New Batman Pic!

JCDenton

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17445

See for yourself...

DirtyDog

Not another rubber padded suit.....looks dodgy!

JCDenton

Ah it's not too bad!

In the script it's supposed to be designed for use in the army by wayne enterprises although each one costs 300,000 so the project was shelved.
Stopping all but a direct hit from any bullet is it's idea. Considering this and the original batman designs they probably didn't have all that much to work with...

I think it's cool though. As long as it's not that shiny tin-foil george clooney thing..

Almarsáre

Looks kinda silly but then nothing can be worse than the George Clooney effort so here's hoping it will get better.

begbie

Christian Bale is playing batman, right?

plastic membrane

Correct. Looks a bit chunky TBH.

Chinafoot

they should have left it alone after the first 2. theres only one batman......good old michael keaton. why cant hollywood leave a good thing alone???
i mean now theres rumours of another die hard movie.

sutty

Originally posted by peachypants
i mean now theres rumours of another die hard movie.

Its based on a plane right? :ninja: :eek:

begbie

And a new mad max is in the pipeline apparently!

Evil_Bilbo

Every batman has been totally rubbish so far especially the first 2 - before you go mad - let me explain myself:

Michael Keaton??? WHAT? Good? The man is small, wierd and balding for god sakes. Tim Buton? Ruined Batman completely. Jack Nicholson (who I love in everything else) was an embarrasment. He shouldve been called "The Joke" instead of "The Joker". Prince doing the soundtrack? Batman 2? Penguins with bombs on their backs?

Tim and Michael shouldve stuck to Beetlejuice (which also sucked as much as Batman). The only good thing about the batmans so far have been:

1. The cars
2. Michelle Pfieffer
3. Jim Carey

Now - onto this batman:

1. Based on the graphic novels of Frank Miller (wow)
2. Directed by Chris Nolan (Memento - wow)
3. The Cast is absolutely HUGE - Christian Bale, Micheal Caine (Alfred), Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman (Commisioner Gordon), Tom Wilkinson, Ken Wantabe, Katie Holmes, and Liam Neeson.

How could it be crap?

Chinafoot

oh my god u are insane!!!! tim burton was excellent directing batman.......gotham came alive and NO other director could've made it what he made it.

michael keating was the only batman! are u saying that george clooney and val kilmer were better???? i think not!

as for christian bale??? am i the only one that saw the terrible reign of fire. the guy sucks and crap kilmer will probably be better than him.

Tusky

Originally posted by peachypants
oh my god u are insane!!!! tim burton was excellent directing batman.......gotham came alive and NO other director could've made it what he made it.

michael keating was the only batman! are u saying that george clooney and val kilmer were better???? i think not!

as for christian bale??? am i the only one that saw the terrible reign of fire. the guy sucks and crap kilmer will probably be better than him.

Hes a fantastic actor and really well respected...You smell of muppet.

Ph3n0m

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
3. Jim Carey

Oh dear god - Carey as the Riddler was one of the weakest and most annoying of the batman villians - way OTT for the Riddler of the comics - he is meant to be cool, cunning, sophisticated - Carey was just a red-haired nerd in the film - completely lacking any kind of menace

Jack Nicholson, has above and beyond been the best batman villian - why, because he was an evil b*stard - as the Joker truely is.

As for Keaton not being a good Batman - so Keaton did not do a good job of carrying the dark, brooding and sometimes twisted psyche that makes up Batman - simply put he was fantastic

LoneGunM@n

Couldn't open that pic, but here's another one:

http://www.thegreenhead.com/watercooler/images/new_batman_suit_lg.jpg

In relation to the Batman series so far, the first 2 were brilliant ... Nicholson's Joker is one of the best movie bad guys ever ... it's probably something to do with the fact that he looks like an evel b@stard out of character!!

briano

theres only one batman......good old michael keaton

Ahem. Adam West:

"It was noble of that animal to hurl himself in the path of that final torpedo. He gave his life for ours."

Truly the Porpoise is the most noble of all aquatic mammals...

CyberGhost

looks good!

thanks for the pic!

