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THE DARK KNIGHT poster... jokes on us!
Hey folks, Harry here - A whole bunch of hard snooping geeks have been being run all over a bunch of cities today - asked to go to addresses and pick up something for a Robin Banks "Robbing Banks" - turns out it was a cake with a phone number.... Apparently there was another message and a card in a plastic envelope inside of the cake. Which had them call another number. And then wait. Now... now you have the poster! Thanks goes to McJake, Jason "Fingers" Owen and Francisco "kiko" Buyo - for doing their part!!!
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I likey alotty.
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I like.
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perfect
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great poster!
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That was awesome! No really. Sweet poster design!
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At least i think so....I registered for tix to see it here in IMAX in Philly. It says 7 pm on thurs, first come first served. Something to look forward to.
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Deal.
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Why so serious?
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I wonder if the band will collaborate with the movie soundtrack.
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...is going to be fucking ace. I tell thee.
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Next year is going to be fun.
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I missed two of those cakes by 5 min today. (All of 'em were over on the east side, for some reason.) How 'bout some love for UWS/Harlem next time, Joker?
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Dec 04, 2007 5:04:13 PM CST
I wonder if I could justify leaving work early to see that
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IMAX footage. Let alone justifying the same thing to my wife to drive 5 hours down to L.A. She's not nearly a big a geek as I am. -
I love quality teaser-style posters and damn this one's a beauty. Great stuff.
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I'll admit. Classy and memorable.
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ORGASM TIMES INFINITY +1
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I kid I kid
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The bat logo as Joker's lips? Holy shit. I'm in.
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It's straightforward, simple, and communicates not only the theme of the the movie, but the characters as well by using abstract and iconic imagery.I'm jealous that I didn't think of it first.
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Was the awesomeness of this poster painted with oils mixed in pussy juice?
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...this poster is.
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for reporting this. I mean, it's FUCKING DARK KNIGHT! I just learnt there was a new Batman movie! It's AWESOME!
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I like it a lot.
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A good American movie poster. There's something you don't see much of any more. Well done.
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I should have done this for free fucking cake.
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it's pussy juice.
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But no cake either, so...
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good things to come. I'm really excited about The Dark Knight. Batman Begins was a great movie in it's own right, and stood head and shoulders above all but the '89 Batman. I really think the franchise is going in a great direction.
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shitballs that is a tight design. i love it when a poster is actually clever or interesting or art, instead of one of the trifecta: a)drew strusen/drew strusen knockoff; b)guy holding a gun out at the viewer; or c)a big head coming out of the shadows. go nolan!
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Sounds fun. Plus I like bananas.
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In other news, the filmakers have yet to deliver on the now almost fever-pitch demand for a trailer. Here's hoping that SSH.com had it right and we'll see the teaser trailer before I AM LEGEND.
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it makes me wanna get shot in the face by the Joker. For seriousssss.
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IM IN UR ALLEYZ PAINTIN ON UR WALLZ
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Seriously, legs sort of crossed, it looks like she has her arms out supporting the wings and is wearing the pointy cowl. Or maybe I'm just a perv. ahhh, oh well.
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That is my main query? Is he really as good as Caine says he is? Good poster tho.....
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This has to be one of the best teaser posters since "Phantom Menace" (the one with Vader's shadow cast by young Annakin). But paying to see a teaser trailer tacked onto the latest Will Smith shit-fest? Not so much.
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nope!
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HE SAYS LION
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I do see her, though
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or it will be the end of the world.....
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That's pretty awesome!
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But what if Heath's good and the world ends anyway? That would suck.
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That would be a bitch...
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That is a great poster...
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Who's pussy juice does a guy have to bury his face in to catch a screening in this crazy world
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...to run around looking for a message in a cake in order to see a movie poster. Don't these people have jobs? F'n comedy.
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is it just a random paint pattern or is there some sorta image within the bat symbol?
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complementos
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dark knight is gettin so much hype, wat about the ol' boy scout....
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I wanna get my hands on one.
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¿Por favor?
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CAPS LOCK ON!
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Use Paint and zoom in.
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Love it.
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Maybe he was Joe Chill's accomplice and Chill just drove the getaway car! That would be an helluva tweest, right? Right??
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Above the "N" and the "H"? Any thoughts?
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I can only hope.
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Remember this initial advance poster from 1992?
http://www.posterwire.com/image.php?img_full=/wp-content/images/batman_returns_teaser_a.jpg&img_title=Batman%20Returns%20Teaser%20A -
seriously.
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http://www.posterwire.com/archives/2005/03/26/batman-returns/
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eat your heart out.
