Guess that's as Bane-y as you can get without steroids or CGI.

Eh...the mask looks too "Lecter" to me. I prefer the Lucha look of T:AS. As long as they play him at least a little clever when he's not on venom I'll be happy, but the closer to "Evil Doc Savage" the better.

>>512

Yeah, tho given Bane's back story, I always found his design a little patronizing. He was a hispanic child in a hispanic prison his entire life. Heck, he was a virgin before he escaped, so why would his costume be a lucha libre unitard and mask other than he's hispanic...

Anyway, I agree with the mask sentiment. I'm hoping they play him clever. And he's clever when he's on Venom, it helped him keep it together and break the Bat. When he was running low, he was practically an animal and insane.

Incidentally, I wonder if they're going to use Batman: Venom as a reference. I'd like to see Batman at first try to compete with Bane by using Venom, only to learn a moral lesson. But we don't want to show kids Batman doing drugs.

>>515

Well, he wasn't as clever because he was an addict in need of a fix. The Venom didn't make him smarter... if anything it was clouding his judgment.

>>516

Well, he basically had all the Venom he needed. He was intelligent enough to stalk Batman and kill him. In the comics (if you know this, I apologize, you seem fairly knowledgable :D), he came up with a plan to basically wear Batman down, figured out who Batman was and then broke him. The drug itself didn't contribute to his intelligence, but he was more erratic without it.

When Batman's replacement at the time locked up his goons (including the guys who knew where his extra Venom was) and the replacement cut his feeding tubes, he lost it and yeah, withdrawal basically broke him down.

...But enough of that. Let's get back to the fact that he's a guy who's been in prison all his life and somehow homes in on the Lucha Libre motif for his 'persona.' Heck, he was named Bane all his life, its not like he created 'Bane' to break the Bat.

I dunno, I think the mask looks more functional in this picture than symbolic and that would be Nolan's style.

Hell, he turned Scarecrow's mask into a protective piece of headgear as well as his "symbol" and it came out quite well.

>>520

Scarecrow's mask (at least Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths) was always functioning as a gas mask.

>>523

Point is that Nolan doesn't normally do cosmetic things with the characters without a purpose.

>>524
True dat. He even made Batman's arm-barbs worth something. I don't think I've ever seen them used with any consistency of purpose in the comics.

>>526

And it makes sense. Everything about Batman's designs are for function. They had to have a purpose. Nolan just filled in what was largely left absent in the comics. Just little details like that. It's why I could not see another director doing this series better.

>>527
Not the ears...other than to make him look batty.

>>528
If I recall correctly, the ears actually conceal communication antennas.

>>528

Well, "to make him look batty" is reason enough. He still wants to be fear-inspiring by being reminiscent of a bat.

All I can say is SHAVE YOUR BACK!

Yes, I know Bane in the comics was kind of a hairy mofo, but even that was gorilla gross.

http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/188499/

Two viral videos and potentially huge spoilers. You were warned.

Apparently, a guy who lives in a town just 30 minutes away AND went to my college around the same time I did.. is going to be a villain in this move as well, though he is unlisted as of now.

He did state in our alumni magazine, that I got today, that the role he has been cast is a major villain role, but has to keep the name of the character a secret for now, though will probably be smaller compared to Bane and Catwoman.

There are, on various sites, still rumors that they might have Dr. Hugo Strange in there as well, and he could very well fit that part... perhaps. Included a picture of him from when he visited our campus a few months ago to discuss the role.

http://iushorizon.com/2011/03/a-rising-star-student-cast-in-next-batman-movie/

>>611
Ok I'm sorry but I gotta ask, why does everyone keep thinking Hugo Strange is gonna be a villain in this movie?

I mean he's already the main villain in Arkham City, I really don't think Nolan would put him in as a villain when another Batman Re-Imagining (of sorts) is using him.

If I remember correctly the story of Hugo/Batman in the comics that Strange was the only person aside from Tim Drake to figure out Batman/Bruce's true identity on their own, and the fact that Batman was/is a world renowned and recognized icon in the DC universe played a major part in that. Isn't Batman almost completely unknown outside of Gotham in Nolan's Universe?

I could be wrong and Rises could be taking a gigantic time jump forward and this would all be completely possible, but either way I just don't think Nolan would use Strange if he's already being used in a video game using the same character/universe.

>>612
If I remember correctly Hugo Strange was hired by Gotham PD to try and figure out who Batman is and even after figuring it out he went insane. So, yes Batman may be largely unknown outside of Gotham in Nolan's little world, but that doesn't stop someone from Gotham bringing in an expert from the outside.

Personally though, I don't think it's Hugo Strange. It would work but would be too obvious.

>>613
Ah, I take back part of what I said then.

>>612
>>613
>>614
This, of course, is speculation. This picture here as well as the picture in the alumni magazine.. along with the rumors on the various forums and web sites had me thinking. (The actor shown in the picture above, has a hat on.. however, his picture in the magazine, shows that he is balding.. so it wouldn't take much to turn him into Strange.)

My dad, who's a comic fiend, also said that he could also be the Ventriloquist(Scarface) as well.

Speculattttion!

>According to Comic Book Movie, here are the latest rumors on Batman and Bane clashing in The Dark Knight Rises:

"Bruce Wayne/Batman & Bane will certainly clash hard in The Dark Knight Rises and I can tell you this much, during their first fight against one-another will Bane WILL break Batman's back!"

>Remember to take this as a rumor at this time.

>>679
Woot.

I enjoyed that spoiler. :D

Purported teaser:

DSCN1055

>>770
this gives us nothing...NOTHING!

A storm, eh? maybe a batman team-up with The Flash against The Weather Wizard?

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/167789-exclusive-the-dark-knight-rises-teaser-coming-next-week

The Dark Knight Rises Official Trailer [HD]

>>993

Lookin' good.

You know, I just realized. Since Nolan's off in his own universe, doing his own thing, theoretically he could actually pick up a plot point that was originally intended for Bane, but dropped from the actual comics before it was ever really used...

That Bane was Bruce's bastard half brother, the illegitimate son of Thomas Wayne, who got in trouble and fled the island accused of murder, leaving the unborn son he may or may not have known about to serve his life sentence in his place.

>>1007
....Holy shit.

A. I never knew that.

and 2.That could actually work really really well in Nolan's Batman Universe. In fact part of me wants that to happen now.

>>993
And this trailer was just disappointing. The artist in me liked the whole "Rising Through Gotham" thing but otherwise it was meh.

