A new poster for The Dark Knight Rises, and trailers for The Flowers of War, Men in Black and GI Joe Retaliation
The Dark Knight Rises
There’s a new poster for The Dark Knight Rises, and it’s pretty sweet. I’ll take you through all the awesome. First, Bane looks like a badass. Second, it reminds me of what made Bane famous, as there’s a BROKEN Batman mask, and Bane BROKE Batman’s back. So that’s cool.
Also, there’s rain.
Fine. It isn’t all that great, but it’s pretty cool, and it gives me hope that there’s going to be a new trailer soon, and that shit should be friggin’ awesome.
Oh, also director Chris Nolan did a little opening up about the film, and he had to say…
“I didn’t know him very well,” says Nolan of the comic book iteration of Bane. “David Goyer got me a bunch of stuff on him and we looked into him. I only knew him by name, I wasn’t familiar with his back story. He’s a very cool character. And getting an actor like Tom to take it on, you know you’re going to get something very special. Tom is somebody who really knows how to put character into every gesture, every aspect of his physicality in the way that great actors can… With Bane, the physicality is the thing. With a good villain you need an archetype, you know, you need the extreme of some type of villainy. The Joker is obviously a particular archetype of diabolical, chaotic anarchy and has a devilish sense of humor. Bane, to me, is something we haven’t dealt with in the films. We wanted to do something very different in this film. He’s a primarily physical villain, he’s a classic movie monster in a way — but with a terrific brain. I think he’s a fascinating character. I think people are going to get a kick out of what we’ve done with him.”
“It will make a lot more sense to people when they see the film,” Nolan explains. “But it’s not a great mystery — it’s the jumping-off point for the film — but it’s hard for me to articulate it. I think the mood at the beginning of the film will make a lot of sense. If I had to express it thematically, I think what we’re saying is that for Batman and Commissioner Gordon, there’s a big sacrifice, a big compromise, at the end of the ‘The Dark Knight’ and for that to mean something, that sacrifice has to work and Gotham has to get better in a sense. They have to achieve something for the ending of that film — and the feeling at the end of that film — to have validity. Their sacrifice has to have meaning and it takes time to establish that and to show that, and that’s the primary reason we did that. It’s a time period that is not so far ahead that we would have to do crazy makeup or anything — which I think would be distracting — but it gave them something to get their teeth into, particularly Christian in terms of [portraying] this guy who has been frozen in this moment in time with nowhere to go. He really has done an incredible job figuring out how to characterize that and express that.”
So Batman is going to be full of depth and pain and… stuff, and Bane is going to be awesome. I just came in my shorts and started farting.
Perfect reaction!
The Flowers of War
So today is apparently Christian Bale today, because there’s a new trailer for The Flowers of War. And Batman kicks way less asskicking in this than he’ll do in The Dark Knight Rises.
Men in Black 3
I think they should make another Men in Black, but with only one agent, and it’s called Man in Black. The whole soundtrack can be Johnny Cash songs.
But back to THIS installment of Men in Black, there’s a new trailer, and it really showcases how Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin look alike, but they dubbed over Tommy Lee Jones’ voice, which I hope they do for the rest of the film, as it would rock my balls.
And be terrible. Never forget how terrible it would be.
GI Joe: Retailiation
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but there’s a new trailer for GI Joe: Retaliation, and it actually looks… decent. Granted, it looks like a Rock movie, and Channing Tatum is barely in it, but it doesn’t look like a total turd. I’m less surprised that Bruce Willis did this now.
