Batman Begins

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TESTEMUNHO

Depois de meses tentando bravamente, lutando contra a mal vontade de amigos, o olho que tudo vê da warner, e a lentidão da minha memória RAM de 92 mb...EU CONSEGUI!!!!

BAIXEI OS 10 MINUTOS!!!!!!

 

Já tinha visto logo quando saiu, mas agora EU O TENHO!!!!!

Enfim, passou...era só pra n me sentir sozinho nesta vitória pessoal...

bem...hã, hum...será q vai chover na estréia do Begins? 

[felipef]

Batman Begins

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Mike Goodridge in Los Angeles     06 June 2005

Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2005. 140 mins.

 

 

 

 

 

Like Sam Raimi did with Spider-man, Christopher Nolan has gone back to

the drawing board with the Batman character in Batman Begins and

emerged with an intensely dramatic, muscular action adventure picture

which should be successful enough to kickstart the franchise for Warner

Bros.

 

 

 

 

 

Eradicating any of the camp and tongue-in-cheek antics which ultimately

killed off the last Batman series, Nolan goes deadly serious in

attempting to make Bruce Wayne a flawed human and his transformation

into Batman as believable as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

Nolan peoples his Gotham City with brutal, ugly villains, and

widespread fear. Bruce Wayne isn't about being butch in rubber, but

about creating a symbol to battle the corruption and crime that has

taken over Gotham. The fistfights here are visceral and bruising, the

death is real and ugly, the Batcave is a real cave with waterfalls and

bats. Like Spider-man, Nolan's film explores the psychological flaws of

the character - principally the guilt and rage Bruce suffers over his

parents' murders. It's a bold new vision of the DC Comics staple and

further proof that Nolan possesses abundant confidence and vision as a

mainstream film-maker.

 

 

 

 

 

Box office prospects for Batman Begins are stellar, but unlikely to

soar into the Spider-man stratosphere. Despite a strong cast headed by

Christian Bale, there is no marquee actor to draw in audiences and the

film's dark tone and PG-13 violence and imagery are far removed from

the upbeat teen concerns of Peter Parker and pals. Internationally, on

the other hand, Warner has a chance to better the Tim Burton and Joel

Schumacher-directed films of the last Batman series which met with only

moderate success in key markets like France, Germany and Japan. Thanks

to bold marketing materials and a movie which delivers on drama and

suspense fronts - neither of which were Burton's forte - the studio

should again generate knockout returns outside the US.

 

 

 

 

 

The film begins in Bhutan where Bruce Wayne (Bale), a Caucasian man in

his twenties, is serving a jail sentence. A man of powerful build and

fighting skills, he betters ten men in a brawl and consequently removed

to solitary confinement. In the new cell, he is confronted by a

mysterious man called Ducard (Neeson) who offers him the chance to

escape and says he can help him overcome his inner demons if he climbs

a nearby mountain.

 

 

 

 

 

During this sequence, the film flashes back to Wayne's childhood in

Gotham, as the happy son of billionaire philanthropist Thomas Wayne

(Roache). First we see Bruce fall down a disused well in the grounds of

the family's grand manor while playing with his young friend Rachel

Dawes. There he is swarmed by bats until rescued by his father and

thereafter terrified of the creatures.

 

 

 

 

 

Second, we see him escort his parents to the opera. However, reminded

by the onstage goings-on of the bat attack, Bruce persuades his parents

to leave early and they are both shot and killed by a thief in the

alleyway at the side of the theatre. His teenage years are haunted by

the attack and when his parents' killer makes a plea to get out of

prison a decade or so later, Bruce determines to kill him. He is beaten

to it by a henchman of crime boss Carmine Falcone (Wilkinson), but

confesses his intentions to a horrified Rachel (Holmes) afterwards.

Consumed by his anger, he resolves to leave Gotham and investigate the

criminal mind.

 

 

 

 

 

Back in Bhutan several years later, Bruce climbs the aforementioned

mountain and arrives at a palace owned by crime lord Ra's Al Ghul

(Watanabe) who is Ducard's master. Ducard teaches Bruce how to fight,

control his anger and guilt, and face his fear of bats, but when he

asks him to execute a local criminal, Bruce refuses and in the ensuing

fight, the palace is burned down. Ra's Al Ghul is killed, but Bruce

rescues Ducard.

 

 

 

 

 

Back in Gotham after seven years away, Bruce determines to fight the

corruption that is eating away at the city. He creates the Batman

persona as a symbol to combat evil and creates a costume and weaponry

system from supplies owned by his father's company now run by Earle

(Hauer). Company-employed scientist Lucius Fox (Freeman) even helps him

find an armoured car prototype to use as his vehicle.

 

 

 

 

 

With the assistance of the family butler Alfred (Caine), Bruce builds a

base in the caves underneath the family estate and immediately sets out

to destroy Falcone and his crime ring. But he stumbles across a far

more sinister plot engineered by a mysterious villain and his puppet Dr

Jonathan Crane (Murphy), who is bringing into Gotham huge quantities of

a dangerous hallucogenic drug with which he is planning to infect the

city's water supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

Mostly enhanced, sometimes overpowered, by a relentless music score

from a teaming of two composers - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard,

Batman Begins aims resolutely to keep the drama rooted in a version of

contemporary reality. Gotham is not the dark cityscape of Burton's film

but a bright gleaming metropolis blending CGI elements and Chicago,

where it was shot. Commissioner Gordon from the comic strips is instead

a ragged cop called Jim Gordon (played by Gary Oldman) you might see on

any primetime crime drama.

