DanM has more Dark Knight pics
The Dark Horizons website has images from the new Batman movie The Dark Knight. Here are a few. Enjoy.
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The Dark Horizons website has images from the new Batman movie The Dark Knight. Here are a few. Enjoy.
Click the pics for the full size image.
August 17th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
My first reaction was to say that I don’t care for the visual direction they’re taking this movie. But then I remember that I thought the exact same thing about Batman Begins before I saw it, and I loved that movie. It looked exactly as it should have.
These pics are clearly shot in full light. Once these are processed, cropped, reframed, and digitally adjusted to make them look like they were shot at night, I think these will be awesome. I’m really looking forward to this movie. Cinematically speaking, 2008 has the potential to be a very good year.
“Some men just want to watch the world burn…”
August 17th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
You guys out there let us know if Warner Bros. forces Dark Horizons to take down the pics, and I’ll post the rest of them here.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:59 am
And so another page is turned.
4th Edition D&D announced.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/
August 20th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Sorry not much on what they’ve done to the Joker here. Maybe when I see the movie I’ll change my mind, but so far I’m disappointed. Not much on Batman’s costume either.
August 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Q - Great, just what we need, yet another new edition of a game that fans and publishers are trying desperately to return to its roots.
You know, there’s a reason the game isn’t selling. A lot of people really don’t like 3rd Edition. I thought it was just me, but a year or so back I heard someone refer to the latest version of Dungeons & Dragons as “a lawyer’s version of medieval fantasy combat.” How incredibly, precisely apt. Its rules heavy and over-inflated. It bogs itself down.
There are all kinds of books out now which try to recreate the feel of the older versions of the game. I’ve almost picked up a couple of the “Dungeon Crawl Classics” modules, and Necromancer Games’s whole publishing strategy is in their slogan: “Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel.” According to Wikipedia, even Gary Gygax, the co-creator of the original, old-school version of Dungeons & Dragons, is in on the game of recreating what he started. He’s supporting the “Castles & Crusades” supplements, which are basically simplified 3rd Edition rules that focus on playing the game and having fun rather than having to leaf through 30 books in search of a list of fucking rules for each and every situation you could ever encounter.
They tried to take 3rd Edition down the path of the Dark Side, in what I presume was an effort to attract new players with a grittier, darker game. Look at the books; they look and feel less like Dungeons & Dragons and more like an RPG based on Sauron’s and Saruman’s forces of evil. Everyone in there looks like a fucking orc or ringwraith; even the elves are grimey looking and covered with spikes. D&D was never meant to be a dark, grim game. Certainly you can play it that way, but really its best kept simple and lighter. Dungeons & Dragons is best when its clever and, for lack of a better word, a little bit wholesome. It should be more like The Hobbit than The Two Towers.
D&D 3rd Edition was released in 2000. Revised 3rd Edition, also known as v3.5, came out in 2003. 3.5 was literally hundreds of very minor, nitpicky little rules changes that required anyone interested in keeping current to buy hundreds of dollars worth of new books. Now Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition is supposed to drop in May 2008. Are fans of the game really supposed to buy all new, increasingly expensive RPG books every 3-5 years? Fuck that.
What is 4th Edition promising to give players for their money? Lets look at the list:
“30th level characters.” You can play that with the perfectly useful 2nd Edition high-level campaign rules.
“Better-defined character roles.” They’re called “specializations” and “kits,” and again, they’re readily available for play with 2nd Edition rules.
How about “expanded online content.” There are plans to support playing the game over the internet. Well, whoop-de-fuckin’-shit. How incredibly groundbreaking… if this were 1980. People have been doing this for years. And its not something the publishers came up with. Fans invented means to play online, or via message boards, and even via postal mail, and they did it LONG before TSR/Wizards Of The Coast ever published a single digital byte. This is not a new feature, its just the publisher taking advantage of something people are already doing.
