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Batman Begins Trailer Online
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.
At least it appears to have real Actors in the Cast. Can never be disappointed by Morgon Freeman, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, or Gary Oldman.
Looks interesting and at least worthwhile to watch.
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At least from what little I could see on the trailer they are returning the movies back to the Dark Crusader model.
The first two movies with Micheal Keaton were pretty good, but Val Kilmer and George Clooney pretty much killed off any interest I had in the movie franchise.
Mix equal parts:
F-1 race car
Military troop carrier
I think it's a neat variation. It's better than the all-too-flashy neon light decorated batmobile in the last movie. That seemed more like a showcar than a "fight the bad guys" vehicle. The Batmobile from the first movie was a well-done machine.
I don't see the justification in jet engines though for the previous vehicles. But with all the torque you would need on the big tires on the new one, perhaps the engine is justified.
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Fan movie with a pretty nice story twist. Also, the Joker has never been better on film.
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.. is looking good. After the neon light infected monstrocities that were the last two batman movies, it's good to see the idea of it all back on track.
The darkness... controls the music. The music... controls the soul.
Nothing says cool like a Batmobile designed by Giger!
p.s. I would have loved to see him design a Batman costume.
Director: Christopher Nolan ... hmm
Actors: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson
Location?
It's obviously more pessimistic and darker than the previous series. I was becoming sick lately of optimistic live-action adaptations of Marvel comics. I can't wait for this one.
Mayor Adam West is the best part of Family Guy.
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Actually, it would look like this
Jet engines are high torque at high rpm, and very low shaft torque as they spool up, compared to reciprocating engines that make peak shaft torque about halfway through their rpm range (for a normal automobile engine). All the output torque in a turbine driven vehicle comes from a big heavy (in relation to the turbine itself) reduction gear box. They don't have a power curve like a reciprocating engine where you can step on the gas and get good acceleration right from the start.
A good example is the helocopter turbines that they are building motorcycles with (Jay Leno has one). Those bikes start slow, and have pretty constant gentle acceleration, they just keep going faster and Faster and FASTER as engine rpm builds.
Turbines are excellent in constant speed applications, but to have response and driveability in something like a car it takes a pretty complicated transmission. M1 Abrahms tanks use a continously-variable Allison X-1100-3B hydrokinetic transmission, which is a very complicated fluid-drive unit that uses the turbine to drive a variable-displacement hydraulic pump...the turbine runs at pretty constant rpm on low fuel at low demand (just enough to power itself), but as demand increases, the pump moves more fluid and the engine is fed more fuel. That hydraulic fluid then goes to hydraulic motors that are used to actually power the tracks....when the driver steps on the gas, the engine rpm does not vary a whole lot, but the fluid flow increases to the drive motors.
The biggest reason to use a turbine instead of a reciprocating engine in an application like a ship or a tank is that turbines will produce the same (after gearing) power in a smaller physical package.
The one place where turbines may possibly become practical in a car is in hybrids....the wheel motors are driven off of battery voltage, and the turbine turns the alternator to recharge.
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I hope this sequel will have the same awesome set design that has been with the series since Tim Burton. Although the later movies lacked some of the far-out Burton style their set desing has always been really good at making you feel as though you were actully watching a comic book. None of the other recent comic book adaptations have taken it nearly as far as Batman has with the dark yet beautifully desgned Goham city sets.
It's far from canonical, but Frank Millar is reported to have once said that Metropolis is New York by day, and Gotham is New York by night.
That's the point. IIRC, the vehicle it's based upon from Dark Knight Returns (as previously mentioned) was generally built as a tank to break into the mutant's underground lair and... well... blow the shit out of them. It was meant to be highly functional, not a symbolic representation of Batman's wang like that horizontal boner from the original series of movies...
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