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THE DARK KNIGHT Posterrama!!

FIRST! by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 08:43:33 AM

WHY ARE DENT AND BATS SO SERIOUS? by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 08:44:15 AM
Why?
I like the joker's the best... by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 08:44:25 AM
I guess Batman doesn't like to sit in traffic.
Meh... by BanAllFIRSTPosters	Apr 29th, 2008 08:44:30 AM

This news is old by Jubba	Apr 29th, 2008 08:44:39 AM
These have been out for about a day now...not on top of things at all!! But still cool posters
cool... by FleshMachine	Apr 29th, 2008 08:47:02 AM
i think this will be a wicked movie.
That's why I use Amercian Express!! by Jugdish	Apr 29th, 2008 08:48:00 AM
WTF?
Too Many Credited Names!!! by BanAllFIRSTPosters	Apr 29th, 2008 08:48:30 AM
I'd hate to see how many will be on the third one's posters.
And On the 7th day.. by LORD CHICKEN	Apr 29th, 2008 08:48:54 AM
I had better things to do with my time. I have spoken
Hi. I am Harvey Dent. Have a button. by GooBoy	Apr 29th, 2008 08:49:43 AM
Is anybody else on board that the Harvey Dent one looks ridiculous? "Here. Have a Button. I will very naturally hold it up to give it to you in front of my face. Thank you. My name is Harvey Dent, by the way." Yes, I am excited to see TwoFace in the new movies, but let's face facts. The general public does not give a shit about Harvey Dent.
Yuck by Frankenbastard	Apr 29th, 2008 08:49:53 AM
Wow those are exactly like I expected…Juvenile! Give me Hellboy.
There's even ANOTHER one... by acorvey25	Apr 29th, 2008 08:51:08 AM
...posted on JoBlo. I could wallpaper my entire apartment with TDK posters (granted, my apartment is fucking small, but still...)
Trailer is IDENTICLE to Keaton Batman movie by BigFatBaby	Apr 29th, 2008 08:51:18 AM
shot for shot remake of the original trailer? or some nice editing? http://www.collegehumor.com/vi deo:1813453
Batman's mascara... by BanAllFIRSTPosters	Apr 29th, 2008 08:52:32 AM
really, really bothers me. I hated it in the original Batman movies and I hate it now.
remove space in url by BigFatBaby	Apr 29th, 2008 08:52:46 AM
remove space in url http://www.collegehumor.com/vi deo:1813453
WHY IS HALF OF DENT'S FACE COVERED??? by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 08:53:31 AM
Why?
Pretty cool by CherryValance	Apr 29th, 2008 08:54:04 AM
Just saw these on Yahoo. The Joker one makes me laugh because he looks aggravated that he's holding up that card. Like the Joker hates doing press/photo shoots.
Harvey Dent is King by kingben	Apr 29th, 2008 08:55:00 AM
screw heath ledger, aaron eckhart is going to blow this movie away
Wait a second... by acorvey25	Apr 29th, 2008 08:55:27 AM
Eckhart is Two-Face? I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA. Way to ruin the surprise, poster...
Screw this... by Frankenbastard	Apr 29th, 2008 08:55:36 AM
The Batpod one looks like a poster a 6 year old would hang in his room. I love how the studio puts this stuff out 2 weeks before Speed Racer and Ironman as if to say “hey remember us?” Well screw you and your viral marketing, rubber goofy batsuit, really lame looking Joker and for making a franchise suck again.
Screw this... by Frankenbastard	Apr 29th, 2008 08:55:36 AM
The Batpod one looks like a poster a 6 year old would hang in his room. I love how the studio puts this stuff out 2 weeks before Speed Racer and Ironman as if to say “hey remember us?” Well screw you and your viral marketing, rubber goofy batsuit, really lame looking Joker and for making a franchise suck again.
I wanna see this movie now by CuervoJones	Apr 29th, 2008 08:59:01 AM
But i NEED to see Indy IV
BigFatBaby by Holodigm	Apr 29th, 2008 09:01:50 AM
that's obviously a fake. a 1989 trailer isn't going to have "mpaa.org" on the green screen.
why the barrage? are they afraid of Ironman? by pipergates	Apr 29th, 2008 09:03:27 AM
trying to overshadow the rival comic-filmo f the year?
Good point Holodigm by BigFatBaby	Apr 29th, 2008 09:05:14 AM
thought this could be an edit job...
The Batpod poster belongs in Clooneyville... by jakal40	Apr 29th, 2008 09:06:08 AM
and as far as the combination poster goes, depth of field issues should have been addressed before the release. The background is blurry on Joker and Batman, but the foreground is blurry on Dent. That is fine if you want to make them individual posters, but when you put all three images on the same poster, it just looks sloppy.
love the cyberpunk Gotham by pipergates	Apr 29th, 2008 09:07:29 AM
maybe Nolan got a clue from the batman anime shorts
Does look cheap/awkward, but appeals to... by wilsonfisk89	Apr 29th, 2008 09:07:42 AM
a larger audience than us geeks maybe? I am excited to see the film, but dont want it to be ruined by too many trailers/commercials/feautures , etc, in which they give up even more of the plot. @BigBaby, that dual trailer is pretty awesome
And on the 7th day.. by LORD CHICKEN	Apr 29th, 2008 09:17:07 AM
I did not create the Pod Poster. That's pretty gay. I also did not create gay. I have spoken
EMBIGGEN!... by Kid Z	Apr 29th, 2008 09:17:56 AM
...NOW!... Dammit...!...
The visuals are superior in Burton´s Batman by CuervoJones	Apr 29th, 2008 09:18:09 AM
But the storytelling was lame.
will TwoFace be creepier than Joker? Mutilated monster? by pipergates	Apr 29th, 2008 09:19:25 AM
such a brilliant job on Joker, can't wait to see what TwoFace is going to look like, or how crazy his character will be...has Ekchart ever played a villain or a loony before? I've only seen him do normal people.
What's happened here? by theoyboy	Apr 29th, 2008 09:19:46 AM
AICN is always a day behind the news and usually has to cite another Web site (like JoBlo). Actually, it's almost always JoBlo. Do you guys just scower other news sites and then place their news on AICN, now? Sad.
RE: Whining about product placement and Burton... by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 09:19:49 AM
Seriously, who cares? As long as it isn't oversaturated ala Godzilla. Also, DannyGlover, I think you meant it was iconic when Nicholson walked towards the screen as Nicholson donning Joker makeup -- that was iconic. Because it sure as hell wasn't the Joker that Nicholson was playing in that film.
you mean the Starbucks shot that payed the salary.. by pipergates	Apr 29th, 2008 09:23:15 AM
of Gyllenhaal? got tomake their ends meet.
Doesn't matter how the film will be... by DerLanghaarige	Apr 29th, 2008 09:24:12 AM
...the posters are probably the best looking of the last 10 (or more)years!
I... am... BA-ATMAN by Squashua	Apr 29th, 2008 09:24:26 AM
Chill, DC. Let Iron Man leave theaters, then you can have your batfiesta.
hancock by Mr_X	Apr 29th, 2008 09:24:57 AM
why have i heard nothing about this movie? this summer is too crowded.
These look great, plain and simple. by kevred	Apr 29th, 2008 09:28:17 AM
Stark, dark, edgy, gritty. Isn't this how Batman has always supposed to look? More evidence that this is a golden year for film fantasy. Hope the final product pays off as much as everything we've seen so far indicates.
These look like the versions that don't get picked.... by FlickaPoo	Apr 29th, 2008 09:28:35 AM
...at marketing meetings. I say this because everything for this film has been top shelf so far...truly iconic and classic poster art. These are cool, but somehow lacking...
Frankenbastard by Aitrus233	Apr 29th, 2008 09:28:36 AM
Die.
