DM stop laying such burns on Solo, cannot hold back my laughter at work.Yeah, because the Broccolis only hire the best directors and writers for Bond movies
So I heard Whedon is better than Nolan. What say you, GAF?
I'd give my left tangerine to see thatYoung Alfred in Burma.
Reminds me.
They totally dropped the ball on this one. Avengers has been released virtually everywhere in the world except for the US. Would have been perfect to attach the new trailer to. WB marketing is incompetent.
I don't think we should be comparing Whedon and Nolan. They're just so different.
I will tell you what though. I enjoyed Avengers, more than any other superhero flick we've had in the past. Maybe after a few repeat viewings, or when I get it on Bluray this will change. But so far. I can honestly say that I felt, for the first time ever, that the superheroes transitioned so well that it was almost a surreal experience. Its as though literally NOTHING of the original material was compromised for the adaptation.
TDKR will have to be insanely well done in order to surpass this. And I hope it does. WB are gonna have to step their game up. Should be a great summer.
LONDON The University of Londons stolid Senate House echoes with secrets and hidden history it was headquarters for Britains propaganda and censorship department and 1984 author George Orwell used it as a model for his Ministry of Truth so it was a fitting workplace last July for Christopher Nolan and the masked ambitions of The Dark Knight Rises.
Back in Gotham, back in Chris Nolans city, actor Morgan Freeman said as he stepped past barbed wire and debris used in a just-finished scene. A moment later, he added: The only drawback is this is the last one we get to work on with him. And a lot of us wont really get that until later. Its not until the curtain goes down that you think, Jesus, thats the last one.
The Dark Knight Rises, which arrives in theaters July 20, is, by all accounts, the last caped crusade for star Christian Bale and Nolans now-familiar ensemble of Freeman, Gary Oldman and Michael Caine. Theyre joined by an infusion of Inception cast members Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt all appeared in Nolans perception-bending 2010 heist film as well as Anne Hathaway.
The plot and the production have been treated like state secrets, which speaks to Nolans now-notorious practice of message management as well as his yearning for old-fashioned movie mystique in an over-information age. The 41-year-old filmmaker is defiantly old school not only did Warner Bros. fail in a push to close out the franchise with a 3-D release (as Harry Potter did) but here in the digital summer of 2012 the Batman movie is the only major popcorn project that was shot on film stock.
Early on in the project, while still in Los Angeles, Nolan said this films introduction of a masked, hulking terrorist called Bane (Hardy) and the enigmatic Selina Kyle (Hathaway) sets the stage for an appropriate conclusion for Bruce Waynes odyssey as a vigilante sent into the shadows by the childhood sight of his parents bodies bleeding in the street.
Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story, the filmmaker said of the script he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan Nolan. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story unlike the comics, these things dont go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful.
Rises closes the grim trilogy that opened in 2005 with Batman Begins and delivered a pop-culture landmark in 2009 with The Dark Knight, the only superhero film to win an Academy Award in an acting category and the only one to reach the billion-dollar mark in worldwide box office. The Oscar remains a bittersweet achievement (Nolan somberly accepted the posthumous award on behalf of the late Heath Ledgers family), and the box-office total is now just part of the challenge for a veteran cast and crew that must live up to its past heroics.
Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould has had plenty of stops in his career hes worked on a dozen James Bond films and picked up his first Oscar for the spinning successes of Inception but the intensity and duration of the Gotham City work lent it the feel of an epic quest.
Id say its probably similar to the [crew] experience they had on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said Courbold. Its a journey weve all been on with Chris; [Batman Begins was] his first action film and then with the second we made one of the most successful action films of all time. And with the third we hope to make the most successful action film of all time. Its been a mission and it is a mission.
There was a six-month shoot that included stops in Glasgow, New York , Newark, N.J., and Pittsburgh (where the NFLs Steelers provided their stadium and some star players to film a game-day sequence for the Gotham Rogues) and the production was badgered by curious eyes and covert cameras. The Nolans have responded by clamping down even more on every aspect of the projects public life.
Chris likes his secrets, Bale said, and he keeps an air of mystery about his scripts and his plans. And I like that. He does it for a reason and its worked and the people who work on his projects know that this is the way we do it.
Every tidbit of information has been dissected and debated by fans, especially in regards to the newcomers. Entire essays have been written about the big-picture possibilities of Gotham cop John Blake (Levitt) and Miranda Tate (Cotillard) and they may actually be on the right track; again and again on the set those characters were conspicuously avoided conversation topics.
There has been great consternation too, about the voice of Hardy in preview footage Bane has a Caribbean-tinged accent and, with his respirator mask, many fans and bloggers have said the dialogue veered into a mechanical garble. Nolan says its a non-issue and, last summer at Senate House, producer Emma Thomas flashed a confident smile when asked about Hardys work.
Bane is a really interesting match-up for Batman just in the physical strength and brute force he brings, Thomas said of the dark mastermind who, in the pages of DC Comics, famously broke Batmans back in a landmark 1990s story arc. Toms preparation has been amazing and hes transformed his body and found these great approaches to the character.
As far as superhero films, the fevered fascination surrounding The Dark Knight Rises can only be compared to the global curiosity that greeted Tim Burtons 1989 Batman, which starred Michael Keaton as the hero and Jack Nicholson as the Joker. Adding to the intrigue, this summer also has The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man to add new fuel to the half-century rivalry between DC and Marvel, the superhero equivalent of Beatles vs. Stones.