“Simplified game mastering.” This isn’t a new feature at all. Its a fix for the way they fucked up 3rd Edition. Running a game simply was more or less built into 1st and 2nd Editions. If you know the players’ rules then you know enough to be the Dungeonmaster (for those non-gamers out there, the Dungeonmaster, in the most simple definition, is the person who acts as a sort of referee and arbiter for all the other players in a Dungeons & Dragons game). The 1st and 2nd Edition Dungeonmasters Guides are great books. I fully plan to stalk and destroy any creature that ever fucks with my 1st Edition DM’s Guide, because it’s a fantastic book and took me a long time to get ahold of one (thanks to DanN). But you don’t really need them. With a little thought and consideration, you can just pick up a Player’s Guide and go at it.
I hate to judge too harshly before I’ve even seen the game, but 4th Edition is going to have to be pretty goddamned spectacular and offer all manner of pleasantness for me to be a fan. I’m not saying the book needs to get me laid or anything, but after the crap that was Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, I think a few blowjobs are certainly in order.
The edition that started it all.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Just curious, has any gamer out there ever played a D&D character (starting from first level) long enough to EARN enough experience points to reach 20th level, let alone 30th level?
August 21st, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Take the quiz and share your results. As for mine, I did not see this coming…
66%
MEGATRONTake the Transformers Quiz
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:13 am
59%
STARSCREAMTake the Transformers Quiz
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:32 am
60%
MEGATRONTake the Transformers Quiz
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I’m starting to feel a little self-conscious here. I wish Mark would hurry up and take this test. I’m sure if he answers all the questions honestly he’ll be more evil than me.
By the way, here are the other two possibilities:
0%
OPTIMUS PRIME
0%
BUMBLEBEE
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Check this out. I actually got this from ESPN its from a column on page 2 of ESPN.com called The Monday Morning Quarterback. This guy basically rants on everything from sports to movies to pop culture etc. I totally agree with him about Spidey and his body producing the webbing. That has always been my biggest problem with the movies;
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Did this guy even watch the movies? Spiderman, invincible? The Green Goblin took him out in 2 seconds flat with knock out gas. Had the Goblin not been interested in recruiting him, Spidey would have been toast.
In the second movie, Doc Oc pretty much kicked Spiderman’s ass in every fight scene. Had Aunt May not interfered on the clock tower, Spidey would have been skewered. He would have faced the same fate in the warehouse, had he not used his quick wits to pull the power cable up to intercept Doc Oc’s spike. Even then, he had to TALK his way out of being killed by one of Doc Oc’s rogue arms.
To say that Spiderman has become Superman-like is just plain retarded. In any of these movies he could have been easily “defeated”. The problem is that doesn’t sell tickets. Who the hell is going to pay to watch Spiderman lose?
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I would. I want to see the heroes of my movies get the shit beat out of them before they beat the bad guys. As a matter of fact, I expect it. It makes me feel like they’ve earned the victory. I wouldn’t give a shit about John McLaine if he’d had boots on. I want to see him run barefoot across broken glass. Would Indy’s victory after the fight on the truck have been so fantastic if he hadn’t been thrown through the windshield and shot in the arm? I don’t like it when heroes don’t get hurt. I want to see them face life and death. Give me a movie where the good guys really have to work for their victories, and I’ll appreciate it much more.
I would also pay to see Superman lose. I want to see The Death Of Superman story arc in a well-made movie. I want to see Doomsday and Superman literally beat each other to death for two hours, destroying most of downtown Metropolis in the process. If it was told the way it was told in the comics, with them hitting each other so hard the shockwaves shattered all the glass in the nearby skyscrapers, it would be so fantastic. I’ll bet Bryan Singer could pull it off.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Spiderman did get the shit beat out of him in the first two movies.
Getting the shit beat out of you only to come out victorious in the end is not losing.
Losing is what happened to Superman when he got killed by Doomsday. And your going to get your wish on that….sort of. DC comics will be releasing an animated movie on September 17th called Superman Doomsday, based on that storyline. It will carry a PG-13 rating.
http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=7921
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:18 am
Personally I’m just glad that someone else besides me that I’ve seen anyway finally ranted about the fact that Spiderman was never able to make his own webbing. I think that’s why I’ve never seen the other 2 movies, to me that was such an oversight I didn’t care how good the action was (is) in the other movies I just can’t get past that fact.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
DanM - You’re missing my point. In a series of films as successful as the Spider-Man movies have been, you know they’re going to end on a high note. So have him lose at the end of a movie. Have him go through some serious low times, like the end of The Empire Strikes Back. That’s what I want to see. If they’re gonna make a series of films, have one end badly. It’ll make the next one that much more interesting.
