So who has seen the movie???? I am going next week.


-Chris

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i watched it!! did you see it yet spock? what did you think?

interestingly - i watched it twice - once in a theatre with good sound and the second time in a theatre where the sound was just okay... it made a big difference because the sound design is really quite outstanding....

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I saw it the other night. I really liked it. I happened to see it in digital projection. Heath was incredible as the Joker. I liked how all the character story lines twisted around eachother, and then all came together at the end.

I am a big fan of the Batman Animated series, as well as the JLA series that was on a few years ago. I think these Batman films are 1000 times better than the ones that came out based on Burton's version.


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Want to see it!

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I really like the tumbler...


Batmobile

The Tumbler, the Batmobile used in Batman BeginsCrowley started the process of designing the Tumbler for the film by model bashing. Crowley used the nose cone of a P-38 Lightning model to serve as the chassis for the Tumbler's jet engine. Six models of the Tumbler were built to 1:12 scale in the course of four months. Following the scale model creation, a crew of over 30 people, including Crowley and engineers Chris Culvert and Annie Smith, carved a full-size replica of the Tumbler out of a large block of Styrofoam in two months.[35]

The Styrofoam model was used to create a steel "test frame", which had to stand up to several standards: have a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), go from 0 to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in 5 seconds, possess a steering system to make sharp turns at city corners, and withstand a self-propelled launch of up to 30 feet (9.1 m). On the first jump test, the Tumbler's front end collapsed and had to be completely rebuilt. The basic configuration of the newly designed Tumbler included a 5.7-liter Chevy V8 engine, a truck axle for the rear axle, front tires by Hoosier (which are actually dirt racing tires used on the right rear of open wheel sprint cars), rear 4x4 mud tires by Interco., and the suspension system of Baja racing trucks. The design and development process took nine months and cost several million dollars.[35]


The rear of the Tumbler, showing the flaps and engineWith the design process complete, four street-ready race cars were constructed, with each vehicle possessing 65 carbon fiber panels and costing $250,000 each to build. Two of the four cars were specialized versions. One version was the flap version, which had hydraulics and flaps to detail the close-up shots where the vehicle propelled itself through the air. The other version was the jet version, in which an actual jet engine was mounted onto the vehicle, fueled by six propane tanks. Due to the poor visibility inside the vehicle by the driver, monitors were connected to cameras on the vehicle body. The professional drivers for the Tumblers practiced driving the vehicles for six months before they drove on the streets of Chicago for the film's scenes.[35]

The interior of the Tumbler was an immobile studio set and not actually the interior of a street-capable Tumbler. The cockpit was over-sized to fit cameras for scenes filmed in the Tumbler interior. In addition, another version of the Tumbler was a miniature model that was 1:5 scale of the actual Tumbler. This miniature model had an electric motor and was used to show the Tumbler flying across ravines and between buildings. However, the actual Tumbler was used for the waterfall sequence
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-Chris

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Haven't seen it yet but it only came out here a few days ago. They say that Maggie Gyllenhaal is much better in her role than Katie Holmes and there are calls for Heath Ledger to be awarded a posthumous oscar. The only bad publicity surrounding the film is it's star Christian Bale for assaulting two of his family members. Just seen an exclusive picture of him as John Connor in "Terminator Salvation Part 1: The Future Begins". This will no doubt be huge, when it hits screens next summer, the last one was a disappointment to say the least.