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[DMczaf]

Applied Science is going to disappear again baby!

"Applied Science has been moved again."

"Really? Where?"

"Under my house."

 

[fallengorn]

He's going to waste more of Mr. Lau's time.

 

[faceless007]

We're gonna see what happens when you think of him as an idiot.

 

[Szu]

He's going to waste more of Mr. Lau's time.

Not really, considering the fact that Lau was flame-broiled.

 

[sixteen-bit]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=76131

Lucius Fox the new Robin?

 

[samus i am]

Not really, considering the fact that Lau was flame-broiled.

I have no idea why Nolan didn't make this fact more obvious. No close ups or screams or anything.

 

[DMczaf]

And Anne Hathaway talks less about Rises

http://ryanseacrest.com/2011/04/08/...batman-movie-says-is-worth-waiting-for-audio/

Although Anne was upfront regarding “Glee,” she remained mum about discussing her role as Catwoman in Chris Nolan‘s upcoming “The Dark Knight Rises” explaining, “the most beautiful thing about this project is that when you sign your contract they make you take an omertà, so I really can’t tell you a thing about it.”

As to how she’ll survive that, Anne admits “you cant say anthing from the beginning because people take key words and make whole articles about them.” Anne concluded, “there are so few surprises because of the internet and this one is worth waiting for.”

She knows that he's always watching.

 

[fallengorn]

I have no idea why Nolan didn't make this fact more obvious. No close ups or screams or anything.

That's because he's alive.

Is Mr. Lau immortal? Are his methods supernatural? Or cheap parlor tricks to conceal his true identity?

 

[spidye]

She knows that he's always watching.

http://i52.tinypic.com/awx92r.jpg

lol. I would really like to know what he's thinking?

 

[Nizz]

She knows that he's always watching.

Great pic, lol!

 

[faceless007]

I have no idea why Nolan didn't make this fact more obvious. No close ups or screams or anything.

PG-13

 

[kehs]

And Anne Hathaway talks less about Rises

http://ryanseacrest.com/2011/04/08/...batman-movie-says-is-worth-waiting-for-audio/



She knows that he's always watching.

Surprises...opening....riddler...jim...carrey....

 

[Platy]

omertà

Mob based plot !

Spoiler

Or katatonia based plot =P

 

[Lonestar]

I have no idea why Nolan didn't make this fact more obvious. No close ups or screams or anything.

Mostly PG-13, but I like to think that it's to convey that the Joker just doesn't give a fuck. Lau is like a Crispy Little Easter Egg.

 

[WordAssassin]

Ugh, I can't stand Stan Lee. All of his success can be attributed to being in the right place at the right time. His characters are incredibly generic and unimaginative, and it he tried pitching these same superheroes today he'd be laughed at and mocked relentlessly.

"A man gets spider powers. I call him Spider-Man."
"A man wears a suit made of metal. I call him Iron Man."
"This guy turns into a hulking mass when he gets angry. I call him the Hulk."

It was a simpler (and more stupid) time, when the collective youth could be transfixed by lame and unappealing superheroes. All Stan Lee did was pitch the most obvious characters possible. Though none of his creations are as generic as Superman, he definitely comes close.

Yeah ok let's distill the characters into the most basic and stupid sounding ideas we can to prove a point, here I'll play too:

There's a guy who dresses like a bat. I call him Batman.
There's a guy who talks to fish. I call him Aqua Man.
There's a guy who can stretch like rubber. I call him Plastic Man.

We can do it for Image, too:
Here's a guy who is invincible. I call him Invincible.
Here is a girl with the power of the atom. I call her Atomic Eve.

GTFO of here with that stupid shit. Every single super hero sounds dumb as hell when you take apart their name and say that's all they are. You wanna talk about dumb ideas getting laughed at today, try pitching Batman. "Ok here's a multi-millionaire who doesn't have powers. He dresses up like a bat, though, so we'll call him Batman, and he uses all of his money to build gadgets like a Batmobile and a Baterang, and he fights villains like a clown, we'll call him Joker, and a fat dude in a tuxedo, he looks like a Penguin so we'll call him that. And he built his secret lair under his mansion and it's called, are you ready, it's called the Bat Cave. Think of the franchise potential here! We can have a Bat Girl side-kick! Or how about he takes on a young boy as his apprentice, we can call him, hey will someone shut that window those birds are killing my pitch, no wait, we'll call him Robin!"

I love Batman but seriously how fucking stupid does that sound.

The reason Marvel's characters got popular has nothing to do with Stan Lee being in the right place at the right time, or them being "generic" (because a guy with spider-powers is a generic, obvious idea) it had to do with Marvel showing super heroes as more than just a super suit and fighting bad guys, they showed their lives beyond what people would see on the news. People identified with that, they dug it, and it became a mainstay in comics forever after. And FYI, Spider-Man DID get laughed at when it was first pitched, because nobody thought that people would want to read about a guy with spider powers, because spiders are gross. Look how hard Spider-Man bombed, right?

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[RustyNails]

I have no idea why Nolan didn't make this fact more obvious. No close ups or screams or anything.

Like other people said, its PG-13. Same reason why we don't see Gambol screaming in pain and wallowing in blood after Joker cuts his mouth. We are to assume that he just sorta died.

 

[Nappuccino]

PG-13

I'm pretty sure you can scream and/or be shown with fire around you in a pg-13 movie.

 

[samus i am]

Like other people said, its PG-13. Same reason why we don't see Gambol screaming in pain and wallowing in blood after Joker cuts his mouth. We are to assume that he just sorta died.

