OMIGOD Final "Batman Begins" trailer!!

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Coding Error above! I’ll get a mod to erase it!

OH, NO! Instead of making me excited about this film, the new trailer has me worried! Watanabe’s one line (and he is what excited me more than anything besides the awesome director) made him look like a cheesy, cartoon supervillian. I was expecting gritty crime drama. I am worried it may be more “comic bookish” than I had hoped given Nolan’s participation.

Holmes has me worried, much for the same reason. I guess I understand the studios pushing for a love interest in EVERY film made (we had a thread once about films without any romance, I think…), but Batman is NOT a love story. Every bat film had to have a romance angle. Why? How often does Batman REALLY romance? It is all a ploy to keep up the playboy image. I have no problems going into non-fanboy territory for the sake of a good film, but it never results in dynamic cinema. It is always the same. The damsel in distress (with a sprinkling of “tough” because it is a modern world), is preachy or whiney (or both it seems in Holmes’s case). And Batman, who is a cold crime fighting machine, has a chance to show his softer side. And it eats up 1/3 of the film. The “romance” angle could torpedo this film. Though that scene with the arching back was nice, though!

Actually, I disagree with this. Alfred didn’t WANT Bruce to be Batman. He hates Batman. He was secretly thinking “this guy needs to get laid!”

Another worry that reappeared was the concern of too many names above the title. That’s a lot of characters! Especially given that Bruce and Batman effectively count as two different characters.

A lot to fit into two plus hours.

I might have cut Lucious, Scarecrow, and saved Gorden for the sequel (and certainly cut the Holmes character).

And I was really excited about this one. It was the only movie that excited me for the 2005 year…

Worried. Worried. Worried.

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Wil, you have to see Sin City, dude! And maybe sneak in Kung Fu Hustle if that’s your thing.

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Lou, to spare your feelings, I didn’t post that I would rather have watched a Streisand film than to see Sin City! :frowning:

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Wow, I just got served!

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Not like that, at all! Nothing but love, buddy!

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“The first” being the one with Adam West? :smiley:

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Robert Lowery, actually.

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There’s easily a good movie in both of those villains, so I’m a little concerned about having the two of them. But, we’ll see how it goes.

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I like the two villains, excellent characters played by excellent actors. I am a bit dismayed that in five Batman movies there have been five love interests. This is Batman, who’s basically a slightly more well adjusted Punisher. Single minded, war on crime, yadda yadda yadda. There’s not a lot of lovin’ in his life.

Hopefully it’s handled well and doesn’t tie up too much story time.

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I certainly took up a lot of the trailer!

Of the four other love interests, haven’t three of them discovered his secret identity?

(There were technically TWO in Batman and Robin.)

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Er…that should be “It certainly took up…”

They couldn’t put me in the trailer because


I am the surprise villian, The Dumbass!

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So the way to find out Batman’s secret identity is to fuck him?

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I’d give up State Secrets, myself…:smiley: