I just shot a load, at myself. All over my hockey pads...

It's a good thing he has spares.

Hobodeluxe: It's a good thing he has spares.

Only about 10,000 though.

I'm going to watch the shiat out of this movie.

Obscure Login: I'm going to watch the shiat out of this movie.

jmr61: Not a chance.

Annnnd that's this discussion thread, all nicely summed up.

Does it strike anyone else that these movies have been so dark yet so commercially successful? I remember Werner Herzog talking about that in an interview once. Either way, I consider Dark Knight to be Joker's movie. He has his way with everyone for the entire thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Nolan takes out Batman in the third. But, honestly, I'm shocked at how bleak these things are and EVERYONE loves them.

I hope he wears the bat suit with the built in ice skates again.

Never liked Bane. A name with no subtlety for a gimmicky luchador that we're to believe bests Batman.

Batman's mask is ceramic?

Beluga Heights: Does it strike anyone else that these movies have been so dark yet so commercially successful? I remember Werner Herzog talking about that in an interview once. Either way, I consider Dark Knight to be Joker's movie. He has his way with everyone for the entire thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Nolan takes out Batman in the third. But, honestly, I'm shocked at how bleak these things are and EVERYONE loves them.

Change is good...embrace it. Seriously though, I never liked batman until this trilogy started. I like dark, bleak, un-endearing things.

\why I got married
\\Love you honey!

Looks fan-made.

swahnhennessy: Never liked Bane. A name with no subtlety for a gimmicky luchador that we're to believe bests Batman.

I always took Bane to be a metaphor for the masculine extremes that the comic book world was taking. Superman was bested by a force of nature that was half monster and half Image Comics archetype. So Batman was defeated not by his own sad quest to take on all the evil of Gotham (by himself, no doubt, because ONLY he could), but then he was confronted in his own mansion by the living embodiment of the '90s Comic Stereotype: musclebound, masked, and juiced on his own self-importance and alienation. Ironically enough, the same 'Venom' that Batman himself used during his own dark days of the '80s.

Honestly, I'll be interested to see how this turns out. I didn't think Nolan would go to Knightfall for a story, but he's surprised me before. I have faith in him to do a good job. I don't expect something as fantastic as Dark Knight, but I do expect to be entertained. And that's enough.

swahnhennessy: Never liked Bane. A name with no subtlety for a gimmicky luchador that we're to believe bests Batman.

He's not a luchador, y'know?

And where's the subtlety in "Two-Face", "The Joker" and "Catwoman"?

Beluga Heights: Does it strike anyone else that these movies have been so dark yet so commercially successful? I remember Werner Herzog talking about that in an interview once. Either way, I consider Dark Knight to be Joker's movie. He has his way with everyone for the entire thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Nolan takes out Batman in the third. But, honestly, I'm shocked at how bleak these things are and EVERYONE loves them.

I don't know about everybody. (new window) You can always depend on Armond White to completely and intentionally misunderstand your favorite films and launch into jumbled, pseudo-intellectual, and (frankly offensive) moral king-of-the-mountain tirades.

Guntram Shatterhand: but then he was confronted in his own mansion by the living embodiment of the '90s Comic Stereotype: musclebound, masked, and juiced on his own self-importance and alienation. Ironically enough, the same 'Venom' that Batman himself used during his own dark days of the '80s.

And lots of pockets?

And missing feet?

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thamike: Link (new window)


"Unlike Nicholson's multileveled characterization, Ledger reduces The Joker to one-note ham-acting and trite symbolism"

Oh Armond, you truly are the king of the trolls.

dettigersnw22: Batman's mask is ceramic?

Did you not see the scene in BB where Alfred hits the carbon-composite mask with a hammer and shatters it? The next batch was supposed to be stronger, but not Bane-proof...

This is Bane:



This:



Is a 5'9", 185lbs dude. Great actor, but come on.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: This is Bane:



This:



Is a 5'9", 185lbs dude. Great actor, but come on.

Wow, Bane AND his actor can turn invisible at will? Awesome!

PizzaJedi81: Teen Wolf Blitzer: This is Bane:



This:



Is a 5'9", 185lbs dude. Great actor, but come on.

Wow, Bane AND his actor can turn invisible at will? Awesome!

Or they've miniaturized themselves.

ranak: Or they've miniaturized themselves.

Nano Bane. It's real. Google it, foo'!