>>1011

It's a very early trailer, more of a teaser. Don't get so down on it already.

>>1015
True, true. I'm not trying to say "OOP, This movie's gonna suck" or anything just unimpressed by this trailer.

Still can't wait for the next one. I'm hoping we see some hinting at back breaking or something. (didn't know if it was really spoiler worthy or not but put it in just in case)

>>1020

Haven't they confirmed back breaking already?

>>1024
Whether they have or haven't it'd be good to actually SEE IT in a trailer(or at least a hint)

>>1026

Why would you put your moneyshot in the trailer?

>>1031
What I'm seeing in my head is something like this trailer with quick cuts to actiony bits, like fractions of frames, possibly one with Bane grabbing bats in a hold able to bust his back in half.

Bane Standing on Tumbler! (Filming The D...

Clip of Bane and a close-up of him tearing up a photo of Harvey Dent.

Talia with some cohorts, assuming to be members of the League of Shadows.

A better Talia.

>>1122

Wait wait wait, when did we find out Talia was in this movie!?

>>1126

Few weeks ago?

Ze Catwoman.

>>1142

Ze wateWUT?!

>>1142
Surely you mean Batgirl...because there is nothing remotely cat-like about that outfit.

Some pics of the stunt double on the bike in the full get-up.


Keep in mind, we don't know where this is in the movie. We don't know if this is her "final" costume or a working costume. We don't know anything.

>>1150
Also, why does she have a motorcycle? Isn't she a Cat-Burglar? Pun intended by her creators.

>>1152

I'm pretty sure that's the Bat-Pod from Dark Knight.

As for the costume: look, we've trusted Nolan this far, let's give him a little latitude on this.

>>1153
Fair enough. I'll give her a shot. I hope she at least sneaks into a building to steal something.

>>Bane
>>Talia
>>Catwoman (possibly Batgirl)

Oh god, it's Spider-Man 3 all over again...

>>1154
>>1153
It's not really the costume that bothers me, it's just....

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THOSE SUNGLASSES MAN?!!?!

>>1156
*then looks at the other pics*
Oh, they are goggles. Never mind then.

>>1155

You'd think they would learn that putting in so many antagonists causes them to be poorly developed and rushed, but since when have Hollywood producers learned from anything?

>>1155
Worse than that, It's Batman and Robin.

So quick to throw Nolan under the bus.

>>1159
Are you sure that Selina Kyle / Catwoman is an antagonist, instead of, say, an ally of dubious morals?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/anne-hathaway-talks-the-dark-knight-rises_n_922569.html

http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/207432

A six-minute prologue of The Dark Knight Rises will be shown as a special preview before the newest Mission: Impossible film.

>>1677

Yeaaaah, I'm still not gonna go see a Tom Cruise movie.

>>1678

I see people doing like The Phantom Menace, buying tickets to see the preview then leaving.

>>1678

Not like it won't be online somewhere anyway.

>In Empire Magazine, costume designer Lindy Hemming had the following to say about Bane's mask:

"He was injured early in his story. He's suffering from pain and he needs gas to survive. He cannot survive the pain without the mask. The pipes from the mask go back along his jawline and feed into the thing at the back where there are two canisters of what ever it is... the anesthetic."

Also: the trailer for the movie will be in front of Sherlock Holmes 2. (A teaser for The Hobbit may be joining it.)

>>1742
Anesthetic? How are pain-relieving-jaw-masks more believable than a super-steroid-injection system with an incidental mask? I mean we're willing to buy Batman wearing a mask.

What I'm getting at is, you don't have to JUSTIFY the mask. Just like you didn't have to JUSTIFY the Joker's makeup or Batman's costume. It's unnecessary.

>>1744

The anaesthetic could be Venom.

>>1744
>>1745

You're whining.

>>1745
Justifying it doesn't make it bad. Just because something is in some way unnecessary doesn't mean it can't work

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00045437.html

>How long will you let the pain and loss define your life? Walking around chasing bad guys is very heroic and attracts attention, but at the end it all accounts for, as a means to deal with the pain of a huge loss. It's time for Bruce Wayne to face the pain, that has always stirred his life.

>>1747
God..you're right. I sound like a nitpicky jerkass. I'm sorry. Could you ever forgive me?

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2008/10/28/christopher-n-1/

>[Christopher Nolan] gives a deep dissection of his single favorite scene in [The Dark Knight] — the gripping interrogation sequence, which (with no special effects and only bare-bones lighting) would become “the fulcrum on which the whole movie turns.”

[Batman Begins/Dark Knight] Girl With th...

This movie gon' be awesome. Awesome like awesome shit is awesome. And that's awesome.

Awesome is awesome.

I watched a leaked "cam" version of the prologue.

If you failed to trust in Nolan before...you will.

The new trailer is out, if you know where to look for it (hint: not on YouTube, at least right now).

I was right to put my faith in Chris Nolan.

>>1871

Can not wait for this.

The Dark Knight Rises - Official 2nd HD Movie Trailer

It's finally out via official channels.

Savor it.

This trailer substituted for porn.

>>1920

"You're gonna wonder how you could live so large, and leave so little for the rest of us."

Said to one of the biggest philanthropists in the world.

Selena confirmed for OWStard.

>>1922

Selina's going to make a Heel Face Turn during Rises, so I don't think you have too much to be concerned about.

>>1922

I got that sense, too. Oh, well.

Also, people are complaining that they can't understand Bane when it was ONE FUCKING LINE. Jeez, paint the entire character the same way, why don't you? He's wearing a mask, not keeping a bag of marbles in his mouth. What'd you expect?

>>1936

The complaints about Bane's voice stem from the six-minute prologue, which features more dialogue from him than the trailer does. I only watched the cammed version, so the audio is obviously not studio-produced perfect, but I admit that I had some trouble understanding a few of his lines.

>>1922

I was told Nolan added OWS-ness to it as it fits with what's happening.

>>1922
>>1938
OWS?

>>1941

Occupy Wall Street.

>>1942
Ah. Clever if he does it just the right way (which knowing Nolan he most likely will)

>The LA Times has posted the following scene description from The Dark Knight Rises:

Gotham City is a war zone. A ruthless madman named Bane has ripped away any sense of security and the citizens, haggard and clutching suitcases with refugee anxiety, sit behind barbed wire waiting to see what will blow up next. A hooded prisoner is dragged in – it's Bruce Wayne, one of Gotham's most famous faces – but the eyes of the crowd go instead to the woman in black standing at the top of the staircase.

