Comments on: Gotham’s Reckoning: Deconstructing The New Trailer For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

By: palmer

palmer — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

catwoman sides with batman as she feels she has betrayed him. the love interest marian tate warns bruce of bane and she manages to get the secrets to wayne enterprise batman is the strength that gotham relies on hence the 'backbone' which gets broken. everyone knows if your back gets broken you end up crippled bruce wheel chair and walking stick, courtesy of bane. He makes a recovery and comes back to defeat Bane with catwoman beside and gotham behind him. he retires but has possible side kick called Robin (levitts character) should he ever need to come back to help gotham. why do they have to just make three films whats with the public and this three films and thats it? why cant films run and run? if its a success then carry on. brilliant trailer and music and soundbites. love the bit "You Don't Owe These People Any More. You've Given Them Everything" and batmans reply its so defiant and epiphany of truth and justice makes me wanna stand up, chest out, fist clenched chin up head turned slightly sideways kind of look!

By: michele

michele — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

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By: Jdog

Jdog — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

I think batman will find a way to fake his own death at the end, similar to the end of "The Dark Knight Returns" graphic novel. This way, he can sort of retire and hang up the cape and still have the ability to come back if Gotham needs him. Just a thought.

By: Warren C

Warren C — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

The answers are out there. We have to piece it all together. Bane, in a still, is shown holding a picture of Harvey Dent. This is how he draws batman back out. He doesn't care that Bruce is Batman. He probably even knows. But he not only wants to burn Gotham, he wants to break its back. Revealing Dent as the fallen from the events 8 years ago brings back the hope that Batman is still there for them and going to protect them. We can expect, early in the film, for Bruce/Batman and Bane to square off. Bane will defeat Batman. Not killing him though. He wants to make bruce watch Gotham burn. The prison we see Bruce in is somehow linked with the league where Bruce is sent where he cannot save Gotham. Meanwhile, in Gotham, Kyle/Catwoman, turns vs Bane. Knowing the insides of the wayne/batman enterprise, she takes JGL into the bat suit to hold up the symbol for the city of gotham. Bane, thus kills JGL for the city of gotham to see that he has killed Batman, thus destroying the symbol. (kyle/catwoman could be pulling one on jgl to have him get in the suit so bane can kill him, thus keeping bruce alive to watch gotham burn). Bruce has to escape from the prison, and rise up to take on bane. The catwoman turning on JGL scenario comes into question here bc she is seen with batman. Shes always been a tricky character. Al Guhl's daughter is definitly in the mix. She is softening up Bruce to get inside of wayne enterprises to gain access to the technology it possesses. Possibly the plans to the cave. This could be the insight to have kyle gain jgls trust, lead him to the cave, have him dress as the bat, and bane kill him. Batman/Bruce is going to have to kill Bane. Bane is smart. He is physical. Batman/bruce, to stop him, is simply going to have to eliminate him. I think the day scene of the two fighting is the end. The city is going to see Batman/bruce kill bane. Batman will have given up his innocence, his one rule, to save gotham. He will have to hang up the suit. No longer can he go on because he broke his own code. However, his character as Bruce lives on, keeping the League away from gotham knowing he can provide for the city to defend itself. There are certainly holes in my theory. Especially with the kyle/bane/al ghul/jgl scenario. Would love some feed back/thoughts

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

I was just curious but did anyone else feel in Bale's earliest bearded scene that perhaps he appeared to be rolling on something or in something. Perhaps a wheelchair.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

It's always nice to see a quick mention of William Fichtner.

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

Batman NEEDS to die at the end of this. Seriously. Why not go all the way if this is Nolan's solid conclusion?

By: berk

berk — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

The scenes with the bearded Bale all seem to be flashbacks to his time in the foreign prison in Batman Begins, especially the chanting "Rise" one from the previous trailer. He could have come into contact with Bane back then, maybe even being the reason Bane now wears the breathing apparatus.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

Also, I find it neat that Ben Mendelsohn is in this film with Gary Oldman considering he reminded me of Gary Oldman the whole time I watched Animal Kingdom.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

The one thing I can't figure out about Catwoman is that she seems to be against Bruce Wayne but for Batman. Examples of this is during her dance with Wayne she talks about a storm coming (against the rich) and how they will all fall etc. But then when she speaks to Batman, she seems very sympathetic toward him by stating that he doesn't owe the city anything else because he's given all he can. To which Batman says the most forboding line in the new trailer, "Not everything, not yet." Does this mean he is going to sacrifice his life for the city?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

Epic! I really liked Anne Hathaway.

By: oogle monster

oogle monster — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

camoflage-tinged Tumblers… wasn't Cotillard spotted filming a scene coming out of something like that?

By: DG

DG — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:32:12 +0000

JGL is going to be a cop aligned with BATMAN/Gordon but will be out doing recon work during the whole Bane siege. When communicating information back he'll use the code name Azrael. Just a guess anyways.