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Has anyone else got tickets to the shows this week? I got Chicago Tickets!
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Absolutely perfect teaser poster, could not be better!
I'm with Teh Suk, best campaign I can remember there ever being, kudos to Nolan and the team for doing something truly original. -
I mean...you know. maybe some extension changing will reveal stuff.
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this one combines both simplicity and awesomeness in one bold stroke.
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how can't you
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That's fucking enormous.
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Maybe it's so you can go print it out. Be kind of expensive though, it's like $7 a square foot at kinkos. Also, I'm waiting for someone to say the numbers are in relation to letters which are in relation to notes.......
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Crack me up
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Good job.
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...it was Awesome. :p Seriously, with each new image, and the descriptions of the footage here and over the summer, my hopes get higher and higher. They were about 85-90% perfect with Begins and it looks they're pushing it all the way for Knight. I can't wait for this movie!
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Apologies.
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This IS called the Dark Knight. We have hardly seen much stuff of Bale. I know that he is not one we need to worry about, but we still need to see the kind of game he will be bringing in for the second installment.
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Bale will be all over the teaser trailer, with just a glimpse of Mr. J.
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I hope so....
'WE CAN BRING GOTHAM BACK!' -
Cool, my first credit on the site!
There is probably a lion hidden in this poster somewhere, or maybe one of the bricks shows the cloverfield monster. But seriously, any reason for this poster being in this big of a size?
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That is how teasers should be done.
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dimensions are 7517 x 11136, which could give us these letters: geagaaacf, which could be unscrambled to "a ga ga face" hah I think I am looking into this to deeply.
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out of 6 and counting that actually focused on Batman.
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Do the Cthulhu Dance Mr. Nice Gaius!!! PLEASE!!!
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Can't those idiots BE serious?
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Everything seems to be going right with this movie; my one fear is that with all the Ledger hype, this is going to be a case of the villain overshadowing the hero, like every other Batman movie before Begins. I hope Heath is awesome, I just want Bale's awesomeness to be even MORE apparent. Oh, and Gary Oldman can throw in some awesome as Jim Gordon.
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Dec 04, 2007 7:26:51 PM CST
But Nolan already said this movie wasn't Joker Begins
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
But nobody bothers looking shit up before they open their mouths to just spread useless misinformation anymore. What do you expect them to do anyway, Joker is batman's archnemesis, of course they're going to play up the fact that he is involved, but they don't even go in to why he is the way he is or anything. Begins has Ra's Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Mobsters and that Tsaz serial killer guy, and it did fine telling Batman's story, so I don't know what to tell you, other than your a dumbfuck.
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Well at least you're not being a fucking douchebag about it.
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Yo chill, I just want to see what Batman looks like and how he operates, and I hope we will see more of him in the teaser and in the film.
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First of all, I just want to ask if your name is a reference to Jeff Goldblum and his character in the film Independence Day. And secondly, Tsaz wasn't even a central character in Batman Begins. The main ones were Ra's Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Falconi, and then you can include minor villains if you want like guys like Flass and Joe Chill but personally I wouldn't include them. But seriously dude... TSAZ!?!? He's mentioned like once, maybe twice in the whole movie. Hell, did they ever even show him?!??!? LOL
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I do not feel that the topic of this TB warrants the use of the CTHULHU DANCE.Uh, that and I'm not a fucking jukebox.;^)
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Because no one has referenced that lame excuse yet.
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People who copyright their smiles on sea life gotta eat.
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We are a cowardly and fickle lot.
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Tell him he had his chance, he fucked it up and not to let the door bang him on the ass on the way out.
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No, it's a song title. And yeah, I know, he was on there for 2 seconds. But he's a villain they threw in there and he wasn't even all that important, it also shows that instead of just making it some nameless nobody they know what the hell they're doing. I'm sure joker's role will be more than a 2 second cameo in court then getting tasered or whatever at the end (or nolan could pull a hideo kojima, I guess) but I don't think it's going to be JOKER RISING or some bullshit either.
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He puts a mark on his body every time he kills someone. He was in Batman Begins for about 2 seconds.
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Yes yes I know Harry is the actual author of this story but Mori is the mod of the site (from my experience) and he LOVES to yell at me for not posting about the actual movie but about other stuff completely unrelated...With that said, I absolutely LOVE this poster. I agree with all the supporters, especially the poster who said it reminds him of the hype from phantom menace w/anakin & vader shadow. it certainly rekindles those feelings...however, the hype on tpm let everybody down big time and I just can't take another let down.with that said I'm confident dark knight is gonna be great. better than cats. I'll see it again and again........
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Joker...you should be up for the congressional medal of...UGLY!
