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

i really dug the five minutes of footage before MI4 (note: was lifted), but i gotta be honest, the trailers for this have been pretty lame. ya ok, the football field collapses. and a couple bridges fall down. and a bunch of crowd scenes, which are always terrible.

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:13 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is kind of a silly criticism imo. it's a musical montage-driven trailer for a movie that they're trying to withhold plot details about, of course it's going to lean heavily on glimpses of big action setpieces and not give you much of an idea what actually watching the movie from scene to scene will be like.

i think s1oc was saying that the big spectacle stuff looks lame

I hear that Bane also wrecks Bruce Wayne financially, through the business dealings of his firm, Bane Capital.

It's mostly a legal drama about the case of Bane v Wayne.

The opening sequence looks (and by all accounts is) pretty cool

Nolan does good set pieces! The one opening that last film could be a film in itself.

I hear Bill Clinton has a lot of respect for the good work Bane has done.

i think s1oc was saying that the big spectacle stuff looks lame

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:17 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but i dunno "crowd scenes suck!" is a weird thing to say imo. as if a) any movie like isn't going to be to some extent about a SUPER VILLAIN TERRORIZING THE CITY OF GOTHAM, CUE SCREAMING CROWD and b) c'mon that'll be what 4 minutes of screentime in this thing?

any movie like THIS, meant to say

"A sensitive, crafty Dark Knight faces a heartless goliath named BAIN" vs. "A resourceful millionaire defends the American way from an aggrieved lunatic obsessed with the redistribution of wealth"

scenes where groups of people run at each other yelling are so rarely good

anyway, that's just one thing, i'm just not feeling ~dun dun dun~ *BRIDGE EXPLODES*

but then again, the airplane scene was pretty awesome. so who knows

scenes where groups of people run at each other yelling are so rarely good

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:00 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1) Braveheart 2) yeah i think that's it

blazing saddles

Gangs of New York, ymmv

the worst

barry lyndon
the red and the white

gangs of new york is the worst film ever made tho, yeah

<3 barry lyndon but I always feel like it's a comedy and giggle the whole time

Seven Samurai

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3yuqzdZ7B1qezl5y.png

the point is, that stuff doesn't really look exciting to me in the trailer, it just looks like a bunch of extras running and yelling

i don't disagree. just seems like an inevitable (and inevitably small, in this case) piece of any city-under-siege superhero movie.

actually from what i understand half the movie is people screaming in the streets in daylight and then bane kills batman and the second half is JGL crying

no spoilers

wooops

no no, s1ocki means he's crying because someone stole his car's spoilers

right?

first of all, i didnt admit that i was crying

i mean, i didnt SAY that i was crying

but you are crying, right

I'm crying because I meant da croupier and not s1ocki ;_;

s1ocki, if it makes you feel better, I'm not feeling the trailers, either

I don't have a theory tho

really can't tell much from trailers so wth

Braveheart. Worst movie ever.

trailers don't have me ecstatic but it still looks better than Batman Forever

did not dig the trailer shown before prometheus at all. movie looks boring, bane looks/seems superboring

yeah tbh i am not encouraged by the Bane thing at all. my personal policy is 'avoid trailers, and if you must watch them don't put too much stock in them good or bad,' but i realize i'm always gonna be a minority in that belief.

SPOILERS

Rutger Hauer's ousted character from the previous films returns with the support of a large venture capital firm that has been buying interest in Wayne Enterprises in the years since the last film. Bruce Wayne, who has been largely been pretending to be a figurehead and philanthropist while leaving the day-to-day operations to Lucius Fox who has proven to be more science- than business-minded. The early movie Gotham intrigue is a Robin Hood-type cat burglar who is brazen enough to approach Wayne himself.

Bane then attacks the city, after being rescued by a shadowy organization in the movie's intro and told that the time he's been trained for has come. His assault on Gotham, oddly enough, uses a number of Wayne scientific advances and gear, including the tumbler (batmobile) and body armor. Because the shadowy organization was really Bane Capital -- just kidding, it was Ra's al Ghul's organization. Ra's al Ghul's daughter, Talia, has been undercover and posing as a fellow philanthropist. She delivers Wayne to Bane. Catwoman knew something about Bane or Ra's al Ghul but didn't take it seriously enough

Second act is Batman/Wayne in the prison Bane was raised/trained in and JGL trying to figure out what happened to Batman and eventually raising a citizen army to hold the city together, after teaming up with Catwoman. Third act is Batman rising from the depths of the prison and joining up with the forces to take back Gotham.

I estimate this is about 5% accurate.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6odyqoKSK1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

Hmm, ten days to go. Enjoy a soundtrack.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34498

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1689313/dark-knight-rises-score-soundtrack.jhtml

just realized how much this reminds me of this. DK.3 RELOADED

Hahah nice catch.

not sure if this was posted, nice juicy behind the scenes feature

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

Embargo is lifted. Reviews coming in thick and fast.

I got the impression the first round of reviews is only from critics who went on the junket, and the actual showings for critics happen tomorrow or so?

or as Ebert put it:
"Warners moved up their embargo on Dark Knight to favor junket whores. Movie doesn't even *screen* in Chicago until Tuesday."

TIME's Richard Corliss, meaning every word:

"The Avengers" is kid stuff compared with this meditation on mortal loss and heroic frailty. For once a melodrama with pulp origins convinces viewers that it can be the modern equivalent to Greek myths or a Jonathan Swift satire.

*strokes beard thoughtfully, wipes single tear*

*does the Batusi*

*lovingly clutches Hero With A Thousand Faces*