 

 

 

 

 

Although the images of Batman swooping through the skies are stunning,

Nolan falls down in some of the action scenes. The hand to hand combat

scenes, shot in close-up, are not easy to follow, while the climactic

chase sequence on a monorail through the city compares unfavourably

with the breathtaking elevated train sequence from Raimi's Spider-man 2.

 

 

 

 

 

A super-buff Bale broods effectively as Bruce Wayne aka Batman, while

stalwarts like Caine and Freeman inject some much needed humour and

media star Katie Holmes makes a surprisingly spirited assistant DA.

 

 

 

 

 

Prod cos: Syncopy, Warner Bros Pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

Worldwide dist: Warner Bros Pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

Exec prods: Benjamin Melniker & Michael E Uslan.

 

 

 

 

 

Prods: Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Larry J Franco.

 

 

 

 

 

Scr: Christopher Nolan & David S Goyer, from a story by Goyer and characters created by Bob Kane.

 

 

 

 

 

DoP: Wally Pfister.

 

 

 

 

 

Prod des: Nathan Crowley.

 

 

 

 

 

Ed: Lee Smith.

 

 

 

 

 

Mus: Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard.

 

 

 

 

 

Main cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes,

Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Tom

Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Linus Roache

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=22367&r=t ru e

 

Big One38509.4775462963

[felipef]

"Construct each puzzle layer to build the 3D of Batman's head. Each layer shows a separate scene from the Batman Begins film. Complete with stand."

[Administrator]

E que venha o pipoca do ano: Batman Begins!

Pipoca do ano maul? Imaginei que tu acharia que a pipoca do ano seria SW3!!

No momento é, mas espero que Batman Begins supere. SW Ep III já é muito bom, se o Batman for do mesmo nível ou um pouco melhor... adeus Spiderman e X-Men .

Mas se este Batman não corrresponder minhas espectativas... não medirei minhas palavras pra meter (e muito) o cacete nele...

Darth Maul38509.4760763889

[Jorge Soto]

ahhh, ta bom.... ate parece q vc vai descer a lenha nele..vai defender ate nao poder mais, quinem SW..

[felipef]

Voltando.

 

 

Um artigo sobre Bale:

He has taken challenging roles including a serial killer in American Psycho and a paranoid insomniac in The Machinist, for which he lost 63lb (28.5kg) in weight.

But his performance as the caped crusader is his most high profile to date.

Directed by Memento creator Christopher Nolan, Batman promises to be darker even than Tim Burton's 1989 version, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson.

The cast includes Sir Michael Caine, Liam Neeson and Gary Oldman, but its success will depend largely on audience's reaction to Bale's performance.

Central role

In a recent interview, Bale said he was not influenced by "the campy figure" in the TV series or the moody superhero of the most recent Batman movies.

"I respect the other movies, but I never saw the character as being more interesting than the villains surrounding him," he said.

"I think that Batman very definitely is more interesting than the villains around him, and hopefully this will be the first movie to show that.

"I had to audition for this movie and I decided just that I didn't want to do it if they didn't want to do it in the way I felt it should be done.

"So I just went for it, which some people felt was quite extreme. "

Bale's determination to play the role "his way" saw him put on weight and work out to build up his physique.

Spielberg role

This regime came shortly after his huge weight loss for The Machinist, a dark thriller in which he played a man whose health deteriorates due to his lack of sleep.

The actor has made a career of playing outsiders.

Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1974, his father was a commercial pilot while his mother was a dancer - his grandfather had been a stand-up comic and children's entertainer.

He made his big screen debut aged 12 with the lead role in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of JG Ballard's tale of life in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, Empire of the Sun, released in 1988.

In 1989 he appeared in Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V and in the following year starred as Jim Hawkins opposite Charlton Heston in a TV version of Treasure Island.

Rock movie

Throughout the 90s he mixed roles in arty films like 1997's Metroland with Hollywood parts like one of the leading voices in Disney's Pocahontas.

In 1998, he played a journalist in glam rock drama Velvet Goldmine, opposite Ewan McGregor, but it was his role in 2000's American Psycho that drew him the most attention since his Spielberg film debut.

He played bloodthirsty Patrick Bateman in the screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1980s yuppie satire.

Controversial for its depiction violence and sexual assaults on women, the book was considered "unfilmable" by critics.

But Bale's performance and Mary Harron's direction won acclaim.

Reluctant star

Bale followed it up with supporting roles in Samuel L Jackson's remake of Shaft, the screen version of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and dragon fantasy Reign of Fire.

As well as Batman Begins, his forthcoming movies include an appearance opposite Colin Farrell in director Terrence Malik's The New World and tough cop drama Harsh Times.

He married Winona Ryder's former assistant Sibi Blazic in 2000. The couple had their first child, a girl, in March.

Speaking to the BBC at the time of The Machinist's release, he said he hoped his role as Batman would not make him seem a ubiquitous "empty soul".

"Frankly, I get bored of seeing many people who are around too often," he said. "And I certainly get bored of seeing myself if I'm around too much."

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[felipef]

Batman 2.