"Sorry to spoil things, boys, but Bane needs these guys himself," says sultry Selina Kyle, played here by actress Anne Hathaway, navigating the steps with stiletto heels that, on closer inspection, turn out to have serrated edges capable of leaving nasty claw marks in a fight. She also wears high-tech goggles that, when not in use, flip up and resemble feline ears.

>>1982

... That sounds dumb as hell.

>>1982
....
I'm sorry I would easily accept the goggles from Batman Arkham city...just
wut they flip up to make it look like cat ears?

>>1984

And... cat-claw high heels?

Not to mention the line sounds... nonsensical and awkward as hell. It is taken out of context, true, but still. Plus the commentary on how everyone's staring at her reeks of "Worship the new action girl! WORSHIP HERRRRR!"

>>1985

I'm sure a transcription of a scene from Speed Racer would sound a little dumb, too. A writeup of a brief scene from the movie should in no way be taken as an indication of quality for the whole movie.

That being said: yeah, this is a bit worrying, but I still have faith in Nolan not to fuck this up.

>>1982
Okay, did directors change to Joss Wheedon or something?

Isn't catwoman supposed to be like...an Art Thief?

The Dark Knight - Unused and Alternative Footage [REAL!]

>>1987
Cat Woman always love the shiny things AND money, would only save bats if it benefits her (bats keep the goons busy, she makes off with something shiny)

>>1991
Depends 100% on who's writing it. In some continuities there is no romance between the two, in others she will have entire story arcs that invove saving Bruce.

THE LION KING RISES: Dark Knight Rises Trailer Parody

So much win.

http://teamcoco.com/video/dark-knight-rises-trailer-bane

>Joseph Gordon-Levitt says that The Dark Knight Rises will explore similar themes to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

>Gordon-Levitt, who will play John Blake, said: "You saw it, man. The trailer isn't misleading and Nolan's not the type of guy to create a trailer that will sell you something other than what the movie is."

http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2012/01/joseph-gordon-levitt-opens-up/

>>2138

>>2139

Oh, hell.

Uh...think of Adam West's Batman! Think of Julie Newmar as Catwoman!

>>2138

Do not want...

>>2140

>>2138

>The Dark Knight Rises will explore similar themes to the Occupy faggots

...for fuck sake, Nolan.

>>2138
Given my first hand experience with at least one Occupy fuck wit. No. Do not want.

>>2138

Are we really running out of ideas that we're exploring OWS themes for a movie?

Don't even hear people talk about movies anymore. No wonder.

Is OWS even still happening? You don't even hear about it any more, so if this whole 'exploring OWS theme' is true, it better be very subtle and not too in your face, or this movie is going to not only do badly, but become very dated and not age well.

>>2152
it's very much scattered and thanks to Media attention (and persuasion) it's a slowly dieing breed.

>>2152
I think the best way to describe it is "Yes, but they have little to no steam to keep going." The winter months probably made (most of) them realize that a warm bed and good health is more important than protesting and sleeping out in the cold.

You guys do realize that the "similar themes" thing is less "Oh, we took direct inspiration from OWS" and more "Well ideas in the movie happen to be similar to the ideas behind OWS," right? The movie started filming four months before the movement even began, for crying out loud. It's likely it was going to have these themes whether or not the movement ever happened.

Seriously, calm your shit.

I don't mind if there is gonna be OWS themes in the batman movie so long as it depends on the outlook of the OWS movement, if the movie is gonna have legit protest against corruption and greed originally what OWS was then I can accept it, but if it's gonna be the OWS of the apple fan boy hipster college kids tweeting how they are super cool protesting hippies in a park while they comment on the latest star bucks coffee drink and complain about the cold weather, then I will hate it.

Related point: Batman Begins was released the year Obama was sworn in as Senator (2005).

>>2163

So Obama's elected, we get a story of misery, death, and a man getting blamed for things that weren't his fault so that the citizenry can continue to worship a corrupt, depraved man whose image they adored more than the reality.

Obama goes for reelection, we get a story of despair, greed, and the good things left in the world being snapped over the knees of the evil.

Sounds about right to me.

Know what bugged me the most about the newest Batman movies?

In Batman Begins. Not one damn Lazarus Pit. Even though Ra's Al Ghul is the main villain.

>>2165
Nolan wanted realism, remember? No Freeze Rays, No Plant Telepathy, and no magic poison pits that sometimes restore youth.

>>2165

Movie would have been better with just Scarecrow in my opinion, Ra'Al Ghul wasn't interesting - even though he trained Bruce in the beginning - as a villain it seemed he wasn't that interesting.

Really what they should have done if they wanted to go for maximum "WHAT THE HELL?!" with the audience (can't help the comic book people that would have been expecting it) is have Ra's train him in the first movie, appear to die, and then not show up again until the third movie as the main villain.

'Course I also think it would have been awesome if the movie with Bane as the villain had him teaming up with the Penguin. Played by Martin Klebba.

>>2168

Penguin was a very plausible 'realistic' villain they could pull off, I guess Nolan just thought 'it's been done before' Although so had Joker and Catwoman - maybe he favored them.

Even though this is meant to be realistic, there is so many other awesome Batman villains I wish could be put in the movies or even ones that could be 're-imagined'.

>>2314
I'm still amazed how they could get the looks for so many of the characters right, and then derp on catwoman. What does Nolan have against a mask and goggles?

>>2322

Because maybe she's new on the scene? Hasn't quite taken up a name?

>>2329
No, that's no excuse. I doubt that's even really the reason, but either way, you don't tell us we're getting Catwoman and then give us Chick in Completely Nonspecific Catsuit and Goggles.

>>2332

You're getting Nolan's Catwoman.

Just like you got Nolan's Scarecrow.

>>2333
Nolan's Scarecrow at least looked like one would expect. He didn't go the whole damn movie looking like a regular guy.

Again, if he wants to give us Catwoman, he should actually do so.

>>2335

You haven't even seen the movie yet.

>>2336
Pop quiz.

1. Has there been any indication that she'll suddenly be wearing the character-appropriate gear at any point in the movie?

2. If not, do you think this is because it's some huge spoiler that Catwoman dresses like a cat?

So any word on whether this version of Catwoman will have the whip?

>>2338

Yes, she uses it in protest demonstrations about how the common man is the 1%'s bitch.

>>2337

She'll also grow character appropriate sized wisdoms as well.

>>2340
>Woman in modern Hollywood with large wisdoms

Yeah right pull the other one!