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The only fun one, actually.
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wow, virgin with bitch-tits makes lame gay joke ,a four year old could come up with, to insult a movie he has'nt seen yet. Who saw that coming.
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This is a great poster, very artistic for a stdio release. think we all need to slow down though and wait till we see the finished film before we judge Heath too harshly. Just because his interpretation of the Joker is different doesn't mean that it won't be great in a way that is different from the comics. This movie does not erase the comic or cartoon interpretations. My one worry is that everything we have seen so far seems so dark and disturbing. I have no problem with that, but i wonder how the sudio is going to feel about a very dark/brutal superhero film. Will they have it edited or will this be Batman Returns and aftr this the studio gets scared of the direction of the series and decides to lighten it up? Does anyone else have that fear, history does tend to repeat itself now and then.
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Very cool.
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The marketing so far has also been very dark and I wonder if he studio will continue with such a complex marketing campaign when we get closer to release. I wonder how McDonalds is going to sell toys for this film?
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What the subject line said.
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That's exactly the fear I've had ever since Begins got the franchise back on track. I knew that WB, after the "surprise" comeback success of Batman Begins, both critically and financially, would basically let Nolan loose to do whatever he wanted with the sequel, just like they did with Burton on Returns, but I think there is a very real danger that, even if this film is a huge success, WB might consider the franchise "saved" at this point, and so go back to their familiar habits of putting a priority on merchandising potential over artistic merit, watering down the next installment and making it more "kid friendly" for a wider market share and more opportunity for licensed tie ins. I have faith in this film, it's the fate of the next Batman film to come that really worries me...
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Got free cake, a free phone, joker cards, etc. I imagine most were college students who had a dead day today before finals.
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This is thet thing I think we geeks need to be worried about. I trust that Nolan will deliver a good film with Knight, but will it scare off the oh so profitable kid market? I dread that we will be introduced to a complicated and dark Two-Face that needs to be subdued for the sequel because the Kight villians scared the crap out of the kids. Toys, we need t remember how appealing the money from those are for executives. I forsee a hard battle for Nolan to get the third film he wants instead of a return to a Schumacher like interpretation.
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Me Likey!
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enough said.
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I guess the viral campaign is working because I am so excited over this movie, I even think I am more looking to this than Indy. I just have such confidence in Nolan. Bale is the best Batman, god I hope he does not tire of being in that role.
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Wow, hi-res goodness. Quite suprised they'd upload the whole thing in what I assume is going to be 300dpi, still saving it as we speak, so don't know for sure. It'll print well atleast.
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I can't think of another trailer/poster/promo image that has proked such unanimous positive reactions from the fickle movie geek community. Granted it's still early to see what the overall consensus will be, but the positivity of this initial reaction is impressive. Batman Forever and Ghostbusters 2 have always been the teaser poster benchmarks in my mind, and this is right up there. The only thing I would've done differently is left the title off to make it a true teaser, but the tagline is perfect, and the concept is way more clever than anything we're used to seeing for a studio blockbuster. If Ledger impresses us next week, will there be any way to maintain this positive momentum until July?
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Okay, Guy, I'm only gonna sing this one more time: Y-O-U-R... Y-O-U-Apostrophe-R-E... They're as different as night and day. Don't you think that night and day are different? What's wrong with you?
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Dec 04, 2007 9:53:45 PM CST
Indiana Jones and the teaser poster designed by Will Smith's so
by antoniusbloc
hmm...still think Brokeback Joker was a casting mistake...it should have been Vince Vaughn or Michael Keaton or the guy who played Alfred in the Burton Batman
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Love it. The way they are handling this new series of Bat flicks is great in my opinion. That being said, I want a Scarecrow cameo/return damnit!
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Jacob said so
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The poster is awesome.
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Is there something embedded in this JPEG? Why is it 100 MB?
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LOL, that is the first time I've ever seen Hideo Kojima referenced in the AICN TB. He's the dude behind the Metal Gear series, right? I actually didn't make the connection, if you can elaborate on that for me please.
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now lets hope the movie delivers. i was happy with BB but i felt it could have been a bit better.
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I felt that too when I watched BB a few times... it was too predictable, bruce wayne was really boring, too much heroics.
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looks boss!http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809244324/video/5318792
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That poster is trite, predictable and boring?!BULLSHIT.If that poster was the cover of a graphic novel or some other Batman comic novelty, it would be considered a near-instant classic. Congratulations on missing the point of the imagery.
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I'm sure the studio won't want to make that mistake again. If they do, at least we still get to have The Dark Knight in all it's glory.