Truly, though, for the Gotham City crowd the only rival that matters is their own past. Even Bale, an actor of austere intensity who has a low tolerance for Hollywood hype, said theres been a special aura about this project since Day One.
I remember when I first read the script, of course it was all top secret, Bale said during a break in the shoot. I went round by Chris house, was shut in the room with the script not allowed to leave with it and it hit me that this was the last one. What Chris couldnt believe was how slow I read because I go back and re-read until I have it all in my mind. I was in there six or seven hours. It was dark when I came out. And I was smiling.
Geoff Boucher
I saw it on Thursday, really enjoyed it but 2 days later I'm starting to feel it's a bit shallow and thinking it won't hold up so well on repeat viewings.
That said it is an entirely different beast than TDK, I consider avengers to be pretty much the perfect popcorn movie, I mean that as a compliment not a detriment. The Batman films though are on a completely different level though with what they're trying to achieve, they're more mature and more thrillers or crime dramas in TDKs case.
I wouldn't want the avengers to be that type of movie though, nor would I want a hypothetical justice league movie to be in the same vein as nolan's films.
Reminds me.
They totally dropped the ball on this one. Avengers has been released virtually everywhere in the world except for the US. Would have been perfect to attach the new trailer to. WB marketing is incompetent.
I don't think we should be comparing Whedon and Nolan. They're just so different.
I will tell you what though. I enjoyed Avengers, more than any other superhero flick we've had in the past. Maybe after a few repeat viewings, or when I get it on Bluray this will change. But so far. I can honestly say that I felt, for the first time ever, that the superheroes transitioned so well that it was almost a surreal experience. Its as though literally NOTHING of the original material was compromised for the adaptation.
TDKR will have to be insanely well done in order to surpass this. And I hope it does. WB are gonna have to step their game up. Should be a great summer.
Bingo.....avengers is like transformers done right and I'm surprised at the reviews it's getting. The dark knight is in a different league
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/04/27/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolans-masked-ambitions/#/8
Dark Knight Rises: Christopher Nolans masked ambitions
I remember when I first read the script, of course it was all top secret, Bale said during a break in the shoot. I went round by Chris house, was shut in the room with the script not allowed to leave with it and it hit me that this was the last one. What Chris couldnt believe was how slow I read because I go back and re-read until I have it all in my mind. I was in there six or seven hours. It was dark when I came out. And I was smiling.
It's like poetry...
It's like poetry...
People who predicted TDKR for under 1B and Hobbit outgrossing it just started sweating a little.The Dark Knight Rises: $850 million
Ice Age: Continental Drift: $740 million
The Avengers: $580 million
The Amazing Spider-Man: $570 million
Madagascar 3: $525 million
Brave: $380 million
MIB 3: $370 million
Snow White and the Huntsman: $280 million
Battleship: $270 million
G.I. Joe: Retaliation: $260 million
Prometheus: $250 million
Dark Shadows: $240 million
Rock of Ages: $230 million
The Bourne Legacy: $200 million
The Expendables 2: $180 million
You think? A virtual "lock" does not count as a predictionThey are predicting near double the BO of dark knight. That is kinda crazy. Domestic did 533 million. This shit will gross over 1 billion.
I think TDKR will crack a billion, yet still think The Hobbit is a good bet to outgross it.
I think TDKR will crack a billion, yet still think The Hobbit is a good bet to outgross it.
Curious to see how it will do now after cinemacon, because I don't think anyone has come out saying anything positive about the hobbit footage.
Curious to see how it will do now after cinemacon, because I don't think anyone has come out saying anything positive about the hobbit footage.
What? Their were plenty of positive reactions.
Internet reactions don't mean shit. The Hobbit is going to crush everything worldwide.
I've been telling Sculli the Hobbit won't be good. Peter Jackson got lucky on the first three films. He's going all King Kong on this one.
I'll take a King Kong over aI've been telling Sculli the Hobbit won't be good. Peter Jackson got lucky on the first three films. He's going all King Kong on this one.
I know I'm in the minority with this one but even his LOTR films sucked.I've been telling Sculli the Hobbit won't be good. Peter Jackson got lucky on the first three films. He's going all King Kong on this one.
I've been telling Sculli the Hobbit won't be good. Peter Jackson got lucky on the first three films. He's going all King Kong on this one.
It will probably be somewhere in the middle of those two films.
I'll take a King Kong over a
I have factual evidence to prove that The Hobbit is a return to form and will be amazing.
LotR
I still don't get how he took 5 years to make that. Nolan made Batman Begins, Prestige, Dark Knight and Inception from 2005-2010. Peter Jackson just King Kong and Lovely Bones... -_-
That would make sense if the LOTR films were amazing.
That would make sense if the LOTR films were amazing.
That would make sense if the sky was blue.....oh!
You love...That would make sense if the sky was blue.....oh!
You love Speed Racer. Your point of view on anything is skewed.
Oh you...
That would make sense if the LOTR films were amazing.
You love Speed Racer. Your point of view on anything is skewed.
I'd rather watch Speed Racer than the first 90 minutes of King Kong, so there's that.
Yeah, let's pretend that the LOTR films aren't some of the most beloved films of the 21st century.