Ahem. But anyway. I care about the body much less than I care about acting ability and generally fitting a role. Though I am getting rather tired of Nolan's seeming fetish for samey-looking brown-haired women that I honestly don't consider all that attractive. But I dunno if you can even blame that on Nolan, as the look these women have is the one that movies and TVs are trying to enforce as the new standard of "true beauty".

>>2338

Apparently, she will not have a whip.

>>2342
Wow, Nolan. Wow. You couldn't even be assed enough to give Catwoman her signature weapon that she's had for 60+ years. Sham-fucketty-wow.

I'm just willing to give his interpretation a shot. Nolan's kept me involved for two movies. I think he's earned the benefit of a doubt.

While you wait for Nolan's Catwoman, have this.

(Thank you based DC Animated Shorts.)

These are from the Catwoman short on Batman: Year One, by the way.

>>2348

Where was she keeping that whip?!

>>2350

Let's just say wet leather hurts more when you get hit with it.

>>2351
You speak from experience, correct?

>>2352

It's what you told me.

Meow~

You know how sometimes you don't need to fully see something to know it's gonna be bad? Yeah that's how I feel about Nolan's catwoman.

>A new film cell plaque from an officially licensed company for The Dark Knight Rises has surfaced and looks to shine some new light on the film's plot:

When Commissioner Gordon stumbles upon a plot to destroy the city from within, Bruce Wayne gets back into action as the Batman. Waiting for him is the mysterious Selina Kyle and Bane, a lethal adversary on a crusade to tear apart Batman's legacy piece by piece.

I'll be honest, part of me is disappointed that we aren't getting a Nolanverse version of Robin.

>>2475

I'm not.

>>2475
We also won't be getting my two favorite villains, Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze. And saying that out loud makes it sound like I like the Joel Schumacher movies, but no. I kind of want to see them done right, but I know that since they're kind of tainted by that movie it won't happen.

I'll settle for my third favorite, Bane. I hope that they nail the Evil Doc Savage persona.

>>2499

>I kind of want to see them done right

Batman: The Animated Series is on DVD.

>>2475
>>2476
I've always been more of a Robin fan. I've got missed feelings on this. I don't think Nolan would screw it up. He nailed Bruce Wayne/Batman pretty damn well, it shouldn't be that hard to get a good Robin as well. On the other hand, this is probably not the movie for him, and with how simple it should be to do Robin right, the same thing applies to Catwoman, so yeah...

In short, let's just get the third movie out and call it a day on the Nolanverse of Batman.

Info leaked from a private Warner Bros. site offers the film's rating and the reasoning for its rating:

PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Violence & Action, Some Sensuality and Language

>>2649

Translation: "No titties and no one says 'fuck' and that's pretty much all the MPAA cares about."

>>2650

In other words: The Sheila Broflovsky Principle.

“Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don’t say any naughty words!”

>>2651

Which is really one of the reasons people need to stop whining about PG-13 action movies.

I think I'm just amused that 'some sensuality' is actually part of the description for the rating. I have NEVER heard that included for a rating of a movie.

>>2653
Really? I'm sure I've seen it plenty of times, although obviously I couldn't recall any specific ones.

Mind = blown

Is anyone else getting an Urgot vibe off of Bane? At least for just the face?

Anyway, I probably will end up skipping this flick. I didn't see the last one and wasn't super impressed with the first of the series. Plus there is that Occu-tard ish stuff mentioned earlier in the thread.

>>2503

The best interpretation of Batman villains (thought not exactly cinematic ) was the Arkham game series - it's like when you see and hear them it felt like 'Yep that is TOTALLY how they would be if they walked out of the comic pages!'

Oddly enough the only design I didn't care for in the Arkham series was Bane's. He had sooo many muscles I spend the majority of his fight wondering how he was capable of moving. That and the Venom/Titan iv drip looked wonky to me. It's a shame that the only fight in Asylum the developers actually seemed to have taken their time on was Ivy's as Bane should have been a much tougher boss.

>>2681

Yeah true, I have never been a Bane fan myself - I did really like Killer Croc though, I know that villain would never be in a Nolan movie (I never thought Bane would either, I mean venom that causes him to turn into the hulk?) but he was still pretty badass.

>>2683

See, people that think Venom turns him into the Hulk are just basing their concept of Bane off of Batman & Robin, which is so unfair. You wouldn't base your concept of Mr. Freeze or Poison Ivy off of that, would you?

Bane was already extremely strong before he was ever introduced to Venom. It was also only one part of what made him so badass. Among other physical alterations, he originally had ceramic plates sewn under his skin. Venom was just his boost, something to pump him up further and give him an extra surge. He was as addicted to it as any drug, but originally cutting off his Venom supply didn't take him out for the count immediately. He was being used as a guinea pig prototype for a super soldier program, basically.

Bane as originally introduced was intended to be canny, heavily trained, well-connected, and near-superhuman. He's basically big bulky evil Batman, but without the limitless resources and "prep time".

>>2688
Not to mentioned incredibly smart, he was also considered as great of tactician as Batman is. He originally breaks his back in the comic after setting in motion a plan to tire Batman out. :)

A rumor says another trailer for Dark Knight Rises will come out next month.

EDIT: Rumor confirmed; it will be attached to The Avengers.

>>2721
Advertising a DC franchise on a Marvel film? Um, successful troll?

>>2744

Precedent exists: WB ran a trailer for The Dark Knight before Iron Man and a trailer for Inception before Iron Man 2.

http://batman-news.com/2012/04/24/christopher-nolan-reveals-new-the-dark-knight-rises-footage-at-cinemacon-2012/

The third (and I'd presume final) trailer.

Fuck yes.

The Dark Knight Rises Official Movie Tra...

It looks like a great film, but I really do miss Bane's luchadora motif.

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer 3 (Batman ...

>>2863
God that suit looks dumb. Looks like an action figure from the nineties.

>>2864

"Grapple Armor Batman!"

>>2864

Yeah, that's the only thing that bugged me about the Nolan Batman movies-armor looks incredibly stupid.
Hell, the outfit from Arkham games looks far better and more convincing than this super-armored piece of hirtes.

>>2871
>>2872
I'd say something about that being an ineffective disguise, but then I remember Clark Kent and his magical fucking glasses exist. No the problem is the same thing it's always been, it's not done right.

I get the feeling I should just be happy she even has a mask, some sort of cat ear things, and a body suit and deal with it.