And on the 7th day.. by LORD CHICKEN	Apr 29th, 2008 09:30:44 AM
box office receipts for TDK drop off once word of how bad it sucks spreads. I have spoken
hats of to Nolan for making Batman the way God by pipergates	Apr 29th, 2008 09:31:44 AM
intended. All the others were juvenile, inconsistent and sloppy. They might have had some good elements and were ok for kids, but Nolan's is the first that respects the audience. We comic readers are after all getting older and wiser. well some of us.
maybe I'm master of the obvious but... by sambafreak13	Apr 29th, 2008 09:33:10 AM
...doesn't Harvey Dent's button look a lot like a messed-up eyeball (al a Two-Face)? If that's what they were going for it's kinda cool.
Partyman . . . Rocks a party Like Nobody Can! by Nico Toscani	Apr 29th, 2008 09:34:34 AM
Burton's Batman films were shite. At least we won't have Heath Ledger's Joker dancing around to Prince songs while he defaces paintings. As Joseph Smith once sang, Dumb - Dumb - Dumb - Dumb!
Pipergates... by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 09:34:34 AM
Bwah ha ha! That's a joke right? geez. Go back and watch Batman Returns again and just try telling me that Batman Begins can stand up anywhere near it!
Nico- How do you know? by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 09:36:16 AM
The songs may not be prince, but the Joker is a flamboyent personality, and the trailers so far seem to indicate we might catch Ledger's Joker dancing around at least once.
And on the 7th day.. by LORD CHICKEN	Apr 29th, 2008 09:36:34 AM
People awaken and crawl directly out of Christopher Nolans asshole and realize that they have been mislead.
greensyle92 by Nico Toscani	Apr 29th, 2008 09:36:46 AM
You are either trying to be funny or have some of the worst taste in movies I have ever seen. Burton's Batman was watchable but Batman Returns was feces dude.
That 1989 Trailer is fake by LlGHTST0RMER	Apr 29th, 2008 09:36:52 AM
The real trailer is on the Batman SE DVD. Whoever made that side-by-side comparison just re-edited footage from the '89 movie to sync up with the TDK trailer. Nice work, though, except for the fore-mentioned present-day green band.
sambafreak13 by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 09:36:52 AM
Re:...doesn't Harvey Dent's button look a lot like a messed-up eyeball (ala Two-Face)? Holy shit-you're right! I never even thought about that!
Love the one of Arron Eckhart as Harvey Dent by Yeti	Apr 29th, 2008 09:38:50 AM
Looking forward to seeing what they do (makeup wise) to make him Two-Face
Show and Tell by BRUTICUS	Apr 29th, 2008 09:42:14 AM
Hi, My name is Joker, and today I would like to show youmycard with the Batman on it. Hi My name is Batman and this is my cool little bat boomerang!! I can throw it and stuff. NEAT HUH?!??! huh huh!! Hi My name is Dent and this is my AWESOME BUTTON!!!
I still like the one with the burning logo in the building. by SkidMarkedUndies	Apr 29th, 2008 09:43:36 AM
That one is going on my wall.
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 09:45:23 AM
I agree that Batman Returns is pure creepy brilliance. Yeah it was cheesy and camp-ish, but at least it had some character development.
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 09:51:14 AM
The giant rubber duck that Penguin rode for one, just off the top of my head. But I see what you mean about "My actions define me!" lines in Begins. The worst part about BB is that it had lame, watered-down villains.
Okay, I know Nolan has to copy Burton subconsciously... by Stalin vs Predator	Apr 29th, 2008 09:54:53 AM
There is no way he couldn't do that - inferior directors tend to do so - but how could he think that referencing the "Clooney holding up his bat credit card" scene would work as a poster? :o)
By the way... Love that Joker! by Stalin vs Predator	Apr 29th, 2008 09:56:17 AM
The real one, Jack Nicholson, of course. Not Marilyn Manson here.
Green Band by ThePilgrim	Apr 29th, 2008 09:56:54 AM
was around back then in 89. is that your argument as too it being a fake trailer. There were tons of trailers for 89 bats. mute the volume and watch it again. Watch the 89. When mouths move in the 89 trailer they finish the sentence. I don't think it's a recut I feel like i've seen that trailer.
cant argue with taste. some like the kiddybatman. by pipergates	Apr 29th, 2008 09:59:15 AM
but some of us grew up, or even found those earlier batmovies lacking back then.
Say what you want, but still... by hank henshaw	Apr 29th, 2008 10:00:54 AM
Batman: The Animated Series is superior to any live-action incarnation of the character. We have yet to see Batman as a detective in any of the movies. The Batman in Batman Begins was not only an arrogant prick, but a dumbass.
And on the 7th day.. by LORD CHICKEN	Apr 29th, 2008 10:02:58 AM
I made Batman 89 better than Batman Begins.
Bales bat voice mod is the gay by ThePilgrim	Apr 29th, 2008 10:04:24 AM
I'm here for the Joker! You understand. I'll come back for 2face, but the bats. I just love to watch this preppy fuck hurt! The Crow is gay.
Herb West by sambafreak13	Apr 29th, 2008 10:12:37 AM
Like I said, maybe that was obvious to everyone else but I didn't notice it the first time...guess I'm a bit slow on the uptake...
ThePilgrim... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:12:57 AM
..and the like. I am so glad to see all of you who hate or dislike Batman Begins. It's nice to know that people out there still have a sense of taste. BATMAN BEGINS WAS ABSOLUTE SHIT!!!!!!!! I have said it, I have explained my reasoning, and I don't give a shit....BB fucking sucked!!! Ordering Bat Masks from China? Stupid. The batmobile hopping roofs? Not to mention the stupid ass design of it!! As Pilgrim stated and I have stated a hundred times. Bales voice is the gay. He is THE worst Batman. The scarecrow? Are you fucking kidding me? The goddamned mob boss looked like low budget 70's tv actor. Batman riding around on a horse commanding bats? Fuck you that sucked!!! Giant cgi water, what the fuck ever manipulator as a WMD? Fuck off!!! Liam Qui Gon Gin side kick in Krull Neeson as that gay ninja Ras?!!! Fuck you again... Damn I could go on and on and on.....Fuck you !!!!!
And another thing about BB... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:20:14 AM
Oldman's character was bland as shit. The girl...what's her fuck...she was worthless and had no point. Bale running off to some mountain top with a flower and becoming a ninja after only four days of watching a Billy Banks Tai Bo video. Then kicking all four of the Ninja Turtles asses only to fall off of Mount Fuji and land at the bottom with Austion Powers dad waiting on him in a suit. Morgan Freeman gives Bat Bale the whole Batsuit and Fagmobile and doesn't notice a thing when Batman is in this thing double duching across roofs. damn I can keep going.
My God, those posters suck! That Batbike is ass! by anchorite	Apr 29th, 2008 10:23:04 AM
It looks so incredibly lame. Just like Batman Begins was and this movie will be. So in that way, at least it's a good representation of the film.
are you channeling I am Batman anchorite? by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 10:30:24 AM
Much like Batman Begins, this will be a fantastic movie. All the above may hate all you want (whether you like Burton's Batman or whatever), but I am looking forward to this movie. Oh, and Underoos, "Batman riding around on a horse commanding bats?" Huh? I must have missed that.
More Batman Begins..... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:32:22 AM
Bat Bale gets all drunk and like a deadbeat son burns his parents mansion down leaving himself and Nigel Powers homeless. The scarecrow come along with a fucking potato sack over his head and blows some goddamn shroom dust in this bad 70's tv show actors face then the bad actor has a real bad acting spell and gets put in some retirement home for bad actors with the ScareNope following right behind him after Bat Bale reverses (that clever Nigel Powers) the effects of the dust shrooms back on to ScareNope. Then Bat Bale runs around looking for that useless whore bag he shacked up with only to discover that the main plot of the movie involves some huge laser water hose that Qui Gon is using to water the scarecrows shrooms. Then Bat Bale hitches a ride on the train because the budget was running out towards the end for the movie so they had to wrap things up real quick. Only to find Qui Gon talking to Darth Maul and plotting the destruction of City Bank and Starbucks. Bat Bale really likes Starbucks and is pissd that he and Nigel Powers are homeless so he fights the Jedi and leaves him to die on the train as it careens down a set of poorly built tracks that Bat Bales father designed and crashes into a bank of America killing the last jedi.
