Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Gothamlicencesmall.jpg

I'm not an uber comics geek, but weird. I guess it makes sense these days... New Jersey is more "New York City" than New York right now.

not really feeling this like everybody else

fav joker is mark hamill tho so wtf do i know

http://mob45.photobucket.com/albums/f89/Rabbit-man/MaskOfThePhantasm.jpg

animated series was great, easily best screen batman

mask of the phantasm d-_-b

from the Jeffrey Wells blog:

A non-USA exhibition source told me this evening that The Dark Knight's running time has been confirmed at 152 minutes.

HE reader Mgmax has explained the evolution in two lines: "In the 1950s and early '60s we had long, self-important movies about Jesus. In the 21st Century we have long, self-important movies about Batman."

"And Jesus stayed three days within the Batcave..."

fuck mgmax, the trailer for this looked incredible

also batman > jesus

I'll be missing this AND you'll be in hell; everybody wins!

http://www.challops.com/images/1.gif

true story: my friend K. is in this, and snuck off set with Gary Oldman to go waterskiing, but a change in shooting plans necessitated Nolan send a helicopter after, to drag them back for a walk-through shot. they arrived on set in their swimsuits, and to punish them Nolan insisted they costume-change in front of everybody. according to K., he has never been more humbled by the shape and girth of an old guy's... equipment.

can anyone link to the actual theatrical trailer? the one i saw wasnt this one - http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/12/17/the-dark-knight-full-theatrical-trailer-debuts/

btw has anyone commented on nolan getting all meta w/ the posters/trailers yet WHY SO SERIOUS

latest one i think

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PPh-C9pRU

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thedarkknight/

yeah those are its

so many incredible shots just in the trailers alone, i dont really get how anyone could watch those & not be hyped for this

i like eckhart's line towards the end of trailer #3. it's total FORESHADOWING bullshit but it's good.

Jack Nicholson all the way, but at least this Batman is trying to bring the scary back, this years Joker ain't nothing to fuck with. I cannot BELIEVE Aaron Eckhart is two face & I'm chewing my fingernails with the anticipation.
Its not crass to say that because of Heath's tragic death and everything this movie is going to SELL?

yeah this is the first movie for me in awhile that is truly a MUST-SEE-IN-THEATER type, in a way that IJ & iron man werent

also really not a fan of people being all "hey its a comic book lighten up"; im so sick of the self-aware wink-wink bullshit these kinds of movies all have these days

i dont think heath's passing is gonna be a factor at all btw

also really not a fan of people being all "hey its a comic book lighten up"; im so sick of the self-aware wink-wink bullshit these kinds of movies all have these days

totally agree...all those movies suck so bad, I want some dark, cynical dystopian shit in comix movies...these need to be more alan moore and less jon favreau

I'm mad excited for DK and yeah it is definitely a see-it-in-theaters thing for the first time maybe of the year?

http://io9.com/396896/bruce-waynes-backstory-dateline+style

corny but "one rumor involves owning and operating a Brazilian modeling agency" made me lol.

these need to be more alan moore and less jon favreau

http://www.comicon.com/moore/mystery_inc.jpg

http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/1042/suprema8dz5.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y240/SnarkFree/7061_4_015.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTHw3vLJpbg

http://www.gothamcityrail.com/

Least explicable viral promo site yet.

http://www.gvafoundation.org/
http://www.gothampolice.com/
http://www.gothamcab.com/
http://www.gpdmcu.com/

Those aren't much more explicable, but thanks.

GET TO WORK HOOS

got about 20 more of these if people want them

*crickets*

travers: 3.5 stars

yeah, seriously. It almost makes me (a giant Batfanboy) feel bad about being so apathetic to the huge amt of work that must have gone into making all these websites for an imaginary city. But not quite.

No, they all kind of look like each took about 45 minutes in Microsoft FrontPage.

http://www.gothampolice.com/imgs/home_05.jpg

Oh man, Gotham is apparently safer than the Boise and El Paso airports!

the look of this makes me think they at least have the vibe right: http://www.thehahahatimes.com/

http://www.thegothamtimes.com/page2.htm

take action.
fight back.
eat pizza.

haha.

"No More Unwanted Pets"

Dark Knight theatrical release will supposedly include Watchmen teaser trailer. Excellent if true!

To their credit, most municipal websites all kind of look like each took about 45 minutes in Microsoft FrontPage, so kudos on that front.

The GCN reports are pretty great (tho I had to watch them in IE, not Firefox).

http://gcferries.com/

THERE IS A NUMBER AT THE BOTTOM

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/06/oscar_is_ledger.php

...and so it begins.

Most exciting trailer yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-NEBvaJHM

Peter Travers sez that Ledger deserves a posthumous Oscar nomination.

Most exciting trailer yet.

Nah. First trailer beats it by a mile, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that most of the good lines in the new trailer are recycled from the first trailer (tho I'll grant you the greatness of the "This town is mine now" line when The Joker and Batman are face-to-face, which appears in the new trailer for the first time).

When did the rules on posthumous Oscar noms change? (I guess that's directed to you, jaymc.) I know Peter Finch had to die between being nominated and awarded to do it for Network.

Nah. First trailer beats it by a mile

I admit I'm heavily influenced by the manipulative use of DRAMATIC MUSIC.

I think Finch died just so he could get the Oscar.

I think its pretty cool that, other than the final shot of the last movie, there hasn't been a lot of "That's the JOKER." "I'm the JOKER." or "My name's The JOKER."

Kind of like a meeting b/t Batsy and an inevitability that doesn't need to be named explicitly.

I am SO f-ing excited for this flick.

yeah this still looks absolutely astounding to me

If it's anything like the previous one, I'm anticipating a juicy ILE debate about it.