All my greatest hopes have been confirmed … A Joker to truly fear.

i am afraid the joker will take more running time than batman, just like last time they were both in a movie

Matteo

I’m moreso super excited than before for this flick. I hope Two-face has got the goods in it too!

Should be interesting to see how they make a mentally + physically scarred man with knives + a gun a threat to the Batman.

This looks incredible! When I saw Batman Begins it was everything I wanted to see from a new a Batman franchise, and this continues the awesomeness!

I really cant get past the ridiculous bat-suit (armour) but I’m still gonna see the movie

Yes this movie will rock

for three reason
the new Batsuit he finally looks like batman and not some Gothic dude
The batpod look better then the ridiculous battank
The Joker rocks

Does Judge Dredd know that Batman nicked his bike?

They had me with Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Actually, I’m not a Batman fan and wasn’t psyched to see this but Ledger has sold me on seeing it theatrically.

After I see Hellboy II at least twice anyway

Whoah. I guess Im the only one that thinks this looks absolulty terrible. This with the footage from the first six min,( see youtube) makes feel very unsure about this movie.

Comment by Senor Swankypants — December 17, 2007 @ 8:37 am
I guess so. I’m really excited to see this movie, it hits the day before my Birthday.

Batman Begins was an almost perfect movie. The Dark Knight will even be better. No doubt in my mind. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, however anyone who doubts Chris Nolan (who has yet to make a wrong move) and Christian Bale (who has yet to fail in any performance) is just insane.

I can’t get past the feeling that Ledger looks more like The Crow than The Joker. I’ll see it, but like Batman Begins, I’m not getting a great vibe. If BB was a franchise reboot, why was he wearing body armor and Gotham City getting rocked by huge explosions at the end? Seemed a lot like the last four to me, minus some crap.

Comment by Senor Wullie — December 17, 2007 @ 8:49 am
Considering that the look of the Crow was inspired by the Joker rather than the other way around. It’s an action movie, things blow up in action movies.

It looks great. To all these geniuses who want Batman to wear gray tights instead of his black suit, please, go read a comic book. Gray leotards would make this look like a JOKE…or the TV show from the 60’s, which is sure to pack em in…not. Love the tank. Love the look of the bike. To those who don’t, take your hard earned money down to blockbuster, and go watch Burton’s and Schumacher’s crap fests.

“… not.” Whoah, people are still using that? I thought Borat killed it off.

ou don’t seriously think I was implying that this version of the Joker was inspired by The Crow, do you? Place a picture of the Brian Bolland Joker (as an example – seems like a classic depiction) next to Brandon Lee as The Crow, then dig out a Ledger Joker pic. If you see it as being more like Bolland’s Joker I must have on the wrong glasses. Regarding all the explosions, my comment was that for a highly touted franchise reboot, it feels a lot like the previous incarnation. Nothing to do with explosions in action movies, old son.

I think you’re making assumptions about a movie based on a single trailer. As far as you feeling like it’s like the previous series of films, it’s superficial because frankly, It’s a Batman movie. They feel like Batman movies If it didn’t it wouldn’t be Batman would it?
And I wouldn’t compare ledgers look to the Bolland Joker. I would however compare him to the origimnal Bob Kane, or the Jerry Robinson version or Batman the animated series.

Hey, let’s face it. If people didn’t make assumptions based on the trailer, we wouldn’t get HALF as much entertainment out of the internet as we do.

With Iron Man and the Dark Knight coming, 2008 is going to rock.

Just as a heads up to what might be misleading about the tag line on the main page — This is not the trailer that was shown at “I am Legend.”

I’m glad I’m seeing a lot of awesome looking footage. But if you haven’t seen it, try and track down the other trailer, because you get a legitimate full scene from the movie.

My Birthday week. Oh Yes! July 18th, come on baby!!!

Superhero movies this summer are just going to be stepping stones to The Dark Knight.

The suit doesn’t make the movie guys, neither does the bat-cycle, and neither does batmobile – get over the comic, this is the movie version of Batman, there those of us who want to see something new. Christopher Nolan is trying to show how a comic book character could actually work in “real” life by actually making some of these weapons and suits. That’s what I love about this new take. And I’ll be in line for the IMAX Dark Knight, gonna blow my mind for sure since i’ve watched the trailer like 30 times already…

“Batman Begins” was as close to a perfect superhero movie as you can get, and “The Dark Knight” looks to be even better. I’m eminently satisfied with Ledger’s Joker at this point, and as for the Batsuit–let’s be real. Anyone going out there and doing what Bruce Wayne is doing would armor themselves up to the nines. I know it’ll never happen, but it would make my day to see the comics Batman ditch the tights and roll out the armored Batsuit full time.

I think the batsuit having an armor-like appearance in pretty much all the modern day bat films has been an excellent choice as oppose to the whole “kevlar-woven” spandex of the comics. It supports a more realistic take on what a mortal man would do if he were to fight crime – you don’t see SWAT teams dressed in black spandex after all.

