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Where is my Batman Begins trailer YOU PUNKS?
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Simo
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Here's one description from SHH's boards:
I expected to be online by today at the latest since it was supposed to be attached with Blade: Trinity but it Seems only a few select prints came with the trailer. The rest are attached with Ocean's Twelve. I guess it could be up on the official site by Saturday.
I expected to be online by today at the latest since it was supposed to be attached with Blade: Trinity but it Seems only a few select prints came with the trailer. The rest are attached with Ocean's Twelve. I guess it could be up on the official site by Saturday.
ManaByte
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Matlock said:Mana: If it's any consolation, I think Batman Returns was the best Batman film, if only for the fact it was what defined Batman for me.
And trust me, I've read way more Batman comics than you'll ever see.
Well of the 90's movies, Returns is the best by far. Begins is so much better though.
I'm talking about the people who still think the FIRST Burton Batman is the best superhero movie ever. They are on hardcore crack.
Littleberu
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Lara said:
No we didn't, but we saw the future.
karasu said:
To me it is. The film is already weighed down by all the big names.
That was the one thing (perhaps the only thing) that The Lord of the Rings did well. Jackson was brave enough to go for less recognisable actors. (Or maybe bravery had nothing to do with it. After all, it was The Lord of the Rings. Johnny Vegas as Aragorn? Sure, why not?)
Lara said:
I've read the script and I still have it in the sacred vault. I'm sure ManaByte does as well.
... Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe and Liam Neeson get the most screentime.
Of all of those actors, Neeson is the biggest and none of them are big Hollywood stars that'd you use to sell a movie.
AniHawk said:
Both Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman have minor roles going by the script.
And again, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe and Liam Neeson get the most screentime. It depends on the final shooting script, because I've heard rumors of stuff being added and subtracted. I wouldn't be surprised to see Gary Oldman in a few more scenes than Tom Wilkinson.
Katie Holmes' character gets far too much screentime than she deserves.
Well, it seems we have differing opinions on what constitutes a 'big name' in film.
Erm....
In my estimation, only a minority of members on your list would have been immediately recognisable to a mainstream audience prior to The Lord of the Rings films.
Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Bernard Hill, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Miranda Otto (i.e., the majority of the protagonists) would not.
levious said:
Erm....
In my estimation, only a minority of members on your list would have been immediately recognisable to a mainstream audience prior to The Lord of the Rings films.
Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Bernard Hill, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Miranda Otto (i.e., the majority of the protagonists) would not.
the people I listed are very recognizable, especially compared to the cast of Batman Begins... and I meant to include Sean Astin. I left off most of the people you listed for a reason. If you don't think they're big names, fine. But they were/are.
Ninja Scooter
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i bet more casual movie watchers know Rudy and The Goonies than anything Gary Oldman has done. IF anything, people like John Ryes Davies (Indiana Jones), Ian McKellen (Xmen) Elijah Wood and LIv Tyler and Hugo Weaving were right around the same level of "stardom" as Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson and Gary Oldman. Morgan Freeman is probably the most recognizable and he's got a supporting role. Christian Bale is the star of this show.
ManaByte said:
Wow, a Batman Begins fanboi. Congratulations. Argue with me about the celebrity of every single actor on our lists. We can conduct oral surveys and create Excel spreadsheets and everything.
To pretend that Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies and Bernard Hill were 'big names' (in the sense that I have described above) before being cast in The Lord of the Rings is risible. Take John Rhys-Davies. If John Rhys-Davies is a big name because of 'Indy', then so is Denholm Elliott (the guy who played Marcus Brody). Right? Right.
The next time I see Denholm Elliott in a film, I know the producers have paid the big bucks. I mean, fuck, it's Denholm Elliott - movie mandarin.
Ok. Your insistence on arguing this dumb point with me is somewhat disturbing. Maybe a better question that you might ask is why I'm disappointed by the presence of alleged 'big names' in Batman Begins in the first place. Or maybe not.
You don't think Elijah Wood, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellan are big time actors, then you're not much of a movie fan. Our point wasn't that this list is BIG TIME HOLLYWOOD... only that LOTR has a overall bigger or at the least comparable cast, name-wise, than Begins.
Simo
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Willco said:
WB are already scouting. Apparently, Lachey Hulme is the No 1 contender for the "role" with Bruce Spence being another possible candidate but the ball is in Hulme's court at the moment
Meanwhile given there's no trailer online yet (and apparently won't be until Saturday or Monday), here's the first draft of the script for Begins by David Goyer for those interested:
CLICK ME
Father_Brain
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