life is not meaningless, it has meaning to the person who is living it. What she means is, since its meaning will end, why wait?
The truth is, mortality is not the same as irrelevance, and people have souls even if they are not immortal. Science can't tell us why can we stir cream into coffee but we can't stir it out, it sure can't tell us why a six year old girl is dead in Colorado.