I thought the same thing. how original.

I'm just glad Joel Schumacher isn't involved with the series anymore. If he did another one, I was fully expecting Batman to be cavorting in the Castro District with Robin wearing a strap on.

DA-YUM!

Would it have killed them to keep continuity with Burton's films (i.e. leaving as the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents)? Nonetheless, still looks fabulous...

While Burton's version of Batman was good it changed a few things in the Legend. The killer of Bruce's parents was never who you mentioned above in the comic. Granted, I don't know if this "Begins" will go back to basics as far as Bat history goes, but if it does then Burton's version of who killed Bruce's parents will probably change. It sure seems like they've gone back to Ground Zero in terms of history but who knows.....

Why would they? They're redoing everything and have no connection to those films...so, why carry it over. Besides, the whole Joker killed his parents irked a lot of people, why not go with the original killer.

So that I don't have to take an "either/or" approach to the BATMAN films...again, it's no deal breaker, but it would have been appreciated (as a fan of the films, not the comic book)...

i heard that it suppose to start from the beginning of his turn of batman. how that ivolved and such. so im not expecting much from the film on preivous entries. but i'm pump up for the film, and have watch batman and bf so far, plan to watch the other later in the week. so to get ready for the new film.

Not to mention she is way too young for Christian Bale. He looks like an old man standing next to her. It's not like she would date someone that old in real life.

hmm.better check up on that. Holmes to old for Christain ??.I can see the love interest thing in the new batman begins. cuz,Holmes in real life is dating Tom cruise and he 42 and shes 26. so go figure.
how old is too old for you? theres a 16 year old diff. between Cruise and Holmes. so bale to old for her in BB ,think again!!!!

Um....I believe that was a bit of sarcasm johnglass was throwing out.

sorry,JG, if that was saracasm in your post. its hard to tell if a person in serious or kidding in writting on a message board.

It shouldn't have been.

K

Oh, hell yeah! I've been a Bale fan for years...it's great to see him get a big break like this.

man, CAN'T WAIT!

That's ok. It wasn't all that funny anyway.

It might not have killed them it would have killed the film for a lot of people. It wouldn't let them be faithful to the actual source material either. How many major villains were killed!!! the very first time they tried to pull some shit in Batman's town?

If the villains escape or end up in Arkham Asylum at the end of this one, we'll know that we've arrived.

Oh yeah. About his voice changing when he cowls up: Kevin Conroy's been doing that for years.

Yeah, 'cuz obviously the movie-watching community turned up its collective nose at the Burton films...

Seems Ebert finally approves of a Batman flick.

Only took 5 to do it.

(Yeah yeah, no real point to it, but I'm bored and posting.)

This looks like the film of the summer for me.

Yeah, he does it but in the recent batman stuff he's voiced it's more subtle. In the 1st series it was more of a drastic change when Bruce wasn't Bats.

As an earlier poster guessed, Bale has indeed (see the new interview in STARLOG) come out and said the reason he went for a different voice is because when he put on the bat-suit he felt like an animal...and felt the voice should reflect that. He also wanted to emphasise that Bruce becomes totally different once the suit is on.

Is his review up?

According to this:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/.../50525003/1023

it won't be up until the day the film premieres.

Yep...that's why he's the best Batman

Not a fan of Bale's Bat Voice, but it's just one of two minor flaws in this major film. I'm sure it will grow on me.