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:33:31 AM
I'm not kidding...BATMAN BEGINS has the suck of American Idol!!
'89 Trailer is Obviously re-cut, But still awesome by wilsonfisk89	Apr 29th, 2008 10:35:16 AM
The narrative is cut to match the new one, but its still amazing. Joker owned my childhood.
saw the trailer in New York last night by waggy	Apr 29th, 2008 10:35:47 AM
Looks so fucking awesome. Kinda stole Iron Man's thunder for me.
Best Marketing Campaign ever by messi	Apr 29th, 2008 10:39:42 AM
every poster, leak, trailer, one sheet has been amazing.
Worst Marketing Campaign ever by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:41:00 AM

Worst Marketing Campaign ever by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:41:35 AM
every poster, leak, trailer, one sheet has been shit.
I like when Gordon get in the 4x4 hummer-mobile by ThePilgrim	Apr 29th, 2008 10:42:13 AM
and it pulls him in and he gets all creeped out like it's gonna fuck him in the ass! Batman Begins is tedious and boring. The villains are gay as hell. The water madness microwave vicks vapor machine is retarded. It is the cherry on the R-Tard cake for me. Say what you will about balloons with toxic nerve gas agents in them. It's a hell of a lot easier to buy then some microwave gun that makes a vapor activated toxin.
TDK by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:42:50 AM
This movie looks feels and acts like it is trying to hard. Get your hands off your boners guys, it's never been that good.
Vicks Vapor Rub Humidifying Machine by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:45:17 AM
Was the absolute suck. I got tourettes all of a sudden and I was like..."What the goddamned hell is this fucking shit?" Fuck!! Ass!!! BOB SAGGETT!!!
Underoos Hero by rev_skarekroe	Apr 29th, 2008 10:45:52 AM
Are you Moviemack's new login? Or are you some other functionally retarded Talkbacker?
rev_skarekroe by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:46:56 AM
Fuck you and your god.
Underoos Hero by mayorofsmpleton	Apr 29th, 2008 10:48:04 AM
To, Two, Too. They all mean different things. Look them up. While you're at it, see a therapist because your frequent homophobic jabs (though referencing a film you dislike) say a lot about your closeted sexuality...
Sorry rev by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:48:07 AM
That was my tourettes kicking in...AAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS S!!!
Mythbuster can build some toxic Macy Day by ThePilgrim	Apr 29th, 2008 10:48:54 AM
Parade sized Balloons on the same. They can not however build a fucking Embiggen Microwave Vick's Vapor Toxic Fume making Machine. I rest My case... The Nolan going for real world esthetics hit a brick wall with that polished turd.
mayorofsmpleton by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:49:22 AM
Thanks I'll take note of that Master Windu.
Suckers... by Frankenbastard	Apr 29th, 2008 10:49:24 AM
That 89 trailer is cool but It’s not the original at all. Aside from the obvious they just didn’t make previews with that style of editing back then. But the person that created it brings up a really good point, what was hype for retarded story telling back then is hype for retarded story telling nowadays. Just like back then, fans were starving for a Batman movie so much that they accepted what they got. Oooo look at the shiny things! Chumps. We’ll never get “The” Batman we deserve, ever. Not as long as producers say things at meetings like “does really have to wear a mask?”
THe only thing "Real" about Batman Begins was... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:50:43 AM
..the whole movie...it was real shitty.
Batman on His Bike.... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 10:53:26 AM
Looks Like SuperChicken.
Batman Returns by Frankenbastard	Apr 29th, 2008 10:56:12 AM
Batman Returns is actually closest to the comic than any of the other films period. It wasn’t perfect but it was at least Batman-ish. Someone earlier mentioned the Animated series and yea that’s the best all the way around.
I. Want. Them. All. by Aethyrr	Apr 29th, 2008 10:57:28 AM

This last Batman movie should have been called.. by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:02:23 AM
Batman Ends. Let's please put these terrible movies to rest. I go to a movie for escapeism. That is why we read comics and books and see movies. To be taken somewhere else. I'm not going to see a Batman flick so that I can be sucked into some modern day cop reality story with some costumed Dagonconer running around in front of a Starbucks. That kind of shit pulls me right out of the movie and is fucking depressing. It's like being real high with your friends in a dark house at three o'clock in the morning playing some good music and someone flips the fucking light on and yells out what time it is. You come crashing down and you want to kick the dudes ass for being like Christopher Nolan.
Underoos... by Frankenbastard	Apr 29th, 2008 11:05:46 AM
You are my new hero.
LOOK GREAT!!! by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 11:09:13 AM
I'm already sold after seeing the bank robbery sneak peak in IMAX. In fact, that's where I'll be seeing this bad boy too. IMAX mo fukkahs!!
please tone down the "Batman Wisper-talk" by future help	Apr 29th, 2008 11:12:29 AM
please Bale...don't over-do the wisper-talk again. PLEASE
Pretty impressive by wash	Apr 29th, 2008 11:15:29 AM
Can't wait for this.
TO ALL BB SUPPORTERS.... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:15:31 AM
I want you to tell me how "realism" equates to good story telling when it concerns a "COMIC BOOK" movie. Please explain that. If you need reality, leave the fucking house but don't stir it up in to my imaginary Super Hero Soup.
Feeding the trolls. by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 11:18:05 AM
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD + Underoos Hero = SUPERTROLL!
Dokkalvar = Batman Begins = Suck by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:19:01 AM

Batman can be interpreted in many ways by David Cloverfield	Apr 29th, 2008 11:19:27 AM
This looks fun. My favorite is still Batman Returns, this may top it. I don't think Batman needs to be realistic, but by the end of this one he will have a sweet Rouges Gallery, with Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow and Ra's, so plausibility will be pretty much gone. I hope it'll be fun.
TO ALL BB SUPPORTERS.... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:23:17 AM
I want you to tell me how "realism" equates to good story telling when it concerns a "COMIC BOOK" movie. Please explain that. If you need reality, leave the fucking house but don't stir it up in to my imaginary Super Hero Soup.
Why not go realisitic? by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 11:25:07 AM
We've already had the surreal fever-dream Batman of Tim Burton, as well as the uber-gay, fashion-designer's Batman of Schumacher. We've seen the cartoon version, and the stupid campy version. If that's your flavor then visit Best Buy, Block Buster, or log on to Net-Flix.
Underoos Hero by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 11:26:49 AM
Your the one who is only savvy enough to refer to Michael Caine as Nigel Powers, and talks about getting high in the theater. I think your demographic is one they should be avoiding at all cost.
Underoos Hero by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 11:35:40 AM
Very well Underoos. I'm not sure how Batman Begins was realistic. It took place in a modern day city, but him hopping to and fro from buildings, hopping across roof tops in the tumbler, the whole microwave emitter is most definitely a comic book type weapon. Oh, and your super hero soup is spiked with some crazy I think...
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 11:36:35 AM
You have a problem with the butler if he dusts or not?
Easy on the hatin' guys! by judge dredds fresh undies	Apr 29th, 2008 11:41:47 AM
I agree though that the batpod is fucking ASS, i just cant get over the fucking guns bobbing around like jelly, hmmm bet they're accurate! If the batpod wasnt so lame that poster would own. The other ones are awful photoshop jobs. Still, that burning building one is a great poster, more like that please!
Underoos... by jerseycajun	Apr 29th, 2008 11:42:33 AM
It's realism in the sense of plausibility. Batman is the one of the few superhero characters one can even attempt to take this approach with because he has no fantastic super-powers, and amping down the less realistic elements allows things like story and character to come to the forefront. We may disagree on the quality of those elements in BB, but I'm confident in my opinion that they were of high quality in both cases. BB had more depth than the average superhero story, and having more realistic environments, explanations, etc, helped in getting that across.