 

 

Hulme "98%" confirmed as Joker in sequel?!
Author: Jett
Monday, June 6, 2005 - 6:00 AM CST: Part of a report from MOVIEHOLE--

"Australian radio presenter Chris Murray (MMM) is reporting that Lachy Hulme 'is now a 98% certainty to play The Joker' following reports back from the US that Hulme had to decline his invitation to the US premiere of BATMAN BEGINS because of his shooting schedule in the upcoming M for director Geoffrey Wright. Murray commented: 'They wouldn't be inviting him to the opening unless they wanted him for the part.'" Interesting stuff. Reps for Hulme responded with a very firm: "No comment."

BOF was the first to report that Mr. Hulme was up for the part of The Joker. BOF has also been told that WB has gone as far as to do some serious mock-ups of the actor as The Clown Prince of Crime - although I've yet to see them. BOF had also learned previously that Mr. Hulme had to decline an invitation to the premiere - which is tonight by the way - due to him working on M. So that part of the Australian part is true as well....

felipef38509.4096875

[felipef]

Da revista SFX:

 

 

FILM REVIEW: Batman Begins

12A * 140 mins * 16 June
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy

What’s your working definition of a truly great movie? For me, it may just be one where, ten minutes in, I’m fighting back tears at how absolutely right it all is; a film whose teasing hint of a sequel in its closing moments finds me not so much impatiently excited as willing to strike a pact with Satan to wish away the next two years of my life; a film that leaves me walking out dazed and wonderstruck onto too-bright streets, wanting nothing more than to plant fat, wet kisses on the faces of complete strangers. Yes, even the hairy ones.
Batman Begins is the greatest Batman movie ever made. It’s the greatest superhero movie ever made. It may even be one of the greatest movies ever made. It’s nothing less than The Godfather with Bat-a-rangs.
“You shameless hypester!”, I hear you cry. And yes, when last we saw the Batman franchise it was a cinematic train-wreck, derailed by Joel Schumacher’s Versace ice show aesthetics and too many scenery-crunching superstar turns. 1997’s Batman And Robin became shorthand for all that was lousy and hollow-hearted about superhero movies. But as this film tells us, “You fall so that you can pick yourself up again,” and here Memento helmer Christopher Nolan finally brings salvation to the big screen Dark Knight, delivering a film of rare passion and intelligence that bursts the confines of its little genre label.
Nolan’s Gotham – far from the Depression Era fantasia of the Tim Burton movies – grounds the film in a credible urban environment, but it’s an emotionally grounded tale too. Until now, Batman’s origin has always been a flashbacked aside. Here it’s the essential character trajectory, the driving beat. No villain hijacks this story. Bruce Wayne’s father is no longer a doomed cipher to be gunned down, but a dreamer whose heartbreakingly optimistic vision of a future Gotham, all monorails and gleaming towers, is the dream that Batman chases.
There’s a canny structure to David Goyer’s screenplay. The film doesn’t dunk you headfirst into a world of capes, Spandex and manly jaws. It builds the Batman universe in tiny, logical increments. Bruce Wayne’s war on crime unfolds as a focused, military operation, and by the end of it all you’re seeing Batmobiles and Bat-Signals and accepting them as absolute necessities, not the kitsch trappings of the Schumacher movies. It’s far from po-faced, though – there’s a lovely scene where Bruce and Alfred figure out how they can order custom-sculpted Bat-ears from China without arousing suspicion.
At the same time, Batman Begins is rich and resonant with a sense of mythology. It doesn’t wink at its pulpy source material but elevates it, convincing you that there is something inherently noble about putting on a mask and beating the living crap out of crims. And it is a brutal film. An initial, surprising burst of violence steels you for its visceral tone. It bruises, scars, punches your heart. It’s hardcore.
Batman himself is the most terrifying thing in the film. When we finally see him he’s a blur of fists and shadows, a feral, supernatural force. The suit may look bulky and constricting in photos but onscreen, where it counts, it works. This Batman is the “weird creature of the night” of the classic ‘70s Batman tales, with all the sleek grace of an old Neal Adams illustration.
Above all, this is a film that’s cast to perfection. A ripped but haunted Christian Bale is its emotional heart, whether capturing the barely concealed sense of loss in Bruce Wayne or soiling the pants of the underworld with declarations and intimidations that sound like Dirty Harry with added reverb. Elsewhere, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson and Gary Oldman compete for who’s-the-most-superb status and Cillian Murphy, a world away from the traditional ugly, outcast Scarecrow of the comics, brings a psycho-boy-band-member vibe that’s as chilling as the maggots that spew from his hessian sack disguise.
There’s a magnificent Batmobile chase, a twist worthy of The Usual Suspects and, above all, a sense of new possibilities that will leave you delirious at the thought of how this reborn franchise will one day retool everything from the Joker to the Penguin to the Bat-plane. With the stench of Catwoman still fresh in our nostrils, it may seem hard to believe, but DC Comics have truly reclaimed their mojo with this one, a movie that slams down a gauntlet to Marvel and creates a new gold standard in comic book adaptations.
Follow that, Sam Raimi. Hell, follow that, Christopher Nolan – and I hope you do.

Nick Setchfield

http://www.futurenet.com/sfx/features/default.asp?pagetypeid =2&articleid=36164&subsectionid=1201

[felipef]

 felipef38509.4357175926

[felipef]

"I saw Batman Begins at a screening yesterday. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was not only a good Batman movie but a good movie period! Every now and then it would allow a little comic book corniness into it, but all around a really good movie.

