The concluding chapter of Christopher Nolan's gritty Dark Knight trilogy ended with a bunch of explosive bangs thanks to Bane and his associates, but also with a bit of a fizzle featuring the super unfortunate in-movie death of Marion Cotillard's Miranda Tate, aka Talia al Ghul. After orchestrating a series of huge protests with a rising death toll of innocent Gothamites, Talia al Ghul crashes her truck and with a melodramatic gasp and sigh, falls back dead but not before detonating her final bomb.
The moment is so incredibly hokey and laughable that it would have been perfectly matched in the campy Adam West-led Batman TV series, but coming during Nolan's take on the franchise, it feels hugely out of place.
We don't see a lot of Shakespearean villain-style monologues these days, and it's for good reason. They don't tend to sound authentic outside Shakespeare's context, even for a megalomaniacal character, and instead come across as painful exposition that ends up being funny rather than menacing. For example, look at Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of Balem Abrasax in the Wachowskis' space opera Jupiter Ascending, which follows a young Earth woman named Jupiter who learns that she's actually interstellar royalty a revelation that puts Balem's control of the universe in jeopardy.
Jupiter Ascending is filled with cringeworthy moments, from Channing Tatum's eyeliner to Kunis' overly earnest performance, but Redmayne wins for one of the worst acted scenes of the past decade. Keep watching the video to see the scenes from the past decade with unforgettably bad acting!
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Play dead | 0:14
Redmayne descending | 1:05
Pop goes the Weasley | 2:07
Director unchained | 2:57
You give love a bad name | 3:52
The 5:17 to acting school | 5:02
Drive lazy | 6:07
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