UnderoosHero + DannyGlovers_Dickblood = by Bruce Thomas Wayne	Apr 29th, 2008 11:43:07 AM
two guys who will never get laid so they try to prove their manhood by talking shit about one of the most critically acclaimed superhero movie while sitting at their house naked whacking off to east asian s&m porn. Seriously guys, no one cares what you think
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 11:45:34 AM
I personally like Jack Nicholson as the Joker and I also like Heather Ledger's take on it as well. I also don't mind that Michael Caine is never seen dusting a bookshelf. What you and underoos want just couldn't happen again. The studio would not have backed another set of movies that looked anything close to what Joel Schumacher did and no one familiar with those movies would have returned - except maybe you two. Logically, they had to do a 180. Stylistically, I think there is room for BB, and TDK. Reinterpretation is what comics are all about.
READ YOU STILLTED BATMAN BEGINS SUPPORTERS by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:48:12 AM
Listen, mixing a "COMIC BOOK" hero into a live setting (like Chicago, CitiBank, and Starbuckaroos) does NOT translate very well on the big screen at all. At all! You can not have your Fruit Loops and the purple plastic parrot spoon too. You can't tell me that it's ok for a Bat Tank to skip around the roof tops like a goddamned clown on a pogo stick whilst contemplating Ockman's Razor. FUCK YOU. It Does not work!!
Underhoos by MattmanReturns	Apr 29th, 2008 11:48:28 AM
"I want you to tell me how "realism" equates to good story telling when it concerns a "COMIC BOOK" movie." I think it works very well for Batman, who has no superpowers... and that's why Batman has always been my favorite comic book hero. He feels like someone who could exist. I can't relate to an alien who can fly around the planet and shoot lasers from his eyes. Sure, there are stretches of the imagination, but those stretches are simply easier to swallow in a movie more rooted in reality. But that's just me.
Batpod by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 11:49:21 AM
Yeah I'm still not entirely sure how Bat's would keep his cape out of the back wheel, or without a front fender he doesn't get mud and wet pavement in his face..But whatever, I can deal.
These whiners are all the same person by Leopold Scotch	Apr 29th, 2008 11:52:41 AM
Oh well: at least he's moaning about Batman Begins in a relevant thread this time. Responding to your own comments and complimenting yourself under another pseudonym is so 1989.
Underoos Hero by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 11:52:41 AM
"does NOT translate very well on the big screen at all. At all!" So says you.
plausible does not necessarily equal realistic by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 11:53:40 AM
in fact plausibility can actually be a tool to help suspension of disbelief. In the case of BB many of the things you hate for "realism" are actually just tools to help you get over the ridiculous comic book weaponry and the fact that A FUCKING BILLIONAIRE CHOOSES TO SPEND HIS TIME DRESSED AS A BAT. You are being over literal and trainspotterish. Just relax and enjoy what was a good start.
and even the film told you that it was not ok by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 11:55:10 AM
for the bat tank thing to be bouncing around the roof. That is what is meant by suspension of disbelief.
jerseycajun by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:55:21 AM
But you have still failed to expalin why a "COMIC BOOK" movie should have injected realism. WHY? If you want to even attempt this sort of thing then you should do as Zack Snyder did with 300 or Miller with Sin City. Create a world around the character. This makes the costumes and gadgets more beleiveable!! Don't be a lazy douche fuck like Nolan and throw a rubber suit on a stunt guy, rent a Citi Bank building for a day and have him stand on top of it. That is what it is. Some dumb looking shit. I liked Burtons Batman for the above stated points about a stylized world built and designed to surround Batman. You could suspend your beleifs and beleive this Batguy could exist in this world. Yea it was cartoony but I appreciated it for that.
Underoos Hero by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 11:56:22 AM
"don't stir it up into my imaginary Super Hero Soup."/"You can not have your Fruit Loops and the purple plastic parrot spoon too." I always love your little bits of wisdom.
Herb West by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 11:58:33 AM
haha...thanks... but some would say that there is trollin'.
Underoos by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 11:58:44 AM
I pointed out some posts above that it is not realistic. Oh, but in your fits of insanity, I guess you missed it.
Underoos by MattmanReturns	Apr 29th, 2008 12:00:26 PM
You're going to have to deal with the fact that people prefer Begins to Burton's Batman. I happen to appreciate both movies for different reasons. But I also have to admit that Batman Begins is far superior, truer to the character, and simply more convincing. Burton's is fluffy, lacking in plot, but happens to have amazing atmosphere and one of the best villain performances in history.
not sure how you could suspend your belief by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 12:01:07 PM
in Burton's Batman, and not Nolan's. That just doesn't make sense. It's about a guy who fights crime dressed as a bat. And jumps/sails/hovers all around the city. I certainly don't see that everyday. Then again, I don't eat super hero soup, so maybe that's why..
I won't call you BB supporters any names... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:01:43 PM
..but I'll pray to Satan that these types of movie ideals be stricken from mankinds thoughts of good cinema. Along with that movie "I pronounce you Chuck and Larry" and anything concerning Adam Sandler.
just pillow talk by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:05:31 PM
I read your posts. I am agreeing to disagree. However I didn't find the arguments strong enough. You see comic movies differently but I see them as I beleive many should see them. This is why everyone complains when their favorite comic characters do not match the comics, am I right? Now I know that Batman has always had a real side to the character arch but it does not translate well on screen in this context. Sorry. It doesn't.
Underoos- by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:06:33 PM
It didn't inject realism- please, a fucking microwave emitter that puts LSD in the air is not realistic- a fucking car that can jump rivers to build bridges is not realistic. However, the explanation given for these ridiculous devices was to some extent plausible. DOn't forget Batman is a normal guy with a shitload of cash and even more personality problems. A bit of plausibility can help suspension of disbelief- but at the end of the day it was still incredibly comic book-y
Correction by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:08:31 PM
.. You see comic movies differently but I see them as I beleive many "PEOPLE DO" see them. not as I believe many should...I'm not an elitest....
"I beleive many should see them" by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:09:20 PM
and there we have the problem- we destroy Ringwearer9 frequently for his Tolien Anorak-isms. Your problem is the same as his- unless the vision presented matches the one in his head it shall forever be without merit. And why should anyone else's vision match yours? That's just an unbelievably arrogant statement. For the record, I thought BB was OK with plenty to build on, but I prefer 89 Batman.
shite, you already corrected it by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:10:09 PM
never mind then. Typos are typos.
unless it wan't a typo and more of a freudian slip by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:10:33 PM
the plot thickens.
Underoos... by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 12:10:46 PM
And you've just answered your own question. You are projecting on your specific view of what Batman should be onto everyone else's. "You see comic movies differently but I see them as I beleive many should see them." You are absolutely correct. I've never read a Batman comic, but I totally prefer Nolan's version to Burton's. Mainly because I couldn't believe that Keaton could be Batman, and I wasn't crazy about Nicholson. Oh, and while Kim Basinger was quite yummy, she was awful. So no difference there for me as compared to Katie.
Lost Jarv by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:11:23 PM
The whole BatCar doing the double duch like a black girl in Harlem across roof tops was the suck but it does not mix with the reality that Nolan was trying to put in place in the film. It made the consistancy flow like a backed up toilet.
ah, I have to take back my first line too Underoos... by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 12:12:10 PM

Which batman do you want? by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 12:12:46 PM
Do you want the Bob Cane Batman? How about the 80's Batman, or the 90's? Which comic should they model the movies after Underoos? Alan Moore's killing joke maybe? Or do you want Frank Miller? - which is who Burton was taking from.
Underoos by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:13:29 PM
of course it was completely daft- but there was plausibility established that it could. Once established that it was designed to hop around like a flea on amphetimines then it was easy to believe it when you saw it.
These bitch-ass whiners... by Kid Z	Apr 29th, 2008 12:14:44 PM
...like Underoos and whoever long for their version of "the perfect Batman movie"... akin to that shitty fan-produced fake triler where the dude in the Batman Halloween costume fought Aliens Vs. Predator. Yeah... real good... stupid dorks!
just pillow talk by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:16:02 PM
I don't want people to think like me that's for sure. Then everyone would be watching re-runs of the A-team with the sound off whilst marching around in their underoos with a plastic sword in hand, blasting the sound track to Conan.
UNderoos- by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:16:37 PM
I have to ask did you like Superman Returns or Spiderman 3 or X3?