>>2874

The comics have offered a lot of different explanations for Clark over the years, the tl;dr version of which is "It's not just the glasses." I don't think the movies ever have because they have less time to spend on that stuff and, frankly, are targeting a slightly less sophisticated/invested audience.

>>2876

Remember the scene in Superman: The Movie where Clark switches from Superman to Clark in Lois' apartment? The disguise partially relies on his posture and behavior, which Christopher Reeve made perfectly clear in only a few brief moments.

>>2866

See if you like this one better.

Then laugh once you realize that it comes from a porn parody:

THE DARK KNIGHT XXX: A PORN PARODY-Official Trailer

>>2878
Damn...it looks better than DKR. Not just the costumes, the whole damn thing.

>>2879

I ganked the pic from /co/, and a poster there posited why you might think that: with these parodies, porn producers have essentially become well-funded fanfilm creators. They can't afford a fuckton of special effects, sure, but they can pack a bunch of characters into a single flick in a way Marvel and DC simply can't do -- and since the people most interested in these parodies will likely have familiarity with most of the characters, the porn producers don't have to worry about things like origin stories and other limiting bullhirtes.

Hell, a few of these porn parodies come with "story-only" options on the DVDs.

>>2878

Holy hirtes. Now THAT is a well done outfit. Looks like it's based off of the design from AA/AC games, and it's possibly the only costume design where I can ignore that texture. Also I like the fact the whole suit is black-which is how I think Batman SHOULD be, to blend into the darkness better. Not making most of the suit bright gray or a dim shade of blue.

>>2881

>Looks like it's based off of the design from AA/AC games

From what I read on /co/, the studio behind that porn parody really did base it on the design from the Arkham games.

>>2881
>>Not making most of the suit bright gray or a dim shade of blue.
Well, that does make sense in a daytime urban cammo sense.

>>2883

>Well, that does make sense in a daytime urban cammo sense.

True but Batman mostly operates at night, when it's hard to see and he's concealed in darkness/shadows, making it easier for him to disorient his targets before attacking.
However that can also be excused-different suits for different times of day/surroundings.

Bale on Dark Knight Rises' Batman:

>He doesn't want to forget [his parents' deaths]. He wants to maintain that anger he felt at that injustice. But equally he wants to present this very vacuous, soulless persona to Gotham, so that hopefully no-one will suspect him but will just think he's a spoiled bastard. Consequently, in his most intimate moments he has Alfred, he has Rachel and there is not a whole lot there.

>At some point, he's got to start living. He is seriously behind in terms of life and enjoyment of life. That's all been sacrificed and at some point, hopefully it's Alfred's wish that he will start to live again. Of course this tragedy has defined him, but to a degree he's sacrificed everything that most people would consider worth living and he's going to have to relearn that, embarrassingly late in life.

>>2878
While we're at it, I found a real-life car that would have made a way better Batmobile design than that tank-thing he's been driving around in lately.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/24/revealed-720hp-twin-turbocharged-v12-tramontana-r/

>>2886
You'll have to forgive me - but how is that better?

More exposed front wheels, just scream to be shot at. Racer-wings at the front, that could be blown off and jam into the wheel...

the current bat-car/tank looks like something fit for a warzone. that thing there look like a fancy racing car

>>2887
I think they mean more along the lines "hey this car can be the bat-mobile with some modifications"

>>2888

I think they mean more along the lines of "Hey, forget it making even the slightest bit of sense, this is more pleasing to my aesthetics and image is all I care about."

>>2886
Doesn't look like it could handle driving recklessly in a city any better than the bat tank. Those mirrors just don't work for any combat situation.

There's better designs than the bat-tank. but that's not one of them.

Guys! Guys!
This is AWESOME!
http://theriddlerspeaks.tumblr.com/

>>2891
Why does this sound like Cody Rhodes?

>>2892

The voice shares a similar speech pattern to Rhodes' masked/"Disturbed" character.

>Christopher Nolan recently spoke with Empire about The Dark Knight Rises:

I think this is the biggest one I've done. The biggest one anyone's done since the silent era, in technical terms. It's all about historical epics in conception. It's a war film. It's a revolutionary epic. It's looking back to the grand-scale epics of the past, really, and for me that goes as far back as silent films.

I've been watching a lot of silent films with my kids on Blu-Ray. We've shot over a third of the movie on the IMAX format, and that naturally puts you more in the mode of staging very large events for the camera. It's my attempt to get as close to making a Fritz Lang film as I could. It's also more in the mould of Doctor Zhivago, or A Tale Of Two Cities, which is a historical epic with all kinds of great storytelling taking place during the French Revolution. There's an attempt to visualize certain things in this film on this large scale that are troubling and genuinely to the idea of an American city. Or, to put it another way: revolutions and the destabilizing of society have happened everywhere in the world, so why not here?

>>2913

The man's gone so far up his own ass that he tastes dinner twice.

>>2913

You've made another Batman movie, Chris. Come back to Earth now, please.

>>2913
>>Translated: The Avengers is just action movie schlock. My movie will be MUCH better.

>>2913
You're making a Batman movie, stop trying to make it sound like high art.

>>2921
Kind of difficult to make high art of a man who has a bat fetish, if not an outright furry fetish.

Did he just compare himself to Fritz Lang and David Lean? Yeah, go back to the kiddie pool. Inception does not give you free reign to say you're the king of the road.

(Also Nolan got the nod for the Superman reboot Man Of Steel? Not sure I want.)

>>2925

Zack Synder will direct Man of Steel; Nolan will serve as a consulting producer (since Warner Bros. figures Nolan did so well in rebooting the Batman film franchise).

Nolan's Lex Luthor: "THE ONE PERCENT HAVE NO USE FOR YOU, SUPERMAN! SO... DIE!"

>>2913
Welcome to Overselling 101.

This won't come back to bite him on the ass, no sir.

The Dark Knight Rises - Exclusive Nokia ...

An explanation of the Dent Act, which will play a part in the plot of Dark Knight Rises.

>>2926

Do you think The Dark Knight would have been as immensely popular if it wasn't for Heath Ledger in the role of Joker? I really felt that is what made the movie interesting and compelling.

Heath played the part well, and the fact that he died just before it was released certainly helped to stimulate interest in the film. Nolan openly admitted that there was a combination of circumstances that led to TDK being as big as it was, and that no sequel would be able to duplicate its level of success, despite the studio's wishes.

Speaking of Heath Ledger: this pic shows what he looked like with the Joker scar prosthetics and no makeup.

Ledger put a lot into that role. Maybe too much.

