Batman Begins - Thoughts on the movie esp. the Batmobile (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

[MAXIMUS Nismo]

Ok, the movie was great. It is everything i would have wanted it to be ever since I got an early peek at it a year ago.

Add another car to my list of wants....the tumbler. For purely aestetic reasons, that thing is magnificent. The noise it makes as well (the movie noise I mean) is also worthy of mention.

Imagine starting up your car and it sounds like that? A cross between an angry hyena, a lion/tiger and a crocodile. (anyone ever hear a crocodile's roar? Sounds scarier than a lion's)

For those of you who have seen it, please post your comments.

NO SPOILERS PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BomexS13]

I will try to see the movie tomrrow.

[boon240]

i made a post about it in gen. chat. but besides that the movie is freaking awesome.i'm going to see it again on tuesday. taking the lil bros with me.

[Anand]

2 words:

BAD ARSE!

[Mixmastamunkh]

3 wordsfarkin' bad arse - totally worth seing multiple times. christian bale IMO is the BEST batman so far. the darkest, the coolest, and the most plausible. it actually seemed believable. in that gothem city superhero way. anyways. it rox and scarecrow=t3h roxor.

[ILikeMy240sx]

Top gear featured that monster on their show... The car was actually built to be a bat mobile.. everything is pretty much operational including the airbrakes, the flame shooter out the back, guns etc etc...

[Mixmastamunkh]

i wonder what the specs on that car is....wieght, Horsepower. what type of engine? you know, i bet you a vehical like that has MONSTEROUS torque.

[VSJA1725]

The movie was outstanding it was the best batman movie imo and christian bale is amazing as batman. I will diff. watch it more then once a must see!!

[Badfish]

Just saw the movie again tonight. It gets better the second time. Im gonna have to download that Top Gear episode. Here are some neat pictures I found of the Tumbler.

I love the side profile. This vehicle is very alike to the modified batmobile from The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel.

[Florida240sx]

My sister would find a way to wreck it.It was awesome.Although only question I had was when asked "you know how to drive a stick" Isn't it just throttle and steering?

[ILikeMy240sx]

if you want that top gear episode... goto mininorva and search for top gear and its Episode 6x3

[GhostDriver]

Damn, is this movie that good? All the guys at work saying it's awesome. I'm I underestimating comic book movies?

[grimple1]

I head the Batmobile was 100% JDM with a ph47 SR20 swap. Anyone else heard that?

[GrilledCheese33]

The batmobile drove around the track at the nascar race today, saw it while flipping channels Its fvcking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Darren

[Driftjunkie240]

The batmobile was obviously powered by dual rb26dett's

[KADreams]

Nah... it had a KA-T.

[Badfish]

5.7 liter cheverolet v8 with an additional rear mounted jet engine for extra thrust.

http://www.batmobilehistory.com/2005-batmobile.php

And I thought I wanted to own the 1989 movie batmobile bad.

Sorry, KA-T fans.

[hannibal]

That car is freaky looking. I'd watch the movie just to see it drive.

[Meantime]

Saw it while killing time in Vegas. Awesome movie, makes the other Batman movies look like piles of steaming poo, including Burton's original. Yeah, it was cool in 1989 but it's absolute cheese now, apart from Nicholson as the Joker.

Christian Bale was fantastic - dark, moody, and vicious - and there was a great supporting cast: Gary Oldman, Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman et al. The movie did a good job of integrating elements of the graphic novels Batman: Year One and Year Two into the story, and staying true to what Batman was really supposed to be "about" from the beginning.

And the Batmobile was bad-***...in a Mad Max Falcon XB Interceptor kind of way. They did a nice job on that ride.

[skydragoness]

Saw it while killing time in Vegas. Awesome movie, makes the other Batman movies look like piles of steaming poo, including Burton's original. Yeah, it was cool in 1989 but it's absolute cheese now, apart from Nicholson as the Joker.

Christian Bale was fantastic - dark, moody, and vicious - and there was a great supporting cast: Gary Oldman, Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman et al. The movie did a good job of integrating elements of the graphic novels Batman: Year One and Year Two into the story, and staying true to what Batman was really supposed to be "about" from the beginning.

And the Batmobile was bad-***...in a Mad Max Falcon XB Interceptor kind of way. They did a nice job on that ride.

My sentiments exactly. Jack Nicholson made an awesome joker.

I just saw the movie in IMAX format this past Sunday. It was the freakin super ROXOR!1. I thought i was going to get sick at first but then i was ok. I loved how they went into the whole ninja-school training bit, I used to watch the animated Batman series back in the day and I think they mentioned it too. Liam makes a sweet ninja. Christian Bale: the perfect Batman. I liked how the movie went back to the comic book's original dark roots. Too bad those other movies were made, they were so campy and cartoony. Tsk tsk.

So does anyone think there will be a sequel? If so, who should play the Joker? Too bad Christopher Walken is getting old, and Brad Pitt was nuts in 12 Monkeys. Maybe that would work.

[Badfish]

The old animated series was awesome. The episodes you are talking about are "Night of the Ninja" and "Day of the Samurai", which I think they finally released on DVD.

I really enjoyed how they FINALLY used, on film, the gimmick of Gordon talking to Batman, but hes not there anymore. Perfect Batman movie.

I think they already know they have a tremendous hit with this movie and are eager to reinvent the franchise after this film.

As far as someone playing the Joker, I really would like a relatively unknown actor to play it. I doubt that will happen though and the only Hollywood type I could pull it off is Alan Cumming. He's got the slim, he looks like the Joker without makeup and he can do weird comedy. He's available now that he wont be returning as Nightcrawler in X-men 3.(Too bad Mark Hammil is ageing as well)

[ceniack]

yeah, batman begin't rocked, i dug the ninjas, once toward the end looked alot like snake-eyes from GI Joe

the soundtrack freaking rocked as well