Although I will be forever grateful to director Christopher Nolan and actor Christian Bale for saving the Batman movie franchise, it’s hard to get excited about The Dark Knight Rises in lieu of this recent news about the villains.
The Dark Knight hype continues to build from coast to coast. And while the imminent release of this movie is a big thrill for comic book nerds and Batman fans alike, for others it’s just another big ass canvas to tag. While we’ve got Money (there’s no denying whose really behind that “M,” but we’re not helping the vandal squad) bombing Batman billboards in Brooklyn, the West Coast has got AUGOR (left) and REVOK (right) doing the same in LA.
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Today, the kids at Cinematical point to this bad ass new “Dark Knight” poster that’s part bathroom wall scrawl, part Joker gone wild, part Batman blood bukkaked. Sure, the poster may be cool, but is the movie going to suck or rock? Rolling Stone says it’s an “absolute stunner” and Heath Ledger’s Joker is so “mad-crazy-blazing brilliant” he’d “shame the Marquis de Sade”–although the critic, Peter Travers, is a known “quote whore“–and another reviewer concurs: “The Dark Knight is a masterpiece.” The rest of us will have to wait in the dark until the 18th to find out if the film lives up to the hyperbole.
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