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Batman Begins Trailer Released
Chris_Jefferson writes "The full-length trailer for Batman Begins has been released. Christian Bale looks great as Bruce Wayne, and hopefully I can recover from exposure to the awful last couple of Batman films, and the equally terrible Catwoman."
Holy smokes, Batman, there's nothing to see here. I guess we better move along!
American Psycho is one of my favorite movies.
... and there's no comedians, glow-in-the-dark villians, kids, or Joel Schumacer in sight.
How could it suck?
What was wrong with just putting these things out in Quicktime? (it's bad enough that I've had to put quicktime on my PC in the first place when there are PLENTY if other more widely used codecs that could be used instead (and even work between Apple's computers and Windows computers!)
bork bork bork!
Too bad for that... Apple is probably just trying, like usual, to leverage it's involvement into more users of it's products. Scary, that... when you think of how far convergence and consolidation can take us.
Catwoman was hot, what's wrong with you? :)
The vehicle is NOT the "new Batmobile"
It's not even the old Batmobile. It's the tumbler, the precursor to any Bruce-designed rides. This was a prototype vehicle developed at Wayne Enterprises R&D for military purposes, and the project got scrapped.
Batman is not flying. He is gliding, using the rails sewn into the edges of his cape.
There will be lots in this movie* that doesn't line up with the other 4 flicks, because it's in a completely different continuity line. The director wanted everything in this movie to be believable and realistic. It's going to be darker and more real than even the first Batman in 1989.
*SPOILER: The end shows Commissioner Gordon holding up a clue from the next villain they can't catch without Batman's held, a playing card (Joker).
"Large": http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/batman_begins/ba tman_begins-tlr4a_m480.mov
a tman_begins-tlr4a_ifs.mov
"Full Screen": http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/batman_begins/b
With thanks to Alexandra.DuPont and Oski respectively
Full screen
Too bad for that... Apple is probably just trying, like usual, to leverage it's involvement into more users of it's products. Scary, that... when you think of how far convergence and consolidation can take us.
I don't know about you, but I'm anxiously waiting for another super-hero, DVD Jon, to de-iTunes the full screen version for me!
Batman is clearly another bit of Microsoft inspired FUD against Linux. I bet the Bat-mobile runs Windows too.
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since the comic book was replaced by video games and tv (mostly by ease of use).
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This new Batman looks awfully similar to Spiderman (a great movie). I miss the old Batman cartoons and comics I used to read as a child!
Is a good action movie with Bale, go rent it.
I remember seeing the trailor a while ago and seeing that vehicle. I prayed to the dark lords of the sith that it wasn't the new batmobile. So assuming you are right they have answered my prayers. The new batmobile better not suck though.
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A trailer for a DC Comic turned movie that looks good? What? I must be in some bizzaro world...
Seriously though, this trailer looks just awesome... Dare I say it, it looks the way Batman should have been done - just like how Spiderman 1 and 2 were done: Exceptionally well.
To make things even more frozen over in hell, I a Unix geek, now have a girlfriend, and she codes, and she is cute...
Batman looking good, hot coder girlfriend, where did I get these drugs again?
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
I think this comic from Dork Tower says it all.
Long live the Speaker Bracelet
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At the very least it looks like it will be far and away superior to the last couple of Batman films.
Talk about damning with faint praise...
There is no new batmobile! This is the ONLY vehicle in the movie, and it's not a batmobile!
Jesus ape-raping Christ, the batmobile is not like Air Force One! Every car that Batman gets in does not automatically become "the next batmobile"
It's the fucking precursor! Fuck!
Hmm.. seems like Batman is late, Katie Holmes just started dating dating Tom Cruise.
You mean, like, a movie starring Pierce Brosnan digitally penetrating some guy's ring?
I had the C64 one, it was pretty cool. But... i couldnt get very far in it, got so mad at that damn game my mom grounded me from it. never say it again.
I live in stately Wayne Manor. My name is Bruce Wayne. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Bruce Wayne, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.
One has to ponder the socio-economic impact that batman has had on our culture. In a post 9/11 world, one has to take into consideration that kids, seeing this man become a vigilante and being revered for it, will soon immitate him and start their own crime-catching crusade.
...what's more annoying than a site being slashdotted? It being slashdotted when a trailer download is 3/4 done...
...that crapwoman movie...
Dark? - Check.
Good Director? - Check. (not that Burton wasn't..it just went wrong somewhere) You might remember Chris Nolan from Memento, Insomnia, and Following (good, but under-budgeted and not quite flash enough). He's definitely the kind of director that gets entirely inside the head of his characters.
Good Writer? - Unsure. David Goyer has spawned such pap as the three Blade movies and the sequel to The Crow...no way to call if he can pull it off. Then again, he did write 'Dark City', so he's had his moments.