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Dec 04, 2007 11:48:59 PM CST
Kind of looks like a face you'd get on an ice cream treat
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There's also a chance I might really be going through sugar-withdrawl.
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Absolutely love it. I especially like what they used for the tagline - "WHY SO SERIOUS?" In my city, one newspaper critic complained that BATMAN BEGINS was too serious. Personally, I'm looking forward to another serious Batman film. Bring on THE DARK KNIGHT!
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Yeah, nothing else to add. But what a great poster. Really nice concept and tag line. So much better than the burnished photoshop generica we got with the first one.
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...The studio didn't let Nolan loose at all. I don't remember where I read it, but it wasn't a talk back, but he wanted the jokers smile to be more akin to the bad guy in Ichi The Killers, but they asked for it to be toned down.
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Stop trying to over-legitimize the medium. It's called a COMIC BOOK. People don't call 'em graphic novels, they call 'em comic books. When they're collected together, it's a trade. And usually a "near-instant classic" comic image, especially in a comic book, would be a drawing, not a photograph.
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Check this out:
http://www.whysoserious.com/steprightup/register.aspx
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Why so serious?
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Dec 05, 2007 12:43:44 AM CST
That is the best poster I have seen in a long time
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fucking wow
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I like this poster a lot. So far, this movie is looking like it's going to be amazing. Not going to get my hopes up TOO high, but still, it's looking good so far.
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Exactly what they think Batman Begins did so right that they think it is now the definitive version of Batman. Seriously, if someone could explain that I would really be willing to listen.
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he has been in a couple of duds but he was at least pretty good to excellent in them. I actually enjoyed A Knights Tale, kitsch as it is, and thought he was great in Two Hands, The Patriot, Brokeback Moountain. Get used to it.....the man can act.
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Damn Photomat Assholes!
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Pretty fucking brilliant.
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...Thanks for the heads up about Dexter, dling the last two eps for the season right now. :-)
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Wow. and to think I hated batman begins.
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I am having trouble containing my excitement for this movie now. Reading the opening description and seeing this poster has me very excited for July. I need a Delorean.
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Anyone remember that asshole? Great poster!!!
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I think what people like about batman begins is it's bad ass seriousness of itself. It just didn't work on me at all. I thought it was akin to a highlander sequel. I think it would have been better had Bruce Wayne be a little less of a actionman wanna be type and more of an easy going dude with a dark wicked temper when provoked - which he uses to knock people to the ground, and which he quickly recovers from his own superior vindication. THAT'S bruce wayne, and THAT's Batman. I would have also much prefered Batman Begins to feature a more dark grey fabric Batsuit, something easy to move in. If he needs armour then he could have the lightweight human chest shaped armour under that fabric. It would have been awesome. They could have then progressed through batsuites through the series, right up to the dark black armoured suite complete with white eyes. Yeah, batman begins was star trek 5 to me. Badly shot and cut.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=0JKPNdcWsAk
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C'mon. The poster is fun and a good teaser. This is just one of many posters and I think the excitment is over how nontraditional it is, not because it is the greatest poster ever made. That honor goes to The 40 Year Old Virgin.
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Pick up a Batman comic, seriously. Bruce Wayne is an easy going guy? I don't think so. Christian Bale got it right, all three personalities of the character. There is Bruce Wayne, the orphaned child who couldn't let go, who trained and trained all his life to make himself the perfect machine to exact justice. Then there's the Bruce Wayne that he fronts to the public, so that to them there is nothing more than a socialite playboy, allowing him to maintain his mission as Batman in private. And then of course there is Batman, the moniker he assumes that channels all his rage, all his aggression and his obsession to stop crime. THAT'S Bruce Wayne, and THAT'S Batman.
What people liked about Begins wasn't just that it was serious, but it was true to the source material while successfully reinventing and breathing new life into Batman on the screen. Yeah, it made some changes, but they were the right changes. Joe Chill killing his parents? Check. And yeah, yeah. People can argue that it was changed in the comics, yet again, but you know what? At least it wasn't used as a finite connection between Batman and the Joker like in the '89 movie. Once he KILLED the Joker, there was no reason for him to keep being Batman- he got his revenge. In Begins they address this with Joe Chill. Bruce was robbed of his vengeance and learned there was more to it than that. It gave him a REASON to become Batman, and to keep being Batman after.
The whole Ra's al Ghul/Ducard thing, while a departure from the characters in the comics, actually worked. Ducard was a very brief character in the comics, but he was a mentor to Bruce nonetheless, and in a way so was Ra's. I saw no problem with the blending of the two. Not to mention that it provided a possible real world explanation as to how Ra's could be considered immortal. Either he really is in the literal sense of the word, or the title of Ra's is passed down from person to person throughout the years. Either way works for me.
