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

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

I remember hearing the 60s Batman wasn't on DVD because they don't own the rights to the tv show Batmobile and Warner Bros have to pay the guy through the teeth for it. They can syndicate it without a new contract, but home video is a different ball of wax.

yeah i mean, it hasn't been on home video or dvd or anything ever, for decades. whether DC has done that in part out of some misguided attempt to stop it from 'hurting' the movie franchises or not, can't really lay blame for that at nolan's feet.

Yeah im basing that off something i read on Wikipedia years ago.

Still, i think that 60s show gets the short end of the stick. It's pretty awesome.

if nolan was remotely the reason the '60s Batman isn't on DVD, that would be some serious "life imitates Simpsons episode" shit

"go get 'em, scouts!"

I remember hearing the 60s Batman wasn't on DVD because they don't own the rights to the tv show Batmobile and Warner Bros have to pay the guy through the teeth for it. They can syndicate it without a new contract, but home video is a different ball of wax.

AFAIK this is pretty much the truth. The producers of the show made a contract and got paid for TV syndication, which is why Batman can still be shown on TV as reruns, but for it to be released on video would require a separate contract and payment (since for obvious reasons the original contact doesn't cover anything beyond TV runs), and for whatever reason Warner/DC hasn't managed to negotiate one.

Anyway, I haven't been paying much attention to the news regarding this movie, but noticed IMDb now says Liam Neeson will appear in it as Ra's Al Ghul (presumably in flashbacks?) and some kid is playing "young Talia Al Ghul". So that pretty much confirms Marion Cotillard is Talia, right?

And if the movie is gonna deal with the Al Ghul legacy, I doubt they'll have much space to include the Knightfall stuff, Bane will probably just be an henchman of Talia's. Though it would be funny if the movie ended with Bruce Wayne getting his back broken and the Batman mantle being passed to AZRAEL, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Actually, it would be kinda fitting, as Azrael was originally supposed to be a critique of the idea of a grim & gritty 90s Batman, but the Nolan movies seemed to have embraced that idea fully.

want to see a comic serious book film tbh

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Sunday, April 29, 2012 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh no you don't!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJicfFcO74E

wtf I can't believe they adapted THAT book

the neanderthal incest novel

"serious comic book film" = american splendor...?

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

― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 02:45 (15 hours ago) Permalink

Two Broke Bats

hough it would be funny if the movie ended with Bruce Wayne getting his back broken and the Batman mantle being passed to AZRAEL, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

I would love if this meant JGL is playing a cartoon cat henchman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g8evyE9TuYk#!

yikes

Kaboom, etc.

Nice to see that bottle brush treatment on Bane's throat nodes did the trick.

I was going to say the lack of Cotillard meant some bits were still under wraps, but she's in there toward the end

whoo, that was pretty damn cool. cannot wait for this movie.

0:12 : wheelchair reversing

I know it's been said already, but the way the two masks are related to each other is just wow, imo. (the mf'ing batman has everything but his mouth covered, while bad guy dude's the diametrically opposite mirror other way round like)

ah damn. looks GREAT. wanted to be all high and mighty about this, but i can't. photography, cinematography, costumes and production design look amazing. excellent trailer.

re bane's mask: i love how it looks like two sets of knuckles trying to pry his jaws apart, real tense and disturbing.

this despite the fact that i didn't much care for either of nolan's previous batman movies

Catwoman says, "You've given these people everything", and Batman answers "Not everything" = another hint that he will die in this movie? (I.e. he hasn't yet given his life for them.)

bane's mask looks like goatse