JZ"

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=417172

[Administrator]

ahhh' date=' ta bom.... ate parece q vc vai descer a lenha nele..vai defender ate nao poder mais, quinem SW..[/quote']

Pra que Batman Begins vai precisar que eu o defenda sendo que temos o filipef aqui né?

[felipef]

Batman 2.

 

 

Hulme "98%" confirmed as Joker in sequel?!
Author: Jett
Monday' date=' June 6, 2005 - 6:00 AM CST: Part of a report from MOVIEHOLE--

"Australian radio presenter Chris Murray (MMM) is reporting that Lachy Hulme 'is now a 98% certainty to play The Joker' following reports back from the US that Hulme had to decline his invitation to the US premiere of BATMAN BEGINS because of his shooting schedule in the upcoming M for director Geoffrey Wright. Murray commented: 'They wouldn't be inviting him to the opening unless they wanted him for the part.'" Interesting stuff. Reps for Hulme responded with a very firm: "No comment."

BOF was the first to report that Mr. Hulme was up for the part of The Joker. BOF has also been told that WB has gone as far as to do some serious mock-ups of the actor as The Clown Prince of Crime - although I've yet to see them. BOF had also learned previously that Mr. Hulme had to decline an invitation to the premiere - which is tonight by the way - due to him working on M. So that part of the Australian part is true as well....

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[felipef]

Batman Begins Hits IMAX on June 15

Source: IMAX Corporation

June 6, 2005

Warner Bros. Pictures will release "Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience" in select IMAX theatres beginning Wednesday, June 15th, concurrent with the 35mm release. Batman Begins, which explores the origins of the Batman legend, has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (digital re-mastering) technology.

This is the fifth IMAX DMR release from Warner Bros. Pictures, following the unprecedented success of "The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience" which has grossed more than $45 million in IMAX theatres worldwide. Moviegoers will have the opportunity to watch Batman fly across the huge IMAX screen while being surrounded by state-of-the-art digital surround sound.

Directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento") and produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Larry Franco, Batman Begins stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman. The story finds the disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne, in the wake of his parents' murder, traveling the world to seek the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city.

"Batman is truly a larger-than-life character, and we're thrilled to give fans the opportunity to experience the breathtaking scope, gripping suspense and exhilarating action of 'Batman Begins' in the IMAX format," said Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

"'Batman Begins' presents a new, never-seen before take on the origins of the Batman legend and Bruce Wayne's quest to rid Gotham city of injustice," says director and co-screenwriter Christopher Nolan. "The IMAX format provides audiences with an oppportunity to further immerse themselves in the world of Batman and amplify their experience of his extraordinary story."

The large 15/70 film frame, combined with the IMAX projection technology and remarkable sound system, will provide moviegoers with an immersive, extraordinary cinematic experience.

LATIN AMERICA

Mexico
Guadalajara - Cinepolis IMAX Theatre
Mexico City - Cinepolis IMAX Theatre
Monterrey - Cinepolis IMAX Theatre

http://www.superherohype.com/news/batmannews.php?id=3104

[RegisPN]

Batman 2.

 

 

Hulme "98%" confirmed as Joker in sequel?!
Author: Jett
Monday' date=' June 6, 2005 - 6:00 AM CST: Part of a report from MOVIEHOLE--

"Australian radio presenter Chris Murray (MMM) is reporting that Lachy Hulme 'is now a 98% certainty to play The Joker' following reports back from the US that Hulme had to decline his invitation to the US premiere of BATMAN BEGINS because of his shooting schedule in the upcoming M for director Geoffrey Wright. Murray commented: 'They wouldn't be inviting him to the opening unless they wanted him for the part.'" Interesting stuff. Reps for Hulme responded with a very firm: "No comment."

BOF was the first to report that Mr. Hulme was up for the part of The Joker. BOF has also been told that WB has gone as far as to do some serious mock-ups of the actor as The Clown Prince of Crime - although I've yet to see them. BOF had also learned previously that Mr. Hulme had to decline an invitation to the premiere - which is tonight by the way - due to him working on M. So that part of the Australian part is true as well....

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Pois ainda sou mais o Crispin Glover!!! Dez mil vezes mais!!!

 

 

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[felipef]

Barbara Gordon:

"they show a shot at Gordons house with his wife and a small child inside sitting at a table, but i cant remeber if it was a boy or a girl, i was looking for Babs too, but its a very quick shot of the inside of his house, so its hard to tell sorry :/"

Visita ao departamento:

i'll tell you...Gordon comes into the office and its completely dark, yet you know Bruce is there...he sits at his chair and Bruce holds something to the back of his neck, Gordon thinking its a gun. Bruce tells him "Don't turn around.....youre a good cop....etc." he also asks for information on Falcone and Flass, they make a partenership, and instructs Gordon to "LOOK FOR MY SYMBOL!"

Bruce runs out of the office very quietly through the window...Gordon looks out the window, and can just see whoever was there just about to reach the roof. Gordon screams something at him, maybe "dont move!" and runs through the precint gun drawn, towards the roof. When he gets there, hes telling Bruce not to move but hes not listening, just as Bruce leaps off the building a couple other cops get to Gordon's aide and say "Who was that!?" Gordon replying "Just some nut..."

[felipef]

Batman 2.

