The Dark Knight Rises The TDKR General Discussion & Speculation Thread - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 114

[Herolee10]

I wonder what the chances are of the secret ending to TDKR being leaked somehow tomorrow...man, it's going to be like going into a mine field when coming on the boards tomorrow.lol

 

[redfirebird2008]

I don't know if i can recall a recent big budget film with a great poster. I guess Inception had some decent ones, but even then the banners were better.

Define "recent." TDK definitely had some great posters.

 

[GregComicFan]

The banner with Batman standing on top of the cop car and all of the Gotham Police Department behind him is really awesome.

 

[enquencle]

It would be extremely ****** if Joker turned out to be an ex-soldier as described in that article.

Yeah, an interesting possibility, hadn't considered that.

It's a shame we won't get anything about The Joker in the movie. At least the book is giving us some clues as to what happened.

Does anyone know where to get the book? that'd be interesting to read.

 

[TheIrishAvenger]

wow now we know where you stand

No dude, something like that is definitely possible.

 

[Sasobek]

The posters for all the super hero movies this year suck. With the exception of the teaser for TDKR. I don't mind the broken mask one either, if only Bane looked better or was taken out completely.

 

[Greens]

Yeah, an interesting possibility, hadn't considered that.

It's a shame we won't get anything about The Joker in the movie. At least the book is giving us some clues as to what happened.

Does anyone know where to get the book? that'd be interesting to read.

I don't want any Joker clues. I love the character the way he was presented in TDK. A psychopath with no background who is hyper aware of the world around him. The lack of back-story makes the character more powerful.

 

[Nevincer]

Yes, very lazy for the most part. You would think WB would care more about doing a good job on it since they actually own the character.

Exactly. I just don't really understand the mentality behind recycling renders from stills, messing around with filters in photoshop and mixing it all up into some garbled mess. That's been most of TDKR promotion. This is a multi-million dollar production, why can't they hire someone to build stuff from the ground up? This is for advertising the same film from a team that loves actually doing stunts and whatnot authentically instead of CGIing it or whatever, and these "posters", they're like the polar opposite of that philosophy from an artistic standpoint. A kid in paint can do most of this stuff.

This says it all. None of this stuff feels like it's been authentically created, just cut-and-paste work.

 

[Sharkboy]

Define "recent." TDK definitely had some great posters.

Last 3 years or so, most of the great posters are saved for the smaller films. Films like Shame or Drive or Tinker Tailor had great posters? but where was Thor's great poster? Where was Avengers? possibly the easiest poster to get right had to settle for a photoshop nightmare. The fact that WB has the biggest film of the year in their hands, with a character they own and they still can't drop a little bit of money on someone who isn't an intern with some photoshop knowledge makes me realise how little marketing must care for the lost art of one sheets nowadays.

Like i said above, i really really miss Drew Struzan, and with so many great alt poster artists out there like Olly Moss, Tyler Strout etc etc you'd think they'd give one of those guys a shot at it.

 

[Donut]

I'm Batman

 

[MultipleJesuses]

This is kinda weird but heres what someone did in MineCraft

That's amazing!

 

[Figs]

Hell, I like it. Not great but I just might buy it.

 

[TX85]

Pretty cool poster to me..Overall!

 

[Cassandra Cain]

I seriously thought this banner was fanmade--which would explain the simple awesomeness of it. Is it really official?

Spoiler

 

[KalMart]

Exactly. I just don't really understand the mentality behind recycling renders from stills, messing around with filters in photoshop and mixing it all up into some garbled mess. That's been most of TDKR promotion. This is a multi-million dollar production, why can't they hire someone to build stuff from the ground up? This is for advertising the same film from a team that loves actually doing stunts and whatnot authentically instead of CGIing it or whatever, and these "posters", they're like the polar opposite of that philosophy from an artistic standpoint. A kid in paint can do most of this stuff.

This says it all. None of this stuff feels like it's been authentically created, just cut-and-paste work.

I don't mind if they take photos from somewhere else...but a) pick good ones (awful angle/lighting on the head...looks like a bad spy photo), and b) have the perspectives make sense...you have a completely different kind of angle on the foreground and background, but it's not presented as collage.

The 'world without rules' one from TDK may have had a copy/pasted photo of Batman from something else. But it looked good and made sense with angles. These last two don't.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I seriously thought this banner was fanmade--which would explain the simple awesomeness of it. Is it really official?

Spoiler

Fan-made.

 

[arturo]

I seriously thought this banner was fanmade--which would explain the simple awesomeness of it. Is it really official?

I think is fanmade... I can see the raindrops from RISE posters over the logos (Legendary, DC, WB, etc.)

 

[Nevincer]

I don't mind if they take photos from somewhere else...but a) pick good ones (awful angle/lighting on the head...looks like a bad spy photo), and b) have the perspectives make sense...you have a completely different kind of angle on the foreground and background, but it's not presented as collage.

the 'word without rules' one from TDK may have had a copy/pasted photo of Batman from something else. But it looked good and made sense with angles. These last two don't.

Good point. The choices have been really bad too, for what it's worth.

 

[OutOfBoose]

IMAX poster is a tragedy.

 

[KalMart]

Last 3 years or so, most of the great posters are saved for the smaller films. Films like Shame or Drive or Tinker Tailor had great posters? but where was Thor's great poster? Where was Avengers? possibly the easiest poster to get right had to settle for a photoshop nightmare. The fact that WB has the biggest film of the year in their hands, with a character they own and they still can't drop a little bit of money on someone who isn't an intern with some photoshop knowledge makes me realise how little marketing must care for the lost art of one sheets nowadays.

Like i said above, i really really miss Drew Struzan, and with so many great alt poster artists out there like Olly Moss, Tyler Strout etc etc you'd think they'd give one of those guys a shot at it.

Or at least have some people with genuine talent/ability in the ad department.

 

[AnneFan]

The new poster is alright, but doesn't set my world on fire. Re-using the still of Batman standing on the police car.

My favourite posters for TDKR are the very first teaser, the shattered cowl (without Bane in the background), the Batman RISE poster, Catwoman on the batpod, Catwoman's heel stomping the signal, the BTAS cape style banner, and the banner of Batman facing off against Bane's army.

 

[enquencle]

I don't want any Joker clues. I love the character the way he was presented in TDK. A psychopath with no background who is hyper aware of the world around him. The lack of back-story makes the character more powerful.

Yes, I agree,it was perfect that way. But I'd like to read what it says about his incarceration and what other crimes are suspected. It may kinda fill the gap between TDK and TDKR.

And regarding the Imax poster, I think it's a cool concept, but executed in a bad way. I wonder why Wb is using the same pic for every single poster/banner.
It's a great pic, but seriously, why cant they use some other ones?

 

[ND Irish]

I think this will be my last day on the Hype forums (Im a lurker not a poster so you wont notice/miss me ) I feel like i know too much already and would like to steer clear from reviews, clips, spoilers, etc. until I finally see it early that opening Friday morning. I just hope I have enough self control to avoid this place

 

[kthevs]

I'll ask you the same question the devil asked Luke Skywalker in Robot Chicken-

Would you give up your soul to hell for one night with her?

I don't know about Yurka, but I probably would. Especially since I know that there are no such things as souls.

 

[Cassandra Cain]

I think is fanmade... I can see the raindrops from RISE posters over the logos (Legendary, DC, WB, etc.)

Dang . Guess someone should prolly delete it from the Photo Thread...had me fooled.