Christian Bale? - No comment...we'll see.
This has the potential to be the creepiest Batman yet. I've always considered 'the bat' to be someone that everyone should be a little unsure about, not just a someone that kicks ass.
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama
There is some crazy good acting in this trailer, by all involved.
No offense to the Serenity fans out there, but it's like night and day between this trailer and that one.
Of course, this doesn't say squat about the quality of the final product as a movie, but I'll give it my 10 bucks to find out.
Eh.
Another un-obfuscated URL :)
a tman_begins-tlr4a_m480.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/batman_begins/b
Someone make that clicky for the D/L
Kevin
after the trailer, date shown was Jun 15..
whereas posters etc have Jun 17..
interesting.
I really thought Batman Forever was pretty good. I should probably say something more, but really, I thought the film was pretty decent on it's own right.
Also an action movie of sorts, American Psycho is really good too. It's one of the best 10 movies of the last decade. His performance is outstanding, on par with any single performance by any actor for any single memorable character.
Bale's a great actor. He even made Shaft watchable.
...is this an even-numbered film?
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Also, we've all been knocked around by jock-types and have this secret superhero thing... maybe we'll save the world somehow and eventtually get some oohs and aahs from the citizens.
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for those of you who haven't read any of the musings over at http://www.macsimumnews.com/, you should realise that this is one of those 'oh yeah, i should have seen _that_ coming shouldn't i?' things.
n dex.php/search/results/1e6ceff0d8b3e098d0784ca4fae c710e// world when HD/movies/etc over-IP happens.
the folks over at macsimum news seem to think that apple is poised to be at the center of the media/entertainment(http://www.macsimumnews.com/i
besides, why wouldn't apple want to use a media distribution channel they've already got tons of experience using and serving for (how)many years?
"...that's as white as it gets; all the bits are on..."
... is make another campy movie like from the 60s. I mean, first, you've got the bomb. Then, you've got the costumes. And if that's not enough, you've got the quotes. Here's a quick taste of what you'd expect:
:D
Gordon: Penguin, Joker, Riddler... and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!
Batman: We've been given the plainest warning! They're working together to take over...
O'Hara: To take over what, Batman? Gotham City?
Batman: Any two of them might try that!
Gordon: The whole... country?
Batman: If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four? Their minimum objective must be... the entire... world.
Note how angles apparantly vary from rectangle to rectangle, and the startling synergy achieved when all 4 supervillians team up as opposed to 2 or 3. Oh, and if you're curious about the "plainest warning" that the supervillians sent to Batman, go look up the full quote!
Ok, I know if they actually tried to make it campy, it would be boring and it would suck. And this whole post is just an excuse for me to bring up the 60s Batman. So......
Bring on Batman Begins
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
What kind of a world do we live in...
where a MAN dressed up as a BAT...
GETS ALL OF MY PRESS?
What is he going to do, just run over the bad guys?
But it at least looks like it will be better than the last movie, even with the redneck version of the batmobile.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Why in the world does Apple think that if I want to watch a Batman trailer, that I need iTunes?
This is exactly the sort of thing that Micro$oft would get raked across the coals for, but just because Apple beat them to it, it seems to be A-OK.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
I mean,cmon.... think hard next time. Comics are so cliche nerd gear next you'll ask why "propeller hats" are new for nerds too.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Cliché characters, no plot whatsoever, banal tagline dialogues and total lack of ideas, meaning and conflict. There are some visually stunning, stylish, yet intelligent and thought-provocative movies out there. Why settle for this teenage-dream kind of stuff?
No. I dont fucking have iTunes, and I dont even want to have. Isn't quicktime enough?
The director wanted everything in this movie to be believable and realistic. It's going to be darker and more real than even the first Batman in 1989.
Is this the same movie Kevin Smith was talking about with the big frickin' spider?
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in a Prince soundtrack, it makes up for with high speed chase scenes shot on lower wacker drive in chicago. Imma go see it just to point and say "I've driven there! And driven a cop car into that pillon there too!"
That link takes one to a page which (when you click on "fullscreen") links to the iTunes Music Store.
It appears the iTMS is currently down! NONE of it works!
OMG, did you guys just Slashdot the iTMS?!?! ROTFL
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See Christian Bale in a better movie..
Eguilibrium
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Since when is Batman, "New for Nerds?"
I donned my cape, cowel and trusty utility belt just to watch the trailer.
Don't I count as a nerd?
Nothing was equally bad as Catwoman.
There's no failure quite as dissatisfying as a complete and total solution to the wrong problem.
A good Batman AND a good Star Wars, all in one year! It's like someone travelled back in time and corrected something terribly wrong from before.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The last batmobile we saw had tons of neon lights, fins, and looked 100% impractical. This new batmobile is a bleepin SUV mixed with a Formula 1 racecar.
