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First image from The Dark Knight Rises, in Theaters July 20, 2012.

Substitution broken image letters! Terrifying!

Less broken image:

Broken image?

Huh. It wasn't broken when I first posted it.

Edit: Oh look your image is broken too.

Y'all realize it is very easy to keep people from linking images and thus sucking up bandwidth without permission? It's a single line of code. Download the image and upload it to your own server/photo sharing site /whatever.

This internet technology is all because of that bruja.

Why bane? He's easily one of the most overrated and boring Batman villains.

Didn't Nolan used to say that he wanted to use Batman villains that hasn't appeared on film before? And yet, in the last movie we got Joker and Two-Face and now we get Bane?

Apparently, the League of Shadows will be returning, there will be an abundance of studio-shooting, (Rather than shooting on-location like they did with TDK) Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman (yuck) and James Newton Howard won't be composing the score.

3rd movie curse strikes again. I'm much more excited for Arkham City than this. I know the movie is a year away, but judging by what we know of the film right now, I don't think I'd even bother seeing this in the theater. Unless some interesting plot detail is revealed, or some new, iconic villain is added to the cast, I might just be getting this from Redbox.

I know it'd be hard to replace Heath, but just because he died, doesn't mean The Joker should die with him. They could find an actor who could do a decent job with the role. It was mentioned on CNN that before Heath's death, he was contracted to star in two Batman films. I think Nolan had a premise in mind for TDKR featuring The Joker, but after Heath died, he scrapped it and instead came up with this potential snoozefest.

cjmcray wrote:Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman (yuck)

Am I the only person who sees potential in Anne Hathaway playing Catwoman?

M.C.Dillinger wrote:Why bane? He's easily one of the most overrated and boring Batman villains.

Could be worse.

cjmcray wrote:I know it'd be hard to replace Heath, but just because he died, doesn't mean The Joker should die with him.

I assumed it was out of respect.

gr4yJ4Y wrote:

cjmcray wrote:Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman (yuck)

Am I the only person who sees potential in Anne Hathaway playing Catwoman?

My penis says "nay".

Poster!

batception?

Teaser trailer has been leaked.

Mostly footage of the previous films with some brief glimpses of the new one.

OK for a teaser I guess.

& now you can't unsee it.

Kinda looks a pile of cocaine.

I dunno, looks like a fucking bat to me. Maybe I'm crazy though.

Team Mecha wrote:
& now you can't unsee it.

It took me a few seconds, but yeah...I can't unsee it now.

Curse you.

That looked more like a trailer for Sucker Punch than a Batman film. Hopefully the later trailers will be more interesting.

yeah that was pretty awful. Is Bane really the primary antagonist for this film? Doesn't he mostly just grunt and break people's backs? How can we go from the Joker, to this?

That's an unfortunate perception generated by Batman & Robin and assisted by the stereotype of burly dudes being uneducated thugs. A quick scan of the Wiki article shows that comic-verse Bane makes an excellent antagonist for the Nolan-verse: besides being physically superior to Bats, he's a capable strategist; he knows Batman's secret identity; he's (temporarily at least) Ra's al Ghul's heir. The latter point is especially appropriate.

Bane was used brilliantly in an episode of Young Justice. Hopefully we'll see something close to that version of Bane in the movie.