Welcome to The Minney Filmster!

Well folks I've finally done it! I've been thinking about starting a movie website where I review recent movies and of course just talk about movies. I am the MinneyFilmster! I know...awesome right?!

Every week I'll try and post a new review on a movie that I've seen using the true time tested 5 lightsaber method. I'll also be starting a segment that I like to call awesomely bad movies...where I review movies like Killer Clowns from Outer Space (Yes people get killed by popcorn and cotton candy in this movie...I know, hilarious!). Anyway, I want to start this blog off right by of course posting about what will be the greatest movie of 2012...The Dark Knight Rises!

If you've been living under a rock for the last 2 years, The Dark Knight Rises is the follow-up to the phenomenally successful second film in Christopher Nolan's take on the caped crusader, The Dark Knight. If you haven't seen The Dark Knight...get the hell off of my blog right now and watch it damn-it! Honestly if you haven't seen it, I have no words for you, but Aziz Ansari does...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oQCL4okGxQ. Sorry for the rant...back to The Dark Knight Rises.

So anyway, I won an online contest last Friday to view the first 6 minutes of the upcoming Dark Knight Rises. So my friend Zach and I drove a half hour to the closest IMAX theater and waited an hour to watch six minutes of a movie. This sounds ridiculous, but The Dark Knight for me was the perfect movie: it was created by my favorite director, stars my favorite actor, and as my friends know, I quoted the Joker for like 6 months after the movie (okay let's be honest, I still quote the Joker). Anyway back to my story...so my friend and I finally get into the theater about a half an hour before the movie starts, both of us with free Batman t-shirts. At this point I'm completely satisfied with the trip...free t-shirts, fuck yeah! But now, I'm starting to notice all the people around me and I realize a few things: that I can pretty much count all the girls in the theater on one hand, that I am waiting an hour to see 6 minutes of a movie that I won't be able to see until July, and the fact that there is most definitely a who shot first debate going on somewhere in this theatre... Just as I've realized that I've hit a new nerd low, the theater starts to get dark and the clip starts.

All I have to say is the first 6 minutes were...actually there is no word in the english dictionary to describe how awesome it was...so I'm forced to make one up...scrumptulescent. The first 6 minutes were absolutely scrumptulescent!

*Spoiler Alert - Don't read on, if you don't want to find out about the first 6 minutes...*

So the movie starts out with Jim Gordon, played by the outstanding actor Gary Oldman, talking about the death of district attorney Harvey Dent, who was played by Aaron Eckart in the last film. As the clip fades to black, we're suddenly whisked away to the Scottish highlands where a plane is shown landing on a runway. Here we're introduced to Dr. Pavel and a CIA agent. There's a few moments of meaningless dialogue and three hooded men are dragged onto the plane along with Dr. Pavel. The CIA agent then begins to interrogate one of the hooded men, trying to get the man to give up details about Bane, the new villain in this movie. A heavily muffled voice is heard from the background, speaking in what sounds like a semi-russian/spanish accent. The CIA operative then begins to question the hooded man, ultimately tearing the hood off to reveal a bald complete with breathing masked man who is none other than Bane himself! Bane proceeds to break out of the handcuffs using brute force, while his henchman (in another plane mind you) zip-line down onto the plane and rupture a hole in the back of the plane, causing it to plummet towards the scottish landscape. Bane proceeds to grab Dr. Pavel, execute some sort of blood transfusion in midair and escape the free-falling plane leaving one of his henchman behind to take the fall. From there the film fades to black and the 2nd trailer for the film starts off showing us images of Anne Hathaway in her Catwoman costume and Joseph-Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, but it's the final image that leaves me a little breathless: Bane walking away holding the crushed mask of Batman! As soon as my nerdgasm is about to climax, the lights in the theater slowly rose and it was over. Great...blue balls for the next 6 months!

*End Spoilers*

Watching this clip in IMAX was amazing and I've got to say this is making me incredibly excited for this film. Christopher Nolan's track record speaks for itself and I know that this movie will be great! I mean Christopher Nolan making a bad movie is like Ghandi punching a guy in the face...it'll never happen! My only gripe so far is the fact that Bane's voice was sort of hard to understand. I'm not sure if this clip just had bad audio in it or the fact that the scene was filmed with IMAX cameras (IMAX is pretty notorious for being loud, which can sometimes distort dialogue), but the mask muffled and distorted his dialogue. Overall though, this action scene rivaled that of Joker's attack on Harvey Dent in the Dark Knight, which made me wonder what other crazy action Mr. Nolan has in store for us. With this kind of action and the amount of acting power in this movie, I feel that it is on pace to be a better movie than the Dark Knight. I'm really intrigued to see how Tom Hardy's Bane will challenge Batman and to see if Mr. Nolan will do the unthinkable...kill off Batman.

Overall, I give the clip 4 out of 5 lightsabers.

Be sure to check out my review of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo coming on Tuesday.

In the meantime...

You stay classy Minneapolis,
MinneyFilmster