 

 

Hulme "98%" confirmed as Joker in sequel?!
Author: Jett
Monday' date=' June 6, 2005 - 6:00 AM CST: Part of a report from MOVIEHOLE--

"Australian radio presenter Chris Murray (MMM) is reporting that Lachy Hulme 'is now a 98% certainty to play The Joker' following reports back from the US that Hulme had to decline his invitation to the US premiere of BATMAN BEGINS because of his shooting schedule in the upcoming M for director Geoffrey Wright. Murray commented: 'They wouldn't be inviting him to the opening unless they wanted him for the part.'" Interesting stuff. Reps for Hulme responded with a very firm: "No comment."

BOF was the first to report that Mr. Hulme was up for the part of The Joker. BOF has also been told that WB has gone as far as to do some serious mock-ups of the actor as The Clown Prince of Crime - although I've yet to see them. BOF had also learned previously that Mr. Hulme had to decline an invitation to the premiere - which is tonight by the way - due to him working on M. So that part of the Australian part is true as well....

[/quote']

Pois ainda sou mais o Crispin Glover!!! Dez mil vezes mais!!!

 

 

De acordo. Espero que sobre o Hulme seja só boato. Pois não gostei mesmo.

[felipef]

Originally Posted by TheBatboy

Awesome thanks Hero! One more question when Crane sees Batman when his under the influence of Feargas and Batman looks like a Demon, Do you think Batman was CG at this point or was it make up?

dude this bit is awesome, i dont wanna give to much away for you but, it looks almost like a hybrid of make up and cgi... my girl screamed during this bit ...soooooooooo cool

[Big One]

Rachei o bico deste trecho de um review que saiu na Aint Cool News a foi postado na página 202...

 

 

 

"...quiick highlights: 1) Batman moves in flashes, just the way he

should. He takes out one guy and disappears into shadows, leaving the

others to collectively sh*t their pants. It is THAT cool..."

 

 

 

Qto á possibilidade do ator Lachy Hulme ser o

Coringa, bem, eu não o conheço, fisicamente e acomo ator tb, gosto

bastte do Crisopin Glover, acho q ele seria perfeito.

 

 

 

Outra, está falando bastte na perseguição do The Tumbler, promete

muito, só nas cenas que viu no programa do Roger Erbert, foram de

encher os olhos.

 

 

[felipef]

Rachou o Bico, B?

The Trumbler andando pelos prédios vai ser algo curioso e, se bem feito, empolgante de ser ver.

felipef38509.5429976852

[Salame]

Rachou o Bico' date=' B?

The Trumbler andando pelos prédios vai ser algo curioso e, se bem feito, emplogante de ser ver.

[/quote']

E, errrrrrm, esse Batmóvel anda pelas paredes?

(Deus me livre!)

[Salame]

OFF TOPIC

Vc realmente gsota do ÚLTIMO SAMURAI? Eu acho aquele filme tão arrogante' date=' no final se chega ao cúmulo de o americano assassino ensinar os chineses(ou eram japoneses? n lembro) a sua própria cultura samurai...  

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Eu, pessoalmente, acho bom. Apenas bom. O final eu acho um tanto extendido.

Mas para constar: o meu comentário foi reservado para o Watanabe (que, eu já falei, arrasa nesse filme \o/).

[felipef]

My Review *no major spoilers*

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"I was lucky enough to be given a ticket to an exclusive Warner Bros. preview screening Of Batman Begins in Dublin on 4th June (Saturday) in the "Savoy" cinema.

The place was pretty full and the audience consisted of people of all ages (thankfully the chattering 4 years olds were on the far right of the theatre and nowhere near myself or my pal). After a brief speech by a lady from Warner Brothers (I assume) who said we weren't allowed to write any reviews until Monday (OK!) and a few trailers for other WB movies (Dukes, Potter and Wonka) the main attraction finally arrived. Talk about hairs standing on the back of my neck! When that red, bat filled sky appeared and the logo formed... talk about a rush.

As has been reported elsewhere there are no opening credits and the movie wastes no time getting things rolling. I'm not going to reveal that much more of the movie itself but most of the opening few minutes of the movie have already been revealed in the 10 min preview that was attached to Smallville. In fact a couple of transisitions that were in the preview (and looked like they were just edited that way for the preview) are in the final movie. For example the scene with young Bruce being comforted by Alfred is followed by the scene with Bale and Neeson in the finished movie.

Guys, I know it's hard not to worry about WB messing up the Batman yet again. Equally, it's hard not to become caught up in all the hype and expect this movie to be the second coming... just let me say this - the movie delivers.

Bale is perfect as Bruce/Batman. He's a wonderful actor and really gets the opportunity to show his range in this movie. There are several memorable scenes when you think to yourself "Yeah! That's IT!" when you see how Bruce/Bats handles a situation or delivers a line. We finally have the perfect Batman. I especially loved Bruces "foppish playboy" routines.

Caine is great in this movie. Alfred is a crucial aspect of the Batman universe and Caine is pitch perfect here. He has some wonderfully drole lines as well as moments of touching compassion towards Bruce.

Oldman does well as Gordon, though he doesn't get as much of the spotlight as he does in the Year One novel. But hey, a Batman movie that actualy focuses on Batman/Bruce is what we've been crying out for. Still when he's on screen, he's great.

Neeson is brilliant! I wasn't expecting him to be, but he really does a terrific job here. As well as playing the whole "mysterious mentor" aspect wonderfully he also comes across as fearsome, intense and agressive and looks to be in great physical shape.

Katie Holmes is someone who could have ruined this movie... not through any fault of her own.. but the inclusion of a love interest (and that's pretty much what she is i.m.o) at this early stage could have been a disaster. However this isn't the case - her character has depth and Katie does really well in this movie. There are some scenes that may upset some of the male movie-goers but hey, girls will dig those scenes (I guess?).