Sir Michael Caine noted that during the filming of the scene in Wayne's penthouse during the party--the only time the Joker and Alfred interact--Ledger's performance nearly made him forget his lines. It would have been the only time he'd forgotten a line in his entire 55-year career.

I'm a firm believer in the "nothing left to give" rule--when a performer or creative type has nothing left to give, they just die rather than fade away.

>>3143

He looks like Buffalo Bill here.

"Wait, was she a great big fat person?"

>New preview
>Catwoman automatically knows how to use the Batpod and smirks condescendingly at Batman for daring to try and tell her

My god, the whole preview makes this look like one of the Burton films.

>>3159

Forgive me if I misunderstood your post, but what was so bad about Burton's Batman movies?

>>3162

For starters: Batman killed a guy in Batman Returns.

>>3163
To be fair, Burton hates doing sequels, so it's likely he just didn't give a shit with that one.

>>3163

....So?

>>3163

Which guy?

>>3168

Confirmed for knowing nothing about Batman.

>>3169

One of the random penguin mooks. Batman takes a bomb, shoves it in the guy's clothes, then tosses him down a sewer, or something. Seemed amused with himself for murdering him.

>>3169
He blows some guy up by strapping a bomb to him. He also burns a couple of mooks with the Batmobile. And the previous film has him kick a guy down the bell tower as well as tether Joker to a gargoyle, which implies to me he knew the Joker would fall to his death if he tried to get away.

>>3162
Burton never read a single Batman book for reference. He admits this. It even became a big point of a stupid argument he had with Kevin Smith (Smith wrote a Batman book called cacophony and Burton supposidly slammed it, so Smith called him out on why he never read any Batman books)

>>3170

lol I forgot about that.

Does throwing guys off the bell tower count too? He knocked a lot of Joker goons down that stairwell at the church.

>>3172

Yeah, that counts. Burton's Batman was pretty much a mook-murdering machine, as well as being pretty firmly based in the Adam West mythos with a bit of post-Crisis grimdark tacked on and Burton's usual heaping helping of Burtonstyle.

Now most heroes in comics have a big thing about not killing people, and that either gets slackened or removed in most modern retellings. Which is fine and usually works. It can work for Batman too, despite his comic version having not killing be an almost psychological compulsion. The problem with Burton's Batman was that he killed casually. He killed mooks that it probably would have been easier to take out nonlethally in some cases, and he did it without a second thought, sometimes even seeming to enjoy it. It made him some sort of weird amalgamation of Adam West's Batman and Frank Miller's Batman.

The Burton versions were still campy and silly. I think they were necessary as a sort of stepping stone between the Adam West version that was the most widely-known Batman at that time and something authentically serious, but obviously they devolved into pure cartoonish nonsense over time.

The preview I saw seriously looked like it could have been a Burton film. Batman pulling funny faces under the cowl (he does this total sitcom husband grimace when Catwoman tells him she knows how to drive the Batpod so shut up), silly speeches about "Join me and we can be some sort of league for justice", goofy jokes about Catwoman claiming to be Batman's wife...

It's like every time I find out more about this movie I want to see it less.

>>3173

The redeeming fact of the first Burton movie was Jack Nicholson as the Joker. Of course he was the more vaudevillian version. But yeah, I'm with you on the growing dread for the next one, though I'm hopeful for the pay off. I haven't been let down yet.

Plot synopsis, courtesy of WB:

>It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.

>But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane.

>>3175
>He hasn't been Batman for eight years
>But it's okay because the most corrupt city in America became super duper safe and secure because someone passed a crime bill

>>3176

>It's a fictional movie based on a comic book about a man who dresses up as a bat to fight crime

Lighten up a little.

>>3177
It still sounds absurd for Gotham City to EVER have a reduced crime rate, for any reason. Even a nutcase running around at night beating up the baddies and scaring the piss out of everyone wasn't enough to stop crime. This bill better be some impressive piece of law if I'm going to believe it's more effective than the Dark Knight.

>>3178

Batman's sacrifice played a role, too: since all the mob bosses and mooks had caught on to Bruce's "one rule" (as Maroni pointed out after Batman broke his legs), Batman's insistence on taking credit for Dent's death made it appear that Batman had gotten rid of that rule.

Combine the Dent Act with Batman's perceived willingness to kill, and you can likely imagine how Gotham cleaned up crime over an eight-year period.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/171485-the-dark-knight-rises-production-notes-reveal-new-details

http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/245345/

>IGN reports that the new tie-in book for The Dark Knight Rises - a coffee table book that covers the entire Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy called The Dark Knight Manual - features some clues about the possible motives behind the actions of The Joker (Heath Ledger) in The Dark Knight.

You can read the rest at the link.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/171563-christopher-nolan-on-the-dark-knight-rises-literary-inspiration

>Chris and David started developing the story in 2008 right after the second film came out. Before the recession. Before Occupy Wall Street or any of that. Rather than being influenced by that, I was looking to old good books and good movies. Good literature for inspiration... What I always felt like we needed to do in a third film was, for lack of a better term, go there. All of these films have threatened to turn Gotham inside out and to collapse it on itself. None of them have actually achieved that until this film. 'A Tale of Two Cities' was, to me, one of the most harrowing portrait of a relatable, recognizable civilization that completely folded to pieces with the terrors in Paris in France in that period. It's hard to imagine that things can go that badly wrong.

>>3210
What? They didn't put in Catwoman with 'love'? It makes sense. At the very least she should be in there somewhere if they want to show all the villains of the movies and how different they are from each other in what they represent.

http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/245811/

You can now listen to a free, legal stream of the entire Dark Knight Rises soundtrack.

>>3213

MY SIDES ARE MOVING ON THEIR OWN

this is glorious

>>3213

Ah, that will remain one of my favorite GIFs.

The Dark Knight Rises - Official Trailer #4 [HD]

Final trailer.

>>3213
Hahah, saved and getting sent to all my friends.

The Dark Knight Rises - Journey Trailer (720p HD)

Not a theatrical trailer, but likely the last big preview before next Friday.

TF2 - Batman Begins

>>3222
>My face through most of that

>>3222
>My face at that last bit

>>3225
You know, of all the catwomen...Nolan's looks the worst, Followed by Halley Berry in a close second. That's just going by worst design, if we include story and character and acting...It's still close but Berry edges out until we see DKR beyond the previews, but it's not looking good.

From 411mania (with some minor grammar cleanup):

>The Los Angeles Times reports that, once Man of Steel reaches theaters next summer, Warner Bros. won't release any movies based on DC Comics properties until at least 2015.

