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

i dunno is batman dying inherently "dumb"? i guess i just don't see the problem. but let's just skip ahead to the part where we make a bet about whether bruce wayne kicks it and one of us paypals the other $20 on opening weekend.

oh i refuse to believe batman dying could be kept a secret till opening weekend

i mean, it's amazing we haven't seen a leak yet, but still

batman dying isnt the same as batman 'failing' it all depends on how its played - if the movie ended with him being murdered with a metal pipe and then the bad guy is like 'haha, owned', fade to black, audiences would be pissed - but the 'noble sacrifice in name of a greater good' often plays pretty well with mainstream audiences

of course i dont think theres a chance in hell that batbro bites it in this

Give it back to Tim Burton

yeah but it sounds better to say 'opening weekend' than 'when harry knowles is totally sure what he's holding in his hands is the actual screenplay' or w/e. it almost seems like kind of a no-brainer to me that the franchise that made a billion dollars off being the gritty realistic/pessimistic answer to other comic book movies could conclude by killing off the hero. not that i'm 100% confident they WILL do that, but it seems like a pretty obvious place to go.

the only thing burton should be given is a boxing about the ears

it almost seems like kind of a no-brainer to me that the franchise that made a billion dollars off being the gritty realistic/pessimistic answer to other comic book movies could conclude by killing off the hero.

no, there is a logic to it. it's just pretty bold move for a franchise that also makes its billion off toys, and a move that would easily seem idiotic in hindsight.

it's less bold when you consider that, nolan & bale declaring in advance that they're done with the franchise, it was going to be rebooted either way...

my money is that marvel's gonna send them all bouquets

will they stop making batman toys if batman dies? or only make 'dead batman' toys?

It's in the title, dudes. Batman dies and then all of Gotham watches his ghost rise into heaven.

what if BATMAN dies..

......but BRUCE WAYNE lives

food for thought

Two Face turns out to still be alive, movie ends with him deciding whether or not to spare Batman's voice by flipping a coin. the coin lands on a tabletop and just keeps spinning, cut to credits. SCHRODINGER'S BAT!

er Batman's life

maybe they kill him off but there's a "Batman will be rebooted in...THAT DARN BAT" before the credits

3rd Bat From The Sun

I also like the "Bruce Wayne listens to recording of his Batman voice, gets seriously embarrassed, retires" possibility

tails it is... tonight harvey dent fucks men!

i can definitely see batman breaking his back and mentoring JGL in a reboot

i just really wish the new spiderman would flop bc 'reboot' is becoming the new 'sequel'

the worst possible reboot i can imagine is Christian Bale cameos as a Professor X figure

otm

any time ive seen the new spidey trailer in a theater, the audience reaction is incredibly apathetic/bored. they kinda screwed up on that one

i like how the poster says THE UNTOLD STORY, totally cornering the market of people who always wanted to know spidey's backstory but don't remember it from the first moive.

weell they are doing all that lame crap with his parents

Has there ever been a successful franchise where the hero dies?

Alien. Clones don't count.

Alien 3 was a total commercial disappointment, though

maybe they kill him off but there's a "Batman will be rebooted in...THAT DARN BAT" before the credits

― da croupier, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:15 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

3rd Bat From The Sun

― some dude, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:16 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Big Bat Theory"

If i hear that this movie will kill him off, seriously I won't see it and I'll blank it completely off my radar. That should never happen.

Unless the film is set further in time, just before Batman decides to retire and move down to Florida.

they kill off comic book characters all the time you know (though tbf it took them a long time to do it with Batman)

Batman dying feels like the beginning of a story though, especially if they set up JGL as the successor. That's not "finishing" the story like they say they want.

But on the other hand, batman breaking his back being temporarily replaced and then coming back is a lot of narrative for one popcorn movie.

Yeah isn't that the whole plot behind the Bane stories in the comics? I just remember that front cover where it was literally him breaking Batman's back over his knees.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/Bane_breaks_Batman.png/175px-Bane_breaks_Batman.png

Looks like that should be some sort of gabber single cover from 1994 Amsterdam.

If i hear that this movie will kill him off, seriously I won't see it and I'll blank it completely off my radar. That should never happen.

Unless the film is set further in time, just before Batman decides to retire and move down to Florida.

― PSOD (Ste), Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

well, Rises does apparently take place 8 years after the story of the last movie.

3rd Bat From The Sun

― some dude, Sunday, 29 April 2012 22:16 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Big Bat Theory"

― PSOD (Ste), Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:40 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

nobody from big bang theory is in the dark knight rises dude

christian bale in batman by christopher nolan = "serious comic book film"

jgl in barman = popcorn flick for teens, with jgl cooing to interviewers about how "cool" it'll be ala the manchild that he is.

they got howard to play king tut

would like to see joseph gordon-levitt as mc paul barman

serious comic book film

This always makes me laugh.

well the phrase was used in scare quotes

want to see a comic serious book film tbh

have you met ZAC SNYDER harbinger of seriousness and bad films

I liked TDK but I kind of harbor a grudge against the "serious, gritty" Nolan trilogy because it's pretty much the main reason the 60s TV show has never and will never be on DVD.

why?

Do you have something to back that up?
'60s Batman TV show is one of my favorite things ever.
I am fine with a world where gravel-voice nipples Batman wiretaps and Adam West does the Batdance. They can coexist peacefully. I like them both.

^^

It's like having an Old Testament and a New Testament God. No one's criticized The Bible for that, I'm pretty sure.

idk, the jews don't have much truck with the latter