Remember how disappointing that last Dark Knight Rises poster was? It seems like ages ago (almost a full 24 hours) but thankfully Warner Brothers is doing their best to wash the taste out of our mouths with these three character posters via Cinema Blend (a few more posters at the link). It creeps me out that I can’t see Catwoman’s eyes. She’s looking right at me. Staring into my soul, even. A few bonus thoughts below the images:
This campaign has been far removed from the excitement that WB generated back in 2008 for The Dark Knight. On one hand, this movie’s audience is built in. But I don’t think it’d hurt the studio to put up a stronger front. Regardless of quality, it’ll be hard for this film to make the bank of its predecessor. Especially with The Avengers shifting the paradigm towards lighter superhero fare. Still, I love me some Batman. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than seeing Nolan and Co. knock this out of the park, regardless of a pretty poor marketing effort.
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The Bane one looks good.
No Michael Caine or Morgan Freeman posters?
Why such a cynical tone with the Dark Knight Rises?
I’m not being cynical! I want a badass poster of Alfred walking in the rain.
It’s not good for Alfred’s arthritis.
I wouldn’t agree that the Avengers ‘shifts the paradigm towards lighter superhero fare’. The Avengers is great, don’t get me wrong, but all it did was show that there’s room for BOTH – bright colourful superhero films (which suits the source material which the Avengers is derived from) and the darker stuff like the Nolan Batman films. I think they complement each other well, and it’s nice to know now that not every single superhero film has to be dark and full of angst.
Nonetheless, I’d still rather have Batman films done in this style than to go back to bright and bold – they tried that before, didn’t work.
Are you fucking nuts?? First of all, TDKR will absolutely make as much if not more than TDK. How anyone could think differently is hilarious to me… Also, the Avengers are SHIT compared to Batman and have a fraction of the fan base.
Umm, their fan base just grew by quite a friggin’ lot.
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