There are no doubt lots more things you could say Begins got right, but this is a TalkBack post not an essay, so I'll just say this. Nolan and his crew know what they are doing. People were praising Begins because he understands the world and the characters and what makes them what they are. Bale got not only Bruce Wayne right, but Batman as well, and each character that has been introduced so far IS exactly how they should be coming from the comic panel to the big screen. I, along with many others, am excited to see what Nolan and Co. have in store for us with the Dark Knight, and while yeah, Begins was perfect, it was exactly what a Batman origin should be, and hopefully, what they got wrong in that one they'll get right in the Dark Knight, ten times over.
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Harry you said Speed Racer looked as cool as chocolate covered pussy juice!!! What the fuck is this???
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Sorry for the lack of spaces. I had it all nice looking in the damn comment box but apparently it's just as retarded as I am. *grumbles*
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At the end there that should've read "...yeah, Begins *wasn't* perfect, it was exactly what a Batman origin should be..." Kinda defeats what I was trying to get across there. And some of my spelling might suck, so screw you to anyone who tries to use that as an argument that I don't know what I'm talking about. :P
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I reinterate the film was badly shot and edited. And dare I say badly cast as well. Bruce wayne may be have a playboy front, but Bale didn't succeed at all in that respect. He was just a cranky bastard. He was a playboy only because he could afford prostitutes. A playboy should have women dripping off him not only because he is well dressed and successful, but because he has charisma. Bale's bruce wayne has none. For me, that is. The integrity behind the story is not at fault. My issues lie in production design & casting. I think it just might work in 'dark knight' though.
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Thanks for the link.
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There are multiple iterations of Batman and have been for YEARS. I understand that you seem to prefer a certain version of Batman and of Bruce Wayne, saying that for instance you don't like how the "playboy" aspect wasn't portrayed. GET OVER IT. Some people like the Adam West Batman. Some like the Sam Hamm Batman. Some like the Tim Burton Batman. Some like the Paul Dini Batman and Christ forbid, some actually like the Schumacher Batman. Just because it didn't live up to the iteration you like does not mean that it out right sucked. You can attack the editing and casting and filming all because you don't like the basic premise - and that is your bias. I will do the same to the Animated Series. But that doesn't make it any less entertaining. Lighten up. Have a Coke and a smile and accept it as someone else's vision, not the violation of something pseudo-sacrosanct.
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That poster design is terrible. In the pursuit of being clever they've ended up with a very cheap message and a tacky image. I'm sure the movie will be terrific though.
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Bale as Batman was nothing more than dour in person, and just an over the top rich dickhead when affecting his "playboy" persona. I mean falling into a pool with a gaggle of girls? Gimme a break. The playboy aspect was just completely wrong. Think George Clooney (in real life, not as Batman, for God's sake not as Batman) and less Tommy Lee. Just because you saw all three personalities, doesn't mean they got them right. They were there, but in a very shallow state. He also didn't come off as particularly brilliant, which is a cornerstone of Wayne's personality. I don't blame Bale for this, I blame Goyers terrible script. I have no doubt though that Nolan is a much more talented writer than Goyer.
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of this movie come from those who feel that Nolan or whoever screwed up by not having batman properly attired in a gray cloth suit. Because that's the most important aspect about batman: what kind of pants he is wearing.
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I'm sorry but while I understand and respect your point if view it doesn't hold up. Just because someone likes the Peter Parker, for instance, in Spider-Man 3, doesn't mean it has any merit whatsoever to the character. Peter Parker in that film can definitively said to be wrongly portrayed. Yes these characters have many iterations and poitns of view given the different people who have tackled them, but let's not give the ones who bastardized them the luxury of respecting that iteration of the character. There are certain things that these characters must have in every iteration, and while I think you do have a bit more wiggle room with Batman than other comic characters, I think you can pretty much say that Bruce Wayne, in every good iteration, is both utterly brilliant and not a rich playboy dickhead, even when artificially lightening up his personality for the public.
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Cause I don't think I said it enough in that last post. Good God. Sorry about that. It's very very late.
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Did I say I was stoked? ;-)
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I really like this. Teaser posters are where it's at now that the main publicity inevitably devolves into floaty-head hell. Less is more. Criticisms are from retards who probably think that the gay-ass X3 lineup posters were cool.
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'A playboy should have women dripping off him not only because he is well dressed and successful, but because he has charisma.'
Bullshit. Women flop over the most hideous, egregiously stupid and vulgar men because they are rich. End of story. See the entire House of Saud for achetypal 'playboys'. -
because they don't work. QED.