Mrs. X - Yeah, I can totally see where you’re coming from. But I still think you should check out Spider-Man 2. He encounters the “running out of webbing” issue, which I thought was handled pretty well in the context of the story set up in the first film. Just avoid Spider-Man 3 at all costs. Its not a good movie.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I do understand your point.
I think the problem is we have different definitions of what losing is.
Suffering a series of setbacks that bring a character to low point, like in Empire Strikes Back, is not what I consider losing.
To me, losing implies that a character has some experience which produces consequences that are irrevocable and impossible to overcome.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Hey I pulled this off of a blog I reguarly look at (it is a political blog) I have no desire to discuss politics on here, but I thought this post was just to good to pass up. Personally I think Dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them = hillarious.
If someone can tell me how to post pictures on this site I will post the artist’s rendering that went along with the post.
August 24th, 2007 at 11:56 am
DanM - Can we at least agree that Spider-Man 4 should be focused on Mary Jane losing? First losing her voice, then her clothing, then her head? That’s what I’d like to see. Or Mary Jane vs Doomsday. That would be even better. The could have Dr. Strange guest star and keep resurrecting her so that Doomsday could kill her over and over again in increasingly amusing ways. One punch from Doomsday, BAM! Mary Jane chunky salsa.
Mrs. X - It’s kind of a pain to post pics from your end, but I’ll send you some instructions. In the mean time, I’ve updated your comment with the image. I’ve darkened it to make it easier to read. Click the pic to check out the original page.
August 24th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Seeing how this site has been getting an unusual amount of Ghostbusters attention recently, the timing of Bill Murray in the news couldn’t be better… for us. Mouser filled me in on this a couple of days ago. Here’s what he had to say:
It was inevitable that Top5 would take a jab at it. Here’s what they came up with:
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August 23, 2007
NOTE FROM CHRIS:
Actor Bill Murray was pulled over by Swedish police early Monday while driving a golf cart through downtown Stockholm under the influence of alcohol.
The Top 16 Bill Murray Excuses
16> “I’m sorry, officer, but I thought this was Amsterdam. I get away with all kinds of shit there.”
15> “I was chasing this gopher, see…”
14> “Of course I know there’s a Swede limit in speedin’!”
13> “What can I say? I have a helluva slice.”
12> “Thought I’d troll and flash my pimp cred in case Elin Nordegren-Woods has an older sister in town. Rowr!”
11> “I’m rehearsing a scene for ‘Swedish Meatballs’.”
10> “About time you guys showed up! Give me an escort — there’s a Saab executive who ran out of Tuborg on the 15th tee!”
9> “I’m caddying for Tiger’s brother, Norwegian Woods.”
8> “I can’t take breathalyzer tests — I’m still full of booze from my ‘Saturday Night Live’ days.”
7> “This is fun. I’ve never played a par 47 before.”
6> “I was forced to take over the wheel when Bjorn Bork fell out on the freeway.”
5> “Back off, Sven! I’m a Ghostbuster”
4> “Boy, that John Daly can hit a ball. Have you seen a Titleist 4?”
3> “I’m not Bill Murray. I’m my brother, John Murray.”
2> “Lord, this is the biggest IKEA ever! Where the heck is the kitchenware?”
and Topfive.com’s Number 1 Bill Murray Excuse…
1> “Nobody told me there was a police hazard on this course!”
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August 28th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I love Star Wars, just as much as the next person, probably more; but give me a break.
How much money are they going to waste on this stunt?
August 28th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Who, NASA? It won’t cost them a dime. Despite all the fuel/weight ratio stuff you see in the movies, the shuttle carries plenty of extra fuel and the crew are all allowed to bring personal items up to a certain weight. This will be a negligible load as far as the shuttle and crew are concerned. They might even make a little money depending on whether or not they charged Lucas to fly this thing up there. Personally, I think they should take Lucas himself up there. And leave him.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It may not be much but somebody still has to pay for the actors, the security while transporting the lightsaber to the ceremony,the ceremony itself, and the caravan of Hummers with police escort.
