Fantastic Four movie: Dr. Doom announced!

[DonAdam]

Bale was awesome in American Psycho and that's why I think he'll make a FAR better Batman than the two after Keaton.

What two after Keaton?

Let me make this clear: there were no live action Batman movies made after Batman Returns. It was all a bad dream.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Nightmare is more fitting.

 

[Desdichado]

This guy kind of looks like Victor Von Doom outside the armor.

Exactly the thought I had; he reminds me a lot of Victor in Secret Wars where his face is "magically" restored by the Beyonder and he walks around without a helmet a lot.

 

[Elemental]

(nm)

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

What two after Keaton?

Let me make this clear: there were no live action Batman movies made after Batman Returns. It was all a bad dream.

Just like that horrible dream I once had about a Highlander 2...or something like that. *shudders*

And on topic...I think he could pull it off. Of course, haven't really seen him in that much but I'm willing to give him a chance. Doom is my all time favourite supervillain...so I do have high hopes, I've just never been able to think of WHO could play him. At least someone has an idea.

 

[Ranger REG]

And mixing Chinese and Classic elements? What the--?

Chinese didn't consider Air to be an element, but rather a divine component (Wind). Their elements were Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire.

Actually, I don't think they're Chinese elements. They're Japanese elements.

Rokugan and L5R players would recognize these as their game is based mostly on the Book of Five Rings written by Musashi Miyamoto. The "rings" represent the five Japanese elements: Fire, Earth, Water, Air, and Void.

 

[Ranger REG]

Yes, Doom is the kind of over the top madman who tapes himself talking to himself and others, so "every utterance of Doom is recorded for posterity". He rants and does nothign without putting the kind of royal flair on it that makes the action worthy of Doom.

Suddenly I'm reminded of the Joker in the Batman TV series, or worse yet, that villain that Jeremy Iron played in D&D: The Movie. Their "over-the-top villain" performance is too whacky, two-dimensional, and so not going to win over the sophisticated audience of today.

* shudders *

"It is always the quiet ones." Now that is more believable, one who is subtle, like Ian McKellan's Magneto or the classic Darth Vader of the Original Trilogy. Now I don't mind the villain lost it at the end of the movie when his sinister plan is foiled, but I prefer a villain who just stand and yet you get a chill down your spine.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Todays audience is sophisticated? When did this happen? I must have missed something.

I think what I mean by "over the top" is different than what you are thinking of. Perhaps the term doesn't fit quite as well as it would the Joker. Doom isn't a raving madman. Though he has had the occasional fit when Richards foiled one of his sweet plans. He is the worlds greatest egomaniac, and is mad, but he is also in control of himself most of the time. He can be subtle and is capable of long term plots to destroy the Four or take over the world. On the other hand he can fly off the handle into murderous rage directed at a child who dared claim Richard was his intellectual equal. You just have to love Doc Doom.

 

[Klaus]

Chinese, believe me.

Got meself a Feng Shui (the chinese philosophy, not the game) expert in the house.

Wood feeds Fire that reveals Earth that ours out Metal that flows as Water that nurtures Wood...

Plus, in the Chinese horoscope both my wife and I are Wood Tigers.

 

[KenM]

What two after Keaton?

Let me make this clear: there were no live action Batman movies made after Batman Returns. It was all a bad dream.

I had a horrible dream about a bad fantasy movie called the Dungeons and Dragons movie.