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But those who you who hate this; please provide ONE example of a poster that you think is 'cool'.
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Not sure if I like it quite enough to put on my wall though. And yes, this has been the single best viral campaign for a film in history. I just wish more of the games in it were international... There's been nothing for us to do in the UK :(
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Whilst we geeks can see a poster for a movie called "The Dark Knight" - will the general public know it's a Batman movie? Will they recognise the bat symbol and understand that the poster references the joker?Perhaps I'm just being too hard on the general public. I just hope people don't look at it and say "What's this?"
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Dec 05, 2007 4:59:57 AM CST
Sepulchrave, in real life many playboys are loser douche bags
by industrykiller!
But that isn't the character of Bruce Wayne.
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and OH MY THAT'S A HUGE JPG
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i'm still impressed
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By far one of the best, and original posters I have seen in recent times. Now if only the film can live up to the hype, I just may well end up purchasing this bad boy. Just dont pull a Spider-Man 3 on me!
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Like I said, Begins wasn't perfect. I think it takes a true fan to admit that. However, I really do believe we'll see a lot more of that stuff being honed here in the Dark Knight. It's already been said that Batman is gonna be more of a detective in this one.
Another thing, and you can say it's pussing out if you want, it doesn't matter to me one way or the other- but in Begins that's exactly what Batman is doing... beginning. That scene with him in the pool was his way of venturing out into his new persona, so who's to say he wasn't a little rusty?
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He's a man of his word you know.
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What Batman comics have you been reading? Batman Begins was a fucking live action Detective Comics arc. You may not like it but unfortunately THAT IS BATMAN.
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Okay, it was a little stupid that he bought the hotel by paying one of the waiters with a check. And he overdoes it with the asshole bit but he's paranoid about someone figuring out he's Batman. If he's some spoiled, self destructive idiot then he can't be Batman.
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I'm sure Nolan and Bale are still going to focus on Batman. That's why there's no origin story for the Joker in this movie. It's not the center of the story - but his affect on Wayne/Batman IS. Batman didn't have a nemesis from start to finish in BATMAN BEGINS (well, he did but neither he nor the audience realised it until the end).Nolan's a smart guy. He also knows that The Joker is the second most popular DC villain (after Lex Luthor) and the most popular Batman villain. Therefore, he has to include enough scenes with Mr. J in them to please the crowd who want to see the Joker. The advertising is also aimed at this crowd because, on the whole, fans were happy with what they did with Batman and were clammering to see what they'd do with the Joker.I remember reading an interview with Nolan some time back where he acknowledged that one of the faults of most of the previous series was that the villains took center stage and Batman was left - more or less - in the background. I doubt he'll make the same mistake having acknowledged this.
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you must come from an advanced future. completely unpredictable poster. i was expecting a Joker card. or just another bat logo with joker cards or something.
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Holy farking schnitt! That's one big-ass J-Peg. link goes to a FULL SIZE theatrical poster. Very funny, guys. I'm just glad I didn't try to see it with dial-up.
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... So I could sit back and laugh my head off as I watch nerds go out on ridiculous wild goose chases while at the same time doing all my work for me. NERRRRRRDSSS!
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...He wants his poster back. I'm not kidding.
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...He said never mind.
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yeah it's funny how the love/hate for this movie is split like 60/40, but the love for this poster even has the film's detractors on board for like a 98/2.
Good for them for finally giving us something that every fanboy with a good connection and about $90 to go to kinko's and have this printed at full size can use.
I like the poster, i think the mouth is a little far away from the eyes?...but it also reminds me of the face the dragon in DIG-DUG would turn into when he traveled through the dirt...heh heh. -
To IAmMrMonkey! Who said Lex is more popular than Joker. I hate to bust you bubble but the Joker is the most popular Villain in comics today!!! if you took Vote Joker would win hands down. Lex=boring
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and of all of superman's villains, i think he comes in second or third there. he's well known, but.....
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Jeesus!!! I want a fucking chemically acid-burned bleached out wall...not some god damn grease painted wall with snowman decorations! Have you guys even heard of the Joker before?!?!! Did the image of 'Bozo the fucking clown' pop into your head?!?!?! Didn't think so! Nolan needs to redo this ad with a brick wall that has been dipped in brick bleaching acid or not at all! Like there's any good reason to not dip this brick wall into acid? Why not? How much would it cost?!?! Did someone say "Rocket cars"??!?!