I guess I find the whole pomp and circumstance surrounding the event to be annoying. It’s an effin movie prop.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Yeah, but all that cost would be on LucasFilm. If they want to waste their money on meaningless self-indulgent crap to massage Lucas’s ego, I say let ‘em. Beats spending that money on another waste of time Star Wars movie.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
True. The man needs to learn how to move on, give it a rest, or pass the torch on to someone far more capable.
Too bad it will never happen.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Damn Chris you said exactally what I was gonna say when I read this. They should take Lucas up there and leave him….let’s see him CGI his way out of that HA! Really if I was him I would wait unitl I died have my ashes put in the lightsaber and then launched.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:30 am
The trailer for Alien vs. Predator: Requiem is online.
http://www.avp-r.com/trailer.html
Looks like it will be a blood bath, which in my opinion is a good thing because the first AVP movie was far too tame.
Now, if they can just change that lame ass title before it’s released…
August 29th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
HOLY SHIT!!!
Even the trailer is rated R! That means the trailer is more violent and bloodsoaked than the entire first movie. Sweet!
I’m not saying this is gonna be a great movie, because I just can’t tell from this little footage. But this looks like it has the potential to be AWESOME.
A few issues I have with the AvP films:
1. I never liked the idea that the aliens have made it to Earth. Part of Ripley’s entire drive in the Alien movies is that she was preventing that from happening. Then along comes Alien vs. Predator to say “Tough shit, it already happened, and it happened on Antarctica when it was a jungle 10,000 years ago, which it wasn’t.” Bad science and bad storytelling.
2. Apparently, the aliens are loose in the woods on Earth, in a place remote enough to allow hunting. If that’s true, then guess what? Earth is fucking DONE. It’s like Ripley said, “… if one of those things gets down here, then that will be all! And all this, this bullshit that you think is so important, you can just kiss all that goodbye!” In Alien 3 they showed that a xenomorph not only has the ability to gestate in something as small as a dog (or as large as an ox, depending on which version you watch), but also that it takes on some of the characteristics of the host. Xenomorphs that gestate inside humans walk upright, those from dogs run on all fours. What the fuck is going to happen when these things are freed over a hunting area that may be hundreds of square miles of uninhabited wilderness? What happens when they gestate inside deer, coyotes, stray dogs, or, god forbid, wolves bears, or wildcats? Humanity is fucking toast, that’s what. I give alien eggs in the wild 12 hours tops before something suitable comes along to gestate inside. Any longer than that, and it’s goodbye Mother Earth. You can see from the trailer that a facehugger got that hunter, so there are some undeveloped xenomorphs running around in the fucking woods. Unless that was the only one down there, this upcoming movie is going to have a lot of explaining to do.
3. These movies are modern day. Fuck that; these films should be set in the future, where we can watch a Predator wipe out xenomorphs as well as dozens of overconfident Colonial Marines. That would kick so much ass that I just peed myself thinking about it.
4. Honestly, if I see another movie with a hot girl wearing a tank top and shooting a machine gun to prove that a girl can be tough as well as sexy ’cause Grrl Power Rulez!, I’m gonna drive to Hollywood and stab the bitch in the face with a fork. What is this clichéd bullshit? It’s not new. It’s not innovative. It doesn’t even carry a message, other than to say, “We the filmmakers saw someone else do this in another crappy movie and we’re copying it here because we are unoriginal and need to be slowly beaten to death with a shovel.” The only actress in the world who should be allowed to wear a tank top and fire a machine gun ever again is Linda Hamilton, because she looks like she knows what she’s doing. If Linda Hamilton pointed a machine gun at me I’d be extremely concerned. If Angelina Jolie or Milla Jovovich or whomever the hell this new pair of tits is ever took aim at me, I’d stand motionless, confident in the fact that I was perfectly safe with the gun in their talentless, emaciated, stick-figure arms. Aliens spray acid blood, ladies. You might wanna think about something with sleeves.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:11 am
Yikes. Let it go people. You’ve already made three abysmal movie sequels and destroyed a decent TV series.
http://www.scifi.com/highlander5/
August 31st, 2007 at 11:51 am
Yeah, but really how much worse could it get? Highlander 2 was easily one of the worst sci-fi movies I’ve ever seen, and considering that a lot of sci-fi is done very low budget and with minimal regard to quality or story, that would place it high in the running for worst movie EVER. The Highlander sequels have all been better than Highlander 2, which isn’t difficult. I can’t imagine this movie would be any different. The Highlander franchise has already been driven into the ground. I say let them make all the movies they want. Maybe one will good by accident. What could it hurt?
