The REEL Addict 

Does anyone else find this new THE DARK KNIGHT poster … unsettling? For some reason to me it uncomfortably evokes the 9/11 imagery of the smoke generated by the World Trade Center towers crumbling. The tagline doesn’t help matters either, both because it has the word “world” in it, and because it seems like the exact message that got conveyed to most of us shocked by the events of that day. I’ll concede perhaps I’m being over-sensitive, but that’s the immediate impression I got looking at this thing.

But, if I move past all that, and turn into a movie geek again, I have to say the poster is pretty cool. The iconic Batman pose is great. I love the blue filtering hues that evoke an oppressive bleakness. The burning Batman logo in the building is a creative way of highlighting it. And the chaos generated in the poster – as well as the tagline – perfectly captures the unpredictable and manic anarchy the Joker stands for.