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the wall is weak to me too. i understand it's white...like the joker..i assume it could be a cell or institutional wall, but i'm only hoping.there's really nothing else to it, the fingerpainting is great, i esp. like the zig-zag 'teeth' in the batmouth, and at full size you can almost make out fingerprints in the work.. but the expanse of wall is bad poster design, and the shift in lighting has no function. if they had illuminated it in the oval of a flashlight beam- and it fit the rough dimension of a human head around the 'face'- that would work..or any other distressed treatment to the otherwise pristine wall that would somehow tie it all together. Modern poster design is so afraid of any type of bordering, but i say this needs some form of it.
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but making people work for it? C'mon. It's getting old.
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From next week's Entertainment Weekly: "This is not the official poster. If I had to guess I'd say it's a piece of fan art based on the description of the Joker from the old treatment which was leaked twelve years ago. That description is obsolete relative to the shooting script, since things have changed a lot over the years."
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sorta of different than I expected. Not as pretentious as I would have expected Warners to make it. I'm glad they're having fun with the Joker element in this film. Now, let's hope they pull it off properly.
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...Batman 89 to be virtually unwatchable today. Sure, I was swept up in the hype back in the day, but be honest - it just doesn't hold up that well.
Batman 89 is a two-hour plus ongoing head-on collision between Burton's gothic whimsy and big name actors hamming for dollars. And scored most horridly by Prince.
I've always loved the character but was never a foaming-at-the-mouth bat-tard. Still, while watching Batman 89 I come away from it feeling like virtually everyone involved in the production was using the Batman property to further their own agendas and nothing more. Burton used it as a framework for his usual tastes and Jack for the dough and the "fuck you - I'll play this guy any way I like" factor.
The cheesiness of Batman Returns aside, I find it more watchable than its predecessor.
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first thing that popped into my head...i'm a pervert.
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That must be it, considering that the poster shows the modern GRU logo... http://www.agentura.ru/english/dosie/gru/gerb.jpg
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Tim Burton created a universe (Gotham for instance) with consistency in which the characters could live in. Everything in that world looked like it belonged. It was wimsy but it was good for what it was. Batman Begins on the other hand was about the dumbest thing in every aspect you could throw up on the screen. Face it, A dude dressed up in a Batman outfit in a regular downtown area looks stupid as hell. If I want to see that shit I'll go to Dragon Con in Atlanta and save my 8 bucks and 2 hours of my life. **Fuck this, where's my lighter**
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I like the red bat logo as Joker lips. Now that's a teaser poster. As for the viral marketing, it seems like a lot of work when your "prize" is a just a look at a teaser poster. Why not just wait, like the rest of us? Oh, and if you look closely at the red scribbles you can see Venom.
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While I agree with most of your criticisms of Batman89 (and also consider Batman Returns a superior, if still flawed, movie)... I've gotta point out that Prince didn't score the movie. He provided a half dozen soundtrack songs that, sadly, completely overwhelm every scene they're placed in... Elfman is the one that actually scored the movie and the score (NOT the Prince songs) is one of its strongest points. Elfman's Batman89 theme is the last truly iconic superhero theme... something that even today's otehrwise superior comic movies are clearly lacking.
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... absolutely magnificent. The wait on this one is almost too much to bear.
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Overal, the concept and the design are fine. I get the idea that this is definitely a batman movie that is going to have the joker in it. Great. The thing I don't like is that it looks too much like it was made on photoshop. The "grafitti" looks like it was created on a clear background, made slightly translucsent and then put on some white brick wallpaper. The brushstrokes and the dripping paint don't match the texture of the brick nor the the light playing on the brick. It's a little thing, i guess, but it's distracting to me.
"Elfman's Batman89 theme is the last truly iconic superhero theme"
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You know what killed Burton's universe? The moment Keaton's Bruce Wayne mentioned the name "Ted Bundy". In an instant, his dark fairy tale world came crashing down because he mentioned a name which belonged in our world. It's like when Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time finds that 1979 penny in his pocket in 1916.
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You're absolutely right, and being the nerd that I am, I own both albums. However, like you said, Prince's music is so awful that it overpowers Elfman's score and ends up being what one remembers most.
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Eat a dick.
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With the snow or whatever splashing on the logo.
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Don't bother. I took care of that for you. The chocolate I slurped from your girlfriend was f*ckin' AWESOME!! And she had so many muscle spasms that she peed herself why crying out the name of her savior repeatedly. It was so cute!
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Is the new Brown, which was 2005's Black. And Dark Knight will be 08s Little Miss Sunshine. Please, don't ever let there be a batcycle or batboat in this new franchise.
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...BladeRunnerUnit.
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...who deserve it, not to condescending, arrogant, judgmental, prejudiced hypocrites.
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I gotta say...as far as I'm concerned the goods keep comin regarding The Dark Knight.
