Bane: Before and After

Before seeing "The Dark Knight Rises," I thought that I would be pondering questions about morality and Batman's place in the world. Instead, I just wanted to know what Bane's (Tom Hardy) voice sounded like before Christopher Nolan altered it.

But thankfully, as it always is, YouTube was there to answer my prayers. Thanks to gangsterturk25 (I don't even want to know what that means), we can now know what Bane sounded like before and after. And while Bane was harder to understand in the original version, that voice still seemed so much more fitting. That is both because a man in a mask shouldn't be easy to understand, and Bane should be scary and unintelligible. His old voice sounds closer to Sauron and Darth Vader. His new voice, as many on the Internet have perfectly noticed, sounds like a less-than-stellar Sean Connery impression. And when he says "your punishment must be more severe," he sounds like an excited game show host announcing who the winner is. Believe me, Tom Hardy will impress you once "Lawless" comes out later this month.

Watch the video below. That opening plane crash sequence is so much more awesome when you forget about the fact that it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises

Welcome back, Batman.

"The Dark Knight Rises" will elicit hours worth of conversation. However, it won't be about the political subtext ripped from today's headlines as you might have expected. It will consist of a lot more pondering about where Christopher Nolan went wrong, and how the finale of a masterful saga could be such a dissapointment.


When Christopher Nolan first brought "Batman Begins" to the world, he was introducing a brand new Batman to a new generation of fans. Then, when "The Dark Knight" came out, he had made something unlike any action movie made before it. In "The Dark Knight Rises," he tends to rely on all of the uninspired tropes that he was once so good at ignoring.