Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

most action scenes w/batman is that the suit is so bulky and impractical you end up having to shoot around it

He really is just a walking poo that talks like cookie monster. Too bad they offed every supporting character that's younger than Gary Oldman - unless they bring in a bunch of new stars Batman himself actually has to be awesome next time.

think they're gonna do robin?

i think bat man is going to "do" robin....................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i can't imagine christopher nolan going there. but as much as catwoman seems obvious (sexual tension would be a new element), bale could NOT do his colicky thing when bantering with her in costume.

lol xpost

They should skip Robin and go straight to Nightwing

go "straight" to night wing more like go.... "not straight" to night wing......................!!!!!!!!!!!!

("gay")

killing joke more like gay homos

― Esteban Buttez!!, Thursday, July 7, 2005 2:33 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

They should skip Robin and go straight to Nightwing

― living like the Na'vi will never happen (HI DERE), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a joke or

It's serious. Change the Nightwing character to be a competing vigilante rather than a former protogee and put the two of them in conflict; alternately, if Batman already has a competing anti-hero in the comics, use that character instead (not familiar enough with the Batman rogue's gallery to know if there's someone who fits that bill aside from Catwoman and I am kind of DO NOT WANT re: more sexual bat-tension).

i think both of the nolan batman flicks have dope, for the most part, occasional ridiculousness aside. i've liked all the villains so far and i like this presentation of gotham more than the burton ones, but then again i'm not really a big burton fan either.

i'd rather see a lovely lady prancing around the rooftops than other grim-faced bro

xp

("than another")

The opening heist is really well-choreographed and filmed, it really can stand alone outside of the movie

― mh, Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:51 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, i've actually re-watched the opening heist a few times, just cuz

ugh I appear to be suggesting they use red Hood, which um no vigilantes named after the clitoris in my movies, plz

xp: I agree on a base level re: "moar lovely ladies plz" but I don't think the story is as interesting, mostly because we've already seen Burton's version of it in "Batman Returns" (also IMO Burton's best film).

alternately, if Batman already has a competing anti-hero in the comics, use that character instead (not familiar enough with the Batman rogue's gallery to know if there's someone who fits that bill aside from Catwoman and I am kind of DO NOT WANT re: more sexual bat-tension)

Ben Foster is....ANARKY!!!

actually Anarky might be interesting

xp: lol I swear I just looked this dude up and read about him

The Burton films have unbelievable art direction but kind've rubbish stories. The first one barely has a plot at all; Batman and The Joker have a few fights, that's it.

an anarky-based plot would allow them to acknowledge a lot of minor entries in the rogue's gallery, something i wish more superhero films would do in a montage or something. have him trying to bump off a stream of flamboyant crimebosses and thugs who took on goofy identities after the joker's cultural moment (ventriloquist, maxie zeus, mad hatter, etc).

I'd love to see Anarky in the next Batman movie, but he's probaby considered too corny for Nolan's "dark" Batman.

That makes absolutely no sense.

Too obscure maybe, but they used THE SCARECROW in the first movie.

the bat man

Too obscure maybe, but they used THE SCARECROW in the first movie.

yeah, and Ras Al-Ghul, who is also not at the top of the name-recognition pile

I'd prefer Nolan invent a new villain. The rest of the comic's villains all seem to pale next to the Joker.

Also, Nolan hates Robin.

Thank god. I just don't see how Robin could work well in this universe.

There's the Dark Knight take, where Robin is a kid emulating Batman who gets taken in as a ward/trainee after saving his ass (but yeah DO NOT WANT Robin).

a shuddering junkie who is taken in by bruce wayne

Thats the thing though, Nolan has created this hugely insular, me against the world Batman and Bruce Wayne that I just can't see him taking anybody in.

the whole spidey 4 farrago shows that studios will interfere even with a winning team. wouldn't rule anything out.

Robin could work as a stalker who Batman never acknowledges or supports, maybe?

Like the Michael Reagan of Gotham City.

WB isn't Fox though - they seem pretty content to leave Nolan and and his concepts be. (see also: the $200-million Inception)

Seems more-and-more likely to me that this franchise has hit the end of the road (in terms of ideas to explore and fresh, new reasons to continue). Joker v. Batman is always the highpoint of the series, to me, and downhill after that.

I don't know that telling a good Batman vs Joker stories automatically means there are no more worthwhile Batman stories to tell.

GIVE UP DAN ITS OVER.

Haha. Yes. I HAVE DECREED IT.

Trust me, I have no such delusions about my own significance or authority.

Really would like to see Miley Cyrus do a post-Ledger Harley Quinn.

Me too, if her character is violently beaten while she's singing.

just a friendly film-related reminder:

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The only thing overrated in that film is Ledger!!

― Radio Birdman Rally (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:01 (7 hours ago) Permalink

oh come on.

Yeah, there's many other overrated things in it besides him.

I hear it's too serious

why

Was that at my post? I wasn't serious

#bieber4robin

I finally saw this and really don't understand the plaudits for Ledger as the Joker. He obviously studied up on nature documentaries about the habits of lizards, OK, that's good - a lot of actors use animals as a starting point. But Jesus McGillicutty, it's like there's some unwritten iron law that villains must be a schizophrenic mixture of excitably comic and snarlingly vicious. cf Moriarty in the latest Sherlock series on the BBC. Ooh he's unpredictable! One minute he's laughing, the next minute he's shouting! Whatever will we do! Please, please please actors and directors of the world, can we please have a villain who is simply a genius at crime with an actual personality instead of a collection of psychopathic tics? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.