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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.
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
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.
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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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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.
Hey, as long as they don't have Jar Jar as Robin.
They should release the movie on a Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY!!
My initial reaction to seeing the new batmobile was "It kinda looks like a Hummer taking a crap."
I'm going out to get a Hummer tomorrow.
Isn't that a little more than we need to know?
she's 10.
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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.
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.
As a wise alien once said merchandising, merchandising, merchandising!
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? "