If you were at all curious about the tone of Christopher Nolan's final Batman flick, the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises should make it pretty clear. Be warned — despite Batman's best efforts, Gotham City is still an aggressively grim place to visit.
This preview opens with the dulcet tones of a certainly doomed choirboy singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" while Michael Caine's Alfred the butler scolds Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne in a Cockney patois that reminds me of a septuagenarian Alfie, which is appropriate considering Caine played Alfie in Alfie (in 1966) and is now in his 70s.
Also making an appearance here is Tom Hardy's Bane, reimagined as a barely intelligible terrorist, and Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle, who looks like Audrey Hepburn and sounds like Cassandra.
Though Nolan might not be the funnest filmmaker around, he is mondo-talented. I know The Dark Knight Rises is going to be great, but it likely won't contain a lot of laughs…hey, why should it — it's the end of an era. But I can't help but ask: Chris, baby, why so serious?
If you were at all curious about the tone of Christopher Nolan's final Batman flick, the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises should make it pretty clear. Be warned — despite Batman's best efforts, Gotham City is still an aggressively grim place to visit.
I was rather underwhelmed, to be honest.. Just a jumble of random images with no context and nothing particularly interesting about any of it.
All that footage at the football game just seemed really out of place and Michael Caine sounds like someone doing an impression of him.
I don't doubt it will be a great movie, but hopefully the next trailer is more cohesive.