Also,everything in these batman films seems to have more of a purpose rather than a showy,drama to it – we’ve already got Batman films with flair and dramatic gothic style – now this take shows a “truer” batman if he were to actually exist. If Nolan just re-did the look and feel of Burton’s films, then he’d be getting more anger directed his way for being a ripoff.

And Ledger’s Joker gives me some promise because his voice is pretty great for it (something I just couldnt see happening at first) and he plays the character with brutality and flair – which plays in stark contrast to this version of Batman. The only problem with this Joker is like what some have stated, the look is very “crow”ish and I personally would like to see some kind of fight built in that would make that white make-up adhere to his skin permanently. I don’t like the fact that his complete origin is pretty much changed, BUT if they can work something in during the course of the film then that’d be pretty awesome. Just my two cents….although I think it reads more like $3.50…haha

everyone’s entitled to their own opinion – but if you already hated batman begins..why bother to come here and complain about how you hate the dark knight movie? if you love the burton films then that’s awesome and good for you, i like those too – but if you just want to come in here to spew about how much you hate a movie that hasn’t even been fully released yet, then i think that speaks a lot louder than your complaints even do. close-mindedness is honestly what keeps any form of entertainment and creative expression from growing. stagnation is the death of creativity!

Looks much better than the terrible Iron Man movie. Marvel seems to fill all their superhero movies with unnecessary cheese(Fantastic 4, Ghostrider)

i thought the trailer looked crap, the joker looks like a lame beetlejuice he didn’t look scary and the explosions looked cheap in fact for a blockbuster the trailer looked cheap to me ,so i’m not excited to see dark knight…which is sad as i love the batman…oh well

“This is like a run of the mill action flick with batman innit. I never understand why they try to make an already far fetched, typically comic-bookish idea more ‘realistic’ with that morgan freeman weapons lab crap. I grew up on the nicholson joker and thats my view on how the joker and a batman flick should be so i’m disappointed like i was with BB.

Comment by More of the same old crap — December 17, 2007 @ 11:42 am ”

Man, I almost died laughing after reading this. A comment by “More of the same old crap”!!! Is that why you didn’t like BB? Because you prefer “more of the same old crap”? I just hope you’re not referring to the previous series, mainly the Schumacher ones. If that’s the case, go home and watch those atrocities with your Batsuit with nipple on.

Yeah i agree with you it’s look like CRAP! Bring back Tim Burton.

I’m excited about the film, but I’m trying to remain cautiously optimistic. It’s great that thaey put Maggie Gyllenhaal in the the trailer(she’s cute).It looked like Batman was beating The Joker after he (Batman) asked, “where is he?”

rant then the anti-rant, more ranting and snarky retorts.

I think I’ll just reserve my full judgment until I see the film. Any initial opinion on the film based on a trailer is going to warrant extremes in views from one side to the other, especially considering the expectations involved.

Not to say I don’t have an opinion of the trailer, but I seen some good parts and some questionably bad parts, but overall I remain interested.

Sorry guys, but I am not feelling the Joker… he looks like a homeless clown, who hasn´t taken a bath for some time and that is angry…. but definetly not scary, not twisted, and he doesn´t seem to have that dark humor edge that made Tim Burton´s Joker so scary… definetly not the Joker…. no one can beat Jack Nicholson…. This director makes his movies devoided of emotion, he lacks that edge, his movies are well crafted, well presented, everything is so well done…. but flat and emotionless… and batman has got to be…like 300, that you leave the theatre shaking from the thrill.

All it is is a bunch of explosions and one liners and “look we have a Joker!” preview. Batman Begins wasnt all that and was seriously hurt by the pointly 5 minute car chase with the terribly looking batmobile and it looks like from this preview this film flop will have two chase sequences. Action may look cool, explosions may be fun, one liners are a hoot, but thas has yet to show it has more plot or acting then Battlefield Earth. Dont hate the film till you see it, dont love the film till you see it. So stop giving Nolan and Christian “Worst Batman Ever” Bale oral gratification for this movie until its been seen.

All it is is a bunch of explosions and one liners and “look we have a Joker!” preview. Batman Begins wasnt all that and was seriously hurt by the pointly 5 minute car chase with the terribly looking batmobile and it looks like from this preview this film flop will have two chase sequences. Action may look cool, explosions may be fun, one liners are a hoot, but thas has yet to show it has more plot or acting then Battlefield Earth. Dont hate the film till you see it, dont love the film till you see it. So stop giving Nolan and Christian “Worst Batman Ever” Bale oral gratification for this movie until its been seen.

Comment by ViperOne Two — December 18, 2007

You are really, really dumb. Like mind breakingly, vomit inducingly stupid. You know that, right? I hope so.

I’m amused at the amount of “this is crap” reaction TDK is getting.

I’m old enough to remember when Tim Burton’s movies were out and a whole bunch of people said they were crap. So the studios turned around and allowed the 3rd and 4th movies to be made by somebody else in a dramatically different style. And then another whole bunch of people said those were crap. And now another bunch of people are saying these 2 newest are a bunch of crap.

And yet, all these movie a ton of money…

…am I the only one seeing a pattern here?

And we’re done here … geez. Once again, we aren’t here so you can insult each other.