>None of the DC movies currently in the works have a producer, director, or cast (except for Zack Snyder's $200-million-plus take on Superman). Therefore, at least three years will pass before the studio releases a new DC title.

>According to the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Nolan spoke to Warner Bros. about acting as a producer on the Justice League movie and planned reboot of Batman, but he will reportedly not have any involvement with either of those films.

>The studio will spend the next few years raising awareness of the other characters in the DC Universe by releasing games, toys, comics, and TV shows. Warner Bros. film group president Jeff Robinov says of this campaign: "My hope is that over the next month or so, we'll be ready to lay out the plan for the next DC movies."

I appreciate that DC wants to have a gameplan for its films in the future, but I think they want to recreate the whole Avengers buildup for Justice League, and unless they plot every film out in advance so that they'll work as standalone films and as part of a "bigger picture", those films will suck as much as Superman Returns.

>>3228

And right after I post this: >>/fun/7952

>>3226
I won't lie, I'll always be biased toward TAS being my favorite, that's likely to never change, and I don't expect any other incarnation to top it.

However, that doesn't mean there's arn't other ones that are good designs. Personally I'd update the chart to include the Arkham Asylum/city games as well, as they have their own unique designs and a lot of them are pretty awesome as well.

found this tonight youtube-ing at random

Batman Tech Part 1/6

>>3230
My favourites in order: Arkham, Animated, Nolan {minus Catwoman}.

http://perezhilton.com/2012-07-13-anne-hathaway-david-letterman-dark-knight-rises-spoiler-alert-not-cool

Whoops.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/the-aps-christy-lemire-gives-t.html

>>3263
>They never call her Catwoman by name

Wut. They couldn't even do that? Is saying her name too much in Nolan's world? Does that just shatter his 'set in reality' image? We can have a Doctor that wears a mask and get's called Scarecrow. We have a guy that goes by Joker very openly and isn't just said as a head nod. Harvey Dent even calls himself Two Face briefly. And I'm sure Bane's name will be said. But calling the cat burglar 'cat woman' is just too much?

I know it's a small gripe, but it's been a lot of small gripes about her that have added up.

Maybe I'll be lucky and her name being mentioned slipped the reviewer's mind.

>Miranda Tate

who?

>Might be Talia al Ghul
Oh, could be interesting.


>John Blake

Once again, who? Why should I care about this person, why couldn't Nolan use someone better known in the batman universe to drive the plot, like Harvey Bullock?

>>3264
Can't call her catwoman, but she can fight in High Heels. Did he take away her cat claws, too? because that would be the icing on the cake.

>>3264
>All that other shit
>Can't namedrop "Catwoman", even once, even in the vaguely sneery ironic tone that a lot of superhero movies use

Okay, that's it, fuck this shit, I'm outta here.

>>3264
Please don't drop potential spoilers. It's not even released yet. Even dropping Blake's name could be a spoiler since I'm convinced he's a popular character in Batman Mythos with a clever name change/reference

>>3267
I did a little bit of checking, his name only shows up in the movie, all there is right now is fan speculation.

>>3268
It feels like Blake's name is meant to be an anagram with some letters added or removed to throw everyone off but is probably someone really obvious we won't see coming.

Ebert's review has risen.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120717/REVIEWS/120719981

>>3273
>The result, in Christopher Nolan's conclusion to his Batman trilogy, is an ambitious superhero movie with two surprises: It isn't very much fun, and it doesn't have very much Batman.

Current Rotten Tomatoes standings for the Dark Knight Trilogy:

• Batman Begins: 85% (222 Fresh Reviews, 39 Rotten Reviews) / 90% Audience Rating (average 3.9 out of 5)
• The Dark Knight: 94% (264 Fresh Reviews, 18 Rotten Reviews) / 96% Audience Rating (average 4.5 out of 5)
• The Dark Knight Rises: 87% (53 Fresh Reviews, 8 Rotten Reviews)

Rises probably won't beat Dark Knight in terms of quality, but I doubt that surprises anybody.

https://twitpic.com/a8smk5

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/dark-knight-rises-rotten-tomatoes-disables-comments-for-the-first-time-after-harsh-reaction/2012/07/17/gJQAxXPPsW_blog.html

>>3278

Watch out guys, we've got a badass over here

>>3278

Stay classy, internet.

Prepare for 'The Dark Knight Rises' in 7 Minutes

This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever read in my entire life:
http://m.deadline.com/2012/07/rush-limbaugh-dark-knight-bain-ban/

>>3282
http://washingtonexaminer.com/romneys-new-foe-batmans-bane/article/2502274

That's the article he was commenting upon.

>So, anyway, this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane.  And there's now a discussion out there as to whether or not this is purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters

But once more, I don't expect intellectual honesty from you when it comes to politics.

>>3284

The supposition remains idiotic, though.

DC introduced Bane in 1993, well before either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney ever rose to national attention. Nolan and his screenwriters had Bane in mind as a villain for Dark Knight Rises before Romney announced that he would run for President. Anyone who thinks Nolan meant to target Romney with his choice of Bane as a villain should have their head examined.

Let this post mark the end of that road of discussion in this thread. Take it to /use/ if you wish to continue.

>>3285
The supposition Is idiotic, but it was not Rush who brought it up.

>>3284
>>I don't expect intellectual honesty from you when it comes to politics.
That hurts. I just posted the article I saw, I didn't mean anything by it. And yeah, anyone who makes the correlation between Bain and Bane didn't see the movie, or is looking to start shit.

now this is hilariously worrying.

http://www.holyconflictofinterest.com/
One of the main sponsors of SOPA had a cameo in The Dark Knight.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/20/12850048-14-dead-after-shooting-during-dark-knight-screening-in-aurora-colorado

Fuck.

>>3290
Patrick Leahy has had previous cameos in Batman-related media long before SOPA.

>>3307

Holy shit.

>>3307
So they caught the shooter. Now what? Does he get locked away in a hospital or just put down for murder.

Batman: The Animated Series Rises (Promo) - The Hub

Oh, Hub. Between this and ponies, you rule.

>>3315
I'll be at work for most of it. If anyone else checks it out, let me know what you thought.

>>3315

Oh fuck yeah!

>>3315

sweet candy coated jesus that was awesome

So... Big spoiler here, so continue at your own risk...

Blake's first name is apparently revealed to be Robin and he finds the Batcave in the end.

