Comments on: New DARK KNIGHT poster

by: Steve Taylor

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:54:55 +0000

Bravo.
I hope you are right Bill.

by: Bill

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:19:47 +0000

I thought Batman Begins was rather on target for telling the beginnings of Batman’s crime fighting career. Despite all of his training, there was no way for him to be a well-honed detective at that point in time. It took a while for those skills to develop. He was a raw nerve, screaming out for vengence, and I considered that to be the point.

Hopefully this film will feature a more grown-up, more ready Batman, able to out-think everyone, except of course for the insane homicidal clown. If it is loosely based around The Killing Joke, well I don’t expect it to be anywhere near as good as that story, but if they make an effort, I think I shall be entertained.

by: rich

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:27 +0000

Batman is now a practitioner of the flaming logo. The Mask of Zorro and Daredevil come to mind.

by: Steve Taylor

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:16:20 +0000

It’s a reference to the old ABC Batman series.

by: pulphope

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:51:41 +0000

Umm, I’d be willing to bet my set of solid gold bat-a-rangs that the terrorist/9-11 reference was intentional.

Interesting BAT BIKE design in this film, I think…

by: Bully

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:07:45 +0000

Hey, what’s wrong with kissing a cow?

Seriously, folks…in the words of Ham Salad from Hardware Wars: “Take it easy, kid, it’s only a movie.”

by: Steve Taylor

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:53:38 +0000

“Each to his own,…said the woman as she kissed her cow.”

by: IagreeSteveHasnoTaste

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:37:00 +0000

see name as well.

by: steveHasnoTaste

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:32:38 +0000

See name.

by: Steve Taylor

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:26:33 +0000

Batman Begins was a dismal, dumb, film with not a lick of art to it.
Mechanical, hackneyed, depressing and physically difficult to watch.
Christian Bale’s over the top performance as the caped crusader had nothing of the character in it. More of an armored ninja and nary a hint of the acrobatic detective. Serviceable performances by great actors. A hopeless, claustrophobic affair.
This looks to be more of the same,…in spades.
I’m still waiting for someone to make a Batman movie.

by: goddamn b

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:19:30 +0000

Why so serious?

by: Peter's Parker

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:19:11 +0000

Holy crap — someone was just killed by a Great White Shark off the coast of Solana Beach - we need to pull JAWS out of circulation!! Too soon!!

by: Vichus Smith

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:41:07 +0000

I’m trying to come up with a word for awesome in a whole new language.

by: Adam

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:49:33 +0000

That is awesome.

by: The Dane

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:09:25 +0000

The Dark Knight is obviously the sequel to Office Space. The board of Wayne Enterprises put Bruce in the basement and took his stapler.

by: Patrick Dean

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:35:49 +0000

It makes it look like Batman got the ass and blew up an office building himself. A friend suggested that this poster depicts where Batman blows up The Joker’s office, destroying his laptop and many expensive desks in the process.

by: Über Alice

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:16:55 +0000

Dammit, I never get the memo telling me what we’re all supposed to be offended by today. I only just got upset about that Mary Jane statue with the laundry, and now this. I’m always the last to know.

by: Pedro Tejeda

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:36:02 +0000

Sigh, as a native new yorker and someone who knew people in tower 1 it’s upsetting to here that people are alluding that this is supposed to be like 9/11.

There is no building being blown up. It’s on fire. If it looks like anything, it looks more like the scene in fight club where the eyes were on fire.

by: Scott Koblish

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:12:49 +0000

It’s probably the announcement of Warner Brother’s new branding campaign. They will be smashing bat-holes into buildings across the U.S.

Imagine that image as a comic book cover and image the crap DC would get.

Have it come out of the 200 million dollar marketing department of Warner Brothers though, and they’re geniuses!

by: Torsten Adair

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:12:44 +0000

Oh, you didn’t think of the B-25 that crashed into the Empire State Building?

Of COURSE you’re supposed to think of the World Trade Center! The Joker is a terrorist. Biggest terrorist act = WTC.

And pop culture fans will recall that before 9/11, buildings getting blown up was No Big Deal. (al Qaeda most likely got the idea from Tom Clancy.) I even remember a Batman Adventures annual where a building is destroyed on the first page, not too long after Oklahoma City, and wondering if anyone would complain. (The greatest failure, the Emperor Has No Clothes moment, was when the Marvel superheroes go help at Ground Zero, but nobody mentions all of the other destruction which has been a continual part of the Marvel Universe. If Doctor Doom can destroy the Baxter Building in Midtown Manhattan, wouldn’t the government have plans to prevent other acts of terror? And WTF was Dr. Doom doing at Ground Zero? Now that’s gall!)

Parsing the image above, I suspect that the Joker installed explosive charges on the surface to get that exact shape. Or it’s just Warners creating an iconographic image to get your attention, and maybe stir up the bloggers bees nest.

Remember, the Joker is a mentally disturbed individual who enjoys killing people, and who enjoys making a spectacle of himself while doing it. Kinda like that kid who was bombing rural mail boxes so that the resulting map would make a giant smiley face.

My favorite remains the Joker/Batman smiley face, which riffs on the old Burton Batman logo looking like a mouth. I think a lot of moviegoers, not having thought about the Joker past Nicholson, will be shocked at this version. I hope parents will be careful with their kids. And I think the above poster is a means to warn everyone that this version is darker.