Makaveli

Originally posted by peachypants
as for christian bale??? am i the only one that saw the terrible reign of fire. the guy sucks and crap kilmer will probably be better than him.

Obviously you never saw Equilibrium or American Psycho.

tman

Originally posted by peachypants
as for christian bale??? am i the only one that saw the terrible reign of fire. the guy sucks and crap kilmer will probably be better than him.

ehm, i didn't even recognise him as "that dude from american psycho" until it was pointed out to me... which just proves that he can act a bit.

go watch equilibrium and tell me that he's not perfectly suited to the role

Vokes

Obviously you never saw Equilibrium or American Psycho

Vokes

Obviously you never saw Equilibrium or American Psycho

Or 'Empire of the Sun' - granted he was only 12 - but still, excellent film

Chinafoot

what would i know.........i smell of muppet remember!

Dewey

I thought the first Batman was the best and the rest were all crap. Michael Keaton was great as Bats and Jack Nicholson.....well he was brilliant as joker. a true villian and was funny.
I didnt think 2 was any good cause of a poor storyline and 3,4, were always going to be bad without Michael Keaton.

I'm not looking forward to the new Batman. I think Christian Bale will be to much like Val "bore" Kilmer. I think they should of got someone better but the rest of the cast is very good.

mwnger

The reason Michael Keaton wasn’t a great Batman wasn’t really his fault IMHO. He did the best he could with the part he was given. The blame lies with the makers of the movies who ignored the Batman/Bruce Wayne character, or at least didn’t find him interesting. For them, the villains -in all four movies- were the real stars (see Jack Nicholson getting top billing for the first one). The best character in the comics, however, is Batman himself. It is his story after all. The only screen version of Batman which came close to nailing the character was, ironically, the animated Mask of the Phantasm.

As a fan of the comics, I’m excited by Batman Begins cos it seems that the producers have realised finally that Bruce Wayne is the centre of the mythos. (Don’t laugh, all you non-comic book readers, there actually is proper characterisation in the genre, and Batman is by far the most complex and interesting of all the super-heroes. He’s the Hamlet of super-heroes, if that doesn’t sound too ridicuous).

They’re also making Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One the basis of the story, which is also a step in the right direction. So it should be very gritty/film noir in style, Dirty Harry meets Serpico, in a James Ellroy story (Batman being Dirty Harry, Gordon being Serpico). The fact that they got a distinguished actor like Gary Oldman to play (Lieutenant) Gordon means that he should have a substantial role in the film. Hurrah.

Looking at that picture of Bale in the suit, it seems a bit dodgy alright, but I think I’ll reserve judgement until the film actually comes out. Fingers crossed

neokenzo

I for one am looking forward to see what Christian Bale can bring to Batman. He sure has the carisma for it.

UnrealQueen

hmmmmm............batman looks as sexy as ever:p


/me drools.

Pigman II

Lets get one thing straight, in 1989 Tim Burton made an excellent TIM BURTON movie - not an excellent Batman movie. By no stretch of the imagination were his two efforts in 89 and 92 'Batman' movies. For chris-sake the guy even admitted he'd never read a single issue of the comicbook before he began shooting so what the hell did he know? As much as I hate Joel Schumacher and his two efforts they were at least closer to the truth of what Batman is about than Burtons.

My own personal feeling tho is that this new film is going to be excellent, padded-batsuit or not.

As much as I hate Joel Schumacher and his two efforts they were at least closer to the truth of what Batman is about than Burtons.[/QUOTE

Never mind Burton not having read Batman, have you?

Pigman II

Originally posted by Darko
Never mind Burton not having read Batman, have you?

Yes, I have. Thanks for asking. You'll find Joel Schumacher has too.

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by Makaveli
Obviously you never saw Equilibrium or American Psycho.

So I take it I was the only person to be literally appalled by Equilibrium?
Okay then.

Makaveli

Apparently so.

To be honest I found it extremely slow moving in areas, but it was a pretty good film. And Bale did a good job imo.

Yes, I have. Thanks for asking. You'll find Joel Schumacher has too.

