Come anticipate "The Dark Knight Rises" with *BATSPOILERS*

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meh-ow

seen the trailer a bunch of times and I still haven't totally parsed what's being whispered. Something about Batman being a really big deal.

Eventually only four movies will ever be made, just over and over, and my grandchildren's grandchildren will be wondering who's gonna play Catwoman in Batman DIII (not that this is a bad thing)

those heels look a tad impractical

http://www.batman-movie-buzz.com/wp-content/uploads/batman/medium_Batman%20-%20Bruce%20Wayne-cxupbaee.jpg

"I'm kind of a big deal"

prefer this pic of those guys just whiling away a coffee break

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/26/article-1317036163235-0E1653E300000578-463180_466x489.jpg

yer man there in full "you want me to trash the lights?" mode.

so disappointed they replaced gary oldman with hugh laurie's schlumpy tennis-bum brother

Was shooting all weekend downtown. Fucking nuisance

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As I said only two posts above. Weeks of the Dark Knight Rises shooting + Michael Jackson doctor trial +Occupy LA protests = gridlock around most of downtown LA for days now. This movie BETTER be good

I assume the Catwoman mask in the pic is just some makeshift practice mask, and not the final design. Can't imagine they'd go for such a crappy look in the actual movie.

+ MJ better come back to life + capitalism better get brought down

I'm hoping for a Catwoman mask like the current comic because GOGGLES

Glad you didn't say CLEAVAGE! :) But yeah, the current Catwoman mask is clearly the best she has ever had. If only they'd get rid of that stupid fanservice zipper...

If you have to rely on cleavage or ass shots to make Catwoman look like an interesting or attractive character, you are either a horrible writer or a bad artist

the zipper is fanservice and not a reasonable way for the character to get out of an outfit?

I think getting rid of the zipper would be even more fanservice-y

the zipper is fanservice and not a reasonable way for the character to get out of an outfit?

It could be, but the way it's used in the comics is that Catwoman always has it half-open, thus exposing her cleavage. This wasn't the case with previous, zipperless suits.

I mean, in theory Catwoman is an iconic superhero/villain who could be made into strong female character (like Wonder Woman) that female readers good identify with (thus attracting some new readers), but it probably won't happen as long as DC keeps depicting her like this:

http://comics-x-aminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/c1.png

Seriously, wtf is even happening in that cover?! Catwoman is sprinkling some Magical Masturbation Dust on herself?

"good" = "could"

god that cover art is terrible in like 40 ways

so ilx was down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokKUqLcvD8

Been taken off of YouTube, but there's also a 6-minute prologue shown at some of the IMAX screenings of Mission Impossible. It features Mayor Carcetti (really).

Hans Zimmer on this and that.

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/04/27/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolans-masked-ambitions/#/0

The plot and the production have been treated like state secrets, which speaks to Nolan’s now-notorious practice of message management as well as his yearning for old-fashioned movie mystique in an over-information age. The 41-year-old filmmaker is defiantly old school — not only did Warner Bros. fail in a push to close out the franchise with a 3-D release (as “Harry Potter” did) but here in the digital summer of 2012 the Batman movie is the only major popcorn project that was shot on film stock.

and

“Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” the filmmaker said of the script he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan Nolan. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story … unlike the comics, these things don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful.”

so he (SPOILER) dies?

Gets his back broke and it STAYS broken.

I would think it'd be impossible for DC/Warner Bros. to really let Chris Nolan follow their biggest hit with a movie where no one is audible and the hero dies, but then again, last year they made Green Lantern.

they've changed Bane's voice now anyway

does batman still sound like a muppet?

who's idea of fun is watching a film with a baddy who has his face and mouth is obscured for 2 hours?! i loved the first 2 films but .. man.
i mean i know that's how he looks in the comic and everything but still.

yeah man nobody goes to a batman movie to see a major character wear a face-obscuring mask

Lol Darth Vader to thread

I've always kind of assumed Batmang dies in this one ever since Nolan started emphasizing the movie's finality.

yeah man nobody goes to a batman movie to see a major character wear a face-obscuring mask

― some dude, Sunday, April 29, 2012 3:03 PM Bookmark

lol

Has there ever been a successful franchise where the hero dies? Capt Kirk doesn't count

Killing Batman just seems like a good way to cut down on repeat attendance

could the millions of fans who flocked to see heath ledger's final performance really be turned off by the morbid buzzkill of the death of a fictional character, though?

i mean outside of stuff with a predetermined longer arc like Harry Potter pretty much no series carries any serious momentum into a fourth movie or beyond, i don't see any problem with closing the door on Nolan Bats instead of leaving off with a "he lives to see another battle...but for how long?" ending.

i mean outside of stuff with a predetermined longer arc like Harry Potter pretty much no series carries any serious momentum into a fourth movie or beyond

ROCKY & RAMBO

how is the 4th movie following 20 years after the 3rd and making less money an example of carrying "serious momemtum"

i'll grant Rocky, though, the first 5 movies came out at pretty regular intervals and all made big money

Aren't they already talking about a reboot anyway? Something like how this sees off the Nolan take and then they can go a different direction next time. In fact, yeah, just dug this up:

http://collider.com/batman-reboot-warner-bros-christopher-nolan-producer/83025/

A year old and the initial date of 2013 has now been shot down but at the time:

Christopher Nolan has publicly stated that The Dark Knight Rises will be his final Batman film, and Warner Bros. is already looking ahead to the future of the franchise. As we reported last night, the studio is currently planning a Justice League movie for 2013 and Warner Bros. president Jeff Robinov tells Hero Complex that scripts are being written for Flash and Wonder Woman (the Wonder Woman project would exist separately from the upcoming NBC show). But most intriguing is what the studio plans to do with its marquee superhero, Batman:

“We have the third Batman, but then we’ll have to reinvent Batman…” says Robinov. “Chris Nolan and [producing partner and wife] Emma Thomas will be producing it, so it will be a conversation with them about what the next phase is.”

Two to one says something like this plays out. Nolan could kill off Bale-as-Batman easily and then any number of other possibilities goes forward -- there have already been rumors about Joseph Gordon Levitt's character in this new one assuming the mantle or whatever -- or even more likely they could take the Spider-Man approach and go 'fuck it' and just restart.

i just can imagine an exec saying "i think it was mistake to try and make a blockbuster where they killed batman" more than I can imagine ordinary people saying "my favorite batman movie is the one where batman dies". The JGL thing seems more likely, but that also reminds me of when they realized killing Hooch at the end of turner & hooch was a bummer even if they showed a puppy at the end.

maybe they just crack Christian's back and but still have him around to give JGL the go-ahead

that really was a bummer xpost

armie hammer was gonna play batman in george miller's justice league movie a couple years ago, but they never started filming. they got pretty far into pre production though

could the millions of fans who flocked to see heath ledger's final performance really be turned off by the morbid buzzkill of the death of a fictional character, though?

millions of people flocked to see the kick-ass batman movie that also had a great performance by an actor who tragically died after it was finished. i'm pretty sure you can see the distinction to be made between that and a superhero movie where the hero fails.