Movie Morsels 76: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

So, this is verrrrrry belated but I couldn't just let this slip by without some degree of fanfare, however small. Of course, the trailer to The Dark Knight Rises look awesome and I can't wait to see it! Though, after reading through EW.com's dissection I'm ever-so-slightly concerned that my main bat may not survive the series and that would majorly bum me out. I would understand the death thematically but I feel like it would really make the whole thing end so morosely. I know that's TDK's 'thing' but I don't want my hot men to perish! Bah! I'm less attached to Christian since I found out he is a man-whore but still...



Here's the link to EW.com's dissection. I strongly recommend it as it points out a lot of probabilities and possibilities that hadn't occured to me. The Dark Knight Rises: Trailer Clues?

Movie Morsels 68: The Dark Knight Rises

According to the Huffington Post, the following is a scene from TDKR as recorded by a fan across the street. (I didn't even realize the movie was filming yet so I'm completely sad and out of the loop. Dang!)

Shot in Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, England -- the stand-in for Wayne Manor -- the blurry camera footage captures Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne confronting Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle. Rain (or, hose water) pours down as the two talk, and soon Kyle leads Wayne away. What it means, well, no one's quite sure. But at least we now know what Wayne Manor looks like from the front, and that Batman and Catwoman have a plain clothes confrontation.

I would have absolutely no idea what I was watching if I hadn't read it so I'm just going to take it on faith that that really is Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway. Can't say as that is the most interesting scene the fan could've caught but, hey, at least it's something! TDKR isn't slated to open til July 20, 2012 so we still have a bit of time to wait for the final product. With so many new peeps involved - Ra's al Ghul is back as well as Miranda Tate, John Blake, Bane and, of course, Selina Kyle - I'm reeeeeeally hoping the third film stays as tight as the other two...

A Robert Post (Kinda)

Robert sent me this photo on Monday and since he very rarely asks me to blog about anything in particular, I just had to share it with you all. Robert is the official tweet-er for RHI and, as part of the job, he subscribes to other companies' career Twitter pages. It was on Warner Brothers' page that he found this:

The world's coolest golf cart.

Apparently, some lucky WB employee duck gets to tool around Warner Brothers' 110 acre lot in this awesome little Batcart. I love the tires! Sadly, I'm sure not just any ol' WB schlub has the privelege to drive the cart... though I hear it's pretty easy to hotwire a golf cart. It'd be worth it.

Random Round-Up 11

Overthinkingit.com has a couple of articles on 'The Philosophy of Batman' that I thought were kind of interesting. Not fantastic or anything but definitely enjoyable reads. The first one breaks down the two dilemmas faced by our hero in the first and second movies: the trolley experiment and Prisoner's Dilemma, respectively. (Random side note: I had to do a ton of work with Prisoner's Dilemma as an Anthro major. A lot. In a nutshell, the best course of action is to confess.) The second article deals more with the psychology behind the back story put forth in Batman Begins. This article is not a quick read - 6 pages - and I confess I haven't read the entire thing yet. But the first page looks promising! ;o)

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I found this Brangelina entry from Gallery of the Absurd amusing. It's a long post but it's the comment excerpts that following the drawing that offer the most humor!

After reading blog comments under the announcement of the Jolie-Pitt Twins yesterday, I witnessed first hand the raving insanity of the frothing Brangeloonies. Similar to the Claymates in their blind devotion and ceaseless worship of famous people they don't even know, the Brangeloonies were out in full force yesterday practically declaring the birth of The Twins a national holiday and labeling anyone who dared to disagree as "haters" or "trolls". How very pre-school! A commenter might write something as innocent as "what's the big deal, so lots of babies were born that day" and within minutes a stomping crowd of torch bearing witch-hunters are at his throat. I found it perplexing, yet highly comical. Another curious trait of the Brangeloonie is the nearly unanimous vitriol aimed at Jennifer Aniston. Brad and Jen divorced 3 years ago, but in the snarling eyes of the Brangeloonie, somehow she's still an unwilling player. I collected some of the goodies from various blogs to share with you. And no, I did not make any of these up - they're all 100% real:

"I only want to celebrate and sing her praises. I have been down on my knees all morning, where I know she would want me to be, blessing this holy family. god bless the jolie-pitts!"

"OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG—– My life now has meaning. You guys, today is totally my birthday…. and my mom’s name is Vivian! (I know darling Vivienne is spelled differently, but still)This is the first thing I’ve been able to share with the blessed Jolie-Pitts. I am over the moon."

"The trolls are really losing it, they are dying of envy. I won’t even give a second of my time reading or posting about a person I don’t like. That’s the power of Angelina, they can’t get away from her."

"This is such exciting news and the lovely posts are a pleasure to read from you JP fans. Makes it easy to bypass the unhappy jealous hateful people who cant help but show their ugliness at such a blessed time. Nothing can take away our joy today."

"I’m really getting tired of being hated on just because I want people to be happy. Babies are a gift from God, especially from people as wonderful as Brad and Angie. All you Aniston (yuck) lovers out there are just jealous that he’s happy and successful now. I think she needs to adopt an Indian baby next or something even more exotic to add to the beauty that is their family. Maybe one from Romania?"

"I still think we should find a way to let Brangelina know that there are people out here who love them and want to wish them all the best… I wanna write a poem like some other people did but I’m not that smart. "

"By the crazy reaction from the haters, we know Jen Aniston is miserable and in pain right now. hehehe. Brad got really emotional as he cut the ambilical cords, awww. I couldn’t even imagine how thrilled they both are."

"This should be a day of celebration, yet everyone is just so MEAN. Why can’t the twins and the rest of the Jolie-Pitts have at least ONE nice day without so many people trying to ruin it? She just had TWINS for crying out loud. Angelina is such a beautiful matyr; I wish I could be more like her. Sure, she’s kinda shunning America, but I still luv, luv, LUV her!!! Anyone else want to start a petition to wish them the best luck in the world?"

The Brangeloonie Shrine is available exclusively at Babies R Us and Wal-Mart, but hurry, supplies are limited and rioting has already begun.

Movie Morsels 11 - The Dark Knight

I don't know if I should really categorize this under 'Movie Morsels' but... too late, I guess, because I did. Anyway, Empire (a British film magazine) has just released their July issue all about TDK. Seeing as none of us are going to rush right out and snatch the issue off the stands (most likely because we can't find it) I thought I'd provide the scans of the article. It doesn't tell you anything you don't already know, really, but I'm super excited about TDK and am reading whatever I can get my hands (or eyes) on.

[All images courtesy of christian-bale.org - there are 11 individual images and, as always, you need to click on each one to make it big enough to read.]

Movie Morsels 02 - Indiana Jones & The Dark Knight

Robert and I planned on seeing Iron Man this past weekend but didn't get a chance to do so. We are going next weekend but still... I'm bummed! Turns out the new trailers for Indy and Batman were shown before the flick and they look pretty good (if you want to save you viewing for the big screen, you can skip the rest of the post):

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Dark Knight

"Why So Similar?"

Whoa! I came across this at Defamer.com and it's pretty interesting how similar the trailers really are. I don't know if CollegeHumor.com did any editing of their own, but I don't think we're supposed to think so. Regardless, I agree with Defamer:

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight—the hotly anticipated, second chapter of his radical re-envisioning of the Batman franchise for Warner Bros.—might be less of a radical re-envisioning than we might have been led to believe. Frankly, they could prove the entire thing was lifted frame-by-frame from an NYU film school thesis project, we wouldn't be any less excited about it. Dark Knight! Whooo! Movie of the summer!

UPDATE: Dang. According to Gawker.com "College Humor asked why these two previews were so similar — it appears to be because someone remixed the original movie to resemble the new trailer. So really, this is one trailer, plus one pseudo-trailer." LAME! Of course, Gawker offers no links or proof of this statement so it could be false in and of itself but the trailers are waaaaay to similar for me to think they're both 100% authentic.