The Dark Knight Rises

I've seen so many grabs and now footage of cops physically fighting with people in this movie, hand to hand stuff.
Why aren't they shooting these criminals? Shoot Bane too for that matter.

Stuff like that bothers me a little.

The Joker worked because he was either in disguise and/or ran like a weasel when the **** hit the fan. Stick and move.

Bane and his cronies are beating on cops and nobody is getting shot. Makes no sense to me.

Looks pretty good though. I'll definitely see it.

And yeah, I know it would be a short movie is some cop just shot Bane but I just don't think the situation should present itself so easily like it does in this movie.
That's the only thing that bothers me. That and he's fairly difficult to understand.
 
I saw this trailer before I saw Sherlock Holmes last Friday. I was very anxious in the movie theater before the movie hoping I would get to see this trailer. After the trailer came on I had mixed thoughts. I love Nolan I think he is a great dictator and the story of this movie certainly looks good from some stand points.
There were a few things that bothered me. I still feel like Anne Hathaway as Cat women visually looked a bit weird and her acting looked somewhat dull. Another point was the football stadium blowing up looked a bit over the top. The scene looked like it belonged in a movie like Crank. Which is over the top action with little to no plot.
Now I am basing this movie on only 2 minutes of a trailer so I could be wrong with all my opinions. I'm still going to see this movie day one perhaps at midnight, but I am a little concerned it will disappoint me like Spider man 3 did.
 
KrickProductions said:
I'm still going to see this movie day one perhaps at midnight, but I am a little concerned it will disappoint me like Spider man 3 did.
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Don't worry nothing could be that bad ;)

I agree the trailer was a little subdued, perhaps because the Bane character lacks the visual intensity of the Joker, but I'm incredibly confident Nolan has delivered a fitting end to his trilogy.
 
I thought the trailer looked fantastic. I love the camera work and staging on every shot - the reflection on the lid during the table approach. The football stadium explosion looked great, much less CG-ish than the Kremlin explosion running scene in Ghost Protocol. I actually though the brief clip of hathaway for catwomen was great - I mean, they didn't show much, but I thought she played the part well and the dialogue fit the character from the little I saw.

Joker is impossible to replace, of course. Even Nolan said that, hence the delay on making the film. We've hardly seen anything on Bane, but given Nolan's record I'm confident it will be the best possible version of Bane we could hope for.

Also just on an editing note. The trailer was incredibly well put together. The national anthem creepily in the background with the lyrics matching every shot. The football/prison chanting "rise" - The slowly building, subdued intensity. Best trailer I've seen in quite some time.
 
I enjoyed the trailer. The only part that bothered me was the football field exploding. We follow one player as he somehow miraculously makes it across the field unharmed as pieces fall bellow his feet. Even at the end it looks like the ground waits for him to run past it before falling. I kind think it would have had more visual impact if at the final moments that football player fell to his death as well. As is it looks a bit comical.

Aside from that I'm digging Ann Hathaway. Gotta see more of her to be convinced, but we'll see. Bane looks great. I'm not expecting a character to live up to the joker's presence. I don't think Nolan would try to do so. I think Nolan is just going to try to tell a good story rather than try to match the power of the joker's performance in the last.

Oh and I love that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in this. Been a fan of his for a while, and loved his action work in inception. He may not have a big role, though I hope it's memorable. I could see him as a future action star.
 
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Looks like WB paid to have the new trailer embedded on IMDB.com home page? Not sure IMDB would do that without a fee...but I"ve never seen it done before.
 
I'm sure I'll see this first weekend, but unfortunately, in my opinion, it seems like they have continued the trend of the obnoxiously "emo" Batman they started with The Dark Knight.
 
Trailer wasn't all that great. I liked trailer #2 a lot better. But I'm hoping this one is in the line of "Batman Begins" story wise, the Dark Knight just didn't do it for me. I know I'm definitely in the minority as so many people love that movie.
 
LoganMackay said:
Barman has always been emo, that is nothing new.
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Well, I'm not sure who "Barman" is ;) but the Batman I know has never been as whiny as he was in The Dark Knight or the The Dark Knight Rises trailers.

I enjoyed The Dark Knight as an action film with incredible motion & momentum, but I really thought that they dropped the ball with the Bruce Wayne character, who I thought they handled quite well in Batman Begins. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the The Dark Knight Rises trailers seem to be continuing the trend of the perpetually whining Bruce Wayne set by The Dark Knight.
 
agcohn said:
Unfortunately, in my opinion, the The Dark Knight Rises trailers seem to be continuing the trend of the perpetually whining Bruce Wayne set by The Dark Knight.
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If by perpetually whining you mean a human being in an extreme situation dealing with conflicting emotions, I call that a realistic display of human feelings. I know, I know, feelings are gay or something.
 
Batutta said:
If by perpetually whining you mean a human being in an extreme situation dealing with conflicting emotions, I call that a realistic display of human feelings. I know, I know, feelings are gay or something.
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Pretty much this. It makes Bruce/Batman a far more relatable character imo.
 
Batutta said:
If by perpetually whining you mean a human being in an extreme situation dealing with conflicting emotions, I call that a realistic display of human feelings. I know, I know, feelings are gay or something.
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It is one thing for a character to display conflicting emotions, it is something else entirely when all said character does throughout the film is go on-and-on about how conflicted he is.
 
agcohn said:
It is one thing for a character to display conflicting emotions, it is something else entirely when all said character does throughout the film is go on-and-on about how conflicted he is.
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He doesn't do that. You're exaggerating.
 
I like the direction Nolan is taking with this. Some may describe it as emo, but I see it as a man falling apart by trying to save a city.

Also, looking at the trailer, this article that I read from Cracked.com a while back seems to resonate more and more (possible spoiler if it's true?):

http://www.cracked.com/blog/advanced-batman-theory-why-nolan-will-kill-bruce-wayne/

In fact if you read the reasoning behind it, it makes perfect sense. Batman is meant to be a symbol. Perhaps through death, as a martyr, he'll do more than being alive. Also when catwoman tells him "You've given them everything" and batman replies, "not everything," I can't help but think he's talking about giving his life literally for gotham. Also the title... suggestion of martyrdom... yeah...

Love the new trailer though. Funny thing is when I went to see the avengers everyone was talking as per usual through the trailers. Then this trailer came on, and a sold out crowded theater suddenly went dead silent about 10 seconds in. Somehow it made this trailer feel so powerful when dozens of people were holding their breath watching this, especially during the calm beginning.
 
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