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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.
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
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.
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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.
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Catwoman was hot, what's wrong with you? :)
:)
Uh huh. 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 always enjoyed watching people's faces when I told them that one
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
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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Yeah.. well... he was HOT...
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
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> Uh huh. 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 always enjoyed watching people's faces when
> I told them that one
I've cranked off a few to Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game. Doesn't bother me none.
... 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?
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.
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 ?
Two words: "Tits" and "Explosions". So you go ahead and watch Sideways again.
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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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