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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
Batman is clearly another bit of Microsoft inspired FUD against Linux. I bet the Bat-mobile runs Windows too.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Is a good action movie with Bale, go rent it.
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...
You mean, like, a movie starring Pierce Brosnan digitally penetrating some guy's ring?
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.
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
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.
...is this an even-numbered film?
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No, no, you've got that all wrong.
DVD Jon is the Arch Villain- stealing
- TV shows from babies
- Software from bodacious busty blondes
- and Music from little old ladies
The loathsome cur!I hope that Batman totally kicks his ass.
First, nothing begins if not opening
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?
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.
Free advice. Although American Psycho is a great movie, with a real mind-fuck ending, it is NOT a first-date movie. It's really hard to convince a girl to get cuddly after she's seen a movie like that. The more clean-cut and all-American you look, the more jumpy she's going to be.
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
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?
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
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 ?
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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Two words: "Tits" and "Explosions". So you go ahead and watch Sideways again.
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All I can say is, thank God Robin won't be in it.
I agree that the Batman trailer is superior to the Serenity trailer but I found the Batman trailer similarly tired. Just like the covers of books, movie trailers are rarely designed by their creators. Thus, it's pointless to try to make an informed judgement on either movie until they hit theaters.
What's a movie without Bat-Thermal-Underwear? (How the #$%$#% did Adam West say that with a straight face???)
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.
The more clean-cut and all-American you look, the more jumpy she's going to be.
:)
Just tell her that Christian Bale is from Wales, then.
ree advice. Although American Psycho is a great movie, with a real mind-fuck ending
I am not sure if this is a flame or a troll or just opinionated, perhaps all. However, that movie was terrible. Plot holes so large Mac trucks were driving through the screen. The ending was obvious and trite. The acting was wooden and wrong, the social commentary that could be contained in a Rob Schnieder film. Please someone tell me WHAT THE FUCK was so appealing about this movie? Do I need to read the book? Is the book better? Inform, enlighten, please.
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
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?
Because I like to see more than two movies a year, maybe? Even then, I'd still watch comic book movies. I'm a big fan of martial arts movies, and as much as I love Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, they don't stand anywhere near Jackie Chan in Drunken Master II. Some movies don't try to be works of art, just entertaining, fun stories, and by keeping their pretensions low they often end up connecting to the viewer on a more fundamental level. Anyway, Batman is a wonderful character archetype, especially among geeks, and I love to see how he is portrayed in different media.
It reminds me, I have some friends who spend all their time going over the deep meanings and messages of different musicians. They're go on and on about so-and-so evocatively portraying society through the eyes of whatever, and how this song is about that aspect of the human condition. Personally, I just like stuff that sounds good. Hell, half the music I listen to is in languages I don't even understand. No idea what any of it means, but it's just good music.
Of course, this might be more like my friend who won't listen to any band that gets played on the radio and brings up bands only he's ever heard of to show how hip and cultured he is. The funny thing is that he doesn't actually appreciate music so much as the feeling that he's superior to your regular bourgeoisie. There are a lot of independent film people that seem to think the same way.
Anyway, the point is that I like movies that I like. They might be visually stunning, they might address deep philosophical questions, or they might have a bunch of explosions and people kicking each other in the head. They go for different things, and as long as I approach them on the level that they're presented, there's no reason I can't enjoy both.
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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
I can't comment about some of what you've said, but in regard to cliche characters...
Partly, it's because some of these characters formed the cliche. Batman certainly formed the cliche of the dark, brooding anti-hero.
...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.