So since when was Batman camp dress up? Batman is a dark, adult pyschological story. Not some rich kid beating up comical baddies. Ill agree that Batman Forever was dark, gothic and pyschological but the less said about the next one the better. And noone can blame entirely Schumacher, he only directed the film. The majority of the blame lies in the hands of Akiva Goldsman.

Pigman II

Originally posted by Darko
So since when was Batman camp dress up?

Since Dick Sprangs stuff back in the 1950's if I'm not mistaken.

Originally posted by Darko
Batman is a dark, adult pyschological story.

Yes it is, ideally. But where exactly did Burton pull that off either? Sure his movies werer (physically) dark and moody but they certainly didn't let you get 'inside the mind' of Batman/Wayne IMHO.

Originally posted by Darko
And noone can blame entirely Schumacher, he only directed the film.

Schumacher is a wart on humanities ass and can be blamed completely for the mastabatorial nightmares that are Bat4 (and to a lesser extent Bat3).

Originally posted by Darko
The majority of the blame lies in the hands of Akiva Goldsman. [/B]

Yes, and I'm sure he had penciled-in in his first draft of the script 'Arnold Schwarnzegger would be perfect for this role' and 'have Bane as a neanderthal manbitch'.

Fuhrio

Bale is a very good actor imo, and i nice guy too, met him at reign of fire premiere:)

I didnt know cillian murphy was in it, who is he playing, nice guy too, met him at the intermission premiere:)

(im such a boaster)


Let hope we can see the darker days of batman instead of those last few moves which were horrible, and and someone please tell me were never going to see chris o donnell again,....please....

D-Generate

Cillian Murphy plays the Scarecrow as far as i know.
Pfft my girlfriend is good friends with his sister, they are in the same year in school. If only she could get me to go on to the set... *sniffle*

Yes it is, ideally. But where exactly did Burton pull that off either? Sure his movies werer (physically) dark and moody but they certainly didn't let you get 'inside the mind' of Batman/Wayne IMHO.

Yes and Schumachers did. As I said in my previos post Batman Forever did contain some of it but Batman and Robin was more like a carry on film than anything else.

Schumacher is a wart on humanities ass and can be blamed completely for the mastabatorial nightmares that are Bat4 (and to a lesser extent Bat3).

Schumacer has mad some damb good films Tiger Land, Phonebooth, 8mm, the Client and Falling Down

Yes, and I'm sure he had penciled-in in his first draft of the script 'Arnold Schwarnzegger would be perfect for this role' and 'have Bane as a neanderthal manbitch'.

I was referring to his dialogue, plotting, set pieces and basic story.
If a million monkeys at a million type in a million years writers can produce the complete works of Shakesphere then Batman and Robin was written by one monkey at one type writer in one hour.

Wacker

My one problem with the casting of Christian Bale: he's not vey big! Bruce should be as big as a guy can be without looking like a steroid freak. Like the way he is drawn in the Dark Knight Returns. (actually, he did look like a steroid freak in that....)

D-Generate

Nah the leader of the Mutants looked a steroid freak in that. Batman looked quite built up but still was at an attainable bulk without resorting to steroids.
Although Christian Bale did look freaking strong in American Psycho too, so maybe once the suit is on he might look damn big.

Wacker

But Batman specifically mentions that the Mutant Leader did not have too much bulk to slow him down.
From watching a ludicrous amount of pro-wrestling, I see the negative effects of steroids on a wrestler all the time (Scott Steiner, anyone?).
Wait, this is completely off topic. Apologies. Go Christian Bale!

Evil_Bilbo

My one problem with the casting of Christian Bale: he's not vey big! Bruce should be as big as a guy can be without looking like a steroid freak. Like the way he is drawn in the Dark Knight Returns.

This is my whole point at why Micheal "Nerdo" Keaton was the worst casting decision ever made. He ruined the character, and Tim "I'm wierd" Burton ruined the film, and Batman as we know it.

The fecking joker ending up being the guy who killed his parents? Its obvious he never read the comics.

However - Christian Bale seems to grow and shrink according to his roles. He's in good shape for American Psycho, mad skinny for some recent movie, and a complete hulk for reign of fire - bleedin massive.

If he buffs up like that he'll be a slick batman.

