First poster for The Dark Knight Rises is Just Another Nolan Poster
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With rumours claiming the first teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises will premiere at screenings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 this weekend, Christopher Nolan has once again unclenched his tightly puckered publicity arse just enough to let slip another droplet of warm, greasy and pungent Batman excrement excitement – the first poster for the hotly anticipated threequel. Here y’are:
…it’s alright, isn’t it? Alright, but not enormously stunning or memorable and certainly very derivative of this poster for Batman Begins:
Oh okay, maybe it’s a deliberate reference. But seriously, Chris, when are you going to stop making chiaroscuro posters of slightly stylised buildings decaying? To be honest, we’re just confused and hurt that you’ve suddenly withdrawn our regular fix of ‘shadowy figure in foreground’. How are we supposed to understand that your films are all about one man standing in the path of a whirlwind of mad dark shit if you don’t SAY IT WITH POSTERS?
We’ve actually pointed this out before, but he’s clearly not listening. Look at these – three from The Dark Knight, one from Inception, one more from Batman Begins and a cheeky bit of The Prestige (that was after he understood the importance of shadowy figures but before he clocked on to shadowy skyscrapers):
God’s sake.
Why So Serious?
The poster is great. What did you expect, tits and ass. It’s a metaphor for how the 3rd film will be, about the fall of Gotham..and clearly communicates how the Bat must rise to save it. Now you must be one of these lonely bloggers that hates on Nolan’s Batman. Do you understand graphic design or advertising? clearly not. You need to recognize how successful the previous viral campaign for the dark knight was..and maybe your forgot that movie broke records, and this one will shit on avatar.
So now, advertising/graphic design professional..I ask, what is the best movie poster you’ve seen? how old are you 22? get with the program and stop being contrarian for the point of it, unless you have an actual point. dumbass.
Wow, I guess I just got told. Just so you’re in the loop, I’m 21 and this is my favourite poster. Obviously. http://bit.ly/raiAeQ
Also, I totally agree that disliking Batman (which I don’t) would make me a lonely and sad person. That’s definitely how it works.
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
Re the below. Surely, being some marketing whizzkid as you claim to be you’ll understand marketing 101 i.e demographics. Whilst Nolan continues to set himself apart as a director with clout and integrity, and despite his very worthy and instrumental attempts to change the discourse around the comic book/graphic novel, the marketers know full well their main audience are going to be the same people that make Spider Man a smash hit every single fucking time, the people that see X-Men every single time, the people that see bloody EVERYTHING super hero related, every single time. That’s where the guaranteed dollar is and so its unsurprising that’s who they’re catering for. They’re catering for the unobservant morons who won’t feel frustrated by rehashed metaphors. Wasn’t the whole point of Nolan taking on Batman was to show how it has far greater depth and complexity of character/morals than the simple ‘fall of Gotham..and clearly far communicates how the Bat must rise to save it’ plot line over and over again. So what, didn’t Monkey Raping Frog become a smash hit viral sensation too? So we’re not allowed to criticize that either? No one is faulting the film, its just lighthearted fun at the marketing. And finally, for all your self righteous rhetoric, think about how irrelevant someone’s age is as they write. Logic, is logic. Just because you don’t follow the herd doesnt make you a dumbass. You absolute prick.
Nolan doesn’t make the posters.
I do.
i AM a creative advertising professional and I don’t think the poster is any good at all.
I think you’ll find that I am the only Contrarian round here. See @Contrarah on Twitter and the web!
I really love the poster….or do I hate it for being a little self-derivative…. either way being nasty about the contributor for having an opinion and backing that opinion up with valid pictorial examples seems like some proper bad-ass trolling. The joker would be proud, but would Nolan?
Hello Warner. Do you have a boyfriend? You sound pretty lonely. It’s OK though, Morgan’s here, you don’t ever need to be lonely again. We can see the film together, then we can hold each other under a copy of that poster, quietly whispering to each other until the sun comes up.
wow, dude, chill – the point is that Nolan has a certain style, and it works for him, but there’s no denying that his posters all end up looking very similar. He’s a fab director and I can’t wait to see his latest efforts, but its still A LITTLE BIT AMUSING that all his posters are THE SAME POSTER, no?
this helped me think about what movie posters to look at thank you
you’re not only 21 (I overestimated by a year, close enough) you’re a contrarian douchebag. I think people that have marketed a film that has made a billion+ dollars, and done it right put your balls to shame. Don’t blog this opinion BS son. people want news, not someone trolling. That’s left for something like..Oh, this, the comment section..what a concept!
So you really think Nolan made the poster? Don’t you think he may be a little bit busy while he’s directing The Dark Knight Rises?
And what does being 21 has to do with the poster?
I feel, that since ‘being a dick’ seems to be the theme in your comment Warner, it is necessary to point out that you misused the word metaphor. Also, yes, some tits and ass would be good.
One style of poster clearly appeals to the lumpen masses, this much is clear, Yet can one not laugh at this fact, while gently mocking those who created such posters? A well written and amusing blog in my opinion.
On another note,… ‘dumbass’? ‘douchebag’? How sophisticated!
IT’S JUST A FREAKING TEASER POSTER. If it’s the official poster, then yeah, it sucks. But it’s not.
Man, I don’t know about you guys but I just love arguing with people I don’t know on the internet.
WELL I DON’T, WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?
Everyone shut the fuck up and pay attention to me. I’m awesome and clearly better than Batman and anything related to him. So suck my trapezing balls.
Your name is Dick. Don’t start.
Earlier today I tweeted “If you’re not Batman, you’re part of the problem.”
I think this discussion proves my point.
Gosh, I’m sure when John wrote this fun look at the posters adjacent-but-not-directly-linked to Christopher Nolan he had no idea he would be hit by such a shit storm of angry i-can’t-take-a-joke wankers. Never try and be funny ever again John, who’s heard of a humorous blog post anyway?
Also, i’m trying to see the similarities between these posters and I just can’t see what you mean. it mustn’t be very obvious. Is it that they are all rectangular?
I actually quite like the poster and wonder, when it isn’t one of those ‘one man standing in the foreground’ numbers, why bring those up? There are plenty of those around, after all… witty, yes, but somewhat out of place… still, no matter how much I like this poster I’m not going to give you a hard time for some gentle mocking of its creator and its ilk.
That would just be a pointless, soulless, depressing waste of the vibrant, hopeful thing we call ‘life’. I would hate to think, for instance, that my mother would gaze lovingly upon me in my early years while my dad went and earned my keep, simply so that all these years later I could dash every dream they ever dreamed for me by being so mean-spirited as to begrudge another man’s yuks: I never begrudge another man’s yuks, ‘coz sometimes yuks is all a man has that’s really his… my new theatrical production “Another Man’s Yuks: Salvation of a Troll” will be opening soon; check your local listings.