The Scarecrow doesn't get to do an awful lot here, but hopefully we'll be seeing more of him in the following movies. Cillian Murphy plays the role of Crane with suitable slimey menace.

Morgan Freeman is splendid! He's much more than a supplier of fancy gadgets. Fox gets some very cool and funny lines here.

As well as being having a great story to tell, this movie also packs quite a punch when it comes to the action. The fight scenes are bone crunching (but a little too frantic at times to see what's happening?), the Bat mobile scenes are really exciting - quite the adrenaline rush.

Nolan has done a tremendous job here. The movie looks wonderful and unlike some directors (Lucas!) he knows how to get his actors to act. At no point do things seem out of place or cheesy. Nolan knows what he's trying to deliver and he's made sure those on screen know it too. After walking out of Sith it's great to see a movie where a director spends his time working with humans rather than cgi. What cgi there is here isn't noticable. The whole stealth aspect of how Batman takes on his foes is superb!

All in all, this is a great movie. I really enojoyed it and will be going back (at least two more times) when it's oficially released. Relax Batfans, this really is the movie you've been waiting for and I am envious of anyone who has yet to see it, because they still get the opportunity to see it for the first time.

I'd give it 9/10.

Only thing I didn't really like about the movie was that it was a bit too "blockbusterish" with the whole third act. Don't get me wrong, that's just a personal thing. I would have loved to have seen something a little more low key, like the final act of Year One (the novel), but hey that's just a personal thing.

We finally have a Batman movie with substance. It's a great, great movie - enjoy it!

Is it darker?
It depends how you define dark. I felt that Burton's movies were totaly goth fests and I wouldn't say that this movie is gothic, however it's certainly not "light". I'd define it as gritty. The scenes in "The Narrows" are very Blade Runner, the violence is much more realistic, the gun shots and crashes sound like they really hurt. The comical moments pretty much come from snappy dialogue rather than anything physical. When Batman is pissed off you don't want to get in his way. There are several bone crunching sound fx to be heard during fight scenes. So if that's how you define dark - then yeah parts of the movie are dark. The overall tone of the movie is much more "real world" than the Burton movies. Comical hoodlums are replaced with thugs and psychopaths. There also seems to a a big homeless community in Gotham. The Narrows are pretty much slums. The violence is much less theatrical and more gritty. Headbuts are a popular method of attack for this Batman. So yes, I'd say it is dark but I'd be more inclined to define it as "gritty".

What's Gotham like?
I've already answered part of this question in the previous answer, I guess. Gotham certainly isn't as stylised as in any of the other movies. It's a sort of hyper real city. It has gleaming skyscrapers, the "monorail-ish" train system, the dominant Wayne Tower, dark alleys, the occasional bits of artistic architecture you'd expect to find in a city like New York or whatever. Gotham is pretty much a regular major city with a few no-go areas and a few funky extras. There is definately a class divide in Gotham. There are glitzy hotels and restaurants as well as underpasses where the homeless huddle around burning trash cans. There are some nice aerial shots of Gotham which show how absolutely huge it is, but as Year One, it looks respectable from the air. It's only when you see it from the ground that you get to see the imperfections. Gotham's design isn't anywhere near as bold as in the other movies. It's neither gothville nor Tokyo. It's NY, Chichago, LA.... It's a real world city that's sinking fast due to crime. Kinda like a cross between NY as it is today with the Detroit of the original Robocop."

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Batman 2.

 

 

Hulme "98%" confirmed as Joker in sequel?!
Author: Jett
Monday' date=' June 6, 2005 - 6:00 AM CST: Part of a report from MOVIEHOLE--

"Australian radio presenter Chris Murray (MMM) is reporting that Lachy Hulme 'is now a 98% certainty to play The Joker' following reports back from the US that Hulme had to decline his invitation to the US premiere of BATMAN BEGINS because of his shooting schedule in the upcoming M for director Geoffrey Wright. Murray commented: 'They wouldn't be inviting him to the opening unless they wanted him for the part.'" Interesting stuff. Reps for Hulme responded with a very firm: "No comment."

BOF was the first to report that Mr. Hulme was up for the part of The Joker. BOF has also been told that WB has gone as far as to do some serious mock-ups of the actor as The Clown Prince of Crime - although I've yet to see them. BOF had also learned previously that Mr. Hulme had to decline an invitation to the premiere - which is tonight by the way - due to him working on M. So that part of the Australian part is true as well....

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Eu até acho que esse cara lembra o personagem, e tem alguns traços dele, só falta saber como é seu potencial como ator.

Já quanto ao Glover: também não conheço muito do seu trabalho, mas dos filmes que eu vi dele, achei que ele não fez nada de extraordinário ("As Panteras", e "As Panteras: Detonando" foram os filmes; duas "pérolas", vale dizer). Alguém já viu o "Vingança de Williard"? É bom?

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Moriarty’s Seen BATMAN BEGINS!!

Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...

Christopher Nolan, I’d like to shake your hand.

And I’d like to congratulate Warner Bros. and DC for not only making a great BATMAN film, but also for raising the stakes on how adult and affecting a comic book movie can be. Since 1997, Warner Bros. has taken a lot of sht from every comic fan on the planet, and for this particular moment, all of that should stop. BATMAN BEGINS is a potent piece of pop mythology, confident, commercial, and mainstream as hell, but not at all what I expected when I walked into the theater last Thursday night.

