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.
I Believe.... (Score:4, Informative)
I'm a little behind on my batman lore. What's with the monster truck batmobile in the pictures section?
Re:I Believe.... (Score:5, Informative)
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Wait a minute... Bruce Wayne isn't Batman, Michael Jackson is!
Bad news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad news (Score:3, Informative)
Batman's sidekick is a girl? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I Believe.... (Score:3, Informative)
I bet it also inspired a big part of the Batman vs Superman movie that's rumored to be in the works.
The similarity between the picture on the web site and Frank Miller's "Batmobile" are indeed stri
Re:I Believe.... (Score:3, Informative)
Hmm. Maybe Burton cribbed it from Miller, but Miller didn't invent that. In fact, the Joker's "smiling poison" goes back to the very first Joker story in 1940. It went away when people stopped getting killed in DC comics, but has had a revival. Much of the new, "darker" Batman is really a return to his original roots.
Chris Mattern
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:I Believe.... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh no....shitty, subpar special effects !!!!
P.S. I didn't know Morgan Freeman was British.
Re:I Believe.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh no.... A DECENT PLOT and people who can ACT!
Re:I Believe.... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh... wait...
N.
Re:I Believe.... (Score:5, Funny)
That's easy. SUVs are in. Big and ugly means manly. Really. It does.
Re:I Believe.... (Score:3, Funny)
For proof, see Ron Perlman.
Re:I Believe.... (Score:5, Funny)
As a wise alien once said merchandising, merchandising, merchandising!
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what (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SUV (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking about Hummers... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Speaking about Hummers... (Score:3, Funny)
That's called a Blumpkin [urbandictionary.com].
LK
More pictures.. (Score:3, Informative)
here [ign.com]
Looks damn UGLY to me..
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:SUV (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that a little more than we need to know?
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Re:SUV (Score:4, Informative)
It's got to be better than Catwoman (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's got to be better than Catwoman (Score:5, Funny)
Actually... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Actually... (Score:5, Informative)
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 [sequart.com]) 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 [execpc.com]. 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 [superman.ws]. It opens with one of my favourite quotes " This is an imaginary story... Aren't they all? "
Re:Actually... (Score:3)
I think that my posting would be the "parent" rather than the "grandparent". But maybe you figure I've seen lots of errect nipples, but the person who confused "Crisis" with "Kingdom Come" has existed in a nipple-free (or at least errect nipple-free) zone?
Just because YOU can't recall anything from the mid 1980's doesn't mean that the rest of us are all brain dead too. Or is you po
b0rked in firefox (Score:5, Informative)
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I use gentoo on amd64 and NONE of the 32 bit windows codecs work. Emerge does nothing. Similarly with Firefox and ANY 3rd party plugins. So I have to go 32-bit binary when available and basically run two copies of things like Firefox (32 and 64) and MPlayer...if only I could get my hands on Mplayer in binary form for x86...
Crossover Office works well though... =)
Direct Link (Score:5, Informative)
Robin? (Score:2)
And BTW trailer didn't work in Mozilla had to use IE to open it.
BatMan's SUV (Score:2)
Watch him get protested by the Moms of Gotham for driving something that has a 1 to 1 mile/gallon usage ratio.
Re:BatMan's SUV (Score:4, Funny)
1 highway, 0 city.
</Wolfcastle>
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Now if only (Score:5, Funny)
(I will add anyone who gets the reference and posts about it to my friends list, yeah, crappy prize. you wanna fight about it?)
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(Oh, don't kid yourself. This is SO off-topic.
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Doctor: Mayor West, you have Lymphoma.
Mayor: Oh My.
Doctor: Probably from rolling around in that Toxic waste. What in God's name were you trying to prove?
Mayor: I was trying to gain super powers.
Doctor: Well that's just silly.
Mayor: Silly yes
Chock full of Real Name Brand Actors (Score:5, Interesting)
Looks interesting and at least worthwhile to watch.
Never? (Score:4, Funny)
Of course not. Those are awesome actors. The only thing that could mess that up would be to put them all together in another fucking Bat... oh... wait a sec...
Re:Never? (Score:3, Funny)
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
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.
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I thought he proved that he could do a credible job at exactly that in "From Dusk 'Til Dawn". I place the blame for "Batman and Robin" squarely on the shoulders of Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goldsman. Clooney shouldn't be held responsible for being unable to turn a turd into gold.
Qui-Gon? (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Qui-Gon? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, his Star Wars career was cut pretty short.
(*sigh* This might have been worth a +1 Funny if we were talking about Darth Maul.)
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.
Holy APC, Batman! (Score:2)
Psychological Weaponry (Score:3, Insightful)
A direct link (Score:4, Informative)
-Adam
The Batmobile became an SUV! (Score:4, Funny)
But then again, what do I know -- he's got a fire-breathing mega-engine on the back of that... and that's DEFINITELY not environmentally friendly.
