Bane’s Voice Sucks

In case anyone is unaware of the little problem that the new Batman movie (The Dark Knight Rises) is having at the moment, lemme just throw in my two cents.

I recently saw the AMAZING 6 minute IMAX prologue for Dark Knight Rises that plays before Mission Impossible 4. Let me just sum up the whole experience (spoiler free) and say that the opening sequence I saw was more badass than the intro to the last movie (which is one of my favorite moments in the whole flick). And I knew before going into it that there had been a few complaints about not being able to understand what the main villain was saying, so I tried my best to decipher as much as I could.

It didn’t help.

Maybe it’s the bass of the IMAX speakers that overpowers Tom Hardy’s voice box. Maybe it’s the fact that the Foley sound effects for the scene were louder than Bane’s dialogue. I dunno, I’d have to hear it a few times to make a guess. All I can say is that, while Nolan claims that he won’t be remixing the audio for Bane’s voice, the fact that about 99.9% of EVERYONE who saw the prologue agree that something needs to be done, something will most likely be done. We just won’t hear Christopher Nolan admit that he was wrong (which is probably for the best, since he’s never really made a bad decision in any of his other films). Let’s keep that record squeaky clean.

-Dan