I have thought about this too. Joker just made one swift motion and the knife was in his mouth. It wouldn't have been that hard to show him getting stabbed a second time in the chest or something. Ultimately I guess it doesn't matter since you get the point.

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

She knows that he's always watching.

Do Bale and McConaughey have a story?

Edit: haha Didn't catch Nolan the first time.

 

[Guzim]

And Anne Hathaway talks less about Rises

http://ryanseacrest.com/2011/04/08/...batman-movie-says-is-worth-waiting-for-audio/



She knows that he's always watching.

Is that the only photo of Bale & Nolan at the Oscars?

 

[calza]

Do you think DKR will have a trailer as good as Begin's TV spot 11?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYh7mrJxbXw

 

[DMczaf]

Nickelback is actually scoring the entire movie.

I hear they want to top Linkin Park's TF2 score.

 

[beelzebozo]

never made it as a batman

 

[Veidt]

I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing.

 

[Dan]

Whoa. Josh Pence is playing

Spoiler

a young Ra's Al Ghul, reportedly in scenes taking place 30 years prior to the movie's action.

 

[Discotheque]

They were going to cast Armie Hammer instead but WB intervened since they want him as the next Bruce Wayne.....

I could kinda see that guy as young ra's with the beard.

 

[DMczaf]

Whoa. Josh Pence is playing a young Ra's Al Ghul, reportedly in scenes taking place 30 years prior to the movie's action.

Ra's Al Ghul actually killed Uncle Ben

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Spoiler

Whoa. Josh Pence is playing a young Ra's Al Ghul, reportedly in scenes taking place 30 years prior to the movie's action.

Well now. I could have certainly gone without knowing that. Thanks for the spoiler.

 

[Dan]

Well now. I could have certainly done without knowing that. Thanks for the spoiler.

If that's what you consider a spoiler, you shouldn't be in this thread at all.

 

[Lonestar]

Well now. I could have certainly done without knowing that. Thanks for the spoiler.

Yeah...

But damn, that picture,

Spoiler

does look alot like a younger Liam, but with lighter hair

 

[Lakitu]

Oh, that sounds interesting.

Do we still have no clue whether Levitt is playing Alberto Falcone or not?

 

[big ander]

Ra's Al Ghul actually killed Uncle Ben

Flint Marko: "I didn't choose to be this. The only thing left of me now... is my daughter."

It fits

 

[Zoramon089]

Bane
Ras Al-Ghul
Talia Al-Ghul
Catwoman

What is going on here?!

 

[Morn]

Ra's Al Ghul actually killed Uncle Ben

No he killed Bruce's parents.

 

[DMczaf]

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/04/08/new-dark-knight-rises-casting-confirms-rumored-storyline

My guess, based on the rough plot outline we broke last month, is that Pence’s scenes will involve the young Bane; what I’ve heard is that Bane becomes to the League of Shadows what they had hoped Bruce Wayne would be. In Star Wars parlance, ‘there is another.’

 

[Dead]

I think that exact same scenario was theorized earlier in the thread

 

[Snaku]

PG-13

Not that I'd recommend it, but have you seen Revenge of the Sith?

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Just give us back the real star of the series - Thomas Wayne.

A LITTLE BIT OF OPERA GOES A LONG WAY.

What a badass.

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/04/08/new-dark-knight-rises-casting-confirms-rumored-storyline

This would be pretty great.

 

[Solo]

Hot damn at that character news. Its like Nolan is making the movie for me.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Hot damn at that character news. Its like Nolan is making the movie for me.

Nolan reads GAF confirmed.

Hey Christopher, work with Guy Pearce again! You made your best movie with him. And pass your scripts through a few more hands before you make them.

Kthx.

 

[beelzebozo]

Nolan reads GAF confirmed.

Hey Christopher, work with Guy Pearce again! You made your best movie with him. And pass your scripts through a few more hands before you make them.

Kthx.

i approve this message.

it's time to take pearce off the black list.

 

[RustyNails]

Tangerine.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I heard at the Memento wrap party, Pearce asked to try on Nolan's vest and stretched out the shoulders.

 

[beelzebozo]

I heard at the Memento wrap party, Pearce asked to try on Nolan's vest and stretched out the shoulders.

remember saggy greenvest.

 

[SpacedCadette]

I think I see where Nolan is going with this...

Huge (potential) spoilers, but these have been brought up before:

In the comics,

Spoiler

Bane spent time with Ra's Al Ghul not long after the former had broken Batman's back during the "Knightfall" storyline. Ra's had considered the musclebound baddie as a possible heir and husband to Talia, but that didn't end up working out. Bane later returned to Gotham City to seek out Bruce Wayne for a very different reason: He'd learned during his stay with Ra's that his mysterious biological father might be the late Dr. Thomas Wayne, which would make him and Batman half-brothers.

That last bit is just too juicy for Nolan and co. to ignore. Bruce was the focus of the first film and the second was predominately Batman, but in both cases there was a distinction. I think this is providing a good opportunity to represent both Bruce Wayne and Batman as one and the same.

 

[jett]

I should've never come back to this thread. Fuck you people and your unmarked "news".

 

[Expendable.]

I should've never come back to this thread. Fuck you people and your unmarked "news".

You and Sculli should join a support group.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

You and Sculli should join a support group.

You should recognise that some people look forward to being caught up in the stories films are going to tell, rather than looking at narrative developments as bullet-points for your website's headlines.

 

[artist]

You and Sculli should join a support group.

Sculli's got Solo locked down, I dont think they'd like a threesome.