Yeah! It's Final Bale is Batman!

[Solesurvivor]

hell yeah, he deserves this, cheers for Bale :applause:

[SheepFactory]

Bale rocks , he was great in equilibrium too!

And Christopher Nolan directing it :buttrock:

This might be the first good batman movie since the first batman movie!!

[mattregnier]

why not clark bartram, i mean he did whoop some alien and preadator butt, and come on him name is almost batman anyway :)

[DaJuice]

Hmm, come to think of it, Bale would make a good batman. But they gotta make it so that he can turn his head in his outfit. I mean, if it's not ouside the limits of human technology.
And did anyone else notice that Brosnan wasn't in the greatest shape in the last Bond film? They need a replacement, he's getting old.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great casting so far!

I also love the fact that they have selected on of Batman's coolest villains to make his screen debut:
Ra's Al Ghul's !

For those who dont know who he is, go here:
>>Link<< (http://www.gothamcentral.net/Ras.htm)

-R

[Dirtystimpy]

"he was great in equilibrium too!"

is that movie worth renting?

[headengine]

R'as Al *Ghul*, dude! :thumbsup:

[Meshosh]

Cool!!! this is wonderful news!

Batman is my favorite comic book hero, Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors, I really liked american psycho (as you can see in my avatar/signature)

I can´t wait to see the movie!:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Array]

bale is a great actor, but he needs to put on about 20-30lbs of muscle if he wants to play a convincing bruce wayne.

[Fluckrat]

Originally posted by Array
bale is a great actor, but he needs to put on about 20-30lbs of muscle if he wants to play a convincing bruce wayne.

Didn't you see him in American Psycho?!!!

anyway, we all know Bruce Campbell was made for this role...... The jaw, the eyes, the black humour..... perfect I tells 'ya.

(Don't get me wrong BTW - i too am a big fan of Bale)

[slaughters]

Originally posted by Array
bale is a great actor, but he needs to put on about 20-30lbs of muscle if he wants to play a convincing bruce wayne. Like that big, buff actor Michael Keaton? :)

[spakman]

doh! a day l8 and a dollar short. disregard my rerepost. mebbe the mods can delete it. heh

[spakman]

Originally posted by Array
bale is a great actor, but he needs to put on about 20-30lbs of muscle if he wants to play a convincing bruce wayne.

rent Equilibrium. dood can handle is hiz biz.

[Array]

Originally posted by slaughters
Like that big, buff actor Michael Keaton? :)

i think ed norton wouldve made a great batman if he maintained his american history X physique.

this guy looks like what i would imagine bruce wayne to be like:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005241/

[spakman]

Originally posted by Array
i think ed norton wouldve made a great batman if he maintained his american history X physique.

this guy looks like what i would imagine bruce wayne to be like:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005241/

Two things struck me while watching the EQ with the director/producer commentary:

1: there's this scene where Bale spins two shotguns 180 degrees and out of the hands of the guys pointing them at him. So now he's holding these rilly heavy shotguns, parallel to the ground, one in each hand, arms raised, pulls the trigger. There was some remark about how most of the stuntmen would not have been able to pull that off.

2: Bale's got the moves. He understands motion arcs.

peace d=^)

[fig]

never watched the commentary on EQ, i'll have to check it out. fun flick, but i wasn't as blown away as i expected to be :)

that movie did show that he's got the athletic ability to be batman tho, and he's got the look to play bruce wayne. i really like him in the part, i'm interested to see what direction they take with the plot, look, and other characters.

chris

[spakman]

Originally posted by fig
never watched the commentary on EQ, i'll have to check it out. fun flick, but i wasn't as blown away as i expected to be :)

that movie did show that he's got the athletic ability to be batman tho, and he's got the look to play bruce wayne. i really like him in the part, i'm interested to see what direction they take with the plot, look, and other characters.

chris

I hear ya. It's definitely not in line with the current action genre flava. My glasses are also shaded by the fact that I wasn't expecting to be blown away at all. But non-the-less, I was blown away with its originality. I can't help but wonder if EQ's 20 mil budget which left no room for wire suspension and cg binges, didn't actually make it a better movie (and mebbe influenced BM's casting agent?). The grammaton never uses more energy than is necessary to get into the prime position for pain. Instead using the momentum of is previous position to carry him to the next. This is like real life. I'm just stunned with what they came up with on that kinda of budget.

In the commentary they mention Bale's dance background, and the fact that he, as a dancer, could pick up new forms of motion relatively painfree. I've seen this phenomenon in dance competitions (bboy battles). Dance is the only artform I know where the desire, process, and goal are fundamentally the same. Time dependent, synchronous, articulation. Dance. The only time where motion isn't just a means to an end, but the end itself. Motion for the sake of motion.

A person already ingrained with this subconcious PHD in character animation, motion arcs, momentum and gravity, can only have a deeper understanding of what is needed to be "The Bat" over a person who trains for six months to learn to hang from wires until the movie's a rap.

