New Dark Knight Rises Trailer

Some of my characters

Well, Nolan is stepping away after this. I really which he wouldn't but lets just hope he sends this Batman universe off with a bang. I also hope that he has some kind of artistic rights to this Batman... I really don't want another director coming along and trying to continue where Nolan leaves off only to completely screw it all up.

On the other hand, if/when they do make another Batman movie I hope they don't spend a lot of time retelling the origin yet again.

I might actually enjoy football if it were more like that!

Doesn't bug me in the least. These are Nolan's stories, and his version of the Batman. I think that while the movies respect the source material, they also go their own way and tell their own story, and that story is not just Another Batman Story: it is a self-contained complete story about a different Bruce Wayne and a different Batman from the comics, just like the current Batman is not really the same Bruce Wayne and Batman from 1939. I think Nolan really has passion for this iteration of the Batman story because its his story, and I think that personal passion, that sense of ownership, is what drives Nolan to tell a really good story.

Knowing its a complete story, knowing its intended to have an actual ending, makes me anticipate the last movie all the more. Someone else might try to extend it, Nolan himself might change his mind, but knowing it was conceived to have a beginning, middle, and ending makes it all the more interesting.

When it became apparent that Nolan was going to make a trilogy, my brother quipped that the movies could be titled Batman Begins, Batman Continues and Batman Concludes.

Or political primaries...

"Why do we fall?"

"So that we can learn to pick ourselves up."

I don't think she is part of Bane's conspiracy, or if she is she doesn't know the real endgame.

I think Selina's threat was aimed at Bruce Wayne and not Batman. It seems like Nolan's playing on all the class warfare talk that's going on right now with all of those people invading a wealthy home and ransacking the place. She may be hearing whispers of an uprising of some kind, but with all of the resources at his disposal and another honeypot in Marion Cotillard's character, I don't see her factoring into his plans. I'm thinking she'll be an enemy of Bruce Wayne at first but will become an ally.

Yes, Comic based movies need to learn what comics have forgotten. Every comic is someone's first. Have reminders, but you don't need to retell the damn story.


This movie takes place several years, I believe 8, after The Dark Knight. Selina should be well known to Bruce and be full Cat Woman, not the costume they have her in. Her dialogue sounds nothing like anything she would say in or out of costume and she doesn't look the role so...yeah.


This is a cool scene and I'd love it if were from a live action version Cataclysm running into an NML movie.


Because it is. The more I see of the previews the more I'm thinking they jumped the shark. The two previous movies were close enough that you could say, yeah ok that's a good job, but this movie seems to be missing and adding character traits that are just wrong.

Bane doesn't look or sound right. He's not tall enough for the role, He's not built enough for the role, he isn't speaking with a spanish accent, he isn't a brute, he isn't a mastermind either.

Catwoman is has a bigger chest ^.^ She's also more physically imposing. She would never dance like that. She would never speak like that. She would never be involved with a conspiracy like that.

Gordon IS NOT a war hero. He was a marine if I remember right and then left and became a cop in chicago...and then when he got a dirty cop sent to prison he was ostracized until he moved to Gotham where he was considered a trouble maker and still is considered that, even 10 years down the line

Alfred would never say that to Bruce about his parents. He in fact has always said that his parents would be proud, and that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as it were.

The City doesn't collapse from Bane's interference so the Football game thing while cool in theory shouldn't be there.

Bruce also doesn't seem burnt out which is really the cause of his fall and that started before Bane. I don't see how they are going to do a movie where they have Bruce goes through so much time to get exhausted, while simultaneously introducing other characters to fight that would cause him to fall.


More over, If you took out the 6 seconds where Batman appears on the screen and didn't tell anyone this was a Batman movie or who those characters are supposed to be. No one would know, nor would they think this is a comic book movie. It's screams of crappy early 90s, late 80s, cheap sci-fi and even though it's going to make a lot of money I don't think anyone will walk away going "Yeah, that was a great movie" and sure as hell most comic nerds won't like it probably in the long run because it looks to do so much wrong.

Someone might say that the whole the characters don't look right is unfair... This is based on a comicbook IP that has the one of the most recognizable casts just by looks alone. If I can't flash a picture of a character and have them instantly recognized as that character, or at least be even close, there is something wrong.

He didn't mean a literal army shooting war. He meant the war against crime in Gotham.

Pay no attention. He's going for the Wrongness Olympics.

If that is true... that is bad writing based on the fact noone would ever say that. And anyone that would needs to be slapped.

The exaggerated metaphor of comic art doesn't always translate well into film. I can't see how a more literal translation of the comic book Bane would work on film. Not saying it couldn't be done, I just find it hard to imagine tbh. Can't say I am particularly keen on Darth Vader Lite either but I think it works, kinda.

Can't say the same about Catwoman. Thats one where I think the current comic appearance would work better.

That succeeds in raising my interests in this film. Which previously were pretty low. I was thinking about waiting till it was on the telly, now I might go to the cinema.

What I got from that scene is, if I was a pro scout "sign that running back right now".