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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpIb296lh3M&feature=g-all-u

new Kryten 'teaser'.

I heard they were posting a new teaser trailer online every friday before the series airs...which was happy about, but then I thought ' a new trailer eachfriday - wouldnt that spoil the series when it does come on'.

But they have opted to put up teasers such as the one above....

tbh I would rather they just posted the odd minute long 'behind the scenes' clips rather than these teasers.

yeah I agreed that superman fitted the archetype of jesus

theres a boyracer down my street that is trying to build the equivalent to that using kenwood speakers lol

I agree, it's almost as though Nolan was so preoccupied with wrapping up his trilogy and tying everything together that he forgot to include a film as well.

I keep on saying the same thing.
I wan't longing for the film to end, so much as I was longing for Bane to suddenly walk up to catwoman or someone and shout [spoiler]'you think you could kill me that easily'[/spoiler].

I got paid to watch batman again today and I liked it a lot better cos i wasn't so confused or expecting things (like venom and the scarecrow) that weren't in it.  In reply to whoever said about the liam neeson bit I didn't reply because that when I fell asleep the first time.  I missed th situps and ghosts but woke up when everyone started shouting rise.   But yes, yes I know what you mean person who's post I can't find x

you got paid to watch it! you lucky devil!

[Jesus]

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, gets me more excited about a superhero film than the first trailer focusing on a "He worked as a fisherman!" back-story.

They're pushing the Jesus thing aren't they.

lol...well I didnt get the jesus thing haha but it makes complete sense with superman being the jesus archetype - with the fisherman trailer thing - I thought maybe they were trying to show that they had bought something remotely new to the superman story.

I'm very happy about Cavill's casting and I like the suit - I've never been a fan of the underpants on the outside of the costumes lol - but like someone said...I hope it isnt like certain superhero films where there's a quick jump to where the protagonist has miraculously learned to sew and design like Alexander McQueen and come up with a durable lasting superhero costume over night lol

which leads me on to the second thing - since crowe is wearing a costume with an S on it as well, I'm guessing Cavill's suit is made on Krypton....but I always thought the S icon was something Kent adopted for himself? as Superman?

Oh and all of clan Tips understood everything Bane said. IMAX speakers = very good.

there's only a few lines of dialogue I couldn't quite hear in the film, maybe one from Bane and a couple from Batman apart from that - Bane's dialogue was clear enough - overly boomy even - seemed to be fed through a guitar pedal lol I would have loved more dialogue from Bane - more opportunities to key into his thinking and motivation. Some have criticised Bane for being like a Bond villian - I would have liked more lines that are atypical of a Bond villian and more or a character portrait no matter how caricature or comic book.

for me the best jackman has portrayed Wolverine is at the very beginning of x-men 1 where he's cage fighting - Logan should be like an Eastwood type high plains drifter - no direction home - good stranger makes self sacrifice to save people etc I also like the idea of a leaner wilder wolverine who brawls and hunches when he prowls and talks like clint eastwood with a growl.

the guy died his hair red and not green.....has anyone considered he thought he was ronald mcdonald - my point being; reactionaries are too quick to say 'blame the films' or 'ban computer games'.

I doubt even the most hardcore method actor would still be in character this long after a film wraps. TDKR finished filming a looong time ago now.

I dont mean he still thinks he's batman - just that he's trying to think 'what would batman do' in a very very minor way i.e. using celebrity and notariaty to comfort the people affected by the shootings.

maybe I'm not articulating myself well enough lol

[dealing with crime?]

actually, I thought Batman's voice didnt sound as weird as usual in TDKR...but Bane's voice just sound overly dubbed and manipulated.

Yeah, turning it into more of a voice over was such a dumb idea.

well I found it ironic people complained about batman's voice in the previous movies and in TDKR it's Bane's we're complaining about and Batman's was mixed quite well lol
maybe nolan measures the level of how 'otherworldly' and resonant the overdubbed voice is by the power of the character?

So the finale hinged on the fact that [spoiler]some days you just can't get rid of a bomb[/spoiler]?  I am actually cool with that, just as I am cool with the movie doing something genuinely groundbreaking with the character in[spoiler] giving Bruce Wayne a happy ending after Batman[/spoiler], as even the bright and obnoxious Brave and the Bold didn't go that far.  There are some problems with logic:[spoiler] the precise timescale for a nuclear meltdown/detonation, every copper going underground to rescue them capitalists (who, then, is directing traffic, guarding the mayor, manning police stations, or - and I realise this may be a bit much of an ask of a Gotham cop - dealing with crime?), Batman being paralysed and then getting better just because (see also: the limp), and I am pretty sure you don't need an autopilot to fly in a straight line as much as you need maybe a boot to hold the accelerator down and a length of string for the steering wheel but it still sucks to be you if you're on a fishing boat that day or live on a beach and haven't made tsunami plans, I wonder why people think Batman is dead if they have his bat-spaceship at the end to check the computer for reprogramming, and I wonder why Alfred and Bruce don't speak to each other at the end given they're about three feet apart and if anyone is watching one or the other it's not like either is in disguise or anything.  It just looks like Bruce is being a cock to an elderly man who told him so.[/spoiler]

All in all, though, I enjoyed it.  Not as good as Dark Knight, but better than Batman Begins.