Dokkalvar by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:18:53 PM
Alan Moore's killing joke or Frank Miller. It doesn't matter. Just stylize the world spend some time and effort to build this space the characters live in. This is what Peter Jackson understood about LOTR. He knew that withouth those elements the movies would not work.
Lost Jarv by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:19:21 PM
None of them.
I can't argue... by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 12:19:27 PM
No one wants that. No one.
Overkill with the poster. Really. by wowsah156	Apr 29th, 2008 12:19:57 PM
Honestly they have over done the posters here. we're getting into the realms of Lucasfilm overkill here. The viral campaign was doing more work wioth its codas and undergorund vibe. but the continuing posters are just going to saturate the customer. STOP IT!! The irony is that the best poster was the one with with Bats looking out over the city panorama like a man with the world on his shoulders. WB just cease with the posters will you? Again i say the executives at WB NEED to give a job their to sort them out.
cheers by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:20:07 PM
see you tomorrow.
The cityscape poster isn't Gotham by Hawaiian Organ Donor	Apr 29th, 2008 12:21:22 PM
It's Hong Kong. It's poster from Hong Kong and they put Batman IN Hong Kong. I think that's pretty ingenious. Batman Begins had a lot of problems in the third act but it still might be better as a whole than any of the Burton stuff. Keaton, Nicholson and DeVito were excellent in their roles but the movies haven't aged so well.
I have finally given up on reading comments... by Transmetropolitan	Apr 29th, 2008 12:21:34 PM
What happened to actual intelligent posting on this site? The old times are far behind me. Thank you DannyGlover'sDickBlood, you have proved to me there is no reason to read comments anymore. It's gotten to the point that it is as bad as youtube video comments, and those are just completely pointless and retarded.
And I'm spent............... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:21:41 PM

hang on Underoos by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:22:02 PM
You laud Jackson for building middle earth but slate Nolan for spending a long time on the origin? that's contradictory. I thought the third act was the weakest bit. By a ong way (aside from every moment Mrs Cruise was on screen)
"And I'm spent..............." by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:22:35 PM
Far too much information.
Lost Jarv by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:23:07 PM
I laud Nolan for spending a long time in front of Starbucks.
Now I'm spent.... by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:24:01 PM
Elvis has lef the dinner table.
That's exactly my point by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:24:03 PM
your being glib and hypocritical.
really off now by Lost Jarv	Apr 29th, 2008 12:24:30 PM
Have to go home,
ok ok Lost Jarv by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 12:25:27 PM
I was being nice with you. No need for the insults. Let it rest. Now..Elvis has tried to leave the toilet...
Eh, still not digging it. by elvenblade	Apr 29th, 2008 12:28:38 PM
I'll see the movie opening weekend, but those character posters are lame and the Bat-pod looks stupid. Broken office window scene? Stolen from Revenge of the Sith.
YOU WANT A HEAVILY STYLIZED BATMAN? by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 12:34:43 PM
You got it. Just watch Batman and Robin and bask in the pure stylization. I'm not bashing that movie, as I did like bobbing head Batman, but Nolan's second outing so far looks pretty awesome and a return to grittier Batman that I grew up with in the comics.
LOOKS LIKE DANNYGLOVER'S DICKBLOOD GOT HIS FEELINGS HURT by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 12:35:59 PM
Sensitive ...
JOKER looks like nod to THE CURE'S Robert Smith by odysseus	Apr 29th, 2008 12:44:51 PM
"Head on the Door" era... when I used to think he reminded me of the Joker.
SPIDER-MAN BATTLED DOC OCK IN A BANK by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 12:45:19 PM
Where's your problem with that? Also on a subway, although that scene was totally implausible for a number of reasons. Still pretty entertaining.
let's hope Queefer Bukkake doesn't get a hold by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 12:46:10 PM
of Dannyglover's Dickblood....
The three images together... by BackStJoe	Apr 29th, 2008 12:46:27 PM
remind me a lot of the Batman Returns poster. (This is a good thing...)
TDK BOOTLEG TRAILER by LittleDudes	Apr 29th, 2008 12:47:15 PM
Apparently it's higher quality http://tinyurl.com/3rrf26
Underoos Hero - The name says it all. by Teh Suk	Apr 29th, 2008 12:55:54 PM
STFU. You are an asshole.
I cannot wait for Nolan's realistic take on the Penguin! by ScoobysSpleen	Apr 29th, 2008 01:00:07 PM
He'll be a short fat guy in a tuxedo. Wow! And just think of what he could do with Bane... he'd make him a tall big guy in an undershirt! Wowzers, Penny! Can't DC give Nolan the Superman reboot/sequel, too? He'd make that ridiculous comic book figure into a great realistic Superman - a guy who would be from Earth and who couldn't fly. Realism rocks! Hacks like del Toro and Jackson should take note from the Nolan school and make "The Hobbit" realistic, with midgets and no dragons. For fantasy needs a healthy dose of realism, too.
This movie will rock......TRUST ME!!!! by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 01:01:16 PM
First of all, lemme say something about what Harry posted. Harry is an @$$hole. His opinions are always compromised. Iron Man was incredible but it's not as good as BB. Iron Man is an origin story with nothing original. Anyways, let's get down to business. I am not saying who I am, but I am going to give away sum spoilers on this one. The trailer was designed for the public at large. Although it pays homage, this movie is in no way like '89 Batman. You have heard this before so lemme say it again. This movie is a very complicated crime drama. The Joker is a major component, but he's not the heart of the movie. The movie is based around Batman and Harvey Dent's war on Gotham crime. Batman is still what this movie revolves around. There are other major criminals in this film, most notably Eric Roberts crime boss character. Harvey Dent starts targetting his crime family and royally pisses him off. Harvey really strays from the Joker. It's Eric Roberts character who turns Harvey into TwoFace with the gasoline. Batman goes vigilante crazy after the Joker does kill Rachel. That's why you see Gordon smash the Bat signal and have to be restrained. Batman COMPLETELY subverts the law in an effort to stop the Joker's madness. His conflict with Jim Gordon is a major subplot. Heath Ledger delivers a knockout performance, but believe it or not, it's Aaron Eckhart's performance and his turn towards the end of the film that will knock your socks off. Christian Bale owns Batman/Bruce Wayne 8 days a week. Michael Caine ramps up Alfred and it's he who will garner any nominations if any are to be given out. To sum up, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Harvey Dent and Alfred are what this film revolves around. Once you see the movie, you will understand why Michael Caine got second billing. This is going to be a multifaceted affair. Things are deliberately being kept out of the trailer. They are banking that the viral marketing campaign and just the Batman brand will carry you to the theatre. This film is absolutely more EPIC than you can imagine. It will go down in history as one of the most brilliant crime dramas ever. The Joker and the explosions are secondary. Crisis of conscience, the fine line between good and evil, and the impact of our decisions are the central themes of this movie. You will believe me on July 18th!
By the way, I hope we'll get the scene of Ledger buying his kniv by ScoobysSpleen	Apr 29th, 2008 01:05:09 PM
...in a shop somewhere. Because if there's anything I love more than Nolan's realism, it's how he takes time to explain everything and show its origins in detail. That's wonderful and very healthy for imagination. I wish he'd remake that hack Leone's stupid "Man With No Name" trilogy and make it a "Man With A Name, Surname and Detailed Past History" one.
THE DUCK KNIGHT by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:10:15 PM
Quack quack!!!
Underoos and Danny Glover by Nico Toscani	Apr 29th, 2008 01:11:31 PM
Did you two go off of your meds today? Seriously, take a chill pill guys.
HE GOT SINGLED OUT FOR BEING THE MOST VERBOSE DOUCHE by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:11:38 PM
in this TB. I get singled out for the other TBs.
DUCK SAUCE ON BAT WINGS by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:12:18 PM
Delish!
BUFFALO BATWINGS by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:12:39 PM
Spicy good!
BAT PARMAGIANA by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:13:09 PM
Extra cheese = extra good!
BAT MCNUGGETS by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:14:02 PM
All dark meat!
I THINK UNDEROOS IS A 72 YEAR OLD AUSTRIAN GUY by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:14:51 PM
if you catch my meaning ...
