The Dark Knight Rises The Dark Knight Rises Trailer Thread - Part 2

[Rowsdower!]

Perhaps the Gotham Rogues are like the Cincinnati Bengals:


They suck.

I loved that they put Ward's name and 86 on his jersey. Such an awesome trailer but as a diehard Steelers fan, that was the best part of it for me.

 

[Boom]

There are teams in the league (such as the Cincinnati Bengals) that are so terrible that their stadiums rarely sell out. I'd chuckle if the Gotham Rogues were an awful team, considering that the players in the film are Superbowl winners.

If it's not the team's quality that's the problem, perhaps the empty seats are a sign of Gotham's economic state. People just can't afford to go.

 

[Rowsdower!]

That's a valid point assuming it was all CGI, maybe model work was involved.

It wasn't CGI. That's what happens to Heinz Field after a rainstorm.

 

[dark_b]

Come to think of it, that football field implosion might be the most overt use of CGI we've seen in the series yet. Which isn't saying much, granted.

why does it look like CGI? because you know that they wouldnt be able to film it for real.

i saying this for years and i still stand by it. a lot of times we see soemthing in movies that we knwo couldnt be done practical. so our brains scream ''CGI''.

i am so happy that the scope and scale in TDKR is so big.

 

[jmc]

There are teams in the league (such as the Cincinnati Bengals) that are so terrible that their stadiums rarely sell out.

Ah gotcha. Funny, down here even if our football teams are winning they struggle to sell out matches.

 

[hatebox]

why does it look like CGI? because you know that they wouldnt be able to film it for real.

i saying this for years and i still stand by it. a lot of times we see soemthing in movies that we knwo couldnt be done practical. so our brains scream ''CGI''.

I get that. And Nolan gets that, which is why he's against using it too much. My observation wasn't a criticism - I'm just saying if it is CGI it's the most overt use I recall seeing in the films so far.

 

[Boom]

Well, I'm from Cincinnati, and even when our team had a five-game winning streak going, the only sell-out of the year was against the Pittsburgh Steelers. In other words, the Steelers fans bought all the tickets.

Cincinnati is such a pit of despair. It would've made a great Gotham in its own right .

 

[jb007]

Well< I'm going to see "Sherlock Holmes" tonight. I'm very interested to see TDKR trailer & The Hobbit teaser trailer!!!!!!

 

[bestever23]

Can anyone tell me when the next trailer came out after the December trailer of TDK? Because it will give us a hint at the when the next trailer will come out.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Whoa, hold up... there was a Hobbit teaser trailer attached to Sherlock Holmes also? Damn, guess my theater didn't get that one.

 

[dark_b]

Can anyone tell me when the next trailer came out after the December trailer of TDK? Because it will give us a hint at the when the next trailer will come out.

around may.

 

[OneKnight]

There are teams in the league (such as the Cincinnati Bengals) that are so terrible that their stadiums rarely sell out. I'd chuckle if the Gotham Rogues were an awful team, considering that the players in the film are Superbowl winners.

If it's not the team's quality that's the problem, perhaps the empty seats are a sign of Gotham's economic state. People just can't afford to go.

I wouldn't mind this so long as it is mentioned at some point.

Cop: "It could've been worse after the crowd panicked and stormed the exits."

Gordon: "Yeah. Luckily, our team sucks."

 

[Kansiov]

I remember hearing the National Anthem and going from "" to "" in the span of five seconds. At first I thought it was going to be corny as hell, but the way it's used in the trailer is surprisingly effective. Very creepy.

It's the way it's sung. It sounds more like a funeral procession than an opening anthem at a football game.

 

[Boom]

Whoa, hold up... there was a Hobbit teaser trailer attached to Sherlock Holmes also? Damn, guess my theater didn't get that one.

No. It's with Tintin next week.

 

[jmc]

I wonder if number 86 for Gotham Rogues automatically gets the Man of the Match award.

It's the way it's sung. It sounds more like a funeral procession than an opening anthem at a football game.

That is so true. Very haunting.

 

[bestever23]

around may.

Thank you!

 

[StarLord]

I wonder if number 86 for Gotham Rogues automatically gets the Man of the Match award.

 

[OneKnight]

No. It's with Tintin next week.

What we need is the official release of the Prometheus trailer.

Only TDKR is more important than the return of Ridley.

Boo-yah!

 

[frakkingoff]

Was it popular because it was good, or because it was shock value to get more people talking about it? Yes, Batman getting his back broken was a big deal, just like Blink 182 was a big deal in the '90s.

What you have to understand is that that's all that we had at the time, both in terms of quality and quantity.

I mean, we had Year One and Dark Knight Returns - but other than those and a few smaller graphic novels (like Shaman, Prey, and Killing Joke), books and stories like the Knightfall trilogy were amongst the cream of the crop. So it was important then, and still is to some degree today.

