It’s taken me two visits to the theater before my thoughts have settled enough about The Dark Knight Rises to articulate them.
So what did I think of this, the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s take on Batman?
More after the jump! ...
Yeah, I’ve seen The Dark Knight Rises. I’m still mulling it over but increasingly it’s becoming a movie that I like the more that I think about it. Will try to post a review soon (something which I never got around to doing with The Dark Knight).
But while we’re on the subject of Batman, here’s the just-released trailer for DC Animated’s The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, due out on Blu-ray and DVD on September 25th. And it looks to be a spot-on perfect adaptation of the revered graphic novel by Frank Miller!
This is the first time I’m hearing Peter Weller as Bruce Wayne/Batman since his casting was announced. Part of me is always going to be hearing Clint Eastwood’s voice (especially during the book’s later scenes when Batman is on horseback) but Weller’s is just fine.
Batman shooting at young people: makes ya glad ...
There are far more comedy movies than action movies
If movies are to blame for violence, how come we don’t see comedy breaking out in the streets?...
“You don’t owe these people anymore. You’ve given them everything.”
“Not everything. Not yet.”
For the first time, I am beginning to warm up to the “eight years later…” aspect of The Dark Knight Rises. Mainly ‘cuz it looks like Christopher Nolan really is giving us something we’ve never seen cinematically before: a Batman facing his own doubts and mortality. That Nolan is apparently drawing from three of the greatest Batman storylines ever – The Dark Knight Returns, Knightfall and No Man’s Land – is convincing me even more that I can accept this being the closing chapter of a trilogy, instead of that ongoing Batman film franchise that I had hoped Batman Begins would have been the start of.
‘Course it goes without saying that this trailer is gorgeous, in a hauntingly subtle way that I can’t remember seeing from a trailer for a comic book ...
I’d had Batman: Arkham City, the follow-up to 2009’s mega-hit Batman: Arkham Asylum, since its release date back in October. Hadn’t devoted much time into it though until this past week. Guess I’m still trying to distract myself from Mom’s passing (now four weeks ago) and since anything Batman is best enjoyed in the dark of night, that’s when I’ve been playing it.
There are still some side-missions that I’m working on, but I finished the main story yesterday morning, after starting a new game fresh last week.
Just one word: YOWZERS!!!
Forget it being just the greatest Batman video game ever. Because Batman: Arkham City is… the greatest Batman story ever told, in my book. That you get to be Batman makes it all the sweeter.
That is the ballsiest ending of a video game that I’ve seen ever pulled off. Not gonna spoil it if you ...
Click here to visit the official site for The Dark Knight Rises and watch Bane unleash unholy terror on Gotham City....
In what has to be one of the coolest efforts at crowdsourcing ever, composer Hans Zimmer has put the word out that he needs our vocal talents for next summer’s The Dark Knight Rises: Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman film.
Want to contribute? All you gotta do is record yourself repeating the same crazy chant that’s been heard in the teaser that came out a few months ago. As Zimmer puts it…
...“I’m shining the bat-signal up into the sky to call you all! We need to hear your voices! Now and Loud! We are creating the sound of a worldwide chant. Everyone come and be part of it. It’s easy: There is no such thing as out-of-tune, no timing we can’t fix later. If you mumble, growl, scream or whisper, it’s all good. Make it yours. If you only get halfway through, no problem! Do it alone,
Photographer Jason Wickerham took some terrific photos over the weekend of filming of The Dark Knight Rises currently taking place in Pittsburgh. Near the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute Building, there was a wedding going on at a church across the street and Jason caught this image of Tom Hardy, in full costume as mega-villain Bane, waving to the bridesmaids…
Click here to see more of Jason’s photos, including some of the first shots anywhere of the Bane costume, more of the wedding party including the bride and groom being allowed to pose with the un-blackened Tumbler, Marion Cotillard in her costume, and some killer pics of Batman and Bane fighting it out… in broad daylight and falling snow?
The Dark Knight Rises next summer....
And that ain’t even the best look at Bane that we get in the first trailer for The Dark Knight Rises! That comes at the end of the one and a half minute-long glimpse of next year’s surefire megahit.
Yes friends, Warner Bros. has officially released the trailer online (which you couldn’t see until now unless you went to see the last Harry Potter movie over the weekend, which I didn’t, so this is new to me too).
My only gripe is that this is going to be the last of the “Nolan-verse” Batman… which is easily my most favorite Batman continuity ever! I’d hoped that Warners might have let Nolan’s work be the springboard of an ongoing series, sorta like its own James Bond franchise. But we’ve had two excellent Batman movies from Christopher Nolan already and I’ve no doubt that he will end this trilogy in fine...
The official site for The Dark Knight Rises has gone online and much like the gradual reveal of Heath Ledger’s Joker during the lead-up to The Dark Knight a few years ago, the Warner Bros. marketing team has left it to the fans to figure out how to get their first glimpse at the next Batman movie’s big villain.
But those industrious folks at ComingSoon.net got to it first. Here’s the first official look at Tom Hardy as Bane!
Well, he doesn’t have the tubes running to the back of his skull for the Venom drug… but I can definitely dig this being Bane. Hardy looks the part without the mask being “Gimp”-y at all.
Maybe this’ll be the final nail in the coffin of the bad memories still lingering from Batman & Robin… 😛...