This looks like it could be the biggest year for movies, ever.
The Avengers. Directed by the King of Female-Empowerment, Mr. Joss Whedon. Marvel has been uniting all of it's movie properties into this epic crossover for like 7 years now, and it's finally paying off.
The Amazing Spider-Man. A dark, gritty reboot of an iconic superhero. I hear it was originally called Spider-Man Begins.
Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Some dark sci-fi thriller that apparently takes place in the same universe as Aliens. W00t.
Something called Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. I mean, come on, that sounds fucking rad. Basically the Snakes on a Plane of 2012.
But the movie I'm looking forward to the most is THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.
My excitement for this movie is definitely tainted by the fact that, as we all know, The Joker won't be returning due to Heath Ledger's untimely passing. I am however looking forward to seeing Tom Hardy as Bane. Hardy is an incredible, charismatic actor. From what I've seen of TDKR, Bane has the same sarcastic, cocky attitude as The Joker, but with the added difficulty of being barely audible because of the mask that he wears.
Christopher Nolan says this was intentional to make the audience have to use their brains in order to understand what's going on, and that as long as "audiences get the gist of what he's saying" then everything should be OK.
To me, this sounds like it could end up being a big problem. I watched the first scene and I could understand maybe 10% of what Bane said. It sucks because, having seen his dialogue transcribed, I know his lines are really good, it's just you can't understand him for the most part. Nolan is still insistent on leaving the voice the way it is...
Why won't Christopher Nolan just change the audio mix?
Because some men aren't looking for anything logical. They
can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just
want to watch the world burn.
