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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.
....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.
So does batman drive in the city or crunch over cars like a monster truck???
We need this, just to erase the memory.
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
Is the plot going to be anything like The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
And BTW trailer didn't work in Mozilla had to use IE to open it.
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someone would stop stealing Batman's water!
(I will add anyone who gets the reference and posts about it to my friends list, yeah, crappy prize. you wanna fight about it?)
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.
Why is Qui-Gon Jinn in batman?
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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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I would think, with the Batman franchise continuing on into an eco-crazy millenium, Batman wouldn't convert the Batmobile into an dually-wheeled SUV! How about at least a Bat-hybrid?!
But then again, what do I know -- he's got a fire-breathing mega-engine on the back of that... and that's DEFINITELY not environmentally friendly.
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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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After seeing Cat woman, I'm scared to even bother looking at this! Man ohh man was that Cat woman film ever bad! How ... how on earth did they forget to add a plot?
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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.
They Will hate me for this but... Linky Linky :D
Thats a direct link to the movie on their site, no crappy redirects and embedded junk, I used wget :D
I allways figured Gotham was located in one of the orginal 13 states of the USA. But I can't think of anything that proves it isn't located in a post nuclear apocalyptic Australian.
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?
Nothing says cool like a Batmobile designed by Giger!
p.s. I would have loved to see him design a Batman costume.
See, even the do good Batman drives an SUV. I'm going out to get a Hummer tomorrow.
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.
They should release the movie on a Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY!!
1 highway, 0 city.
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Super Swamper mud tires on the rear and slicks on the front. Best of both worlds!
Oh, and he's British too, which I assume marks another first for the Batman franchise.
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Has anyone else heard about this movie possibly being directed by Darren Aronofski? (Requiem for a dream, Pi) I've heard this from other people, and was just curious to see if anyone else had heard anything similar
My initial reaction to seeing the new batmobile was "It kinda looks like a Hummer taking a crap."
Dude.... The sub title here is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." You are defiently at the wrong table.
Rubbish site with everything opening in a popup or a _blank.
I saw pictures of the 'new' batmobile about a year ago and it looks like a sporty version of a farmer's tractor.
I've always been severely let down by the Batman movies. Each one seems to claim that it's true to the darkness of the original 'The Batman' story, but they never are.
There's so much potential in a Batman movie as he's the only 'superhero' who actually isn't.
He's merely a vigilante with the cash to develop some seriously cool anti-crime gadgets.
Ah, if only....
Of course not. Those are awesome actors. The only thing that could mess that up would be to put them all together in another fucking Bat... oh... wait a sec...
Why would he need pointy ears or a cape either (impossible parachute uses aside)? A) It's a comic book/comic movie, and B) there's probably a bit of the "striking fear into the hearts of criminals" when you come crashing through the wall in a six-ton goliath.
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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.
I'm going out to get a Hummer tomorrow.
Isn't that a little more than we need to know?
With this SUV, there'd better be a BatSiphon on that utility belt.
Rumor has it that Robin will be replaced by a new sidekick tentatively named Prince Saud.
Just look at the cast list... we're talking top-notch talent here.
Funny thing is, because of their seemingly overly-prolific careers, my buddy and I have taken to calling Michael Caine "The White Morgan Freeman", and alternately calling Morgan Freeman "The Black Michael Caine". It's going to be strange to see them in the same film together.
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CowboyNeal is insane. No batmobile can touch the 60's Lincoln Futura Batmobile. Had a supercharged Ford 427, and looked awesome.
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Gotta go... Natalie Portman is on Letterman now...
To everyone complaining about how bad Catwoman is, its not the DC character Catwoman! The woman played by Halle Berry is not named Selena Kyle, she does not live in Gotham City, and she has never even met this burce wayne/batman guy. It was just some shitty movie WB made that happened to be called Catwoman, now quit bitching about it.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
They filmed some scenes for Batman Begins last week in one of the north suburbs of Chicago -- scenes involving the Batmobile.
Next week, they begin filming more scenes from the movie in my building !
According to the notice we got from the landlord, they're going to do some inside scenes, and some stunts involving helicopters.
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Hard times indeed for Batman. From stately Wayne Manor to a trailer... what a pity.
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
As an American, it is Batman's constitutional right to bear arms. You can have his tank when you pry it from his cold dead hands.
For once, that link is on-topic, and someone had to beat me to it! :-( Touchedmyjunk is a treasure, my favorite is the "Linus Torvalds" one. Lol.
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Actually, it would look like this
Those Batmobile pics have been up on that site for months! Turn in your Fan Boy card by noon. That is all.
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That's the official site.
There's a DC Comics logo at the bottom.
'Nuff said.
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I have heard they will, once again, mistakenly have 2 villians.
Most batman villians could have enough story and depth to have a movie on there own.
Hell, I think it would be cool if the begining of each movies dealt with the origins of the villian.
Two face, how could even the most talentless hack with a mac not right a good movie with him as the sole villian?
Riddler, not the tv nitwit that Jim Carry seemed to model hisa character, but the solitary really smart and quitly insane riddler could have been great. Done right, the audience could have been lkead to believe it was a different villian, just to find out it was the riddler.
And lets not forget Calender man! errr..OK forget that 'villian'
crap, slipped into my Batman rant.
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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 can't tell in the photo because of the angle, but I think this Batmobile looks like it may have a gun rack in the back window, a half-empty pouch of chewing tobacco on the dash, and a bumper sticker that reads something along the lines of "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God". In addition, I'm pretty sure those tires were purchased at Fred's Truk Emporium. You know... the place out by where the old pond used to be before they moved the Super WAL*MART.
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You have to keep in mind, Batman built the big-tire version when he was still young, and had a mullet.
I guess Bruce Wayne can also use the Batmobile to relax by plowing the south 40 after a long night of fighting crime.
That is all.
That's the official site.
There's a DC Comics logo at the bottom.
'Nuff said.
The reason DC is involved with it is because the producers got the rights to the "Catwoman" name from them. Apparently, that didn't mean they had to follow the continuity of the character.
I know that on two other occasions, DC gave permission to use names of their characters to other movies. (I can't find an online reference for the second movie, though I remember seeing the acknowledgment in the credits.)
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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."
Holy fuel consumption, batman!
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Looks damn UGLY to me..
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I'm really disappointed. I've been waiting and waiting for Batman: Year One directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream). If there was anything he'd be able to bring to the film, it would be darkness and originality. Unfortunately the WB didn't like it very much.
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It's too bad you're boohooing something you haven't seen yet.
Historically, the Batman movies have gone from great to shit...
The first "Batman" movie was excellent. Keaton pulled off Batman and Bruce Wayne believably, although Jack Nicholson stole the show (when does he not steal the show?). The second movie was meh... ok... and "Batman Forever" was stupidly named, Val Kilmer was a poor choice, and Jim Carey made the riddler look like a freakshow, not a twisted plotting villian. We can all thank Joel Schumacher and his egotisitcal directing style (and someone who has never obviously read good comic books) for the POS movie "Batman & Robin". It was a hunk of crap. Wtg Joel... you are a master of shit, and that movie proved it. I am ashamed that in my need to collect DVDs of comic book movies that I must buy your hunk of garbage... Fuck you Joel.
On a lighter note, this trailer for "Batman Begins" looks dark like it should. Christain Bale is fantastic actor (if you haven't, rent American Psycho... sinister movie and brilliant) and he'll pull off the conflicted nature of Batman well.
Remember, don't judge a movie before you watch it... you might just miss a good flick! I for one will wait until it comes out in theatres and judge it for myself.
Batman doesn't even own *a* gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack.
Why is anything anything?