A friend of mine said they thought TDKR was the most 'comic book' out of all the movies...but I disagreed and said that the aesthetics for The Dark Knight just seemed more colourful and neon tinted. However - although I still think I'm right - TDKR definately seems more comic book orientated in it's script -
when I say 'more comic book' - I mean, more like the Avengers say, rather than a gritty adaptation/interpretation. For instance; [spoiler]what may have been a homage to the old 60s batman series with batman finding it hard to get rid of a bomb, robin making a disguised appearance, the characters suffering grievous injuries but repairing and healing quickly, Cmmsioner Gordon in a rolling vehicle with a large bomb getting out unscathed etc etc[/spoiler] 

actually, I thought Batman's voice didnt sound as weird as usual in TDKR...but Bane's voice just sound overly dubbed and manipulated.

I was discussing the shootings with a mate today.

He mentioned that Nolan had visited the victims then went on to say that he apologised to them for producing the film as he was worried it would cause people to act in that way (or words to that effect).

I think my mate got that information from a newspaper, assuming he didn't get the wrong end of the stick. Seems like a lot of sensationalist rubbish to me, if my mate was correct in his reading. Certainly the first time I heard that one.

It rather irritated me although I didn't show it to my mate.

I hadn't heard that to be honest - though I haven't heard details of Bales visit really.

I had guessed that Bale may still be in batman mode (he's somewhat of a method actor dont you know lol) and maybe he saw it as a good thing to visit those affected by the shootings personally having played Batman. I wouldn't think Bale would be ashamed of the batman movies he's made or regarded them as inciting psychos like Holmes....but rather he felt he should act like an ambassador for the films and his role that he has portrayed in condemning any act of violence like the shootings in colorado.

[You still haven't given up on me?]

Can anyone explain to what the point of the Dr. Crane cameo was?
The guy was in there for litteraly two minuets, we don't even find out what happened to him.
Now I love Cillien Murphy as Scarecrow but his appearence just felt shoehorned and phoned in.

Wha-? It was a cameo - that's why he was there for a couple of minutes. Otherwise it wouldn't be a cameo. And he was obviously [spoiler]one of the escapees from Blackgate.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I agree - it was nothing more than a cameo - he had clearly escaped from arkham asylum and got himself appointed 'judge' of the people of Gotham brought before him whom he condemned to death basically (death by exile, or death) I agree it was unneeded, but I also feel talia al ghul's presence in the plot, as well as Liam Neeson's cameo are unneeded - but they are all part of Nolan's need to round off his trilogy.[/spoiler]

I think Nolan sacrificed having a decent plot just so he could tie everything up nicely.

I completely agree

Bruce Wayne: You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth: Never!

...well, until part three that is, when you really need me...[spoiler]and then i'll leave, and when you 'die'... i'll cry because i've let your father down.[/spoiler]

Because that's the faithful Alfred Pennyworth we all know and love.

[spoiler]This was one of many elements out of keeping with the trilogy thus far, that seemed to only serve the purpose of the script and the curtailing of the trilogy. But I think it's also likely that the movie was running far too long, and that Nolan may have cut alot of Alfred either out of the latter script or out of the movie print, sublimating this with a token speech from Alfred earlier on, and the finale linked to Alfred. We of course have to read into the character of Alfred here and interpret it for ourselves ; trying to make sense of Alfred's departure, I see it as both tough love towards Wayne, as well as Alfred foreseeing the inevitable and not wanting to bear witness to Wayne/Batman's demise. I still would have rather have had Alfred remain, maybe closely working with Lucius Fox, and remaining by Wayne's side (or certainly near it) - then maybe accepting John Blake into the house - maybe sharing a hinted conversation with Blake regarding 'sacrifice''gothams need for a knight''the existance of evil'etc before Blake breaks into the batcave for himself as we see him do whilst Alfred (and co) are in Venice/Florence. [/spoiler]

I'll need to watch it again, but I certainly did not see his actions as callous or a stooge. He has, as you said, been trying to contact Wayne about the problems. Not stooge like behaviour, I think!

I got the impression that it was the focus on the [spoiler]reactor programme and its moth-balling[/spoiler] that crippled Wayne Industries' finances; that the [spoiler]diversion of funds absorbed profit in ways Lucius couldn't explain to the board[/spoiler] and I took the 'not answering your e-mails' line to be more of a refusal on Bruce's part to discuss [spoiler]the decision to mothball the reactor[/spoiler] than half-hearted attempt by Lucius to flag up an eight-year programme of mismanagement of the company.

That said, I've only seen the film once and this wasn't foremost in the things I was paying attention to, so I may have that wrong.

See, this is where i get confused...i thought Bruce Wayne had been a recluse for eight years? But did he work on the reactor, have it moth-balled and then become a recluse while the emails piled up?
Shite, does this mean i'm going to have to watch it again now too?

I interpreted that as; [spoiler]Wayne had gone underground after TDK and recovering from his wounds he had put money into further saving gotham by developing several projects with Fox, including the sustainable energy project. I also thought maybe Wayne even continued his activities as batman on and off explaining his many injuries, frailties, lack of cartilage etc Being forced to stop activities as Batman due to his bodily injuries may have forced Wayne into a depression and period of prolongued reclusive behaviour and subsequent long term abandonment of the sustainable energy project - all stemming from his inability to act as batman on the streets of gotham fighting crime and evil and thus appeasing his guilt in the role he played in the death of Rachel.[/spoiler]

I could be reading too much into it all though lol

 

Really - oh thats good! I was wondering that Hardy looked too young to play the older Max lol