THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012/ C. Nolan)

[Johann]

I've seen the new trailer (looks Awesome) and I've heard the praise from Chris Nolan about Anne Hathaways' performance.
I love her look in the catsuit- my avatar on Facebook has been one of her as Catwoman for a while now.

Christian Bale says he hasn't seen the movie yet. He's currently shooting Terrence Malick's next film.

The Joker is off limits in The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan has made it clear that it is out of respect for Heath.
It's ten years after The Dark Knight. Batman is retired. Bane appears and Bruce has to come out of retirement or Gotham is fucked.
Bale mentioned that Warner Bros/DC Comics want to do another Batman screen version but with a whole new team, whole new actor playing Batman and that he would be interested in seeing what that actors choices are in playing that role.

Me too.

[Johann]

Absolute tragedy in Denver Colorado at a screening of Batman last night.

I don't know what to say. I'm stunned.
You go to see a movie and you face gunfire.
Life in America?
Say it ain't so.

[Chris Knipp]

It am so. Interesting fact I didn't know: in 1989, Canada had a school massacre in which 14 were killed, just like Columbine in 1999. A little fact Michael Moore overlooked in his depiction of Canadian peacefulness in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE.

[Johann]

Yes, that massacre in 1989 saw the creation of the long-gun registry, which the Harper government just destroyed.
And Quebec is suing the government over it- the massacre was in Montreal, and killing the long gun registry is tantamount to saying the victims rights are worth NOTHING, that protecting long gun owners is way more important than making sure weapons are all registered to an owner, for solving crimes.

Harper made it an election issue.
That's how Low he feeds.

[Johann]

We got shootings up here too, gangs and the like.

Toronto just had a shooting a few days ago, at a house party- 2 dead, others wounded.
And at Eaton Centre mall earlier this year a man was gunned down in the food court, people fleeing and screaming, right at lunch hour.

You guys don't get Canadian news, so I sympathize...:)

[Chris Knipp]

Harper is a Bane.

[Johann]

Definitely.
No doubt about it.
The man is a piece of oily work.

[Johann]

Have you seen the photo of the piece of shit who did the shooting?
He looks like a Fucktard alright.
Goofy grin, looks like a stupid twerp.
I can almost hear the thoughts in his head:

"My life sucks so bad that I'll just open fire at the midnight screening of Batman..yeah...that will make me famous...and create copycat killers....yeah...that's the ticket....my life sucks so damn bad...I gotta throw a smoke bomb...just like Batman...yeah..."