Maybe at 1:45:00 Batman stands up and kills Bane. He gets diagnosed with AIDS at 1:52:00 in the movie. The next 45 minutes is just Bruce coming to terms with his impending death. He dies of pneumonia related death at 2:40:00. It all ends with Danny Pudi as Abed taking over as Batman in an unexpected crossover between Nolanverse Batman and Community.

skinink: With Bane and Catwoman in the movie I hope it doesn't turn into the multi-character shiatfest that Spiderman 3 was.
And Spiderman 3 would have been so good if the only villian was Venom and someone more beefier than Topher Grace played Brock.

You know Batman Begins Had Scarecrow and Rahs A Ghoul right? And Dark Night had Joker and Two Face AND a cameo by Scarecrow?

Anybody here score free passes to an advance showing of the prologue Tuesday night? Saves me paying $13.50 at the IMAX to see MI4.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Awesome poster. The tagline "THE LEGEND ENDS" really sets the tone for the whole thing.


Beluga Heights: Does it strike anyone else that these movies have been so dark yet so commercially successful?

Oh yeah.

Still, it gives me hope that audiences don't need to be spoonfed movies with artificial amounts of upbeatness to them (I'm looking at you, ending of Spielberg's War of the Worlds).


skinink: With Bane and Catwoman in the movie I hope it doesn't turn into the multi-character shiatfest that Spiderman 3 was.

As tired as this phrase may seem, I have faith in Nolan to make this all work.

Re: war of the worlds...

...you know very well that is how the story originally ended in both novel and film

Though the movie did completely suck ass

ThisNameSux: Anybody here score free passes to an advance showing of the prologue Tuesday night? Saves me paying $13.50 at the IMAX to see MI4.

MI:4 actually looks pretty decent in my opinion. TDKR prologue is just a bonus.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: MI:4 actually looks pretty decent in my opinion. TDKR prologue is just a bonus.

I'll be seeing it on opening night, I'd just rather see it at my local theater than the IMAX.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: This is Bane:



This:



Is a 5'9", 185lbs dude. Great actor, but come on.

This is me pointing and laughing at your failure.

Beluga Heights: Does it strike anyone else that these movies have been so dark yet so commercially successful? I remember Werner Herzog talking about that in an interview once

Did Wener understand why this has happened? Of all people, it should be obvious to him: art reflects the age in which it is made, and we live in a dark age, in which many have little hope for redemption for our species. So we tell stories about that, while we crouch around our fires at night, just as we always have.

Aboleth: Maybe at 1:45:00 Batman stands up and kills Bane. He gets diagnosed with AIDS at 1:52:00 in the movie. The next 45 minutes is just Bruce coming to terms with his impending death. He dies of pneumonia related death at 2:40:00. It all ends with Danny Pudi as Abed taking over as Batman in an unexpected crossover between Nolanverse Batman and Community.

If Nolan's directing and Bale is starring, I'd watch that film. The only downside is that Bale dropping down to 120 lbs for a third time would probably kill him.

Dwight_Yeast: Beluga Heights: Does it strike anyone else that these movies have been so dark yet so commercially successful? I remember Werner Herzog talking about that in an interview once

Did Wener understand why this has happened? Of all people, it should be obvious to him: art reflects the age in which it is made, and we live in a dark age, in which many have little hope for redemption for our species. So we tell stories about that, while we crouch around our fires at night, just as we always have.

Historically dark times have led to cheery movies.

Dwight_Yeast: Teen Wolf Blitzer: This is Bane:



This:



Is a 5'9", 185lbs dude. Great actor, but come on.

This is me pointing and laughing at your failure.



Also this 5'10" 185lb dude is capable of being pants-sh*ttingly frightening. Just like a thin 6'1" child-like Australian fresh off playing a gay shepherd was able to be the scariest Joker ever.

Movie magic, Teen Wolf Blitzer!

thamike: Dwight_Yeast: Teen Wolf Blitzer: This is Bane:



This:



Is a 5'9", 185lbs dude. Great actor, but come on.

This is me pointing and laughing at your failure.

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Also this 5'10" 185lb dude is capable of being pants-sh*ttingly frightening. Just like a thin 6'1" child-like Australian fresh off playing a gay shepherd was able to be the scariest Joker ever.

Movie magic, Teen Wolf Blitzer!

Next thing you're gonna tell me is that Elijah Wood is gonna play a Hobbit.

Apos: It would be great for it to end in:

I would have made that the focus of the prologue. With the movie taking place 8 years in the future, it would have been perfect. Bane and Batman have their first confrontation in which Bane breaks Batman's back. Bane then spends the next 8 years taking over Gotham while Batman is in hiding, recovering.