...would be dope if they put that line in the movie, the one that was (is?) under Chris Bailey's sig: "There's nothing wrong with you that I can't fix with my bare hands." - the batman :cool:

peace d=^)

[og_reborn]

I'm quite excited about who the director is...maybe Batman will be dark again, the way it should be.:)

[fig]

cool stuff spakman, i didn't realize bale had a dance background but after watching him that makes perfect sense, also suits the batman role perfectly. batman's movement and the way it was shot, imo, is what made burton's batman so good. it was like you never saw his feet touch the ground, he had this fluid intangible quality to him that made him seem almost unreal. compare that to val kilmer running and jumping off the roof like the kid who got picked last for kickball and...yeah :rolleyes:

and i LIKE that line, cool stuff :thumbsup:

chris

[vizion]

yea, i think Bale is ok for the part, but would've prefered the german dude, Ralf Muller...His physique is closer to the comic book art.

[Gentle Fury]

hmmmm, from bateman to batman..........wonder if that was intentional.

I for one wish they would just let this wounded and dieing franchise rest in peace.

[Tan]

I agree, another Batman movie feels very "uhhrr again".

[klingspor]

Not be a troll here, but don't you Americans ever get tired of these same old comic strips rehashed in movie form?
I don't see the Japanese doing sequels based on ancient classics all the time... what ever happened to creativity over there in Hollywood?

Really makes you wonder...

[SheepFactory]

Originally posted by stefanminning
what ever happened to creativity over there in Hollywood?

Really makes you wonder...


Well you get the occasional "Requiem for a dream , memento , fight club , lord of the rings , etc"

but what makes you think Hollywood cares about creativity?
As long at it makes $ it'll be made. Supply & Demand , simple economics. :)

[Solesurvivor]

now that you mention 'reqiuem for a dream', put jennifer connelly in the movie as well :applause:

[JDex]

Jennifer Connolly... :drool:

Can't believe she married that guy from A Beautiful Mind... He is so gonna get it... Jen is mine!!!

[og_reborn]

Originally posted by stefanminning
... what ever happened to creativity over there in Hollywood?


----> http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85824

[spakman]

It's not that americans have lost creativity. It's that we're too creative, and too many, so nobody rilly knows which creative process is better. The artists can't agree amongst themselves, so decisions are made by committees of outsiders.

The problem is that this committee by and large aren't artists, and couldn't hit a target to save their lives. But because they are put in charge of such grandiose decision making, it naturally occures to them that they must then be the experts. They will use outdated formulas like simple economics because they haven't thought to look for other alternatives that have been staring these committees in the face for decades.

A beautiful mind was mentioned. Maybe instead of simple economics, Economic Equilibrium (heh) might harvest better results.

That and the fact that when one sees batman, animated in a cartoon series, with a plot like, oh, "World's Finest," it is a natural american tendency to say "Why the phuck couldn't some film studio produce something like this!!!"

And so another attempt is inevitable, to salvage the honor of yet another mistreated American icon. Maybe this time it will work.

[slaughters]

Originally posted by stefanminning
...I don't see the Japanese doing sequels based on ancient classics all the time... Seven Samuri ? Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ? Almost all Anime? Most are based on old tales and legends. Why not bash them for originality instead ?

I've also seen a lot of Japanese sequals. Didn't Ringu spawn 2 more sequals in Japan?

[klingspor]

Seven Samuri ? Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ? Almost all Anime? Most are based on old tales and legends. Why not bash them for originality instead ?

First of all, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is Chinese, but that's beside the point.
Ok, so it may be based on an old tale, as are many animes and western films. And there's nothing wrong with that per se, because essentially every story has already been told in one way or another.
But do you often see a part 2, 3, 4 and 5 in non-US productions? Generally not, unless it's intended to be a series to begin with... I guarantee you, had Akira been an American film, we'd be at part three by now. Same for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And probably even masterpieces like Spirited Away.

See why I think there's lacking originality in Hollywood?

[slaughters]

Originally posted by stefanminning
...But do you often see a part 2, 3, 4 and 5 in non-US productions? Generally not, unless it's intended to be a series to begin with...
See why I think there's lacking originality in Hollywood? Japan is just like Hollywood. Hundreds of lackluster movies are made for every 1 or 2 masterpieces. They are just as gulity of making sequals for the money as anyone else is. Hollywood is just an easy target for people to bash.

Quick examples:

"Based on the novels Ring, Rasen and Loop by Suzuki Koji there are five Ringu-movies; Ringu (1998), Rasen (1998), Ringu 2 (1999), Ringu 0: Baasudei (2000) and The Ring Virus (1999 - Korea). " - http://home.swipnet.se/~w-10972/ringufan/

Read all about the Ghost in the Shell sequal called, "INNOCENCE: Ghost in The Shell" - http://www.productionig.com/innocence.php

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