The Bat-Hummer? Oh GOD.
Has anyone else seen the trailer for the new batman?
It got a bigger gasp than the whole running time of The Village combined. A kid behind me literally left his seat. "Oh Holy SHIT," he screamed. Everyone laughed at this, I think because it rang true with all of us. The youth of the world are thirsting for a return to a time when the Dark Knight was actually dark--and didn't suck.
I thought Frank Miller and Darren Aronofsky finally got around to adapting Miller's kickass Batman: Year One.
They havent. That is annoying. Still, Christopher Nolan is as good as anyone else I can think of to adapt the story and direct it (anyone besides Miller and Aronofsky).
Aronofsky is doing two other graphic novels instead it seems. An adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen (a favorite of my friend Ben, I've never read it) and something called Lone Wolf and Cub, which I've never heard of.
IMDB.com though says Watchmen is slated for 2005 and I haven't heard a thing about it, Lone Wolf is even sooner and nothing at all about it either. Strange.
I'm no insider, but 2004 is running down and the movie doesn't even have a website.
Anyway, this is good news for fans of good comic books, though I really don't like the looks of this:
Nolan has some 'splaining to do.
And who the hell is this guy? Writing Dark City isn't resume enough to be given a batman screenplay, esp. when that resume also includes Demonic Toys. Though he did the three Blades. He's essentially an unknown quantity.
posted by Luke @ 11:06 AM
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Aronofsky is doing Watchmen?? Ten years ago it was supposed to be made by Terry Gillian but that didn’t pan out. Last I heard it was handed off to some douchebag to direct. I also heard that John Cusack was cast in one of the main roles, which is good, but if Aronofky is going to direct that’s even better.
Or not, since I think Nolan is as good as Aronofsky and the new Batman DOES look like it’s might suck. For the record, Miller was the first one two forward the idea of a Bat-hummer. Though in Dark Knight Returns it’s more like a Bat-tank. Batman’s vehicle doesn’t bother so much as the stupid title. “Batman Begins,” for chrissake? Geeze. That and everything I’ve heard from Nolan so far about the premise sounds weak.
-ben
Was there even a single person who saw the Batmobile in 'Batman' and 'Batman Returns' and thought, "Wow, that Batmobile, with it's sleek, low-profile design and demonstrated functionality is stupid."?
I'm guessing that not only was there one such person, but there were many people, who then and wrote letters to Joel Schumacher
Fuck you, Blogger.
After cut and pasting some comments I was writing here into a new blog entry (http://coneofignorance.dyndns.org/archives/000080.html), I accidentally hit 'Publish Your Comment,' which is, of course, unstoppable and irreversible. That's why my comment doesn't make any sense. Awesome.
--Mike Sheffler
Also, I think a teaser trailer is a spectacularly bad idea for this particular franchise. Since there is virtually nothing in the trailer itself upon which to reflect, one naturally thinks about the history of the franchise ... and those are not memories I think Warner Bros. wants to stir up.
It would've been a much better idea to wait until they had a *full-length* trailer. That way, when people saw it, they could think about the new content on its own and, if necessary, *contrast* it with the old series, thus breaking (or at least, not creating and new) ties to the last two shitty movies.
--Mike Sheffler
It just so happens David S. Goyer played a very important part in Insomnia...if you look way down on his IMDB page you'll see that he was the "Generator Operator"...you have to love how the movie business works.
-Amygdala
http://neuron.blogdns.com:8080/
Is it worse for a director to suck utter balls, or for him to have a few brilliant movies and lots of bad ones?
I'm talking Michael Bay vs Joel Schumacher. I know to avoid Bay until he becomes a different person/director. Schumacher though, Tigerland was good. Falling Down and Lost Boys were frickin' great. Flatliners is good in a camp way. Then he goes and ruins the Batman franchise--right after Falling Down.
And I think they are trying to keep the connection with Batman: Year One. What else was it going to be? Batman Zero? I've heard this is going to be a restart for the whole franchise. Christian Bale is a good choice I think, but shit, why not Miller? Aronofsky and he apparently finished the script and pitched it. WB passed.
So they have a shitty title (with alliteration for chrissakes) and an action movie screenwriter with a good director.
I don't know what that adds up to yet.
that little factoid about Goyer is hilarious
Heh. To quote Richard Roeper when he made 'Lost Boys' his video pick of the week yesterday:
"With the possible exception of 'Near Dark,' 'Lost Boys' was *the* best vampire teen idol movie of 1987."
--Mike Sheffler
That's hilarious. I wonder if that was conscious irony. That seems like the kind of thing Roeper is incapable of.
This makes me want to see Near Dark though. Have you seen it?
Nah, I've never seen Near Dark, but I assure you that Roeper's remark was made with the biggest grin you've ever seen. Roeper is actually pretty cool. I think his reviews are too harsh on movies that are formulaic (a formula can be done well. He's a little too eager to comment, "We've seen this a million times ..." and dismiss the movie off-hand), but his opinions are usually pretty good.
Besides, what I really like about him is his column. He appears almost every day in the Suntimes (http://www.suntimes.com/index/roeper.html) and is usually pretty amusing or thought provoking. The column can get Chicago-centric at times, but I think it's almost always worth a read.
--Mike Sheffler
Near Dark has Bill Paxton and Lance Hensricksen (sp). That's all i can remember offhand but those ARE two good qualities.
-ben
wow, now I really have to see it. What was the last thing I saw Lance Henrickson in . . .
Probably something on the Sci Fi Channel
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