Tickets Available for 'Dark Knight Rises' Prologue, Not That You'll Understand What Bane Says in It Anyway

Well, as we suspected would happen, the expiration of the Dark Knight Rises "Operation Early Bird" countdown clock has revealed a map to reserve tickets for an early, Tuesday, December 13th screening of the film's long-awaited six-minute IMAX prologue. Unfortunately for those interested, the servers seem to be pretty overwhelmed as of writing this, so it may take a while before you can get the map to load. If only someone could have predicted this Batman thing would be so popular.

Anyway, as for the footage, if you're wondering what to expect, those press outlets that managed to see the prologue last night have universally agreed on two points: it is pretty awesome, and also, what the fuck is Bane saying out there? While the scope and tone of the airplane-based heist sequence has, unsurprisingly, drawn comparison to both of director Christopher Nolan's last two films, the real talk of the six-minute scene was that it's apparently pretty hard to understand what Tom Hardy is saying through all that mask and Britishness. The Hollywood Reporter, for example, called Bane's dialogue "unintelligible," while ComingSoon confirmed it's "difficult to fully understand exactly what he is saying." Both descriptions agree with how wasted Bane sounded when we heard him screaming at a stadium, so that should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. (You should expect something like an English uncle slurring his way through an angry wedding toast.) Still, you'll love it.