Hopefully Chris Nolan will do away with the tacky sculpted rubber suits complete with nipples. What the fcuk was up with that sh!te?

Evil_Bilbo

Micheal fecking keaton?

How can anyone like him?

How can he be a good batman?

He'd TINY - so bloody tiny! his women are taller than him for god sake - what happened to bats being big and macho, instead of small, nerdy, glasses wearing (no offence to my 4 eyed friends, but wha?), curly headed, stumpy, quirky (not dark and brooding, just annoying), 4 foot tall, no chin sh!tehawk.

He's bearable in other movies, but cripes! Batman! more like bat-head.

Of course Val Kilmer was a better batman. Of course George Clooney was a better batman. They may be arseholes or boring - so what? they're cool, and tall, and they managed to carry off the role without looking like some little freaky comedian.

Of course Christian Bale will be better than Keaton (see above), and has to be a bit less cardboard than the last 2 (who were still second and third worst to Keaton - at least they had chins and jaws for God's sake)

CyberGhost

The good batman would be Christopher Reeves! he is big! not too much muscular! ...... Yes I know he is injured and in a wheel chair! but I said he "would be"

Evil_Bilbo

Had a revelation last night.

A new batman film directed by David Lynch starring Kyle McLaughlin (aka agent cooper) as Batman.

Now THAT would be worth going to see. Might try get a petition together and send it to David Lynch. Who's with me?

(ps - I dont have a fcuking clue how to set one up - help?)

neXus9

I liked Christian Bale in American psycho, but hopefully he doesn't carry some of that arrogance into batman begins.

I think he's looks too kind of smug, but he'll probably give a good performance.

Pigman II

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
A new batman film directed by David Lynch starring Kyle McLaughlin (aka agent cooper) as Batman.

That was the sound of my eyeballs exploding

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
Now THAT would be worth going to see.

No, no it wouldn't

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
Might try get a petition together and send it to David Lynch.

I'm thinking of sending a petition to David Lynch too. It mainly revolves around the belief that he should immediately stop making movies and then burn the prints of every piece of pretenious crap he's ever commited to celluloid thusfar.

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
Who's with me?

Hopefully no-one.

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
(ps - I dont have a fcuking clue how to set one up - help?)

Ask DL. He charges something like $10 a month just to look at his website so he must have some technical savvy at his disposal by this point. Don't worry if he asks you to pay for his advise tho ..... ITS ..... WELL .... WORTH ...... IT.

Agent Orange

What's the problem with paying for access to DL.com? There are gigabytes of videos, music and animation. And it's all created by one of the greatest ever living directors.

Tusky

Theres 2 new pics of bale in the suit up , go to the official site and click on the batmobile or just click here http://batmanbegins.warnerbros.com/batphoto.html

neXus9

Although I like most of David Lynch's films (didn't like eraser head, dune's not really my type of film. I saw it when I was drunk though, which made it pretty interesting.) I doubt that he'd be a good choice for a bat flick. He'll end up putting up some random crazy **** in it for no reason.

joe_chicken

Reign of Fire was a good movie... good popcorn
American Psycho was a pants movie.... (mainly cuz of the story, it sucks so much i want to nailgun my eyelids closed, not cuz of Bale)

Bale will make a good Batman...its time to move away from the brick like chin from days of old

Wacker

Those pics look damn good.

Its just my opinion, but I loved American Psycho. It was up there with the funniest films I have ever seen. Remember the business card sequence?

Trip Hazard

Keaton is the only Batman, I thought Val Kilmer had it too, many years ago but after watching Batman Forever recently my mind is made up, no he wasnt a good batman. As for George Clooney, still to this day i haven't seen Batman and Robin from start to finish nore do i want to. I loved the first two Batman films, and as a big fan of Christopher Nolan i will see the new one, maybe a prequel is the right way too go, hope so anyway. Frankly i cant wait to see what the new Batman will bring us.

Buck Owens

the last 2 Batmans were p*ss poor but in fairness to Val Kilmer He was a good Batman But I think Christian bale is going to be excellent, loved him in american psycho. it's an amazing cast as well, can't wait to see Ken Watenbe or how ever you spell it in it!!



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