I believe in Harvey Dent, two!

[kept back]

http://www.ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com/

Enter your code and email at the bottom. Pretty sure we're trying to inveil an image of Heath Ledger as the Joker underneath this thing.

[Hulk]

I did my part, x=322, y=106 was me. The upper part of the R in FOR

[joshvox]

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME. I love how they are promoting this.

[joshvox]

if you try to enter your email twice it says:

Trying to cheat a cheater. You make me smile.

I don't think I've been this geeked in years :grin:

[Goblin19]

This is a brilliant marketing ploy.

[joshvox]

This the finished photo from SHH:

http://superherohype.com/nextraimages/jokerrevealed.jpg

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5716

[thunderbolt]

Really ghoulish, hope its for real this time.

[Earth 2 Chris]

While I think it is very creepy, and cool, I'm thinking my kid may have to sit this one out, and that will kill him. I had trepidations about taking him to see Begins. I'll just have to wait and see...

I'm sure Mattel will market the hell out of this either way, making it even harder to tell him "It's too scary buddy."

Chris

[joshvox]

I don't know, maybe I'm totally wrong here, but I don't think they will make it an R movie. They would just lose too much money. You can still market toys on a PG-13 movie--an R movie is pretty shaky ground isn't it?

[Earth 2 Chris]

PG-13 or not, I'm thinking the Joker may be too frightening for my kid. I'm not saying they should change it to suit me, but they are walking a fine line with going too dark for kids under 12 or so. The major Batman fan in me loves it, loves the respect for the material Nolan has. The dad in me says "oh crap. My kid is really going to want to see that, but it will give him nightmares for a month'.

Chris

[Meule]

PG-13 or not, I'm thinking the Joker may be too frightening for my kid. I'm not saying they should change it to suit me, but they are walking a fine line with going too dark for kids under 12 or so. The major Batman fan in me loves it, loves the respect for the material Nolan has. The dad in me says "oh crap. My kid is really going to want to see that, but it will give him nightmares for a month'.

Chris

While I certainly understand your point of view as a dad, as a non-dad I gotta say I'm totally psyched about this. Maybe a little selfish, but I hope Nolan will make the Joker a total raving lunatic. While I have much respect for Nicholson's portayal as the Prince of Crime he just wasn't insane enough, if you know what I mean.

[joshvox]

a few more joker tidbits today for those interested:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5721

[namtab29]

i hear you Chris. we had this thread before on the old board--i'm NOT a Dad, but i would love it if they could ramp down the intensity just a touch, but that pic of Ledger--while admittedly VERY COOL--doesnt seem to be going in that lighter direction. hell, that picture gives ME the creeps.

again, it feels oddly inappropriate for them to make action figures (which of course they will) of The Joker when he looks like a character out of Se7en.

rob!

[huedell]

While I certainly understand your point of view as a dad, as a non-dad I gotta say I'm totally psyched about this. Maybe a little selfish, but I hope Nolan will make the Joker a total raving lunatic. While I have much respect for Nicholson's portayal as the Prince of Crime he just wasn't insane enough, if you know what I mean.

The board has heard my lukewarm reaction to Begins already----but I
feel I the need to reiterate that along with the pretty stock "Gotham getting
poisoned " plot the whole pre-costume buncha stuff falling flat for me is
what cinched my "average" rating----

Now...regarding The Dark Knight...

With the pre-costume stuff outta the way and one of the sickest criminals
in the DCU starring in this Dark Knight flick
EVEN tho' I'm more a fan of "light-hearted" Batman stuff ala
Nicholson's portrayal I STILL will concede that if Dark Knight can give
the Joker a persona akin to Hannibal Lecter, a creepy "adult contructed"
persona that is truly engrossing----then I'd be curious
to see this Dark Knight get darker than lighter----

Of course the one thing that'd concern me in that scenario is keeping
the intrigue of the Batman characters full force for smaller children in pop culture,
but as someone pointed out in that other thread on this subject----that's
what the Batman TV shows are for I guess

[palitoy]

Wow that's pretty creepy, I have wondered how they'd handle the Joker as he could camp things up.

I can't bring my son to these regardless so I'm not really that bummed out, the first Spider-man freaks him out. I do feel for dads on the fence but as a silver lining maybe it'll turn out to be not so bad.

People ask me why I like the FF movie, it's definitely because I took my son to it.

[Goblin19]

Very creepy, indeed. My son will definitely sit this out. I'm with Brian. I can't wait to take the kid to see Fantastic Four 2, though I didn't care for the first.

[joshvox]

I am not a father, but if I were, I also would not let my young child go see this movie. But, if they turn out to be a batman fan in the future, they will certainly appreciate a very well done "dark" batman movie. Eventually they will get to enjoy it just like we will, even if it is not appropriate right now.

[Hulk]

Its pretty darned cool they are making major Superhero movies targeted at adults, who have come to expect some fairly adult story lines from the characters they grew up with. I'd feel sorry for my kid if I had one, but I'd just let him (or her) watch all the animated stuff, or dust off my vcr and my copies of the Keaton era films, get a babysitter and run to the movies.

[Vortigern99]

As a grown man with no responsibilities to any small children, I nonetheless object very strenuously to this depiction of the Joker.

I love BB and I love Heath Ledger. However, this picture is NOT the Joker of the comics, but -- what? -- some kind of hideous survivor of a vicious slashing attack. The true essence of the Joker is not that he smiles because of some horrible scar -- like the Nicholson Joker from 1989 -- but because he is demented and believes the sickest events to be humorous. In short, the Joker smiles by choice.

BB is such an excellent film partly because it is utterly true to the Batman of the comics from 1968 - present. This false Joker is a sad derailment from that authentic approach.