Completely Optimistic Batman Begins Anticipation Thread

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Er, BIG = BIT.

And "douchebag" is too strong. I'm just not sure I like the idea of him as the official usher of all comics to movies ever.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm just preparing myself for the day that Chr!stian B@le is on every single magazine cover in the world this June. Which wouldn't have been bad when I was 14 and knew all the songs and dances in Newsies, but now I just feel bad for this as he seems to shy away from publicity a lot.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i generally hate comic book/superhero bullshit but im looking forward to this actually.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

HOLY SHIT, some serious hardcore nerdery going on...http://imdb.com/title/tt0372784/fullcredits

scroll down and you'll see: Tim Booth .... Victor Zsasz

which is the birth name of Vic Sage, crusading TV journalist who sheds his identity by night to fight crime as the faceless QUESTION!!!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

What the hell is the lead singer of James doing on a IMDB thread?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

AND I just noticed that it's Tim Booth, from James! WTF!?!?!?!?!?!

also, there's a "Barbara Gordon" playing a nameless Gotham Cop.

xpost

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't Zsasz also some sort of serial killer notches on his arm guy, or am I thinking of someone else?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that Zsazs or Szasz?

(yes, such a dude exists)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Internet says:

Victor Zsasz = serial killer

Charles Victor Szasz = Vic Sage

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I was just about to post the same thing. So I guess James-Man will be a badguy, and not a plug for the upcoming Objectivist Superhero Masterpiece: THE QUESTION!

dang.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.slushfactory.com/news/newspics/111802-M27__Zsasz.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/batmanonfilm/bofimagesbofimages/timbooth1.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

He's competing with Jarvis Cocker's upcoming role in Harry Potter IV.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

OH MY EYES!!!
there's a supposed Batman Begins leak out there in the filesharingverse, but it is NOT, repeat NOT Batman Begins. It is dirty porn of the the worst legal kind.

― Huk, Monday, 30 May 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link

On a more postive note, advance review:
http://www.buzzscope.com/features.php?id=985

― Huk-L, Monday, 30 May 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got tickets for an advance screening on the 6th. It's free, so even if the movie's crap I can't really complain.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, cool. Do report back, but mind the spoilers. After my porn fiasco, I've decided that God wants me to see this movie virginally.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

five star BBC review

i want to believe.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

This is going to be completely humourless, isn't it?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, because there is nothing funny about a man dressing up as a bat.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link

well, apparently Oldham is playing Gordon in a slapstick, Sellers/Clouseau fashion, as a counterpoint to the darkness of Bale's Batman. they were worried that the film would just come off as totally po-faced, so Nolan decided to use Gordon to inject the needed humour.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link

TS Humorless vs.
http://img201.echo.cx/img201/3692/batshark9wi.gif

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I loved it! Mind you, I have never read the Batman comics so most of my knowledge of Batman comes from the movies and Batman: the animated series. So I don't know if someone who's a fan of the comics will like it as much as I did, but I thought it was a lot of fun. Even though it's about two hours long it doesn't drag on the way, say, Revenge of the Sith did. I will probably even go see it again.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

To be honest even though I like shark-fighting Batman and think it's about time to give Miller a rest, I am looking forward to this.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Bad new yorker review, but denby doesn't count:
www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/050613crci_cinema

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

That's the whole Bat-Truth, though, isn't it, Tom?
The very key to the character's longevity is his adaptability. There's this arch-rockist mindset that Miller-Bat is "Batman done right", but that's a complete load of bullshit. If Batman hadn't fought giant orange koalas from the Ninth Dimension in the 50s, and veered towards true romance under Carmine Infantino in the 60s, he would have gone the way of...um, nearly every other superhero who was around in 1951.
And even Miller's Batman, for all his snarling masculinity, has moments of High Camp. Especially in The Dark Knight Returns--Year One was basically Taxi Driver in tights--and, fuck, what was The Dark Knight Strikes Again if not a stunning failure to reconcile Adam West with, um, moody-Bats?

Christopher Nolan is crime thriller director, so he's made THAT kind of Batman movie. There's no reason why someone couldn't make a wonderful Bat-Farce.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm fine with BroodyBats as a character who other, more rounded characters react to (as in Gotham Central) but as the focus of a story he gets on my nerves.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, there's nowhere to go characterwise, with that, unless you actually allow Batman to deal with some of his issues, and if he could deal with his issues, he wouldn't be Batman, so it's a no-win situation if you wanna do character work with Batman.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Christian Bale backs me up here (not really):

Actor Christian Bale showed off his comics prowess at Sci Fi Wire, saying ""I liked the artwork of Alex Ross, but my favorites were the Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale stories. I've read a damn lot of them, all that DC sent me. I don't feel like Batman's ever really been defined in any portrayal, so I felt like this was an opportunity to finally do that, in regards to way that Bob Kane originally intended it when he wrote it in 1939. He intended it as being a dark and terrifying and intimidating character. It's kind of ended up being spoofed more. And then there's great material in the newer graphic novels of Frank Miller and Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. So the source material is right there, and I just don't think it was ever taken advantage of until now. With 'Superman,' you can really look at Christopher Reeve and the way that he played it, and he's become the defining Superman. Whoever's playing him in the next one has got a really tough job to come up against him. I don't feel like that ever happened with 'Batman' before, so I felt like I had an opportunity to expand and bring something new to it."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked the artwork of Alex Ross

― Leeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

but my favorites were the Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale stories

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, at least he read some comics.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

If only he had read "The PLAYA On The Other Side!"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

There's no reason why someone couldn't make a wonderful Bat-Farce.

-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), June 7th, 2005.

um, http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0790732912.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

KEYWORD: WONDERFUL

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

ICE TO MEET YOU

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry - the previous post should be:

PROGNOSIS: NEGATIVE

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Seriously, check this shit out: http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/batman.htm

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

way that Bob Kane originally intended it when he wrote it

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

THE HEART! THE HEART is in the right place, and that's what matters! Details schmetails.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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