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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) film

Discussed in 11 episodes · 11 film takes
PKA Score 3.7/10
Kyle
3.8/10
8 takes
Taylor
4.3🦉/7
2 takes
Woody
5.9/10
1 take
IMDb 8.4 RT 87% Metacritic 78
PKA rates this 4.6 lower than critics

Sentiment over time — how their takes changed across episodes

LovedNeutralHatedPKA 319PKA 386PKA 452PKA 519PKA 586PKA 319: +0.70 (1 take)PKA 361: -0.75 (1 take)PKA 373: -0.70 (1 take)PKA 441: -0.80 (1 take)PKA 462: -0.82 (2 takes)PKA 466: -0.60 (1 take)PKA 565: -0.70 (1 take)PKA 569: -0.70 (1 take)PKA 586: -0.78 (2 takes)
Each dot is one episode’s average take (bigger = more takes that episode). Toggle a host to isolate their arc. Voice-verified film/show opinions only.

Every time it came up

▶ PKN 466 @ 22:37 — PKN 466
Discussion of Bane character's audio mixing problems in Christopher Nolan's film, where Bane's dialogue was difficult to understand
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Remember how easy it was to understand Bane in all those scenes? In that... No, I can't tell if you're being serious. I'm being totally sarcastic”
▶ PKN 569 @ 21:09 — PKN 569
Brief mention of The Dark Knight Rises while discussing other Batman films.
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Anne Hathaway Catwoman from the third Batman movie in the Nolan trilogy, which is the worst.”
▶ PKA 462 @ 28:36 — Painkiller Already #462
Hosts discuss the third film in the Nolan Batman trilogy, critiquing its quality and fight choreography.
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“It's not very good. Yeah, it's the fight choreography. And the third one is horrible.”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“The third one is garbage.”
▶ PKA 319 @ 24:32 — Painkiller Already #319
Discussion of Christian Bale's extreme weight transformations for Batman films, comparing his roles across different movies
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I'm not impressed at all by Daniel Day-Lewis pretending to be Abraham Lincoln all day, every day. All that shows is, oh, you're not a good enough actor to memorize the lines people tell you.”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“this body change stuff, that's incredible. Yes, please, more potatoes.”
▶ PKA 361 @ 3:35:30 — Painkiller Already #361
Discussion of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and criticism of the final climax
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“The third Nolan Batman movie is such horseshit”
Quibblecop · unverified▼ negative
“The third one had a Gangs of New York feel in that final battle, except the Gangs of New York feel was really, really cool, and the final battle there was like, it's so unrealistic.”
▶ PKA 373 @ 3:21:24 — Painkiller Already #373
Discussion of Batman fighting Bane and the realism issues with a major city battle without guns
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“fighting in the middle of the day and nobody's even got a handgun. That's so fucking stupid.”
▶ PKA 441 @ 1:14:32 — Painkiller Already #441
Critical analysis of the film's plot and action choreography
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“that third batman movie is so bad it really is the one with bane yeah the one with bane it's bad it's a bad movie”
Destiny · unverified▼ negative
“i think the entire like instigating plot of the um of the dark knight rises is actually absurd”
▶ PKA 297 @ 2:09:09 — Painkiller Already #297
Mention of Tom Hardy as Bane in the final Nolan Batman film
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“Tom Hardy was amazing. I like him as an actor a lot. That character was great.”
▶ PKA 586 @ 3:44:27 — PKA 586 W/ Matt Farrah: Jussie Smollett Sentence, Florida Man St
Third Christopher Nolan Batman film with Bane, discussed as worse than the Joker film and having a poor finale
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“you've basically got a very similar scenario to the 1960s uh batman tv show were they like glam splat it's it's a daytime free-for-all fist fight between men and costumes”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the third one is like bad bad like like less than average like a three or four out of ten like a bad movie”
▶ PKA 565 @ 25:47 — PKA 565 W/Tucker: PKA Got Baked, Dollar Store Bandit, Dried out
Kyle critiques Bane character and the final movie compared to earlier films in trilogy
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“i think the more years that go by since i've seen it the more i'm realizing yeah the bane one really dropped the ball i didn't see it again i liked it at the time but i think i've only seen it once i mean it's not a terr”
▶ PKA 520 @ 3:07:50 — PKA 520 w Matt Farah - Cyber Truck is a lie, Complex Watches, Pa
Discussion of the third Batman film with Bane, criticizing the plot and fight choreography
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“the third one's garbage the third one is hot [ __ ] garbage in one bane yeah”