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[Seditionary]

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The whole 18 wheeler chase is amazing...it's like industrial lighting. That looks like a city to me. The TDK seems to take place in a more up scale part of the city...The court rooms, the wayne penthouse, even the judge that gets blown up's house.

Hell, If you drive an hour in new york city it would look just as strange from one extreme to another.

 

[CelticPredator]

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Batman Begins looked better. One of the reasons why I like it more now. TDK's Gotham is Chicago. And that's it. No flair, no interesting look to it. Just plain ol' Chicago.

 

[EdwardNashton1]

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Batman Begins looked better. One of the reasons why I like it more now. TDK's Gotham is Chicago. And that's it. No flair, no interesting look to it. Just plain ol' Chicago.

Agreed. I missed the browns of BB. The blue is pretty lame.

Only one scene kind of got Gotham right. It's the street scene.

 

[Seditionary]

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Batman Begins looked better. One of the reasons why I like it more now. TDK's Gotham is Chicago. And that's it. No flair, no interesting look to it. Just plain ol' Chicago.

I can see what you mean, but maybe that is the point in a way..

I really enjoy the narrows in batman begins..those definitely look like how a bad part of Gotham should look..it's almost like a third world country or something. Very claustrophobic.

TDK is so much more spaced out...the commissioners funeral march, the warehouses harvey and rachel are in, the skeleton of a building the joker is in.

However, I much prefer the chicago-ness of TDK to the aerial shots of wayne tower and the skyscrapers during the train scenes in Batman Begins.

I'm not too familiar with chicago at all, so I'm not the best source...but I liked the believability of it being a real living, breathing city. Like I said, the whole scene where they try to move harvey...it looks like this is actually happening in a city. That's a feeling you can't get from like backlots and set designs. Theres definitely an inbetween ground that needs to be reached as far as gotham goes.

I think it'd be really cool to see the whole city come together a little more in the third. From some of the news, I'm guessing Nolan is definitely thinking about the scenery.

Really excited to see the cave and wayne manor again.

 

[ironwez20]

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where did they shoot the very first batman at ?

 

[devilof76]

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I think it'd be really cool to see the whole city come together a little more in the third. From some of the news, I'm guessing Nolan is definitely thinking about the scenery.

Yes. He's also planning to shoot in New Orleans and London.

It would have been nice to see an east coast city like New York, Boston or Philadelphia show up, but if he can make it feel like Gotham without using the kind of cities that inspired it in the first place, I'll be happy.

 

[Agent0028]

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I wonder if Bats will be going to New Orleans or London since he went to Hong Kong in the last one. I would prefer he stay in Gotham, but if Strange is the villain I can see him going to either of those places to dig up more about Strange's past. That does appeal to me in the sense that it will highlight Batman as a detective, which I feel Nolan hasn't really done yet.

 

[Sachiel]

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I don't think any locations have been totally confirmed right now. Except maybe the U.K. and Los Angeles.

New Orleans was supposedly dismissed. Detroit has popped up. Nothing is sure about Chicago.

Then there are other countries...

 

[intothevoid]

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I loved the blue tint of TDK - reminded me of Heat, which Nolan has mentioned many times as inspiration for TDK.

The Sepia tone suited Begins perfectly as well.

Wonder what the colour scheme will be this time?

 

[CelticPredator]

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I can see what you mean, but maybe that is the point in a way..

Really excited to see the cave and wayne manor again.

I'm talking more about the look of the city itself. It had the train running through, and had this really stylish look to it.

 

[The Mike]

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I loved the blue tint of TDK - reminded me of Heat, which Nolan has mentioned many times as inspiration for TDK.

The Sepia tone suited Begins perfectly as well.

Wonder what the colour scheme will be this time?

Since this is a redemption story I wonder if it'll be warmer tones like orange or red. The contrast of the second but keeping a connection in the color wheel to the first.

 

[Deckard]

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Heres what I loved about the contrast and the city, BB, all the crazies were released into the narrows with the toxin driving everyone a bit nuts. TDK, now you have the nicer part of Gotham thats not use to this kind of stuff and it's spilling over into that upper class part of the city with Batman to blame.

Escalation. Why shouldn't the nice parts of Gotham look like any other city, when your in the midst of those skyscrapers looking up, all cities feel a bit alike. And they all have housing followed by a slums area surrounding them usually closer to the idustrial/or dock parts of the city.

Also as for the train not appearing much in TDK, Bruce destroyed a large section of it and if I'm not mistaken the central transit hub? If Wayne Manor is still being rebuilt, why would the train get repaired so superfast?

 

[jye4ever]

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I like how in the TDK there was no mention of the fact that a train and train bridge collapsed into a high rise building.

 

[Deckard]

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I like how in the TDK there was no mention of the fact that a train and train bridge collapsed into a high rise building.

Or the fact that a police Lt. was the one who stole Batmans car to fire a rocket in order to destroy said train, highrise and save the city but wasn't under investigation himself unlike his cheating, gambling colleagues.

 

[The Mike]

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Oh all that was there it just ended before TDK started

I'm sure they'll be things left undone during TDKR from TDK as well.

 

[Seditionary]

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isn't it like 6 months after BB? I'd imagine I wouldn't really give a ____ about a crashed train 6 months later.

I like your reasoning Deckard...that makes sense to me.

Celtic, I just mean that batman begins is more stylized, and the dark knight has a bigger real city feel.

 

[jye4ever]

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isn't it like 6 months after BB? I'd imagine I wouldn't really give a ____ about a crashed train 6 months later.

I like your reasoning Deckard...that makes sense to me.

Celtic, I just mean that batman begins is more stylized, and the dark knight has a bigger real city feel.

It wasn't just a crashed train, it was one done by Batman and a cop.

You don't think that would be news 6 months later, not even worth a mention at least

 

[Agent0028]

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How the heck would anyone know Gordon is the one who fired the shots from the batmobile anyway? Anyway, how coudl they bring it up or mention it without it being an obvious throwback to the first movie? I imagine all that was still being talked about, it just didn't happen on screen because it wasn't pertinent to this plot.

 

[jye4ever]

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Oh all that was there it just ended before TDK started

I'm sure they'll be things left undone during TDKR from TDK as well.

Probably,

I'm guessing this time it will be that Hot Toys made a Batman that can hold just one pose, but what an outstanding pose it is

That one is worth forgetting.

 

[jye4ever]

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How the heck would anyone know Gordon is the one who fired the shots from the batmobile anyway? Anyway, how coudl they bring it up or mention it without it being an obvious throwback to the first movie? I imagine all that was still being talked about, it just didn't happen on screen because it wasn't pertinent to this plot.

The one witness who saw him do it

Not even Rachel mentions that she almost died of poison if not for Batman, nah...why bring that up.

She could've written a column about it in the Daily Planet....wait...wrong superhero, wrong damsel