I just watched "The Dark Knight Rises" on dvd and I am wondering if there isnt a warning for Pittsburg ("the steel city") as a potential target. First, there were the previews: A) "The Man of Steel" (Superman) and B) Injustice (super heroes turned bad?). Everything is certainly not as it seems and could be turned upside down (like the upcoming movie, "Injustice"). Second, the Gotham City Football team had the black and yellow colors of the Pittsburg Steelers and even had the Steelers Wide Receiver Hines Ward (even his real name on his jersey; he was the kickoff receiver outrunning the bombs exploding on the field in that iconic scene). The same guy who won a season on "Dancing with the Stars" which brings up symbolism from an earlier Batman installment where Jack Nicholson's Joker kept talking about "dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight"....both the dancing with the devil and the moon symbolism (astrologically, the study of ''stars'' and planetary bodies). Re the "pale moonlight" another member already pointed out the fact that both the Aurora theatre and Sandy Hook shootings took place at the same point in the lunar cycle....one day after the New Moon....where the moonlight "rises" from its darkest point and is most "pale". Surely there are other symbols in the movie. Bob Kane, creator of Batman = B. Kane = Bane. Not that this is special. Maybe this is just too "HARD" (Hines Ward = H. Ward = Hard - LOL). But we should study this movie for all clues. Also, if anyone has the capability of studying this frame by frame for subliminal messages that would be a great service to us all. Thoughts? Comments.

The city I'd be worried about is Gotham. I wouldn't go near Gotham if you paid me in Batman money, or shone a light in my eyes. They're a mean bunch over there.

In that case if it was real i guess we need a super hero.

My first though when I read your post was "he's lost it!" The idea that directors, producers and the money can either see the future or are in fact creating it is just crazy from my vantage point. Having said that, I thought,...Wait, this poster is seeing a remote potential based on their vantage point and putting it forward as a sort of warning. Meanwhile, clear across town, in some dingy hovel, some nut bar with a closet full of assault weaponry is somehow getting a mission together because his deranged mind watched the film and...He knew exactly what he had to do! I kind of think we're in a bad spot right now where the line drawn between fiction and reality is getting very fuzzy!

Based on the Robespierre references of the French Revolution....one thing that might be noted is that they used the Guillotine not walks on thin ice for their execution method. We have all heard the guillotine rumors for years.

I skimmed over latest Batman movie again today on dvd. A couple of observations:
1) there was some sublte (almost subliminal but audio) chanting in the soundtrack when Batman saved Catwoman on the roof at the appearance of Bane. Perhaps someone with sophisticated sound equipment can study it.
2) I did notice the "322" of Skull & Bones on one of the football stadium sections that was focused on by the camera...it could mean 3/22 as a date or maybe the yale boys just copied the plate # out of the encyclopedia when they copied the skull and bones logo :0.
3) When the map showed "Sandy Hook" it was subtle and not mentioned in the dialogue (they were talking about gpsing the truck).
4) There were a lot of commands by Bane to "Do as you will" (which is a paraphrase of the Church of Satan's Anton Le Vey's motto of "Do as thou wilt."
5) Even tho Batman retired (as seen by Alfred in Florence in the last scene) and this was Chris Nolan's final installment we can look forward to"the Batman" in the future and this time with Robin and the Catwoman (who might change her role to that of the Batwoman or Batgirl since presumably she is now a good girl).