Underoos by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 01:15:09 PM
Did you just seriously compare Batman to LOTRs? .....Seriously?
Promotion posters similar to Batman Returns by expert24	Apr 29th, 2008 01:16:07 PM
I remember back in 1992 when BReturns was released Warner Bros. did the exact same thing with BM, Catwoman, and Penquin all on the poster at the same time. BReturns was quit disappointing back in 92' upon first viewing and isn't as fun or good as BM 1 but it brings back bad memories seeing the similar promotion done with Dark Knight.
HOW CAN YOU COMPARE BATMAN TO LOTR? by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:17:29 PM
LOTR is a fantasy world from the Middle Ages or some shit, with goblins and dwarves and elves. Batman exists in a fictional world based on our contemporary society. In which case the butler should be Mexican.
ScoobysSpleen by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 01:17:58 PM
Have you ever seriously picked up a Batman comic in the last 20 years? The writers and illustrators have always gone for a certain sense of realism. Comparing Batman, a modern superhero comic, to LOTR, a straight fantasy novel, is just fucking straight up stupid.
Number9998 by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 01:18:41 PM
You and this "realistic" comic book movie supporter posse take yourselves waaay too seriously. And if you bother to go back and read any of my previous posts on this subject, try and read between the lines with some sense about what I am saying. Since it seems that most cannot get what I'm saying topicly. And really.... You said "It will go down in history as one of the most brilliant crime dramas ever." C'mon man who not be named. Do you really think it's all that? And really...Why so serious?
DANNYDICKBLOOD by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:19:13 PM
I'm getting married soon and have to grow the fuck up. That's what I was told.
Troll. by Dokkalvar	Apr 29th, 2008 01:20:28 PM
Ah, finally you admit it Underoos. Everyone carry on with your day.
It is all that........ by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 01:22:20 PM
Part of my job is to read talk backs all day. The movie is all that. Im not kidding you. Everyone's concerns are not warranted. This movie is incredible! The marketing campaign is designed to be cartoonish. Once parents see this unedited film, the children will not be brought back for a second go around. This film is very dark and very paced.
PHILLY BATSTEAK by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:22:42 PM
Cheez wit!
the pod poster is awesome by shaell	Apr 29th, 2008 01:23:09 PM
fuck you
Batman and Robin by versatol	Apr 29th, 2008 01:23:35 PM
Those floating heads remind me too much of the Batman and Robin movie cover... as do the 50 credited names. I'm still optimistic. One thing I never liked about Nolan's take was the Rachel Dawes thing and the mulitple credited names. That's why the original Bats run sucked... the directors seemed to eager to include everyone from the Bat universe.
Rachel...... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 01:26:03 PM
......does die. Im only telling you so you won't be turned away from the movie thinking she's in from beginning to end. The character is a necessary evil. Everyone hates her. It doesn't matter who potrays Rachel. The character sucks! I agree.....
DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 01:26:35 PM
No, what's funny is you calling Node a right winger.
and by shaell	Apr 29th, 2008 01:26:57 PM
Nolan's sense of pacing and storytelling is unrivaled among previous batman directors.
Of course....... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 01:27:59 PM
.....I work for a studio retard. How do you think I know who turns Harvey Dent?
BSB by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 01:31:03 PM
"I get singled out for the other TBs." LOL... BTW, I liked how you equated gotham night to the one child that was left behind in another talkback.. Nice work!
Number9998 by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 01:33:00 PM
You said.".....I work for a studio retard." And you show your professionalism. You must work with Nolan.
do you guys know why all batman movies suck? by krycek08	Apr 29th, 2008 01:34:04 PM
because the source is lame to begin with. all comic book crap is gay and has never been entertaining as a film. ever. keep that geek shit in comic books where it belongs.
PILLOW by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 01:35:22 PM
That Gotham is a pain the ass, but a likable troll who really wants some TB love. Glad to give it to him ... right up the ASS!!!!
Underoos... by jerseycajun	Apr 29th, 2008 01:35:29 PM
There are no absolute rulebook to making a superhero movie. There are some rules to moviemaking in general as there is in most art, but even those rules can be broken with success. So rather than asking "why should it have injected realism", the only question I can think of is "why not?" There is no rule saying this can't or shouldn't be done. Batman is somewhat uniquely suited for this kind of treatment. Just because something exists in one known form doesn't preclude using it successfully in another, provided the artist/director is skilled enough to make the transition. This series is "Batman" visualized through the lens of a personalized street crime opera. I think you're getting hung up on what essentially is window dressing. Is it different? Yes. But different doesn't equate to bad.
HAHA by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 01:35:57 PM
I work for a studio so of course I am not a professional. And I never said I worked for Batman's studio. We are all one big happy family. That's why I got to see the movie and that's how info gets leaked.
very insightful krycek by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 01:37:43 PM
Glad you could steer all of us in the right direction. You do realize this is a fucking GEEK website, right?
jerseycajun by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 01:44:28 PM
I hear what you are saying. I really do. I just think...and I continue to say this over and over but you guys are so caught up in your bashing you aint' listnin'... DO NOT TRY AND MAKE A COMIC BOOK HERO SO GODDAMNED REALISTIC THEN SPLASH IT WITH SOME COMIC BOOKY STUFF TO REMIND US THAT IT'S JUST A COMIC FILM BUT I SHOULD TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. IT SHOULDN'T BE SLAPSTICK OR CORNY BUT CREATE A LIVING BREATHING WORLD THAT ESCAPES REALITY SO THAT I CAN BELIEVE THAT BATMAN LEARNS TO KICK A NINJA'S ASS IN THREE DAYS AFTER WATCHING RE-RUNS OF WALKER TEXAS RANGER. SIN CITY DID IT. 300 DID IT. PETER JACKSON'S LOTR DID IT. GET IT? CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WITH THE STORY FOR THE STORY AND THE CHARACTERS. OTHERWISE COMIC MOVIES LOOK A BIT DUMB ON SCREEN.
Better quailty, bootleg version of the trailer by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.	Apr 29th, 2008 01:44:47 PM
Right here http://themovingpicture.net/ne w-dark-knight-trailer-coming-s unday
Node... by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 01:45:53 PM
I think we can get Queefer Bukkake to force sterilization on Danny boy. He'll crush his nutsack with a pair of bricks.
You will....... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 01:52:52 PM
......be surprised at how good Eric Roberts protrays his character. His character is central to the movie.
Underoos... by jerseycajun	Apr 29th, 2008 01:59:09 PM
They're not including the comic book stuff in a more realistic film for the purpose of reminding us that it's a comic book film - they're doing it simply because there are some things that no matter how much you try to explain things in a film for plausibility there will always be some things (especially when the source material is a comic book) that will always look that way. What the approach does, as someone else mentioned, is take the edge off of some of the crazier elements and allows you to focus on the story and characters and I think that was the primary purpose for the decision to tone it down. I actually hated 300 and Sin City in spite of all the hyperstylized surroundings. And though I loved Lord of the Rings, I recognize that the setting for the story was a fantasy world, bearing no parallel to ours. Gotham by contrast is a city that was originally based on - in no smallpart - the cities of Chicago and New York. A closer parallel exists which makes the transition more do-able. The necessity to create a stylistically separate world is much less necessary to the story than Lord of the Rings. And we don't know how long it took Wayne to learn those ninja skills. It was a montage that could have lasted years. That's what's good about montages: they allow the viewer to experience in a few moments, the events of a much longer period of time that could never reasonably be filmed in their entirety.
One disappointing thing about the movie....... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:03:34 PM
.....is that it has a massive Empire Strikes Back cliffhanger ending.
PLANT SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!! by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 02:05:30 PM
No one wants to know what happens - that's why we pays good money to see it!!!!!!!!
Ha by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:06:45 PM
I wasn't going to tell you what happens.
The ending.............. by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:07:49 PM
...........will leave you drooling. I still can't get over it!!!!
Who wants to know................ by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:09:28 PM
...........more about how central Eric Robert's mafia character is?