>>3342
That's just fucking retarded. I'm so disappointed that the fan theory was right.

>>3342

Fuck this movie with a Thor covered in razor wire.

Was it just me or did someone at Warner fuck the sound levels up? Many of the scenes where the soundtrack really ramped up, the dialogue was being drowned out. I couldn't even hear what Bane was saying some of the time because of it.

I still can't get over how horrible the "Batman Voice" is.

>>3312
I saw it last night. That pic describes it aptly. It had plenty of action, especially with Bane who's pretty much the only villain that can physically take on Batman. Alfred was amazing, by far the best performance in the trilogy, very moving. I enjoyed Anne Hathaway as Catwoman (well they call her by her name Selina Kyle, The Cat Burglar and a thug calls her "The Cat" at one point). She's was smart, sassy, had loose morals and ethics, and is a decent fighter. And the best part is she doesn't do anything ridiculous like wear a tail, drink milk, or make references to kitty litter. I also found the Scarecrow presiding as the judge to be pretty funny. He's fits the part of pompous asshole very well. The best part I found in the movie is that it's not just Batman that saves Gotham. It's a full team effort of Gordon, Batman, Catwoman, Fox, and the entire police force. Not the best in the series, but a very good conclusion.

I have returned from watching the film, and like other reviewers, I have issues with it: neither Selina or Miranda received a competent amount of character development (though I can understand that with Miranda); Bane received enough development, but his motive for the destruction of Gotham remained just unclear enough to bother me; and Nolan could have explored the consequences of Bane revealing the truth about Harvey Dent beyond the "liberation" of Blackgate Prison.

On the other hand: all of the fight scenes came off great, especially the first Batman/Bane encounter; the major supporting cast of the trilogy did their usual amazing job; the movie rarely lagged or felt slow, at least to me; it tied into Begins and Dark Knight in the best possible ways; and the conclusion to the film -- and the trilogy -- felt satisfying even as it left a few questions open for discussion.

I'd consider it better than Batman Begins, but not The Dark Knight, and a worthwhile conclusion to the Dark Knight Trilogy. Whoever tackles the franchise after this has a big hill to climb.

It's the Return of the Jedi of the Trilogy not just in placement. A grand ending that pretty much wraps it all up with just enough fun at the end to leave discussions open for years to come much like Time Machine left you with "What books would you take?"

Dark Knight was the Empire, but this was still pretty damn entertaining.

Myself I enjoyed the film, I was glad I saw the special marathon that led to the midnight screening of it since I could really see how it tied into the other two films.

While it does have it's fair share of flaws, for me it's the best 3rd film in a superhero series. It doesn't veer into a horrible rageworthy trainwreck that is Spiderman 3 and X-Men: The Last Stand.

>>3373

>While it does have it's fair share of flaws, for me it's the best 3rd film in a superhero series.

I agree with this comment.

>>3373

Precisely. It was quite enjoyable and definitely not a train wreck.

As far as most trilogies go, I'd say it's up there amongst the best 3rd film as well.

After seeing this movie myself, all I've got say is that, well, it was pretty damn good. But the one major flaw with it that I could see was...well...how to put this gently...

...it was a Batman movie. He's just such a fucking ridiculous character! And his absurdity is even more accentuated when you put him in a movie alongside somewhat realistic James Bond-esque characters! Every time he popped up on screen, it seemed that me and my brother had to stifle laughter.

>>3390
>>Every time he popped up on screen, it seemed that me and my brother had to stifle laughter.
It's the "Tired Chain-smoking Drag-queen" voice. If he just ditched that, it wouldn't be so bad

>Was it just me or did someone at Warner fuck the sound levels up?

Blame Chris Nolan. He really likes heavy heavy bass, which is super noticeable when you see the movie with a good sound system. When I saw it in theatres, I specifically remember Inception having the same "problem."

>Nolan could have explored the consequences of Bane revealing the truth about Harvey Dent beyond the "liberation" of Blackgate Prison.

I liked that he didn't, actually. Think about it.A guy who literally blew up a quarter of the city and is threatening everyone with nuclear destruction says that the martyr of the city is actually a vicious murderer, and the war hero is actually a complete liar. Why would anyone believe him? Would you believe it if some Al Qaeda guy went on TV and said "we have proof, in this handwritten letter from Joe Biden, that Obama is actually a Kenyan Muslim!" The only reason Blake did is because he saw Gordon's reaction.

Tom Hardy's voice was amazing. "What a lovely, lovely voice!"

>>3396
Probably because Gordon had a written speech which everyone sees him put away again and recognised it when Bane read from it.
It wasn't the bass that was the problem. It was the fact the soundtrack levels were way TOO HIGH when they were used. I've seen plenty of stuff with massive bass and have been able to understand the dialogue.

I could watch Ann Hathaway do that little hip roll when she first fired from the batpod all day.

Mmmm...

I'm absolutely astounded that they went with that voice again. I mean, SERIOUSLY? Everyone and their granny's dog has made fun of that voice since 2008, and they thought it was a great idea to bring it back?

Also, I'd like to chime in that yeah, I'm pissed about Catwoman's portrayal and lack of a single namedrop too.

>The 415-page [novelization of The Dark Knight Rises], written by Greg Cox, uses the screenplay by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Original rumors had The Joker making a cameo through unused footage from The Dark Knight, but Warner Bros later confirmed it was just a rumor.

>Here's the quote from the novel [that discusses The Joker's fate]:

Now that the Dent Act had made it all but impossible for the city's criminals to cop an insanity plea, it (Blackgate Prison) had replaced Arkham Asylum as a preferred location for imprisoning both convicted and suspected felons. The worst of the worst were sent here, except for the Joker, who, rumor had it, was locked away as Arkham's sole remaining inmate. Or perhaps he had escaped. Nobody was really sure. Not even Selina.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/warner-bros-prepping-a-batman-reboot-for-2016-but-not-as-origin-story

>>3492
>Batman reboot
>Not as origin story
Thank goodness for that. I think everyone knows Batman's origin story. Why do it again?

they'll probably do a micro-origin like with The Hulk reboot

>>3498
Probably going to be another Tim Burton-esque mini origin scene with Batman going down Crime Alley and having a brief moment to remember it.

>>3499
...and then it's revealed to be a Silver Age-era Batman. He's on the sidewalk while people look on.

"Citizens, I do apologize for my traumatic flashback experience..."

How The Dark Knight Rises Should Have Ended

BANE OUTTAKES (Auralnauts extended edition)