People who block me are soimply asswipes that can't take the heat, like Chippy and pretty much the rest of yu as well.. Your just pissed cause you know everything I've said is true and that TDKR is going to suck huge balls and get killed by Disney next summer..



WB's tentpole movie is going to get clobbered HARD..

Ahem.....

They should have the theatre sell 200 or so tickets. Then it will be "sold out." Create a sense of feverish demand. Then put the leftover tickets on StubHub for 3-4x the face.

Warner Bros. Says There Is "No Truth" To The New Audio Mix For THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

If you were hoping that the rumor that surfaced yesterday was true, then bad news... It seems that Warner Bros. is saying that nothing has changed as far as Bane's voice goes. Check it out...
WolvieCBM - 1/3/2012

Well, that was fast. Yesterday, it was reported that Warner Brothers have changed (cleaned up) the audio for The Dark Knight Rises IMAX prologue, so people could understand Bane in the film, since there were many complaints about that. And now it seems that is not true after all.


From The New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff (via The Playlist):

"Warner Bros. says "no truth" to reports of new Dark Knight Rises prologue trailers going out with fixed Bane audio."

Published January 03, 2012 by Devin Faraci

National Unrest Intensifies As BaneGate Rages On


The war over Bane's dialogue gets more intense amid reports that the IMAX prologue has been remixed.




Is Bane understandable or not? America must know! And if Bane isn't understandable, we must know who at Warner Bros knew it, and when they found out. We need Congressional inquiries!

The first order of business: is Warner Bros lying about fixing the Bane audio in the IMAX The Dark Knight Rises prologue? Reports are surfacing that now Bane is actually comprehensible. The Woodwards and Bernsteins at Collider have a source that tells them a new soundtrack has been sent out to IMAX projectionists, with the background plane noise reduced. So while Bane's voice hasn't been touched, the mix has been changed to bring him to the fore, which the projectionist says makes him 40% more understandable. That's a scientific measurement.

But Warner Bros flat out denies it, despite Collider having a printed piece of paper that says "Dear IMAX Projectionist" and details how to use the new disc with the new mix.

If Christopher Nolan does change the mix, where does that leave the Batjihadists who were adamant - militantly adamant! - that Bane was perfectly understandable all along? Is their leader admitting fault? This could lead to a wave of suicide bombings by grown men tearfully clutching Hot Toys Joker figures (probably the Joker as Cop one, it's so real looking!).

I think the fire is rising. FUCK! What if this was Bane's plan all along...

It's going to be the BEST DAMN MOVIE SINCE TDK!

Bullshit, doesnt matter if warner, nolan, or a bitch ordered to change the audio, the film will be a beast

actually, what Bane said on the trailer was pretty understandable

WHEN GOTHAM IS ASHES, YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO DIE

keep it up BKB and enjoy it all cause come July you'll be one sad internet fanboy/troll.
first when it blows past every movie on opening weekend and then again in August when it passes your beloved Avengers total boxoffice.

Published January 06, 2012 by Devin Faraci

BaneGate Update: Website Humbled, Audio Unchanged?


We're through the looking glass here, gentlemen.




I just got an email from Warner Bros directing me to Collider, the site that broke the 'They changed the audio mix on the Dark Knight Rises prologue' story which burned up the internet earlier this week. It turns out that Collider has redacted their story and claimed full responsibility for the error.

You can read Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub's mea culpa right here.

Does Bane hold Steve's loved ones hostage? Has he been forced at muffled maskpoint to make this correction? Or is this the actual truth, and was Collider's piece of paper with a letter to IMAX projectionists a terrible hoax?

The funny thing is how little of this matters. I've been covering this stuff with a lot of snark because it's really funny, and it's fascinating to see what a PR headache this has become for Warner Bros. The Dark Knight Rises is a slam dunk movie, and will almost certainly be the #1 film of 2012; they didn't really need to do this preview at all. I suspect they did it because NOT doing it might be seen as a sign of a lack of faith; in many ways they're repiicating the hugely successful campaign for The Dark Knight. They showed the preview last time, so they're showing the preview this time.

I think this highlights the danger of early footage presentations. Out of context, possibly unfinished (films get tweaked right up to release) segments of movies make effective marketing tools, but can muddy the waters in other ways. Right now the waters are as muddied as Bane's dialogue (rim shot!), and so Warner Bros is dealing with a nerd discourse that is less 'How awesome is this!' and more 'Let's fight about comprehensibility.' Unfortunately the reach of nerd debates is bigger than ever; the Bane stuff has been covered on lots and lots of more mainstream sites. This isn't what Warner Bros wanted people talking about.

What I believe will stick with me about this whole thing (and we're totally gonna forget about it once The Dark Knight Rises is out and dominates the box office for weeks) is the way the hardcore fans reacted. There were two mutually exclusive lines of attack from fans - one was that Nolan intended it to be this way, and it's exciting that a blockbuster doesn't condescend to feed you every line of dialogue, and the other is that they had no problem hearing every single word. I liked when people used both lines of defense at once.

This is the stuff that doesn't matter. It's funny, and it's fun to make jokes about it, but in the end the movie is the thing. And while I don't find Nolan to be the messiah-like figure many of his fans make him out to be, I do believe that he's a director who has fully earned the benefit of the doubt, and the real discussion about Bane's voice shouldn't begin until after the full film has been seen.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=52425

Here's some early JOKER Concept art of what Ledger was originally going to look like.. Thank God they didn't go this route cause this isn't a SAW movie for God sakes..