The Dark Knight Rises - In theaters July 20, 2012

[Horhay]

[CONTAINER][MOVIE1]Title: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Tagline: The Legend Ends

Genre: [GENRE]Action[/GENRE], [GENRE]Crime[/GENRE], [GENRE]Drama[/GENRE], [GENRE]Thriller[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Christopher Nolan[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Christian Bale[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Michael Caine[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Gary Oldman[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Anne Hathaway[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Tom Hardy[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Marion Cotillard[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Joseph Gordon-Levitt[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Morgan Freeman[/ACTOR]

Runtime: [RUNTIME]165[/RUNTIME]

Plot: Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.[/MOVIE1][POSTER1]

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Spoiler: Old infos

From IMDB:


Old info:

Spoiler

The fact that there will be another Batman film in Christopher Nolan’s presumptive trilogy is assumed by just about everyone, despite the fact that there has been no formal announcement of the film. But in the runup to the release of Nolan’s Inception, which opens on July 16, there is already some talk about what the next Batman film might look like.

Wally Pfister is the cinematographer responsible for all of Christopher Nolan’s features from Memento on, and his photography was one of the things I liked best about The Dark Knight. He captured Chicago-as-Gotham with a simplicity and clarity that was very uncharacteristic of most superhero films. Now he’s talking about possibilities for the third film, including the option of 3D. Hint: don’t expect Batman 3D.

Cinematical spoke to Pfister when the Dallas Film Society presented him with the Star Award for accomplishments in cinematography. The site promises a full interview in which Pfister explains the “mutual disinterest” he and Christopher Nolan have for 3D. But they do quote him saying,

What Chris and I have talked about is doing something cool and something interesting…Brad Bird was [saying] ‘you’ve got to shoot the whole thing in IMAX!’ I was like, yeah, I’ve talked to Chris about that.

There’s also another comment, which seems to refer to shooting more of this upcoming film in IMAX:

But I think Chris is game for doing something interesting like that, Lord knows that the 3-D fad might pass by the time that summer comes around.

AICN, meanwhile, got a few more of Pfister’s comments from a tipster. Both the cinematographer and Nolan are disinterested in digital cinematography and very much prefer to shoot on film. That’s the root of their disinterest in 3D, which Pfister said is “great for like amusement park rides like the ‘Honey I Shrunk The Kids’ ride at Disneyland.” Pfister also called 3D a distraction and not realistic.

The appeal of IMAX and the disinterest in 3D both come from that love of shooting on film. While 3D lacks realism, shooting in IMAX has huge latitude, and captures incredible detail. The downside to IMAX is that the cameras are bulky and loud, and the format is expensive.

FYI, Batman on Film is saying that Warner Bros. will officially announce the third Batman film in July. Which isn’t that much of a deductive leap, as Nolan hasn’t been interested in talking about Batman while he finishes Inception, and that movie is released in July. Plus, there’s that little Comic Con gathering in San Diego. So expect more news in July.

/Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/21...-pfister-talks-batman-3-and-3d/#ixzz0llqYzWTi

Can't wait!

 

[vurt]

I'm off to see this now!!

 

[cyberef]

I just watched this last night, such an awesome movie!

A perfect ending for the trilogy!

Christopher Nolan’s Goodbye Letter to the Batman Franchise

 

[Gaveecho]

Seen it twice now, I loved it the first time and loved it even more the second time. The usual cast were all great as usual and thought the new additions were fantastic; loved Hathaway's Catwoman and Hardy's Bane. Sad to see it's all over, but love how Nolan ended it. I'd say I'll be seeing this for a third time in cinema and maybe even a fourth. Can't wait to see what Nolan takes on next.

 

[cooey]

Itching to go and see it again

 

[CollectorEmtee]

4 years of waiting since TDK are finally over! Seeing this tonight and I cannot wait! The most anticipated film of 2012 for me...

 

[the1tyrant]

Itching to go and see it again

Same here +1

 

[xMicheil]

How do people rank the trilogy then? For me it goes:

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins

They're all brilliant films though.

 

[bd251]

At the theater now. IMAX! Haven't seen it yet. Hopefully it's as good as everyone says it is

 

[Jason Bourne]

How do people rank the trilogy then? For me it goes:

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins

They're all brilliant films though.

pretty much agree 100% with that assessment but I would have to see TDKR again to make it final.

 

[ash333]

How do people rank the trilogy then? For me it goes:

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins

They're all brilliant films though.

pretty much agree 100% with that assessment but I would have to see TDKR again to make it final.

Having seen the entire trilogy in one seating in IMAX and TDKR 3 times now, I cannot and dare not rank these films individually. To me, they are complete and perfect in the order they were released. I am very interested in seeing if WB/Nolan would put all 3 films onto a BD50 for a seamless presentation. I know there are folks who are unhappy with the "slow pacing" of TDKR but the trilogy viewing went by TOO FAST for me.

 

[Jason Bourne]

Having seen the entire trilogy in one seating in IMAX and TDKR 3 times now, I cannot and dare not rank these films individually. To me, they are complete and perfect in the order they were released. I am very interested in seeing if WB/Nolan would put all 3 films onto a BD50 for a seamless presentation. I know there are folks who are unhappy with the "slow pacing" of TDKR but the trilogy viewing went by TOO FAST for me.

Yeah I agree but if I had to sort of deal at initial look that's the way I would rank them. Its kind of like me saying TDK is 100/100, TDKR is 99/100 and BB is 98/100. But like you Im also fine in saying there all equals. Just an amazing trilogy, no doubt.

 

[bd251]

WOW!! NOW THATS HOW YOU MAKE A MOVIE! I think the last movie I said that about was Inception.

As far as ranking I would say this one was my favorite but it's also the only one I saw in the theater so that might have something to do with it.

 

[Wreck]

I loved it too. I went on opening day Imax ... would like to still check it out in DBOX tho but probably wont get a chance. Never experienced a dbox movie.

I still like Avengers just a bit more tho.

 

[adrenaline78]

Agree. I loved TDKR.. but also loved TDK.. So I don't think it matters where you rank em. 1a. 1b and 1c. You can't go wrong!

I also finally got around to hanging my TDKR IMAX poster.

DSC_0006 by adrenaline78

 

[cooey]

Very nice!

 

[CollectorEmtee]

This is how I imagine a proper film-making. Perfect trilogy. Can't wait to see TDKR again tonight.

Well done Mr. Nolan:

 

[Bluprint]

Just came across this email from Fandango:

Christopher Nolan Bids Farewell to the Batman Franchise in Must-Read Letter

http://www.fandango.com/movieblog/c...il&type=Newsletter&mailing=7.27.12 Newsletter

For people who cant follow the link, here is the letter:

Spoiler

In the foreword to The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy book, Nolan writes (via SuperheroHype):

"Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second -- how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out -- a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on -- destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third -- are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back -- a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental."

 

[RajLondon]

That is a fantastic letter! Need to find the link of that book now!

 

[ash333]

That is a fantastic letter! Need to find the link of that book now!

Here it is for Amazon.com - https://www.hidefninja.com/community/threads/21257/

But you can get one on Amazon.UK here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1419703692/?tag=hidefnin-21

Good luck!

And perhaps a little nod to what might be coming...

Spoiler

"Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will." - Christopher Nolan

 

[RajLondon]

Thanks Ash! Already have it in my basket ready to order tomorrow