Batman Begins: New Picture of Bats, and he pities the fool!

[Sebastian Francis]

I do believe that the most recent trailer shows that the costume works well as a whole. If done properly, we really shouldn't see much of The Batman at all in a film since he should either be cloaked in shadow or covered (75%) by his cape. I mean, that image of him diving down with the cloak unfurling was a powerful image that really captured The Batman for me and it worked well with the costume.

Dude, stop calling him "The Batman." It's just Batman! Batman! No "The"!

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Dude, stop calling him "The Batman." It's just Batman! Batman! No "The"!

There's certainly a precedent for calling him "the Batman" as opposed to just "Batman."

Superman has always been plain Superman. But Batman is in equal parts "Batman" and "the Batman."

 

[Mark Chance]

There's certainly a precedent for calling him "the Batman" as opposed to just "Batman."

Quite right. From the DC Comics website (emphasis added): "Though regarded by many Gothamites as an 'urban legend' built on superstition and fear of the city's darkened streets, Bruce Wayne knows all too well that the Batman is a cold, hard reality of his own fabrication."

I just don't get why they need a rubber costume....

The One True Batman didn't need molded rubber to look muscular!

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

They really should've darkened the bat symbol, though.

It should be bright yellow like any other version. If not for consistancy, then at least to draw the bullets to the kevlar.

It does resemble the 90's version a bit more than I would expect, since the trailers lead me to belive the movie is going to be more about Bruce than the Bat. I hope they do put more into the character than just gadgets.


Not that I dislike the gadgets.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Every picture or trailer I've seen for this movie makes me dread it.
I think it's going to be awful.
Quite possibly worse than the FF movie, which I have been mocking all along, but at least the most recent news/clips/stills from there are heading in the right direction.

Are we watching the same trailers?!

Everything I've seen about this movie--but especially the cast, who are top-notch from top to bottom--makes me think this could be one of the best comic book movies, and certainly the best Batman movie, we've gotten yet.

Not counting my chickens, of course. But I've seen nothing bad, and only a few things that aren't great.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Though I'll admit the pose in this particular picture, as well the back-lighting, is a bit a goofy.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, so rather than having an action figure that looks like the hero they are having a hero that looks like the action figure?

I am not getting my hopes up, I really didn't enjoy any of the movies. (Though I liked the Adam West Batman movie better than any of the others... if only for the submarine with flippers.)

The Auld Grump

 

[Viking Bastard]

It should be bright yellow like any other version. If not for consistancy, then at least to draw the bullets to the kevlar.

Sheesh! I like the classic big-black-bat version much better than hey-we-can't
-trademark-this-thing-so-lets-stick-it-in-a-yellow-oval Yellow Oval one.

Year One all the way!

Anyway, this is the symbol they've been using since No Man's Land in the comics,
so it's probably because of consistency.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Sheesh! I like the classic big-black-bat version much better than hey-we-can't
-trademark-this-thing-so-lets-stick-it-in-a-yellow-oval Yellow Oval one.

Well, I always thought the comic book explanation for the oval was pretty slick. Comic-book batman doesn't wear full body armor. It'd hinder his movement too greatly. So the oval, especially in a darkened alley, is going to get punks shooting at the one part of him that's actually armored, rather than his arms or legs or head, which aren't.

Considering that this new movie Batman, like the other recent versions, is fully armored, it makes less sense.

I'd like to have seen Batman in a dull leather outfit doing martial arts-ish moves like we see in Blade and Blade 2. Doesn't look like I'm going to get it, though. Hard to imagine high-speed martial arts action in that rubber suit.

 

[Klaus]

Hopefully, after this movie we won't have to imagine...

<crosses fingers>

pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood...