Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Batman Begins Trailer Online

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the year-one-of-the-bat dept.

meltoast writes "The trailer for the Batman Begins is available on the Warner Brothers website. Also check out the pictures of the new Batmobile on the same site. All I can say is holy big tires, Batman!" The Batmobile design is reminiscent of the one from Dark Knight Returns, but I think I prefer it over the one Adam West used to cruise around in.

11 of 481 comments (clear)

  1. I Believe.... by OS24Ever · · Score: 4, Informative

    ....that it is a 'teaser' not a 'trailer' considering they show absolutely nothing but that 'it's coming' in a year...

    I'm a little behind on my batman lore. What's with the monster truck batmobile in the pictures section?

    --

    As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.

    1. Re:I Believe.... by One+Louder · · Score: 4, Informative

      Frank Miller did a deconstruction of the Batman myth in the graphic novel "The Dark Knight Returns" which takes place when he's in his sixties and comes out of retirement because the crime in Gotham has gotten out of hand. The Batmobile looks very much like the one in the photo gallery - oh, and Robin is a girl.

  2. b0rked in firefox by Magila · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently the trailer link doesn't work in firefox, here's a direct link to save you the trouble: http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/batmanbeg ins/teaser/teaser_hi_a.mov

    1. Re:b0rked in firefox by Arcticfox24 · · Score: 4, Informative

      The trailer works just fine in Firefox, you just need to allow the site to open popups.

    2. Re:b0rked in firefox by bach37 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Quicktime and wma codecs for mplayer here.

  3. Direct Link by sgtsanity · · Score: 5, Informative

    And here's an even more direct link that so you can all download the trailer to your computer. http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/batmanbegins/te aser/teaser_hi_a.mov Now will this increase the slashdotting, or decrease it?

  4. Gotham city by NightWulf · · Score: 4, Informative

    I belive Gotham City is the comic book version of New York City. In fact NYC used to be called Gotham. On a side note, I believe comic book Metropolis was based on Chicago.

  5. Re:How many crappy Bruce Waynes' can there be? by warmgun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Christian Bale is actually a very talented actor who excels in playing very complicated characters with serious internal battles. Just look at American Psycho, Empire of the Sun, and (to a lesser extent) Equilibrium. Bruce Wayne's internal struggle between the man and the bat is one in which every movie tried to grapple with but never really succeeded because the action was always top priority. Christopher Nolan, an expert of the psychological, directing this movie gives it the best chance in succeeding in profiling Batman's psyche.

  6. Insane... by dchamp · · Score: 4, Informative

    CowboyNeal is insane. No batmobile can touch the 60's Lincoln Futura Batmobile. Had a supercharged Ford 427, and looked awesome.

    Gotta go... Natalie Portman is on Letterman now... :)

  7. Actually... by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the pre- Kindom Come mythos, Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle did have a daughter, Helena Kyle, AKA Huntress. This was the basis for a show on the WB 2 years ago, Birds of Prey. It was pretty good, but they banked on it being a hit like smallville and canned it after only one season.

    --
    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
    1. Re:Actually... by j-beda · · Score: 5, Informative
      In the pre- Kindom Come mytho...

      That would actually be the pre-"Crisis on Infinite Earths" mythos.

      Back in the day (before 1985/86 - see http://www.sequart.com/crisis.htm) the "DC Universe" was bifrocated into to "main" universes so as to provide some "logical" reason for the fact that many characters had histories streatching from as early as WWII. The "Earth 1" universe had the "modern" superheroes who's careers started ten or twelve years ago, while the "Earth 2" universe had many older heroes who's careers started before WWII. On Earth 2, many of these heroes were retired and had kids or sidekicks who had taken over their hero-identities. Batman/Bruce Wayne had married (and died?) and had had a daughter (Helena Wayne - see http://my.execpc.com/~icicle/THEHUNTRESS.html. Superman had wed Lois Lane and was in semi-retirement, and many others of the "golden age" heroes/JSA were also "old and grey".

      There were many more "earths" to mine for material. Earth-3 had hero and villian roles reversed. Earth-S had the Captain Marvel heroes and others like Spy-Smasher from the Fawcett characters that DC had aquired. There was a world with talking animals that had Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and Captain Carrot and the Zoo crew. There was Earth-Prime that had no superheroes and was where comic books about super heroes were published (supposedly WE are on Earch-Prime). The "Crisis" smushed all of these universes together and re-wrote history to try to simplify it all, and it was stated that there was now only ONE universe.

      The idea of parallel universes is however just too useful to not use, and recent DC stories are revived it with "Hyper-Time" and of course the whole "ElseWorlds" storylines are also in some sense alternative universes. Many DC/Marvel or DC/Other crossovers use the ideas of multiple universes too.

      In the last issues of the Superman comics before the rewrite of Crisis, "Superman# 423 and Action Comics #583, was a story about the future of the non-Crisis Superman's world. http://theages.superman.ws/History/whatever.php. It opens with one of my favourite quotes " This is an imaginary story... Aren't they all? "