August 8, 2012
A Dark Knight Video Trifecta

I always love it when a few random videos pique my interest and then a third comes along and I can throw them all together into a single post.

Batman: Dark Knightfall

Directors Derek Kwok and Henri Wong created this impressive stop-motion animated tribute to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy using Hot Toys action figures. I’m not sure what’s more impressive the effort or the incredible detail of the figures.

Batman: Puppet Master

This fan film picks up where The Dark Knight left off. Batman is “is pushed to his limits as a new crime wave hits Gotham. Batman’s search to find who’s responsible leads him to a showdown with the masochistic serial killer Victor Zsasz. Meanwhile Gotham’s newest crime boss, a mysterious figure known as Scarface, has an meeting with Edward Nigma, an FBI agent, sworn to bring down Batman at all costs.” [via]

The 1930’s Film Noir Inspiration for Batman

According to Uproxx, The Bat Whispers, a 1930 noir thriller, is thought to have been Bob Kane’s inspiration for the Batman character. So of course, someone went and dubbed in Hans Zimmer’s score onto the existing footage of the movie to make it more Batman-y.

In all three videos, it is evident that Hans Zimmer’s compositions for The Dark Knight Trilogy was the real star.

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July 24, 2012
Saying Goodbye to The Bats

We still haven’t seen The Dark Knight Rises yet (we know, we know), but we couldn’t help but love Christopher Nolan’s goodbye love letter to his now-classic Batman trilogy as the foreword to the book The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy.

My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.

[via highdefinite]

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July 19, 2012
The Dark Knight Trilogy

In case you haven’t heard, there’s this a new Batman movie coming out tonight. Here’s a really well-done Dark Knight ultimate trailer to get you amped for your midnight showing and for the weekend.

There’s inevitably going to be a bit of discussion about Nolan’s accomplishment over the weekend, but Grantland’s Zack Baron starts that discussion by calling Nolan’s trilogy “the greatest comic book movie trilogy of our time.” [via devour]

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July 8, 2012
New 13-Minute ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Featurette

July 20th is almost here, which means we’re just weeks away from summer’s second biggest superhero film. And, as if ya’ll weren’t excited enough for the conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, reviews for the film have begun to surface and they are largely, overwhelmingly positive. One even called the movie Best Picture Oscar-worthy.

This new featurette won’t spoil much, but it’s just one more thing to watch that will prime the excitement pump ahead of the movie’s opening weekend.

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