It’s pretty much all I’ve been able to think about since. It’s that kind of a movie. It demands instant replay. There are things you’re going to want to look at again right away. And it’s a gloriously big movie. It sounds like a perfect fit for an IMAX run, and I may try to go back to see it that way soon. Now that I’ve seen this, it’s starting to feel like 2005 is The Summer of Fear. REVENGE OF THE SITH is all about how fear leads to the downfall of Anakin Skywalker. WAR OF THE WORLDS looks like an exercise in fear and preserving your family in the face of it. BATMAN BEGINS is obsessed with fear from its opening frames, and it manages something that no other film version of Batman has so far: it’s scary.

Once you’ve seen Nolan’s treatment of the material, it seems like a giant “duh,” but no one else has ever fully illustrated why Bruce Wayne would choose a bat as his symbol or what effect he hopes that symbol will have on others. The film also does an outstanding job of illustrating the emotional toll that the loss of his parents has on Bruce, moving past the few iconic images that we normally see so that it can etch a portrait of real loss, thanks in no small part to the affecting work of Linus Roche as Thomas Wayne, Bruce’s father. Where the film really excels is in the way it draws together at least a dozen different characters and several different story threads into a thematically coherent dramatic whole.

The film doesn’t feel episodic, or like it’s been stitched together to satisfy some marketing department checklist, with the exception of one decision we’ll discuss below. Superhero films so far have been justly criticized for a dulling sameness of plot, or for having scripts that are oftent flimsy excuses for set pieces and special effects. I love the genre, but I’ll admit that there’s lots of room for improvement. It seems like the bar is continually being reset every couple of years as filmmakers work to make better movies even as they deliver the specific thrills that fans are looking for. Last year’s SPIDER-MAN 2 was probably the pinnacle of any of the Marvel movies so far, and I expected that BATMAN BEGINS was going to be an imitation of all the things Marvel’s gotten right so far. It’s not, though, aside from that shameless DC Comics logo at the front of the film. Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David Goyer dared to aim high with this movie, and that ambition served them well. I thought Nolan was a little full of himself when I heard him namedrop BLADE RUNNER and David Lean during production. It sounded like grandiose hot air, but I can see both of those influences as more in the finished film. Nolan’s well-steeped in all the previous visual incarnations of Batman, both on the page and on the screen, and there are sly nods to the best of what’s come before peppered throughout the film. This is a fresh take, visually and dramatically, and the sheer thrill of seeing someone pull that off is worth the price of admission.

Some of the credit obviously belongs to the exceptional team of artists Nolan collaborated with on the film. Cinematographer Wally Pfister’s given the film a totally different palette than any recent comic book movie, earthy browns and yellows, hardly the primary colors of something like SPIDER-MAN or HULK, and it also eschews the simple monochromatic blacks and whites that were part of Tim Burton’s approach. There’s nothing gothic about this Gotham, and that’s fine by me. Gotham feels like a real city, and whatever special effects are used to flesh it out are meant to be invisible. Production designer Nathan Crowley hasn’t done anything like BATMAN BEGINS before now, and that may have made him the perfect guy for the job. He’s done his best to ground Gotham in the familiar, and that makes it easier to empathize with Bruce Wayne, to put yourself in his shoes. It feels like this could happen in the world we live in, not in some fantastic land of mutants and superpowers.

Christian Bale is undeniably talented. I’ve been a fan since the still-terribly-underrated EMPIRE OF THE SUN. As an adult, he specializes in chilly but fascinating. His work in last year’s THE MACHINIST was hallucinatory and daring, and far more than just a dangerous weight loss stunt. His work as Patrick Bateman in AMERICAN PSYCHO has become iconic. Here, it’s fine if Bruce Wayne comes across like a barely-restrained freak. Bale’s natural emotional reticence feels appropriate, and it actually makes us feel more for him. We see why he’s disconnected, and we see every step of his efforts to reconnect. He tries it the wrong way first, then gradually finds his way to the right method. The start of the film crosscuts between Wayne’s present and his past as he attempts to deal with the guyilt and fear brought on by the deaths of his parents. You want character arc? Well, Bruce goes through several. First he’s got to forgive himself. Then he’s got to master his fear. Then he’s got to train himself to turn that fear outward. Then he’s got to establish himself as a symbol. And the real trick of the thing is how each of these arcs is compelling in its own right. We meet a lot of interesting characters along the way, all fleshed out above and beyond the call of duty by an excellent supporting cast. Tom Wilkinson’s having obvious fun as Falcone, the city’s big mob boss, but it’s not over the top a la Jack Palance in Burton’s ’89 BATMAN. Rutger Hauer follows up his uber-creepy SIN CITY turn with quietly slimy work as Richard Earle, the man charged with running Wayne Enterprises. Cillian Murphy’s even stranger than Bale as Dr. Jonathan Crane, and the way his change into The Scarecrow is handled should give any NIGHTBREED fan a smile. I’d argue that the Scarecrow alone makes this a film that no child should see. This movie pushes the outer edge of the PG-13, and I think it’s just a matter of luck that they got the rating at all, something that definitely distinguishes this from any other BATMAN. Meanwhile, Katie Holmes has the most difficult role in the film, since it’s the one role that Goyer and Nolan didn’t crack. Rachel Dawes is the one district attorney that can’t be bribed or threatened, and she’s also supposed to be Bruce’s lifelong love interest. We already know he’s not going to end up with her, so the romantic subplot is a dud from the moment it’s introduced. If Dawes the district attorney had been replaced with Harvey Dent and the film had foregone the love interest altogether, I would have no complaints at all.

