Mini-Movie Review: 'The Dark Knight Rises' Prologue

Note: It's a little difficult to discuss a six-minute scene without getting specific in some way, so those who want to go into either the prologue or the full movie completely in the dark should probably skip this.

I think I can sum up my basic impressions of the prologue by saying this: My immediate reaction to it was to seriously consider whether it was worth it to spend nearly $20 on another IMAX ticket just to watch it again.  It overshadowed Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and as you'll see in my review, I loved Mission Impossible.

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Nolan Discusses 'The Dark Knight Rises' 8 Years Later Premise

Christopher Nolan dropped a juicy bombshell during an interview with Empire Magazine that many of us may not have known about The Dark Knight Rises: the film takes place eight years after The Dark Knight.  I think my brain just exploded!  Does this mean Gotham City citizens are over the tragic death of Harvey Dent and Batman is no longer in hiding from the law?

Nolan explained why there's a time jump a little more in a recent interview with Hero Complex.  Here's what he had to say.

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Bane Breaks Batman in New 'Dark Knight Rises' Poster

It's a weekend for cool superhero movie posters.  We've been given the epic (though unintentionally funny) Amazing Spider-Man poster that we wrote about earlier, but now at darkknightrises.com you can see another kick ass poster that hints at what we might be in store.  And what it hints at is very, very awesome.  The comic-literate ones among us know Bane as the man who broke Batman's spine.  While that might not be something we see directly, we know that Christopher Nolan chose Bane for a reason.

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Christopher Nolan Discusses 'The Dark Knight Rises' IMAX Prologue

So the viral marketing begins with "Operation Early Bird" (to which Get The Big Picture's David Hoffman covered, click here to read) and the twitter handle "fire rises".  It's no surprise that promoting the heck out of the IMAX Prologue (which will premiere in front of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol next week) will make the internet buzz with praise/scrutiny by comic book fans.  Until then, read up on what director Christopher Nolan has to say about the last installment The Dark Knight Rises.

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Christopher Nolan & Tom Hardy Talk Bane

As a Dark Knight enthusiast (movies not comics) I've been anxiously wanting to learn more about the caped crusader's next big screen nemesis Bane, played by Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises.  Luckily, director Christopher Nolan and Hardy recently spilled the beans to UK Empire in a dual interview about what fans can expect from the big brute in this third and possibly final Batman sequel. 

All I know about the big fella beforehand, from the comic book world is he was the first villain to defeat Batman, by breaking his back. 

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