August 31st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Sorry, but to me that’s like saying “let’s beat a dead horse, it might get up and walk again.”
Why waste the money? They already f#$ked up the storyline beyond repair.
Guess I’m just too much of a loyalist to the original movie.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:18 pm
There’s no such thing as fucking a story up beyond repair.
The problem with your way is that it closes the door on the possibility of a good sequel coming out of the ashes, so to speak. I’m a HUGE fan of Highlander. Not the series (which I’ve never seen), nor the sequels (of which all the ones I’ve seen have sucked), but Highlander. That’s why I would love to see a direct sequel made, like with Superman Returns.
Look what happened with the Superman movies. I think pretty much everyone in the world would agree that Superman II could have been a lot less slapstick comedy and a lot more super. And Superman III and IV were just pure shit. But if they’d just closed the book on it, Bryan Singer would never have been able to come along and rework the story. He never would have been given the chance to just ignore parts III and IV outright and make a direct sequel to Superman II to get the franchise going in the right direction again.
I think what they need to do is focus on getting back to the roots of the story. Forget everything except the first film. Get a new actor to play Connor MacLeod. Get a new Kurgan… actually, no; Clancy Brown is still in good shape and is too awesome to replace. Place it in any era between 1541 and 1985. That’s a huge swath of very interesting history just waiting to be explored.
Get a new actor to guest star as Ramírez now and then in flashback, or maybe have the occasional episode dedicated to showing his adventures. He was born before Christ, for god’s sake. Tell us where he came from, how he lived, about his mentor Graham Ashe that watched out for him the way he watched out for Connor. There’s got to be something a decent writer can do with all that material.
There’s a lot of life left in the original movie, if they’d just go back and get it. They can also steal the few bits and pieces of the sequels and series that aren’t completely stupid, and leave the rest to rot. Stop focusing on this Duncan MacLeod guy and stick with the original movie. There’s lots of great stories in there just waiting to be told.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
They had their chance (on numerous occasions) to fix it and failed. Hell, the TV show was pretty good until they threw in that subplot with the Watchers. All they had to do was have Connor kill Duncan in the series finale and that part of the franchise would have been fine. But no, they had to make a whole brand new movie where Duncan, and not Connor became the last, totally negating everything that made the first movie great.
Yes, there is the potential for numerous stories set prior to the original movie, but the chuckleheads in charge of the franchise aren’t smart enough to go there. And even if they got bright and pursued that route it still wouldn’t excuse the awful movie sequals they spewed out of their asses, plus they’d probably find some way to f@$k them up too.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Your replacement characters in the word ‘fuck’ are causing it to be read as an email address. That’s pretty funny. It never occurred to me that would happen. XHTML errors are hil@rious.
By the way, it’s okay to use the actual word. This is an adult site for adult readers. And adults not only like to fuck, but here in the US of A, are the only ones legally allowed to do so. WARNING: If anybody out there can’t handle seeing the word fuck, then never, ever, ever read anything with the labels “posted by Chris” or “Chris says.” You will probably not like what’s inside.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:45 pm
WARNING: If anybody out there can’t handle seeing the word fuck, then fuck you, you fucking mother fucker.
(Was that too much? Fuck. I thought so, but then I thought, “What the fuck, let’s fucking go for it!” Guess I fucked up.)
August 31st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Aw Fuck I forgot what I was gonna say
August 31st, 2007 at 4:07 pm
You fucking forgot what the fuck you were gonna say? Well fuck it, then.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:44 pm
September 4th, 2007 at 11:40 am
New article coming tonight. I promise. Really. Pinky swear.
September 4th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
We’ve heard that before
September 4th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
There fucking better be a new fucking article
September 4th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Sweet Jesus… I’m gonna get performance anxiety.
Hey, for anyone who likes to be made love to with sound waves, DanM, THO Girl and I went to see Rush on Saturday night. It was pretty sweet. They had a great intro to “Tom Sawyer” with the boys from South Park. Check it out: