Batman Begins Trailer Online 481
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.
Chock full of Real Name Brand Actors (Score:5, Interesting)
Looks interesting and at least worthwhile to watch.
Return to Dark (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
How to make the new batmobile (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Something else to warm up with... (Score:5, Interesting)
Fan movie with a pretty nice story twist. Also, the Joker has never been better on film.
This movie.... (Score:3, Interesting)
You think that Batmobile (Score:5, Interesting)
Nothing says cool like a Batmobile designed by Giger!
p.s. I would have loved to see him design a Batman costume.
Re:I Believe.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Director: Christopher Nolan ... hmm
Actors: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson
Location?
It's obviously more pessimistic and darker than the previous series. I was becoming sick lately of optimistic live-action adaptations of Marvel comics. I can't wait for this one.
Re:Now if only (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:SUV (Score:4, Interesting)
not a lot of torque at low rpm.... (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re:Looks good.... I'll plunk down my $10 (Score:3, Interesting)
Set Design in Batman (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Chock full of Real Name Brand Actors (Score:3, Interesting)
Morgan Freeman - Deep Impact
Michael Caine - Jaws: The Revenge
Liam Neeson - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Gary Oldman - Tiptoes
I've seen plenty of movies with all-star casts that bombed. Let's reserve our judgement until we actually see the flick...
LS
Re:Gotham city (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:More pictures.. (Score:3, Interesting)
That's the point. IIRC, the vehicle it's based upon from Dark Knight Returns (as previously mentioned) was generally built as a tank to break into the mutant's underground lair and... well... blow the shit out of them. It was meant to be highly functional, not a symbolic representation of Batman's wang like that horizontal boner from the original series of movies...
Re:Return to Dark (Score:1, Interesting)
Personally, I would make the graphic novel into a movie casting Clint Eastwood as the old Batman and Mic Jagger as the old Joker.
Yeah, yeah, I know. This is what I say anytime someone brings up Batman films.