Anyone else get the feeling that Batman ... by chrth	Apr 29th, 2008 02:10:34 PM
will be the worst part of this movie? Joker's looking phenonmenal, Eckhart looks to be playing Dent perfectly ... I think that's always been the problem with the Batman franchise: the villains are always more interesting than the hero.
What? by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:12:26 PM
Christian Bale isn't the best thing in the movie but he's on par with everyone else! The movie would not work without him.
Michael Caine........... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:14:19 PM
..........steals the movie. You just can't use a whole lot of Alfred in your marketing!
These Batman and Supes TBs sure are ripe by Hawaiian Organ Donor	Apr 29th, 2008 02:21:45 PM
It seems everyone around here hates comic book movies so why bother watching them? I mean, if you hated the Spider Man and X-Men trilogies, Batman Begins, Daredevil, The Punisher, etc., then why bother watching them anymore? You can almost hear people in this TB saying "I can't wait to watch Iron Man and The Dark Knight just so I can log onto AICN and tell a bunch of guys I don't know and will never meet what a steaming pile of turds they were." I think torture porn is a festering pile of dogshit which I why I stopped after the first Saw. I'm not going to waste two hours of my life watching Hostel just so I can tell RogerMurtaughs_PenisPump what a crapfest it is. And anyone that thinks Christian Bale is a bad actor must have been too busying blowing up the sex doll when American Psycho and The Prestige were on TV.
Number9998 by TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION	Apr 29th, 2008 02:24:55 PM
if you try to spoil anymore of this movie, you will receive an extra special cherry topped helping of TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION.
Should've waited a year??? by poeticwarriorII	Apr 29th, 2008 02:31:24 PM
This movie is terrified of Iron Man and scared shitless of Indy. Maybe next year would've been better. Catch it being the first movie of the summer so people wouldn't notice how blandly boring and full of itself this POS is. PS: That joker design is complete fucking ASS. When I want to see a two-bit crack whore in bad make-up I'll go downtown.
Notice how the amount of idiot postings increase... by Kid Z	Apr 29th, 2008 02:32:15 PM
...around the time of year when school lets out for the summer?
Amen TFD!!!!! by just pillow talk	Apr 29th, 2008 02:34:51 PM
Kid Z - yes. Hawaiian, I've noticed a much higher level of hate than I expected for TDK, Indy, Iron Man...and I just don't understand it. I'm so jazzed for all of them.
Notice how the amount of brown nosing... by poeticwarriorII	Apr 29th, 2008 02:39:07 PM
cunts posting about how proud of themselves they are for liking garbage movies increases around the time some shit films like Speed Racer or TDK come out?
Eric Roberts.......... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:42:11 PM
.......won't capitulate to the Joker at the meeting of all the Gotham gangs. That's why the Joker robs his bank in that bootleg clip and awakens a force. Eric Roberts character is responsible for the destruction of the Batmobile, the scarring of Harvey Dent, and is ultimately the one who kills the Joker when Batman can't do it because he wants redemption for his rampant vigilantism
PAGING TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION!!!!! by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 02:45:36 PM
Kindly launch an assault on this planty douche!!!!!
Also...... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:47:41 PM
.....the Gotham public, Rachel, and the newly rehabilitated police force turn on Batman because he accidentally kills the Scarecrow when he catches up to him.
That's one reason why the Joker......... by Number9998	Apr 29th, 2008 02:49:21 PM
..........cites his excuse that Gotham needs a certain kind of criminal!
Too bad Batman looks like a Transformer with a cape by Snookeroo	Apr 29th, 2008 02:51:13 PM
I'm looking forward to this, anyways.
Number9998 by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 02:52:10 PM
Alright, I'll bite. Tell us everything you know about TDK and then we will all decide if you are full of shit or not. I'll even add a spoiler alert. "If anyone doesn't want to hear details of TDK, leave this talkback now." There. Go ahead.
Empire Strikes Back by BRUTICUS	Apr 29th, 2008 02:54:27 PM
didn't have such a cliffhanger ending. It had an unsettled ending, the rebels didn't win yet. But there was a sort of closure. Now... LOTR as a movie. Had a really crap ending. NOTHING was resolved. Nothing was learnt other than that the hobbits were all gay.
JPT by Hawaiian Organ Donor	Apr 29th, 2008 02:54:30 PM
I hated Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer, Transformers, The English Patient, Million Dollar Baby, At World's End, Eragon, Crash, Elizabethtown and The Chronicles of Riddick as much as the next guy. But at least I rented them with the hope they would entertain. I didn't have a bucket of monkey feces ready to throw at the screen before the movie even began. TB'ers should be more outraged about the cost of gas it's going to cost them to get to the theater than the movie they're going to see.
HAWAIIAN by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 02:58:50 PM
That's a good point about gas. Pretty soon they'll be releasing new movies on Pay-per-view because people can't afford to drive to the theater. Theater attendence will dwindle in the coming years.
Number9998 by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 02:59:40 PM
We're ready. Go ahead.
Number998 by shitstorm23	Apr 29th, 2008 03:05:05 PM
For all you that don't wish to be even the slightest bit spoiled, don't read my post and get the fuck off the internet. So, all the stuff I've heard says one of Maroni's guys (Rossi) scars Dent (much like TLH) So, you're saying that's false and it is actually Maroni himself?
Number9998 by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 03:05:14 PM
That's what we thought. Another fanboy making shit up to fill in the blanks.
LOTR not resolved? by jerseycajun	Apr 29th, 2008 03:09:01 PM
Sauron and Saruman were defeated, Aragorn made king, the Hobbits saved the Shire... what wasn't resolved?
Goddamnit, post a SPOILER tag Number 9998 by Rickey Henderson	Apr 29th, 2008 03:09:37 PM
You want to be an annoying little plant? That's fine, just let us know before you spill the beans on a major plot development. Although, Rickey is heavily skeptical about your plot claims. For example, you claim that in the movie, Joker forcefully takes over the mob. That's in direct contracts to the official teaser trailer where Alfred says to Bruce: "in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand." So Rickey's calling BS on your claims. Fraud.
Rickey Henderson by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 03:11:36 PM
Don't worry about it. This guy is full of shit.
SAMWISE'S SEXUAL PREFERENCE STILL QUESTIONABLE by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 03:25:42 PM
I say he's bi.
BringingSexyBack by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 03:32:09 PM
I think gotham_night is looking for some of that ass love you were talking about earlier.
Well, Calrissian, did he survive? by Queerbait	Apr 29th, 2008 03:38:41 PM
Yes, he's alive. And in perfect hibernation. I need a fuckin beer, you know what kind.........
Samwise wasn't really gay by Brunomac	Apr 29th, 2008 03:43:32 PM
But Rosie was a total whore. Even farmer Giles of Ham got a piece of that action while Sam was crawling through Orc shit in Mordor. And two of Sam's kids are really Farmer Maggot's...
HERB by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 03:53:46 PM
I think I'll tease his ass a little more before I give him some lovin'.
BRUNOMAC IS RIGHT by BringingSexyBack	Apr 29th, 2008 03:55:59 PM
Tolkien said as much in the unreleased Lord of the Rings Companion.
what? this is gonna be a two-parter??? by cloudrider`	Apr 29th, 2008 03:59:40 PM
with cliffhanger to boot? didn't they learn anything from the matrix and pirates sequels? if you want to make a trilogy, plan from the start. if you write a two-parter AFTER the success of the 1st movie, chances are they will shit on the coolness of the first movie. just saying the trilogy won't feel as organic as if plan the three from the get go.
Jeez, guys... by BizarroJerry	Apr 29th, 2008 04:33:32 PM
Am I allowed to like Burton's movies AND Nolan's? Can't we all just get along and remember B&R?
Number9988 please fuck off with the spoilers. by Gwai Lo	Apr 29th, 2008 04:33:45 PM
The rest of you, please fuck off with the pretending that Batman Begins isn't the best superhero film made thus far. Really, think of how embarassing it will be for you if anyone from your real life knew you were posting these "opinions".
4th Pic Should Be An Obese MiddleAged Virgin Holding A Ticket by LaserPants	Apr 29th, 2008 04:36:16 PM
He would also be holding a super sized soda, popcorn, several candy bars, a hoagie, several slices of pizza, a Farscape pin, more hoagies, 3 pints of ice cream, half a dozen cheeseburgers, a bucket of fried fat, and a laptop in order to tell the world how much he hated TDK -- hated it so much, in fact, that he's only going to see it 6 more times... today!
Dent by Yamato	Apr 29th, 2008 04:36:35 PM
I never read the comic books, but I thought Dent/2 Face, was supposed to be black. Is he actually a white guy?
nothing beats the burning building poster by sith_rising	Apr 29th, 2008 04:38:22 PM
for The Dark Knight. I can't wait to find one on ebay.
MattmanReturns, just to play devil's advocate... by slone13	Apr 29th, 2008 04:38:52 PM
What are you basing your statement about people preferring Batman Begins to Burton's Batman? Begins made 370 million. Burton's made 411 million. And those were 1989 dollars.
Daniel Day Lewis For JOKER In BATMAN 3 by LaserPants	Apr 29th, 2008 04:39:45 PM
"Your an ORphan. Have you ever heard that word before? You're just a... bastard in a basket... A Bastard in A Basket!... BASTARD IN A BASKET!!! BASTARD BATMAN IN A BASKET!!!"
The Biggest Difference Between Burton's and Nolan's Batman by LaserPants	Apr 29th, 2008 04:41:13 PM
Nolan's Batman was good. Burton's Batman was terrible. End of story.
I spunk in my pants by manicart1	Apr 29th, 2008 04:42:13 PM
and all over my monitor at the sight of this. Sweet baby Jesus. 2008 is looking like somebody raided God's DVD collection.
Weakest promos so far by alienindisguise	Apr 29th, 2008 04:43:32 PM
The 3 character ones are horribly photoshopped...seems like a few different ppl worked on all this material and some with very little skill. Luckily we saw the kick ass stuff when the posters first started rolling out.
Laserpants, contrary to your statement... by slone13	Apr 29th, 2008 04:53:35 PM
...it ain't the end of the story. You should probably consider rereading it.
Burton = Suck-Fest by TheBigChill	Apr 29th, 2008 04:55:32 PM
Burton's 'Batman' was titled incorrectly. It should have been 'Tim Burton Presents Jack Nicholson as the Joker Dancing to Prince'. Seriously? Prince? Prince and Jack Nicholson? The movie was more about The Joker's little parade ended with Batman showing up. Hell, Batman didn't even do that much against him other than let him fall. It was a tragedy, not a superhero movie. Batman Begins isn't so great because it's a genesis, but because it is about the title character.
HAHAHAHAH Harvey Dent by BurgerKing	Apr 29th, 2008 05:02:03 PM
These are all really cool but I couldn't help but laugh at Eckhart's poster. It's like 2 badass ones showing significant symbols of their character then Dent chiming in "hey wait for me too, guys!!!" throwing in his badge.
To the douchebag who........ by odo19	Apr 29th, 2008 05:16:40 PM
thinks " It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.", is cheesy. Go fuck yourself you deluded prick. It's still better than The Penguin spouting some bullshit one liner every 5 fucking minutes. "Rats with wings do your thing"? Did you even watch Batman Returns?
The Lowest move in the troll book by BrightEyes	Apr 29th, 2008 05:16:57 PM
is when they call another talkbacker the name of the person they are defending, I.E. calling a talkbacker Christian Bale. Yeah cause that makes a whole lot of sense, I'm sure Christian Bale is busy fighting with you trolls instead of banging Real life women , and just being a all around badass
Sweet baby Jesus. by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 05:19:42 PM
"2008 is looking like somebody raided God's DVD collection." That sums up the reasons why I read the talkbacks.
Gotham Knight by odo19	Apr 29th, 2008 05:20:24 PM
I was wondering the same thing. I'd actually rather have one of Gordon than Dent, myself.
Phoenixmagi2 by blindambition238	Apr 29th, 2008 05:31:59 PM
Apparently he goes to Hong Kong to retrieve some baddie who fled Gotham and is important to the mob.
All I know about The Dark Knight is... by mrfan	Apr 29th, 2008 05:36:06 PM
that it can be included in this fantastic line-up for summer movies. There is something for everyone. How in the hell is Summer 2009 going to top this?
I've long had the conviction that... by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 05:39:47 PM
When "TDK" hits it will bring a huge backlash against the Nolan pictures, both of them. Batman Begins' only achievement was that it didn't totally suck, like B&R. But not sucking and ruling are two different things. I think Nolan's talky, literal and watered down version is about to be pimp slapped into oblivion.
LaserPants by Underoos Hero	Apr 29th, 2008 05:43:41 PM
"4th Pic Should Be An Obese MiddleAged Virgin Holding A Ticket" ahhaahahahhahha
Re: slone13 and Batman 89 outdoing BB... by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 06:19:20 PM
Batman 89 didn't have to overcome the crappiness of Batman Forever and Batman and Robin ore relaunching an entire franchise after it was buried for a decade because someone thought bat-butt, robin with an earring, Two-Face with no development, Jim Carrey playing Joker/Riddler and Ahnold getting paid too much money to see "Freeze!" and "Chill!" 24/7 was the direction to go.
Batman 89 didn't have to restart the franchise after a decade by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 06:24:28 PM
It had to restart it after TWO and decisions like King Tut.
Holy shit, there are Iron man reviews up! by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 06:27:43 PM
By Harry and Moriarty! They buried them under that DVD post and I almost didn't see them! I'm blowing this popsickle stand and heading over there!
Re: King Tut by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 06:31:50 PM
Show me reviews where people said that Batman 89 is the first Batman film since the Batman franchise was driven into the ground by the Batman 60s series or by Batman: The Movie (also from the 60s).
I Like It All by Autodidact	Apr 29th, 2008 06:32:40 PM
I'm so psyched for this movie that I have swung over into denial. Nothing can be as cool as this is looking.
I'm not your "buddy," guy. by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 06:38:44 PM

"Batman" vs. "The Dark Knight"... by maxjohnson1971	Apr 29th, 2008 06:50:51 PM
trailers is good, but pales in comparison to this!! http://www.collegehumor.com/vi deo:1805708
There are a bunch of morons posting here. by jfp2007	Apr 29th, 2008 07:13:57 PM
All this criticism of excellent posters. I'm an award winning, trained graphic designer, and the head shots are fantastic. The Batpod is not to my liking, but it's still consistent with the blueish look they are going for. Everything has been consistent so far. Fuck the pseudo-intellectuals and know-it-alls.
Re: jfp2007 by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 07:15:50 PM
Aren't you a pseudo-intellectual/know-it-al l? You sound that way from your post.
Err, what the fuck are you talking about? by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 07:16:17 PM
Find you reviews? It is a fact that was the first Batman movie after the 60s series and that it had to change a lot of people's thoughts about Batman that were based on that series. I mean, are you stupid? Are you lame? What's your problem? No, screw those questions, and just explain to me the premise of your post so I can understand what argument you were trying to make?
jfp2007 by Herb West	Apr 29th, 2008 07:19:50 PM
Wow. You must be new here. People don't come here for intellectual conversations.
Re: greenstyle92 by Err	Apr 29th, 2008 07:20:30 PM
Well, gee, I don't know, I mean, there could be no conceivable way that Batman could have evolved from the 60s to the late 80s. In other words, Batman.... wasnt..... bogged..... down...... by...... the....... 60s....... tv....... show..... Got it? No reviews from anyone I've seen said well Tim Burton's Batman brought Batman to the big screen after a 20 year hiatus because the 60s tv show and film helped kill the franchise. Begins had people saying that it had to recover from a 10 year hiatus because Batman Forever and Batman and Robin killed the franchise. In summation, Batman 89 not bogged down by 60s tv show and film. Begins was bogged down by Batman and Robin and Batman Forever. Durrr, hope dat was easy enuf fo you to understand.
Love the two-face insinuation by knowthyself	Apr 29th, 2008 07:25:35 PM
Love it
Bwah hah hah! by greenstyle92	Apr 29th, 2008 07:28:10 PM
Geez

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