You mentioned Hush, Long Halloween, Dark Victory, etc. But those are all products of the last decade and a half, when Batman books (and comics in general) exploded in terms of both quality and sheer number of available publications of collected stories and graphic novels.

Before that, in the early-to-mid 90s, a Batman fan's bookshelf had at most a dozen graphic novels - and KnightFall 1, KnightFall 2, and KnightsEnd were three of them.

So it was good relative to most other Batman stories, and it was also one of the few collected, long-form stories that were easily collected and read. And for those reasons, it is still of importance to Batman fans. Not as monumental as Long Halloween and Year One, certainly, but definitely a step above books like The Cult and Blind Justice.

And like someone else mentioned - there are a few solid "eras" or "periods" in the modern history of Batman. He starts in Year One era, and then we get the Dick Grayson years (Dark Victory and beyond). And one of those eras is KnightFall, whose events not only take up a solid year (at least) of Wayne's life - they also involve a lot of change and character development.

 

[J.Howlett]

"When Gotham's in ashes, you have my permission to die."

 

[Boom]

I wonder if number 86 for Gotham Rogues automatically gets the Man of the Match award.

He's certainly the MVP of the game. He survived, and got a touchdown while doing so .

 

[slicendice]

Trailer was so much better than the bootleg. Christ.

Best shot of Bane IMO is the first one, right after the little feller singing the nation anthem, which, by the way sounds so damn creepy underscoring the first bit of the trailer. The crowd gasped at the football shot and cheered and clapped at the "The Legend...Ends" card.

Cg shots are fiddled with for a while, I would be amazed if a shot like that were finished and locked at this stage. If memory serves the first Watchmen trailer had some shots that were half done (Jon Osterman getting de-instrinsicified and Archie coming up out of the water).

There's an an exchange from Star Trek: TNG thats been running through my mind a lot since the TDKR hype started:

Data: It would appear you are attempting to grow another beard

Geordie: Yeah, hows it look (something like that anyway)

Data: As with many things it is difficult to judge a finished process based on an intermediate stage.

Speculation is fun, but judgement must be left for the finished product alone. Haters are looking at stubble and moaning that the beard won't trimmed properly. Let the thing grow a bit more. I have officially stretched this metaphor too thinly.

Look at that, I managed to write that whole thing without ever using the word "Epic". Oh crap.

 

[hatebox]

There's an an exchange from Star Trek: TNG thats been running through my mind a lot since the TDKR hype started:

Data: It would appear you are attempting to grow another beard

Geordie: Yeah, hows it look (something like that anyway)

Data: As with many things it is difficult to judge a finished process based on an intermediate stage.

Speculation is fun, but judgement must be left for the finished product alone. Haters are looking at stubble and moaning that the beard won't trimmed properly. Let the thing grow a bit more. I have officially stretched this metaphor too thinly.

That is likely the strangest analogy I'll read today...

 

[Nave 'Torment']

Does anyone think that Nolan took a dig at Schumcaher with the line "At least you can talk" the CIA guy said to Bane?

I was getting a TLJ-Two Face vibe out of the entire thing at first... but then I got a more Batman Begins vibe with Bruce telling Alfred about his plans for becoming a superhero.

Nolan's fond of using interior shots of aeroplanes, fact that he blew it up and tore it to bits makes for fun subtext

Or I'm imagining things.

I remember hearing the National Anthem and going from "" to "" in the span of five seconds. At first I thought it was going to be corny as hell, but the way it's used in the trailer is surprisingly effective. Very creepy.

Is the national anthem the same as the chant?! Because I'm in love with that chant. It's friggin eerie. Y'know how our minds stop functioning on a conscious level when we're ritualistically chanting over and over again? It happens during speeches by politicians, music-concerts, etc: That effect of your ability to stay objective is completely shut-down for those few seconds of visceral, unconstrained ritualistic fervor. And having that as Bane's music cue? Pure brilliance.

Not an NFL fan so that reference is going to go right over my head.

Same here, unfortunately Why are they called Bengals? Any connection to Bengalis or just the nearly-extinct tiger?

There are teams in the league (such as the Cincinnati Bengals) that are so terrible that their stadiums rarely sell out. I'd chuckle if the Gotham Rogues were an awful team, considering that the players in the film are Superbowl winners.

If it's not the team's quality that's the problem, perhaps the empty seats are a sign of Gotham's economic state. People just can't afford to go.

That would be really something if they go for it.

I wouldn't mind this so long as it is mentioned at some point.

Cop: "It could've been worse after the crowd panicked and stormed the exits."

Gordon: "Yeah. Luckily, our team sucks."

Geez no wonder they want him out of the office

 

[jmc]

He's certainly the MVP of the game. He survived, and got a touchdown while doing so .

I'd like to hear the post match interview -

''I couldn't have done this without my team mates. Wait a second, turns out I did!''