Talk about a manifestation against the streamlining and organic design of the 90's.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I've seen it before, although I'm sure it had a (worse) colour-scheme than last time.
I'm undecided. It's an interesting approach, although possibly smacking of "let's make it not what they expect to SHOCK them SHOCKINGLY!" And I did really like the Batmobile shown in the first two movies and the initial run of the cartoon. It looked shit in Forever and & Robin though.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
It's pretty much a tank. I'm not immediately against it, as I think it fits in with the image they're trying to give Bats this time around. I'm tremendously excited about this movie. It has definite possibilities.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
Well if it's a tank, where be the gun(s)? I liked the Batflyer of Keaton's movie, twin gatling guns. Way too underexposed, that was.
I hope it "smooths" out when in drive mode, all those chinks in the plates kind of defeat the purpose of protecting the soft innards. The six servo-driven spoilers on the rear of it, that's what gives it the "reman warbird"-look.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I can't for the life of me remember what the Batmobile looked like in The Dark Knight Returns, but wasn't it also a bit tank-ish?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Wow! Now I know what would happen if Pablo Picasso and H.R. Giger had painful, raunchy sex, and their bastard love child designed the Batmobile!
Mark
Posted by Kazeite (Member # 970) on :
I think that vehicle from Dark Knight Returns was supposed to be Bat-tank, as opposed to "ordinary" Batmobile.
Anyway, I must say that I don't like this Batmobile.
At all.
It looks like... Transformer caught in the middle of transformation or something. But most importantly, it doesn't look bat-like. Where are the bat-fins? Bat-logo? Hell, even giant bat-head attached to hood wouldn't be half bad compared to this... nondescript vehicle.
Sigh...
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
It looks like Batman had a problem, no-one else could help, and then found and hired the A-Team. Yes.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
It looks like something from Junkyard Wars. Before being made into a vehicle.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
*RETCH* That is hideous. I loved the first movie incarnation of the Batmobile. This is... well... words can't describe what this is. And it's not even called the Batmobile. It's called the "Tumbler". (?!?) Here's another image from that same site that they scanned from a Rolling Stone article.
B.J.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
I think the idea is that it was originally some sort of assault vehicle that Wayne Industries was building, that got co-opted by the new Batman as the first Batmobile.
And before you ask the next question, you do have to wonder why no one identified the Green Goblin's flying platorm, either.
Mark
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
It looks like a heavily-armored ATV. It looks interesting and all, but it just doesn't strike me as Batman vehicle. Yeah, it's black, but that's about it.
The Batmobile from the first two movies remains my favorite of the Batmobiles.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I think the Batmobile from the new animated series "The Batman" is pretty sweet too. The toy looks rockin'. I'm tempted to buy it now that I'm all working again and stuff.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
Does anyone know a site with all the designs of the movies? Which one was it that shed its outer layers and proceeded like a torpedo in the sewers? I thought that one looked very cool, like those old bullet-shaped race cars of the 1910's.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
quote:Well if it's a tank, where be the gun(s)?
I think I can answer that, son.
Since he probably accelerates with pedals, the trigger on his joystick must do something nasty.
Also, we can see that this is a movie made in the 21st century, because now more than ever, people have learned the value of proper lipcare, applying colored balms of choice to keep lips nice and moist. Batman is a role model on so many levels.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Personally I like this incarnation. It fits the apparant tone of the new movie (which I'm itching to see). The main problem I have with just about every other batmobile design I've seen (the old Batman TAS car included) is that they tend to be a little too focused on form, not so much on function. For a start they're stupidly long, giving a very poor turning circle and tend to have next to no ground clearance. Not exactly an ideal situation when you're tearing around a city at night.
As has been mentioned this is effectivly a "Year One" story, so most of the toys at this point would have to be pretty much off the shelf. Indeed if I recall my crash course in comic book continuity last month, the original batmobile was always an existing vehicle he modified and that it wasn't until later he started designing (or getting someone else to design) a more stylised car.
Incidently, my favourate Batmobile still has to be this baby. One of these days I'm going to pester Axeman into building a mesh of it.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Oh god I see a CapComp coming in the near future...
Although I do like that shade he's wearing... but not on him. I think it should be lighter.
That thing of a "Batmobile" isn't something I'd have warm fuzzy memories of unlike the Batmobile from the first two movies with Keaton. Then again its styling came from Tim Burton's direction.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
Reverend:
quote:Incidently, my favourate Batmobile still has to be this baby.
That's no car, that's a space station! Or a TIE Fighter. Which direction is it going? *dazed and confused*
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Technically it is still a car. Mainly because it can't be a Batwing, because..err...it doesn't have any.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
I see.
Well as they say, good things come in small dump tru- I mean packages.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
What's with the bag thing?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Bruce Wayne made all that money as a unionized garbageman.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Anyone noticed in the first link, third pic - the sign on the wall... Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I had no idea Judohobo was so small...
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
Well maybe it's the car that is big, you ever think of that, Javert?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The car looks like something out of Mad Max.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Now, much as I admire Christian Bale's ability to move beyond just being That Annoying Kid From Empire Of The Sun, I do wish he could use his facial muscles to produce some other expression than Sucking On a Lemon.
"I am sucking on a lemon. I squeezed it with this BatLemonSqueezer."
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