First… we brought you… THE POSTER.
Then…! We brought you… THE TEASER TRAILER.
Which…! told you nothing about The Dark Knight Rises and was basically just the animated version of the poster, and you were all, “Oh…! That’s it, I guess.”
Now…! In a woooorrrrld! Where you are excited whenever Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in anything, but you still wish this trailer would tell you what he is doing in a Batman movie,
…and…! The only way to survive a Stadium Terrorism Attack is by scoring a touchdown.
In…! The disappointing conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Batman trailers:
This Particular Trailer is Not as Exciting or Inspiring as I Remember the Other Trailers as Being.
(Coming soon to laptops near you.)
(In fact, you can just press ‘play’ on the video.)
Stumbling upon this, I don’t normally subscribe to flamebait, but I really have to wonder… are we watching the same trailer?
You describe the teaser, and I gather the trailer as revealing nothing engaging pertaining to the story, but on the contrary, I’m a little worried, especially with the later, that it showed too much. Without writing a whole synopsis, it appears to have laid out most of the major story beats, albeit somewhat out of order, but it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out how this is going to go down. Even the teaser laid out some pretty significant plot points… though for anyone with any knowledge of the comics, the idea that Bane would beat the crap out of Batman was pretty much a given.
I certainly wish it could have showed more, but I don’t think I would have been satisfied unless I was able to see the whole film. I’m all for constructive criticism, constructive being the key word. The inclusion of Levitt, and Bane setting off some kind of weapon in a stadium? That’s really all you got from this? I kind of thought the idea of the city breaking into a civil war, the fall of the heroes, and the social/political theme were far more engaging. Then again, you can’t please everyone.
I have to agree. I loved the trailer and anyone who has any knowledge of The Dark Knight series of graphic novels seems to feel the same.
I’m all for comic book movies reaching new audiences that they may never have had before but it really irks me when people that haven’t read the comics/graphic novels pick apart something like this. Nolan has done an exemplary job of portraying one of the most popular story arc’s in Batman’s history and this trailer has just solidified in my mind that he will continue to do the series justice with this conclusion.
In other words, read some more comics, then talk to me.
My job is to have fun so that you, too, can have fun with my fun. Sorry you aren’t having fun.
It didn’t have any barbies or pretty little miniature ponies.lol
I HAVE NEVER POSTED A PICTURE OF A PONY OK
Huh.
Well, I LOVE Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And I *so* love Batman. And the fact that the DC animated films from the last decade have been consistently better than any of their live-action films probably has more to do with the absurdly high quality of the DC animated universe writing than it does with any shortcoming of this particular Batman trilogy.
I LOVE Catwoman. I love her as a crusader for animal rights and animal sanctuaries, I love her as an antihero, and I love her as a thief — even though I do not approve of stealing. That said, the social message that she seems to want to convey makes me uneasy (while I’m SO not right-wing, I would also never seek to vilify someone simply for being wealthy).
The only real comment that I have about the whole Bane/terrorism angle is that it’s basically impossible to be upset about a terrorist attack on a (non-school) football field. I just lack the capacity to care about whether or not football players live or die, and part of that is because they are adult men, and part of that is because they are playing sports. If they don’t want Bane to be a sympathetic character, they’re going to have to make him do something that’s actually bad. But I’m sure that they will.
Wait, are the bad guys the Occupy Wall Street protesters? =)