Yes, it's a good upgrade. Will give credit to the 1989 Batmobile which actually had machine guns.
Download it
Does anyone think that this batman was influenced by the famous "Grayson" trailer/fan film that people kept wishing would be made into a movie ??
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/nonsw/grayson/
Does anyone think it'll ever get made ?
I think you mean- after Burton left so did any semblance of Insanity
That game was awesome. I beat the Joker level (diffuse all the bombs) and the Penguin level (destroy the computer) on the C64. Can I say, best game music ever, and best walk animation loop! I only got 99% complete on the Penguin level, even though it said I had won. What's the deal with that?
Music speeds up when you yawn, but does not change pitch.
You should play the Amiga version too on UAE or whatever, it is basically the same but with much better graphics. I remember my friend got that game for Amiga while I had it for C64 and I was totally amazed by the graphics.
First of all, judging from trailer so far, Bale looks perfect, very fit, stylish and in same time we see some real emotions and actions, not just 'went-and-kicked-some-bad-guys-asses'. Second, lot of support cast - Freeman, Liam Neeson, etc. - is first rate stars.
:)
We see lot of DARK action in the movie. Yeah, it could even contain a death of someone Batman loves - altought it is guess while I haven't seen movie.
So...question is - could it possibly go somewhere wrong? Yes it could still. But as movie is shot by one of my favorite directors and stars Bale (which is my favorite in male actors category for some time, due of Equilibrium, willing to see The Mechanist and American Psycho), I wish them lot of artistic luck - let the director's eye doesn't run dry when he cuts and cuts and cuts and cuts...
I will wait for this movie, certanly.
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Thanks; so much for the retarded itunes requirement. Who wants to watch videos in iTunes anyway?!?
...sites that mirror /. express concern that they feel less like a news propagator and more like an advertising portal.
And by that, I mean the 1966 Adam West origional. So I also liked Forever because of campy stuff like the Batmobile going up the side of a building, and swinging the safe being stolen by Two Face back into the building. Batman & Robin was just so bad it was funny. Catwoman, however, was just bad enough to be horrible, but not so bad as to be funny at the same time. That movie needs the MS3K treatment to be tolerable to watch.
All I can say is, thank God Robin won't be in it.
Ogg Ogg Ogg!!!!!!!!!
How many times do I have to say it?
:T:R:A:N:S:
What's a movie without Bat-Thermal-Underwear? (How the #$%$#% did Adam West say that with a straight face???)
You don't need iTunes to watch the trailer, steve. You only need iTunes to watch the fullscreen version.
They offer a premium service with a catch, steve, you must try one of their flagship products. I guess lazy people like you expect the world for free, and don't really understand business and stuff. I kinda feel bad for your ignorance, steve.
Oh, and that 'Micro$oft' thing? That was BRILLIANT!!! Where did you think of that!! Wow, you must be an uber-geek. We all bow to your coolness.
I'm fresh outta mod points. Someone mod this sucka up!
waaaa Quicktime WAAAAAA iTunes WAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAA
I really wish Flash were involved somehow too. Oh how grand the drama would have been.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and wouldn't shut the fuck up.
...for some interesting tidbits. A good mix of "wtf were they doing considering Ashton Kutcher for Batman?", and "dammit! why couldn't they talk Viggo Mortensen into playing Ra's Al Ghul?"
But the funniest one was a drunk crashed into the Batmobile while they were filming in Chicago, and he claimed he ran into it because he was afraid it was an alien spacecraft.
What have you done to me, Slashdot?
The full-screen version is the same one as the hi-res but with black bars top and bottom and the certain knowledge that your boss will notice you watching it. Certainly I stopped bothering with them ages ago.
:D
I don't go near the Quicktime site any more: I just wait for Dave's Trailer Page to put a link up so I can download them...which is where I grabbed this from just now.
LOL! You would've gotten my funny mod points for that one. (If I had them.) :) That was awesome. In the hetero-sexual manly awesome way of course ;)
or maybe it was awesome in the home-sexual queer eye way...of course.
I KUT J00 M4NG!!!
And how long until you realized that you were checking out a GUY most of the time (ie her stunt double - look it up).
I hated that movie, if only for the fight scenes where the director aprantly thought he'd get fired if he didn't have 4 different cuts a second. Even with the hair, I had to check for the boobs (this is in pre-dominatrix outfit) to try and figure out which one was the chick and which was the guy. This explains a lot: they were both guys!
I just saw Sin City today, the 1:30pm showing in my town. The ticket price was $4. Even sweeter that the price was that there were only two other people in the showing. All that spaciousness and the lack of people with screaming kids, cell phone talkers, tall people and MST3K-wannabes made drinking my smuggled in Sauza Diablo more enjoyable When people mention $10 ticket prices, I wonder if they are living in Monaco or some place like that.
I'm British, you insensitive clod!
I thought that the Amiga game was pretty cool - however despite getting right to the end about 20 times I never managed to kill the Joker!... the dude always jumped on his helecopter and away he went - I have never met anybody who managed to finish that game!... cant remember the specifics but from what I remember you were meant to grip him with the batterange but he was always too far across the screen?
Yeah, as far as I can tell some sadistic programmer thought it would be funny to prevent you from finishing the game. I always attributed not being able to beat it to the fact that I was using a crappy Atari joystick, but now I think otherwise.
Thanks, didn't get it work on Firefox (1.0.3) - complained on missing plugins, quicktime is installed though, and reinstall just splats screen you got this installed well done go and watch some movies.
Apple is making their off-standard stuff cause without it they would have to face real competition (like making Tiger run on PC -hardware). Jobs has been a very little man always, though.
Can't wait to see it. The Tibet (or wherever it is supposed to be) scenes were filmed few hundred km away from where I live.
I'm a huge batman fan and, that being said, this movie is really exciting. All of the other Batman movies have disappointed me. The previous writer/director's redefinition of the villains, heros, and backstories is just unacceptable.
In my opinion, all the other movies weren't so much the essential Batman. All the characters in the movies make decisions as if they're PLANNING to lose at the end of the movie.
The Catwoman portrayals have been nothing short of embarrassing. "Hey it's like The Crow, but you know, with a cat, and not so dark. So it's an upbeat Crow. With leather. And high heels!"
From the trailers, this movie looks pretty close to Frank Miller's vision of Batman as The Dark Knight, which is precisely what I want to see. (The animated series was the closest representation).
I'm not saying that Batman can never be changed from Frank Miller's style, but if they're going to do it, it has to be a completely new story, like where they took Batman Beyond. You can't redefine a 30 year old character in an hour and a half movie.
There's really four elements of Batman that I think make the story so exciting. The psychological aspect, the detective story, his physical prowess, and the dark atmosphere.
The other Batman movies failed at all of them. Every clue is so obvious, as long as he's not mildly retarded he can figure them out. His physical prowess was hampered by a giant tank-like suit. The psychological aspect was undercut as the villains weren't so much persistent burdens on his conscience and sanity as they were minor annoyances that surfaced for a week and a half, caused a bit of an uproar, and dropped dead. And it's hard to be portray "dark" while dancing around with neon lights and shiny rubber nipples.
As far as I'm concerned, reardless of how good the actual movie is, the trailer was more entertainment than all the other movies put together. Note: If you love the psychological aspect of it, see the animated movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
The latest Catwoman had nothing to do with Batman.
The trailer was OK but NOT ENOUGH KATIE HOLMES.
mmmm... Katie Holmes
Why doesn't Slashdot ever get slashdotted?
I had something get messed up on my home computer so that I couldn't view movies shot with my HP camera anymore (happened right after I installed Quicktime) with Win Media Player. VLC pretty much saved the day. Didn't know it would open QTime files though, thanks.
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After the last 3 movies, I hope they learned something. Make it exciting, less talk, more action....no stupid villians either!
Batman actually has to lose a few fights to make it realistic, he is human after all with no super powers. I'll wait for the reviews on www.rottentomatoes.com before I pay to see this one.
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Woooo QT does not like it when you have dual monitors set up. Crashes very ungracefully and takes explorer.exe with it.
-- taking over the world, we are.
Sorry? It seemed like Kevin Smith liked it an awful lot. And really from the trailers and direction the plot has to go and it being PG-13 - it all looks pretty good this time.
In fact this is the movie that people who liked the previous two are probably not going to like as much, and vice versa. This one looks like the modern day Empire Strikes Back.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Now if you'll excuse me I have to return some videotapes.
...eye-candy. If you were looking for plot, serious acting, drama, great writing, etc - why would you be watching that movie anyway? But - for what it was (Halle Barry) - it was outstanding.
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in American Psycho to this:
http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/images/machinist3.j pg
in the Machinist to this:
http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/b/Bale _Christian/sq-bale-shirtless-mira.jpg
in Batman. He dropped 1/3 of his body weight (180 to 120) for the machinist. Supposedly he wanted to go to 100 but the producers wouldn't let him.
BTW, see the machinist if you haven't.
The trailers look OK but they do not make me think that.
The ten minutes of extra footage I saw at Celebration III do. The clone wars and the prequel book do. The tone of the movie being darker does. The PG-13 rating. The inevitibility of where the plot has to go - by the nature of the story, this plot has to drift closer to the original Star Wars than any of the ones before it.
There are a lot of things that point to this being a really good movie, if you care to look.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley