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Platuan4th wrote:Now that I've seen it, I can't not see it anymore.

Much like the Fedex arrow and Bond's horrendously distended mouthhand on the N64 Goldeneye box.

i don't see it.

Frazzled wrote:

i don't see it.

It's really only caused by turning a color image from the posters into black and white and then leaving that unfortunate shadow.

All I hope is that people would quit over using ideas and themes from this franchise. It's embarrassing how many people named themselves "something-something-Darkknight" or "something-something-Joker" on PSN after the last one. Be more original than that please.

Clever use of a simple symbol. Nice marketing strategy.

Stormrider wrote:All I hope is that people would quit over using ideas and themes from this franchise. It's embarrassing how many people named themselves "something-something-Darkknight" or "something-something-Joker" on PSN after the last one. Be more original than that please.

Clever use of a simple symbol. Nice marketing strategy.

What we need are more XxSephirothxX, 1xVegetax1, or Xlegolasx's. It isn't a phenomenon only for the Dark Knight and in fact I have seen far more anime/gaming names like that by a large margin. I know a Batmangr but he had that username back before Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

wow that's awesome love it.!

Ahtman wrote:

Stormrider wrote:All I hope is that people would quit over using ideas and themes from this franchise. It's embarrassing how many people named themselves "something-something-Darkknight" or "something-something-Joker" on PSN after the last one. Be more original than that please.

Clever use of a simple symbol. Nice marketing strategy.

What we need are more XxSephirothxX, 1xVegetax1, or Xlegolasx's. It isn't a phenomenon only for the Dark Knight and in fact I have seen far more anime/gaming names like that by a large margin. I know a Batmangr but he had that username back before Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

Maybe he was a bat manager or bat mangler by trade?

Looks pretty nice, saw it straight away.

Have they announced which Villians are in this one yet?

Although I'll be waiting for the DVD release, after watching Dark Knight again a while back. I have come to the conclusion I don't like the real world feel he has gone for over his Batman films so far.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Have they announced which Villians are in this one yet?\

Bane and Catwoman.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Looks pretty nice, saw it straight away.

Have they announced which Villians are in this one yet?

Although I'll be waiting for the DVD release, after watching Dark Knight again a while back. I have come to the conclusion I don't like the real world feel he has gone for over his Batman films so far.

Bane and Catwoman IIRC...( though I may be incorrect about "Catwoman"...might just be Selina Kyle)

...Ninja'd...

I still find it odd that Nolan doesn't think that underworld kingpin and Gotham socialite Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin doesn't fit into his gritty world of Batman vs the Mob.

Bane, oh gawd, well hopefully they might make him intelligent this time. Damn I hated Batman and Robin more for that sin, than anything else. Even Clooney.

Catwoman, ah nice, hopefully we can see a return to a Michelle Pfeiffer style in Batman Returns and not the abomination stand alone film that shall not be named.

Platuan4th wrote:I still find it odd that Nolan doesn't think that underworld kingpin and Gotham socialite Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin doesn't fit into his gritty world of Batman vs the Mob.

Agreed, I had thought that a " Nolanized" Penguin would have been great...and I had also hoped for a " Zodiac Killer" styled Riddler....but..oh well

EDIT @ MDS...Supposedly Nolan's "Bane" will be nothing like the " Batman & Robin" Bane...which I guess would be a given.

Bane is one of my favourite Bat-villians. Can't wait to see what they do with him.

And I think I've read somewhere that Talia Al Ghul would also play a part.

It is rumored that they are essentially pulling a Ra's Al Ghul again in this one. In the original pre-release info Ken Watanabe was listed as Ra's Al Ghul and Liam Neason was listed as Henry Ducard. The wife from Inception is rumored to be actually be Talia Al Ghul. We will see. I'm going to try and avoid info as much as I can. Other than the trailer I will see tonight at the midnight Harry Potter.

Just got back from Potter and saw the trailer for TDKR.

Showed very little but that one shot was awesome.

All I am getting on Youtube is a bunch of Rick Role Trailers :(

Slarg232 wrote:All I am getting on Youtube is a bunch of Rick Role Trailers :(

This is the best I can find. It is the offiicial trailer, but it has been filmed in the cinema and the quality isn't that great.

I won't watch any Trailers for the Dark Knight Rises.
I won't watch any Trailers for the Dark Knight Rises.
I won't watch any Trailers for the Dark Knight Rises.
I won't watch any Trailers for the Dark Knight Rises.

Man, this is fethin' hard!

This one gives nothing away to be honest, it's the very definition of teaser trailer and for the most part is made up of shots from Batman Begins.

You get a two blink and miss them shots of Bane, but you knew he was in it already right?

If you are going to watch it, I'd hang on until the proper version pops up at sometime today as the one I attached is a bit rubbish.


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Lol, Warners have pulled it, the scamps

Saw the official version. I'm not really a big fan of the Bane character...too much Lucha Libre in the concept. But I trust that Nolan will have the right take on the character. Although the chanting/Bane combo for some reason makes me think of Stallone's 'Cobra,' which also featured a hulking bad guy as the leader of a criminal/cult thing. Maybe Batman will get to say "you're the disease, and I'm the cure."

Kinda funny how some people on the interwebz are complaining it doesn't show much. It's a teaser trailer...they almost never do. Besides, they're still filming...AFAIK, they haven't even started in Pittsburgh yet.

For a trailer that reveals bugga all, it does give me goose bumps

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

A couple of years ago I would have been excited but I kinda went off comic books. I watched an Alan Moore interview about how fascist Batman was, and how juvenile and simplistic superheroes in general were. It's the whole 'Oh no I've got powers should I save the world or turn bad, but lucky for me, Aunt May knows what to do kinda thing' that gets my goat.

Still, at least Batman inspired V and Watchmen, so it's not all bad I suppose.

Maybe I'm just getting old :(

Maybe Frazz is the most sensible one on this site, maybe he's onto something with his approach - The best way to cope with a mad world is to go mad yourself a la Donald sutherland in kelly's heroes, or Colonel Kurtz in that well known 'Nam film.

Maybe I shouldn't drink in the afternoon. Damn this rain! damn britain!

So yeah, I watched it. Couldn't help myself.

And I'm not sure I like Bane. I knew they wouldn't possibly go for the Mexican wrestler thing, but the mask seems weird.

Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:A couple of years ago I would have been excited but I kinda went off comic books. I watched an Alan Moore interview about how fascist Batman was, and how juvenile and simplistic superheroes in general were. It's the whole 'Oh no I've got powers should I save the world or turn bad, but lucky for me, Aunt May knows what to do kinda thing' that gets my goat.

Have you...have watched any of the other Nolan Batman films? They are certainly made in the post-Watchman comic book world. There are consequences and things don't always work out the way the hero wants. In juvenile and simplistic stories the girl doesn't get blown up. Also, Moore is one of my favorite writers, but he also can be incredibly dour and humorless at times.

Anung Un Rama wrote:And I'm not sure I like Bane. I knew they wouldn't possibly go for the Mexican wrestler thing, but the mask seems weird.

I'm not a big advocate of Bane either, but so far Nolan has done a pretty good job of making the characters interesting and creating a sense of verisimilitude so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt at the moment.

Ahtman wrote:Also, Moore is one of my favorite writers, but he also can be incredibly dour and humorless at times.

You forgot "grumpy as hell".

Ahtman wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:And I'm not sure I like Bane. I knew they wouldn't possibly go for the Mexican wrestler thing, but the mask seems weird.

I'm not a big advocate of Bane either, but so far Nolan has done a pretty good job of making the characters interesting and creating a sense of verisimilitude so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt at the moment.

True dat.

Wonder if he'll go for the Knight Fall ending. It'd be fun to watch Bane win...

Laughing Man wrote:Wonder if he'll go for the Knight Fall ending. It'd be fun to watch Bane win...

Maybe he does win... in the beginning. Hence Batman is out of the game for part of the film. Remember Nolan condensed the Harvey Dent/Two face character arc into one film and then killed him off. He might try to do the same with the whole Knightfall story arc. It's not inconceivable. You just drop stuff like the Arkham break out and the psycopathic Batman replacement. Batman gets beaten. Training montage. Batman comes back (hmm... sounds a bit like Rocky).

As for Alan Moore, he is a grumpy git. Watchmen was better than it had any right to be given the complexity of the book and Snyder's ending made more sense. Given that Moore has always moaned that the films of his works never resemble his books, on the one occassion they stuck to it like glue (ending aside), he could have at least given it the time of day. I've not read the article about him complaining that Batman is a fascist, but didn't he write one or two Batman books (e.g. The Killing Joke)?

My only problem is that this seems to be the last in the series, would have love to have seen Nolan's vision of the Riddler, Penguin, Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy.

Slight threadomancy here, but didn't want to start yet another DKR thread.

Anyway, here we have an on-set photo of Bane. No spoiler as such, but you might want to avoid clicking if you don't want to see Bane out of context.

I am not entirely convinced. Sure, it's Nolan, he know's what he's doing, but the Costume doesn't really work for me.