Re: The Dark Knight Rises
The rest is mediocre to me. I still don't feel comfortable with the whole Heinz field/Steelers crap, even after I gave it a chance with this trailer. It's not about the special effects it's just the fact that it's included.
The kvetching about this scene is bemusing to me. One of my absolute favorite moments from "Superman Returns" is the scene where Supes saves a plane full of people - on a baseball diamond, in front of a stunned/cheering crowd. It doesn't get more Americana than that, this might as well have been painted by Norman Rockwell. Mom, apple pie, and a quintessentially just (to the point of being naive) American comic icon saving the day. That one scene almost makes the entire film worthwhile. The football scene from TDKR seems like the flip side of that coin. Batman is about the dark side of the human soul, the rot and corruption - the great lie of it all, with a misunderstood, shadowy figure as the only savior. Seems fitting that the guy running a terrorist organization, who wants to strike out at the ills of modern life and "level the playing field" would - literally - level the playing field. Imagine if, in reality, terrorists wanted to simply get everyone's attention by blowing up the Superbowl...and then announced that the real fun is yet to come. The reaction would be shock, horror, abject panic.
I also dislike the "theme" of the film. It feels very liberal too me. The whole "robin hood" message that the trailer is trying to get across about how the rich are bad and the poor will rise isn't my cup of tea. When I think BATMAN I don't think anti-capitalism. I fully expect this film to be preachy and frankly, that's not something I want to see.
Huh? That's what you got out of that trailer? That's not the "theme" of the film, that's the motivation for Selina Kyle's character. She wouldn't make a very good cat burglar if she felt bad for the rich, now would she? Saying that her take on things indicates that this will be a preachy, anti-capitalist film is a little like saying that "Inglorious Basterds" is anti-Semitic because it has Nazis in it. Of course, there's the League of Shadows angle as well, but they seem to get their panties in a bunch over any one (corrupt?) group having too much power over another, not specifically capitalism, per se. It'll actually be interesting to see how the dynamics of Wayne/Batman and Kyle plays out.
I was hoping this film would delve deeper into the psyche of Bruce Wayne and Batman, not focus on his need to be involved with philanthropy and "giving back to the people".
We've had two films worth of that and I'm sure this film will be no different. I'm also pretty sure it'll probably take itself a little too seriously, just like the other flicks...
Oh, and it's
Kyle who steals from the rich and - gives back to no one. Wayne IS rich.
Just with the end of TDK and the start of this teaser it's like they're trying to move away from Batman and make the character look like a literal bad guy.
We (the audience) know better. Isn't that enough?
Why can't Batman, you know, like being Batman?
Like any good cop, he's trying to work himself out of a job. No crime = no need for Batman/cops. And like any good cop, he knows that will
never happen. He will
always have to fight sociopaths on the magnitude of Scarecrow, the Joker, et al, and they will always have innocent victims, despite his best efforts. He will never have a "normal" life, he will always need to be Batman, despite whatever 'selfish' desire he may have for things to be otherwise. That's a pretty big burden, and a pretty sophisticated take on the character.
The character has always been obsessed with this war on crime why does Bruce Wayne constantly view it as being a burden and something that should be temporary? I thought Begins established that "Bruce Wayne" was his mask?
See above.
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