As it is, this film makes the exact same mistake regarding the love interest that Burton’s first film did: they let her into the Batcave and they reveal Bruce’s dual identity to her. It seems perfunctory, and it’s the one major narrative misstep. As useless as she is in the film, Michael Caine is absolutely indispensable as Alfred. His lifelong devotion to the Wayne family is touching and powerful because of the grace that Caine brings to it. He doesn’t have to say a word in some scenes. He just radiates a certain heartbroken strength when Wayne most needs it. Equally good is Liam Neeson as a slippery underworld figure who introduces Bruce to much of the methodology that he uses as Batman. It’s a pretty canny twist on the mentor character that Neeson normally plays, and he classes the joint up every time he’s onscreen. Morgan Freeman’s the same way. He doesn’t have a lot of screen time as Lucius Fox, the guy responsible for the development of much of the technology that Bruce uses, but he makes the most of every scene. It helps that he gets to be part of some of the most purely fun material in the film.

Finally, there’s Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon. Typically, Gordon’s been a nothing character in any of the films, but this one really lays the groundwork for Gordon as one of the key players in this franchise. I like the relationship that he has with Batman, starting with their first meeting when Gordon is the cop who comforts Bruce the night his parents are killed. This is one of the most normal roles that Oldman has ever played, the one good cop in Gotham. Gordon’s a bit of a nerd, honest to a fault, and he’s the only one Batman seems to trust. By the end of the film, they’ve reached the rapport that I’ve always pictured them having, and all the pieces are in place for what promises to be an outstanding second film.

One of the other things I love is the way all of Batman’s gadgets and vehicles and weapons and his hideout and his costumes and everything else are all grounded in a sort of reality. Sure, you’re still going to have to exercise your suspension of disbelief in order to buy into the concept of a guy in a bat suit fighting crime, but for the first time in any Batman movie, someone’s made the effort to make it seem plausible to me. I would imagine some comic book fans will be frustrated by the fact that this film invents its own continuity, sometimes in direct opposition to the way things have been written or drawn before, but that’ll always be the case. This is so smart and so densely entertaining that it seems preposterous to complain. I like the rules of this particular world. I believe in this Batsuit as something someone could wear that would allow them to kick ass while also protecting them and serving all sorts of practical functions. I believe in this Batmobile, and so will you after the incredible car chase scene that introduces the Tumbler to Gotham City, looking like something off a live news feed.

The score, an unusual collaboration by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, doesn’t have a single theme as iconic as Elfman’s 1989 score, but that’s okay. It’s excellent mood music, and there’s a totally different character to each of the major settings. Just like the cinematography and design, this feels like a deliberate stylistic break from anything we’ve seen before in a Batman film. I don’t know if I’d call this heroic music, per se, but it all feels right for this story. There are some tricky tonal shifts that Nolan has to negotiate here, thanks to the fact that he gives screen time to all three of the faces of Bruce Wayne: traumatized son who is desperate for something to heal him, costumed vigilante looking for justice as revenge, and irresponsible playboy asshole in public. Bale seems to have particular fun with that third version of Wayne, and it’s nice that the film remembered to play with it. The film needs some humor from time to time because, as I said earlier, this film is scary, something I never would have expected from a Batman film. The first time he takes out a whole warehouse full of Falcone’s goons, it’s almost directed like a horror film with Batman as the monster, popping out of shadows and making people disappear. It makes it understandable later when The Scarecrow’s goons are afraid to fight Batman, afraid of the rumors they’ve heard. Even more unsettlings are the visions people have when under the influence of the Scarecrow’s gas. When Batman doses a corrupt cop and then interrogates him, we see Batman the way he does, as a screaming demon with ink black skin and a mouth full of fangs. When the whole city gets dosed later, we see Batman as a winged creature in the sky with glowing red eyes and mouth, a nightmare in flight, and people react in terror, exactly the way they should. It’s trippy, and it’s nothing you’d expect to see in a movie that’s got toys lining the shelves of Target.

I also think this is the first Batman film with genuinely good action scenes. The fights in the film are photographed close, high-impact, the opposite of the wire-work we’ve seen in so many films in the last six years or so. Nolan goes out of his way to make sure Batman doesn’t get off too easy. He makes him work for it every time, and Batman uses surprise and strategy to get the edge over his opponents since he’s not gifted with super-strength. These fights are cut quick, but don’t expect BOURNE SUPREMACY-style shaky cam. Nolan’s confident with his visuals, and he makes each of the action scenes clear and easy to understand, even as he keeps things kinetic and edgy.

If you read the script that leaked online, then you know how they close this film, with a direct sting into the sequel, and it tore the roof off the theater on Thursday night. I think people would have sat through the second film right then if it had been available. Goyer and Nolan say they’ve got a trilogy in mind, and based on this as a starting point, I hope they get to work on that second film as soon as possible. They’ve done one hell of a job convincing me that BATMAN BEGINS, and now I’m dying to see how he continues.

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 RATING: FRESH  READING: 80%

(FRESH = 60% or Greater)

 

Reviews counted: 5
Fresh: 4  Rotten: 1
Average Rating: 7/10