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Emperor Morphetine · Oscar Winner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 1781

I saw a trailer for this at the cinema today and it actually looks really good ( all the others were rubbish!). Unusually it didn't look like it would give away the best bits of the plot, as most trailers do. The first thing that really struck me was how creepy Heath Ledger looks as The Joker- he just seems even more psychotic than the likes of Jack Nicholson were when they played him, and he looks slightly different too, a bit scruffier. Don't ask me how but I even saw a passing resemblance to Kurt Cobain from Nirvana!

From what I saw it looks like the Batsuit's been modified slightly as well, though I could be wrong. And Harvey Dent is in a few clips as well which is rather interesting, as if I remember rightly he somehow goes on to become Two-Face, but in this he looks relatively normal.

Katie Holmes is back as well as Rachel, after seemingly hiding in Tom Cruise's odd shadow for a while. Think I might have to see this- I enjoyed 'Batman Begins' and the Joker's bound to make a great villain ( and possibly scare scores of kids if its a 12A!)

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

It looks great mate doesn't it> ... You should check out some of the other threads down below and in the SCI-FI section I have a couple of trailers and pics up from this aswell as the the first six/seven minutes of the film which they released a while back

I'm really looking forward to this movie

and yeah Ledger looks class and is said to give a magnificent performance as the Joker and yep Harvey Dent goes on to become Two Face (I think it happens at the end of this one for the third film)

Oh and I'm afraid Katie Holmes is still hiding behind Cruise

because she's not back in this movie ..they have replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhall now starring as Rachel ...which I think is a good choice too
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Emperor Morphetine · Oscar Winner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 1781

It all looks a hell of a lot darker than previous Batman movies which could make it quite interesting. Bruce Wayne must become more burdened by his superhero status, plus there's a psychotic, sadistic clownlike figure as villain which I think will be great, I always thought he was one of the better adversaries- He's completely mad, and the laughing gas he uses really spooked me when I first saw it in use.

Its certainly a far cry from the Adam West TV series...
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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

The burdening of Wayne/Batman is very much in keeping with many of the DC comics as they quite alot went with the idea thatr Batman himself may have actually have encouraged villains to be worse and in a sense create the super villain in Gotham

I concur too Bud the Clowned Prince really was the best adversry and my favourite too...and you know even though Jack Nicholson put in a great performance as the Joker I did feel there was something lacking there and that was the scary pyschotic parts that I always associate with the character ....by the look of it Ledger will be more like this which really gives a real edge now

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Emperor Morphetine · Oscar Winner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 1781

Yeah, he's really used his own troubles to inform his portrayal of the Joker by the looks of things.
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6149

You can see Christian Bale in the new Batsuit in a Body by Milk ad........and see The Dark Knight trailer here:

http://www.bodybymilk.com/batman

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

Actually the Batsuit looks good doesn't it??
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lord vader · Site Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3143 Location: scotland

aye it does look impressive
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6149

Yeah it looks very cool and the DK trailer with Heath Ledger is excellent too

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

Yep I love the trailer aswell I really like the clapping of the Joker's hands bit

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