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Congrats Michael Bay!
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It sure sounds like you liked Batman Begins, but I really don't think you like the character of Batman or the villains that surround him.
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HOLY HUGE JPEG BATMAN.
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I'll bother feeling insulted by you whenever you grow balls big enough to answer point-blank questions instead of saying things like "I won't answer you because you are so childish".
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X-men, Spiderman, and Batman Begins all had "theme musics"....the problem is they were so passive and absolutely impossible to remember. Harry Potter is the exception. Try humming the X-Men movie theme from memory and if you do I'll be impressed.
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If you watch the stuff on the Begins dvd, they did that on purpose. There is a theme there, it's just not fully developed, and it will be expanded on and played in TDK.
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I had seen a mock up poster of just Ledgers face but I dig this one a whole lot more.
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I don't mean you didn't like Batman int he movie batman Begins, I know you did. But the guy int hat movie wasn't necessarily the character from the comic books. That's what I am tlaking about. If you loved Batman Begins that is fine and understandable, but as far as adapting what the comic is all about (or at least should be all about) the movie totally missed the mark on a lot of things and is no closer to a perfect Batman than Burtons are, it's just styled differently.
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I've seen the poster!
by ricarleite Dec 5th, 2007
05:19:45 AM
It was AWESOME! I'll buy some chocolate so I can smear on my girlfriend's vagina.
Talk backer has girlfriend shocker.
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How many times did you see batman begins? Once? watch it again and tell me the music is forgettable. that was a truly brilliant score and alot of musicians from well respected bands have said so too. and think i don't know about music, well in rotation now I have Mogwai, isis, Godspeed you! black emperor and fugazi. So yeah. You know fuck all about music. Spiderman and X-men i agree though. But Batman begins had many themes, the brilliant Molossus, the best superhero theme ever, Ra's Al ghul's brilliant middle eastern theme, the training/inspiration/legend theme. and the detective theme.
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Dec 05, 2007 4:45:38 PM CST
It's like when Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time
by iowa snot client
SPOILER WARNING, ASSBUTT!!! I was just going to watch it on my new VHS player tonight!
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I couldn't agree with you more. I feel the same way about alot of movies and even comics will do the same thing. P.S. Somewhere in time kicked ass!!
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...has nothing to do with it being iconic or instantly memorable. While there may be as or more skilled scores at work on thousands of other movies, there is no comparing to things like Herman's PYSCHO and CAPE FEAR scores, Williams' STAR WARS and SUPERMAN scores, Carpenter's HALLOWEEN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK scores, Shore's SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and LOTR scores, Elfman's BATMAN and BEETLEJUICE scores, Mancini's PINK PANTHER score, Silvestri's BACK TO THE FUTURE and PREDATOR scores, Goldsmith's GREMLINS or OMEN scores... I could keep going on. Point is that (to me) part of a great genre movie is an instantly memorable theme. Not just a good theme/score... not just a GREAT theme/score- but an iconic one. All of the above fit that bill for me. With the exception of Harry Potter and LOTR, no genre movie or series even comes close to matching the kind of recognizability and indelible mark that the music of the aforementioned movies has made... and for that reason, even the best of the best in recent scifi/action/fantasy/horror are lacking.
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Sorry but thats hard to accept. A memorable theme is often tantamount to playing the same garish few bars announcing look here's our man. Batman Begins theme adapted to each scene and there is a subtle recognition of Batman which is merely two notes but is more than acceptable. I want music to fit a scene in a film not just be something I can hum to myself later. Messi out of curiosity who are these bands who you refer to ?
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Dec 05, 2007 7:23:31 PM CST
Can't wait for more shake cam fights and sets copied from "Blade
by jackpumpkinhead
Can this one be even worse than 'Batman "begins"'? Though it would seem impossible at first... it is, in fact, likely.
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That is all.
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Please let this poster be included in our posters we get at BNAT. Geek Christmas kicks ass!!!
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...is the fact that the shot of the wall is taken from an angle, but the 'graffiti' is done straight on, so the two elements don't quite blend as well as they could. Very cool design though, and still a very cool poster.
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Bullshit. Half of you fuckers must have worked on the damn thing or something. If Batman Begins is all hoolwood needs to be awarded the 'geek perfection' award then I'm packing up and going to go live under the sea.
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just so you know. it wasn't a mistake. I meant it.
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Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Bender.
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You clown, tried to kiss doc's arse did you?you're shit at this, running 0 for 2 in the sycophancy stakes. maggot.
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go fuck yourself
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Bender, you like Sex in the City, but not Batman Begins. Um, yeah...okay.
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