Was That So Hard, Dark Knight Rises?
Two TV spots for The Dark Knight Rises have surfaced, and they finally — finally — make the third Batman movie look like it might be kind of fun. There’s action, fighting, Batman, a small touch of humor — and no choir of children somberly singing or crazed monks chanting or Bruce Wayne looking like he’s going to burst into tears or anything. I’m not saying that all comic movies have to be as light-hearted as Avengers was, but goddamn, DKR was beginning to look like Inception, but sadder and with less action. Anyways, The first spot is above, and the second, more Catwoman-y spot is after the jump. (Via First Showing)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.