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

room for zsasz then?

http://batman-news.com/2011/06/17/this-the-dark-knight-rises-teaser-trailer-is-fake/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXFsQRW5VKg&feature=player_embedded

damn, 9/11

http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/images/TheDarkKnightRises_TeaserPoster.jpg

that's kind of awesome

i guess he didn't get all the buildings-coming-apart out of his system.

that's a pretty good poster though.

the teaser's gonna debut w/harry potter

will go see this

...no way!

Will DEFINITELY see this. I was one of the few people who thought Batman Begins> The Dark Knight, But Nolan's Bats film are consistently interesting and unusual at least.

I think Batman Begins probably has more going for it in terms of mythos and character development, but TDK has a lot more to it, overall. Probably the biggest weakness of TDK is that every character has more depth than Batman!

that's not a weakness

is Nolan still writing and directing?

I thought he was co-writing this with his brother, like the last ones...?

honestly Inception is the only thing that gives me pause about this one. I've liked all his other movies but that was garbage.

inception was just like all his other movies! he just has really boring dreams.

Ann Hathaway is the only thing that gives me pause about this one. I don't think she's a bad actress, but I have a really tough time believing she would be able to pull off Catwoman. In the Joel Schumacher version of Batman movies, maybe.

as long as the costume is on point i am sure miss hathaway will be okay.

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WE USE BBCODE ON THIS BOARD

sorry, now the calum tag will never be closed on this thread

capital knockers, eh wot

They've been sort of coy about her Catwoman, no? Like, she's in it, but not much as Catwoman or something?

Maybe she will be another dead girl for Batman to get emo over like in every other Christopher Nolan movie.

an emo kung-fu billionaire beating the shit out of people to avenge his dead mother really is the ultimate nolan subject

I think the main diff between the first two, story-wise, is that David Goyer did the screenplay for the first but he was just involved in brainstorming the story for the second

TDK is massively overambitious, raising moral questions it has no hope of resolving. It's a bit of a mess. BB is just a really well-made, atmospheric, exciting action flick.

TDK is massively overambitious, raising moral questions it has no hope of resolving.

to be fair this is every "serious" batman story for the last 25 years.

^^^

I thought BB was too cheesy/underdone in the final chase/battle where Lt. Gordon is supposedly driving Batman's vehicle and Batman is having an "oh no you didn't" conversation/fight on the train.

Most of it is pretty decent, though.

Josh they have recently said there definitely will be a cat costume.

its pretty much been confirmed that the catwoman costume's gonna be modeled on the recent redesign with the novelty oversized goggles and zipper pull

TDK is massively overambitious, raising moral questions it has no hope of resolving

LOL

I don't think the moral questions raised in TDK can be resolved without feeling pat, preachy or "edgy"

like, if I go to a Batman movie and there's an extended tortured self-monologue where Batman goes "I need to tap everyone so I can find a lead, but I can't listen to everyone's cell phone conversations, that is a gross invasion of privacy, oh heavens I am conflicted", I am going to think that you are more interested in a political agenda than a story

but, if a side character interrupts Bats and argues the point, you are introducing conflict into the story while raising an interesting political point that may not have an easy resolution (particularly in a fictitious world), plus I would feel any repercussions from that choice played out later down the line would be better earned

basically it's about presentation

I thought the end of TDK was kind of overblown, but Gary Oldman's monologue really did put tears in my eyes

i think BB > TDK

ok I'm blind this week, I didn't notice the sky above the buildings was the batman logo until I saw the larger version of the poster on the official website

I think TDK has some amazing set pieces that are filmed and presented better than anything in BB. Either that or it just has that opening bank job where all the accomplices get killed and I love it so much I overlook the rest.

josh they have definitely used the word 'voluptuous' in describing the catwoman costume
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The opening scene is magnificent, yeah.

I think TDK has some amazing set pieces that are filmed and presented better than anything in BB. Either that or it just has that opening bank job where all the accomplices get killed and I love it so much I overlook the rest.

― mh, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:49 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark

no i think this is true. i didnt realize how awesome the truck chase was until i saw the movie again, but its really a nice piece of work. cool movie imo

the truck chase is pretty great. and I tend to hate car chase scenes

The fight scenes are a mess though.

I pretty much hate this fucking movie.

TDK is massively overambitious, raising moral questions it has no hope of resolving

LOL

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, July 12, 2011 7:46 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

what an inscrutable post

maybe it just made him laugh out loud

lol

The fight scenes are a mess though.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, i think thats a limitation of the batsuit, its so clunky you have to shoot around it

It did! Whenever i hear about this movie and all the DEEP MORAL QUESTIONS it asks i think back to the time I've seen it and kinda have to laugh. Maybe someone needs to point out some of these to re-jog my memory. I mostly remember lots of explosions and growly voices and token 'War On Terror' references.

trying to condescend to something intellectually by saying you didn't really pay attention is... one way of doing it

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