NowhereMan
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I'm not sure why but I keep reading this title as 'The Dark Knight Also Rises'.
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I'm not really a big fan of the title, but I guess they probably felt pressured to keep The Dark Knight in there due to how successful TDK was. Not that I think people would have really been confused if they had done another title with Batman in the name.
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eldaec
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I suspect you'd get better recognition if the film was called "Batman : Something".
Producers are jerks etc.
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Merusk
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Since we're bitching about the name now; I keep envisioning Batman baking, wearing a frilly apron while covered in flower.
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"Rise of The Dark Knight", "Return of the Dark Knight" and "The Dark Knight Returns" have their own problems.
I'm still trying to imagine the Bill Murray version of Batman.
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I know I've posted about Alien 3 before, but to recap: The movie was originally intended to be something completely different (big epic movies). The main idea was to not have Ripely be in it, and have the film center around Hicks, since they felt there wasn't much more they could do with her character. Studio killed that idea because they wanted the film to be about Ripely. The film went through a ton of script rewrites (which you can find on the internet and read if you want a different version of Alien 3, including one by William Gibson), development hell, and then they finally just kicked this film out the door so they would have something. Read this part of the wiki if you want all the details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_3#DevelopmentI really don't consider it a trilogy at this point, considering all that. Wow. Reading that makes me even more pissed at the abortion that is Alien 3. A couple of those ideas are really cool, particularly the one that is all about the "cold war" and centers on Hicks and Bishop. Looks like the suits and a string of greedy directors who thought they knew better than some of these writers fucked things up. *sigh* What could have been... |
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Nolan has a track record where I'd honestly ask you how you could hold doubt in your heart about what he will do. That's like doubting James Cameron on a blockbuster being unable to gross a billon dollars on a single film. He knows what he is doing, and he's one of the few I trust to deliver on name alone. Film equivalent of Blizzard.
It's fun to speculate about possibilities, but doom-casting? AGAIN?
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It's fun to speculate about possibilities, but doom-casting? AGAIN?
We've had our hearts broken so many times before.  Nolan is a fantastic director who works well with actors and moves things along fast enough that you can ignore some of the script problems. If he fixes the Batman fight scenes, he may just make the perfect nerd film. |
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What do you think would improve the fights? (I have my own thoughts on them....)
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K9
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I thought the fight scenes were decent enough. Frankly there's not even that many of them, which I feel is a good thing.
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What do you think would improve the fights? (I have my own thoughts on them....)
Nolan's best Batman fight scene was he barely showed Batman at all in "Begins". (And then the worst was the shaky cam fight at the end of "Begins" on the train.) In "DK", it showed too much of Batman and he just looked slow. Reality doesn't help - Bale is wearing a full body suit and can only move so fast - so either staging it so Batman fights from the shadows more or cutting more of the transition parts of the fight would make the action run a lot faster. It's one of the reasons I liked the Big Daddy fight in "Kick-Ass" better than "DK" despite both of them basically taking on a room of guys with guns: "Kick-Ass" cut the 'and BD walks a few steps forward to order to reach the next man' part and made things look a lot tighter as a result. |
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The best Batman like fight scenes are in both Punisher movies.
*By "both" I mean the last two. I don't remember much about the Dolph Lundgren one.
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DraconianOne
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Let the crying begin.
EDIT: Yeah, it's a fuck off huge picture. Live with it or find your own.
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Slyfeind
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Why crying? Looks decent to me, if that is Bane. I like the honest look in his eye; much better than the idiotic thug in the Schumaker movie.
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DraconianOne
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Why crying?
I refer you to the X-Men costumes, organic web shooters and some of the last few posts in The Hobbit thread. There's always crying. In this case, possibly not as much but there's no gimp mask and someone is no doubt tearing at their neckbeard right now. |
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Cadaverine
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I did all my crying when they announced that Heath Ledger would be playing the Joker. Given how that turned out, I'll stave off more tears until I can see Bane in action.
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Yeah, Pretty Much. Edited to add : Wait, apparently I wasn't crying about Heath at all. Hmmm. God, I'm getting old. |
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Trippy
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I will shoot somebody if Bane breaks Batman's back or otherwise cripples him in the movie.
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Samwise
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Wait, apparently I wasn't crying about Heath at all. Hmmm. God, I'm getting old. Next time Stray wanders back I'm going to have to remember to bust his balls about that thread. |
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[EDIT] Redundant
*anyone else think the lensflare in the pic looks curiously like a cat's eye?
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MuffinMan
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You must have not read the last 8 posts or so?
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K9
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Wait, apparently I wasn't crying about Heath at all. Hmmm. God, I'm getting old. That thread is I have good faith in Tom Hardy to put out something interesting. |
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That thread is epic blackmail material.
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MuffinMan
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I was the one that started it, too.  I wonder if I could delete it like it never happened. |
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I was the one that started it, too. I wonder if I could delete it like it never happened. I believe that the correct internet response is to deny it ever happened, even when confronted with evidence that says otherwise. |
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I was the one that started it, too. I wonder if I could delete it like it never happened. I believe that the correct internet response is to deny it ever happened, even when confronted with evidence that says otherwise. I thought that only worked in politics  |
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MuffinMan
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Tell them your inspiration for being an extra is the guy that pulled out his wang in Teen Wolf.
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SurfD
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Interesting tidbit:
The theatre I work at just got a trailer in for Dark Knight rises in digital, but it is key encrypted. My guess is that it is going to be attached to all the prints of Harry Potter when it screens, so if you want to catch the trailer early on the big screen, try to sneak your way into a Potter showing.
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Please don't let them fuck this movie up.
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SurfD
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Please don't let them fuck this movie up.
Considering the track record so far, with 2 for 2 pretty fucking awesome batman movies, I have high hopes. I still wish they would do a Batman Movie with a non fucked up treatment of Freeze tho. |
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Teaser before Harry Potter was murky and uninteresting. Gave me no feel at all for the film. Might as well not have done it.
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Merusk
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Agreed. I was just confused and wondering wtf was up with Gordon. No real hook to draw me in. I heard several, "What? The end? They killing batman?" comments when the last line was on screen, too.
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