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

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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.

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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*

Where have all the good men gone
and where are all the gods?
Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night I toss
and I turn
and I dream of what I need.
I need a hero. I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night.

"The Avengers" is kid stuff compared with this meditation on mortal loss and heroic frailty.

That's why I liked it, you blockhead. How many ponderous and broody superhero movies does the world need?

you mean Thor doesn't meditate on mortal loss and heroic frailty in The Avengers? he should do that because .. oh wait no he shouldn't.

Spiderman 2 does it pretty well without being all emo about it

kid stuff

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/romneys-new-foe-batmans-bane/article/2502274

I still want to see Dark Knight Rises, and maybe I'll enjoy it for some of those very reasons but ugh does all that chinstrokey grownup stuff really have to be a thing that is waved over all the other equally good comic book movies?

why oh why etc

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/dark-knight-rises-critic-receives-death-threats

no Veg all comic book movies must be the same because all comics are the same DO U SEE

That screencap reminds me how awful the CGI looks in that football scene. I mean, the efx have been generally pretty good in this franchise so far, which makes that clip in the trailers stand out even more.

how could you be that upset about a review of a movie you haven't seen? The trailers don't look that good.

Doesn't look anything like the last cave-in I witnessed.

It just looks like a super obvious greenscree and the players don't blend in at all with what's going on in the background.

I don't know when various cities got it for critics. NYC already had it, I think?

GK: http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/the-dark-knight-rises/

this new obsession with rotten tomatoes scores is so fucking weird

I tune out as soon as anyone tells me a) Rotten Tomato scores or b)b) IMDB scores.

YAY THIS MOVIE WINS THE INTERNET. But it sucks. So...

For once a melodrama with pulp origins convinces viewers that it can be the modern equivalent to Greek myths

"for once"

I really don't understand the people who obsess over rotten tomatoes or think that getting a high or perfect score matters in any significant way.

It's a 84% now. I bet Nolan wishes he hadn't bothered