Re:The Batmobile became an SUV! (Score:2)
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.
another comic (Score:4, Insightful)
xoduszero [xoduszero.biz]
Re:another comic (Score:5, Funny)
It had a plot. It was the struggle of a timid woman facing the harsh reality of the cooperate world, a reality that men are openly bastards and women are more subtle but are better at it. It's the age all tale of girl meets boy, girl goes to meet boss, girl discovers bosses wife's evil plot, boss's wife shoves girl down the drain, girl becomes cat, girl gets fired, cat gets framed, girl gets boy, boy becomes cop, girl meets bosses wife, bosses wife plays innocent, bosses wife kills husband and frames cat, boy discovers cat is girl, girl escapes from jail, girl vindicates her self, girl kills bosses wife, girl gets boy again, but girl discovers her own independence, and boy loses girl. It's a classic classic tale.
This movie.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Obviously... (Score:2)
heheheh (Score:3, Informative)
new batmobile (Score:2)
Staring Mel Gibson as Bat-Man? (Score:5, Funny)
Gotham city (Score:5, Informative)
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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.
Release Day (Score:5, Funny)
batmobile (Score:3, Funny)
A rumor... (Score:2, Informative)
Can we have - Batman ENDS? (Score:2)
They have pretty much killed batman already IMO. The studios have the right idea with the Marvel franchise - but it seems that Dollar Comics produces worse movies. I wonder why that is?
Re:Can we have - Batman ENDS? (Score:2)
My problem with the last two Batman movies isn't so much that they went campy -- I really, really like the 60s series a lot. It has a sense of the absurd that is just a pure joy to watch. The problem with the last two movies is that they didn't do it *well.* They didn't do anything well at all.
Batmobile (Score:2)
That's just crazy talk. I really don't like this new Batmobile at all -- I just don't get the whole "bigger = better" aesthetics that seem to dominate car design these days (American design, at least, though everyone is in on the SUV game now).
Oh well, at least Bruce Wayne won't mind if gas prices go up, unlike all the fools who complain after buying gas guzzlers.
Holy crappy website Batman (Score:2, Informative)
I saw pictures of the 'new' batmobile about a year ago and it looks like a sporty version of a farmer's tractor.
I've always been severely let down by the Batman movies. Each one seems to claim that it's true to the darkness of the original 'The Batman' story, but they never are.
There's so much potential in a Batman movie as he's the only 'superhero' who actually isn't.
He's merely a vigilante with the cash to develop some seriously cool anti-cri
Anyone else notice... (Score:2)
Holy Ozone Layer, batman! (Score:5, Funny)
Rumor has it that Robin will be replaced by a new sidekick tentatively named Prince Saud.
Insane... (Score:4, Informative)
Gotta go... Natalie Portman is on Letterman now...
Ok... (Score:3, Informative)
WRONG! (Score:3, Informative)
http://catwoman.warnerbos.com/ [warnerbros.com]
That's the official site.
There's a DC Comics logo at the bottom.
'Nuff said.
Not wrong (Score:3, Informative)
There's a DC Comics logo at the bottom.
'Nuff said.
The reason DC is involved with it is because the producers got the rights to the "Catwoman" name from them. Apparently, that didn't mean they had to follow the continuity of the character.
I know that on two [imdb.com] other [imdb.com] occasions, DC gave permission to use names of their characters to other movies. (I can't find an online reference for the second movie, though I remember seeing the acknowledgment in the credits.)
Jay (=
Batman Begins filming locations (Score:3, Informative)
Next week, they begin filming more scenes from the movie in my building [chicagoarchitecture.info] !
According to the notice we got from the landlord, they're going to do some inside scenes, and some stunts involving helicopters.
Hard Times (Score:3, Funny)
Hard times indeed for Batman. From stately Wayne Manor to a trailer... what a pity.
Big Tires (Score:5, Funny)
What big tires you have, Batman! (Score:3, Funny)
I guess Bruce Wayne can also use the Batmobile to relax by plowing the south 40 after a long night of fighting crime.
direct links (Score:3, Informative)
quicktime
enjoy
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Aronofsky (Score:3, Informative)
See this site [tripod.com] for more details.
Re:another batman movie? (Score:3)
Oh, and he's British too, which I assume marks another first for the Batman franchise.
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Re:How many crappy Bruce Waynes' can there be? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:daredevil.. spiderman.. catwoman.. (Score:2)
Incorrect, senior (Score:3, Funny)
capt. correction strike again!
I have heard they will, once again, mistakenly have 2 villians.
Most batman villians could have enough story and depth to have a movie on there own.
Hell, I think it would be cool if the begining of each movies dealt with the origins of the villian.
Two face, how could even the most talentless hack with a mac not right a good movie with him as the sole villian?
Riddler, not the tv nitwit that Jim Carry seemed to model hisa character, but the
Re:Looks good.... I'll plunk down my $10 (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Just what I want, another crap batman (Score:3, Informative)
Historically, the Batman movies have gone from great to shit...
The first "Batman" movie was excellent. Keaton pulled off Batman and Bruce Wayne believably, although Jack Nicholson stole the show (when does he not steal the show?). The second movie was meh... ok... and "Batman Forever" was stupidly named, Val Kilmer was a poor choice, and Jim Carey made the riddler look like a freakshow, not a twisted plotting villian. We can all thank Joel Sc