ummmm, I've got about 13 or more boxes of bagged and boarded comics that say i do bud. The hulk quote was for the ridiculousness that people find as faults in TDKR as they forget it's a comic book movie.
No Bane isn't older than Batman, there's no way. The quips during his assault on Batman are apparent he's mocking his age:
"You fight like a younger man, nothing held back. Admirable but mistaken"
Talia was always younger than Batman in the Comics by at least 5 years. Here she seems closer in age to Bane than to Batman. Making Bane the same age as Bruce or older makes no sense. Without the venom this isn't feasable, plus two old dudes beating each other up? Bane is younger and stronger to make up for the lack of the venom aspect. If not then he wouldn't be as much of a threat as he is.
Bane isn't older than Batman, they are relative in age. But at the same time, Batman isn't THAT old at this point. I mean, sure Christian Bale is like 40 now but in terms of where the story is? Bruce is no older than his mid 30's...
So one would assume that Bane is also, with Talia around her early 30's. Pushing that 29-31 age range...
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And heres my take on everyone saying things about this movie as the closer -
Sure yeah, there were some jumps here and there. But you have to look at it for what it is. TDKR isn't trying to beat any bar TDK set outside of box office sales. The story is brilliant in its own right and just because everyone has set this mental bar so high with TDK it seems as if it won't EVER measure up to you.
You can't go into this movie saying "This better be better than The Dark Knight" because that thought alone will have you listening to EVERY line comparing it with another movie. If you got the same lines and the same feeling from this as you did with TDK, then this movie WOULDN'T be anything different.
Then you'd all say "it was just like the last one"...
Thats the same way they ****** up the Hangover 2. Same damn movie, nobody felt any way different about it.
But obviously this movie does pull something out of us all. Whether positive or negative, this movie took you somewhere and you left feeling like you just completed the final chapter. And that was the point. This movie wasn't made to be The Dark Knight 1.5... It was made to be the final chapter of the trilogy. So whether Banes dialog didn't strike you as much as the Jokers did or not, you can't fault Bane for that. Bane is not the Joker, and whether its the movies or the comics, Bane and the Joker were ALWAYS two different individuals with a different plan for Gotham. '
Both were ruthless, but they had no similarities in strategy OR similar mannerisms as each other.
The Joker was always witty... Bane was always a brute force. Two completely different villains. You cannot compare them directly. It will never be even, and one will never be better than the other. You may have a favorite, but being your favorite doesn't mean one is better than the other.