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Just not sure a thug with a skin condition is compelling enough to be in a Nolan film. They could be in New Orleans for the huge tax breaks they give the film industry (that’s why Green Lantern filmed there)

I too would love to see a bit more of the “World’s greatest detective” aspect. That’s why the Riddle idea sounded good, oh well.

I think it’s safe to say we’ll get either Talia or Catwoman, they can both fit in really well and hopefully we’ll get a bit of eye candy too! Add in Hardy as Hush and that’s not half bad.

Judging from the title, this one will be about redemption, lots of good story there with the above characters.

Regardless the next 629 days are going to dive me crazy, not “trash a hotel room and scare the shit out of a porn star/hooker” crazy but ya know, nutty.

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I always liked Clayface, Man-bat, and Freeze from the animated series. But I can’t see how they’d work them in to the style of the new movies.

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I’m going to break from the crowd and say I want more of a Gangster feel to this next one. From the last flick he was on the run from the cops. He is seen as a bad guy by the GCPD and as a Vigilante by the public. So they will need a someone or a group that strikes so much fear into the masses that the Bats is seen as the lesser of 2 evils.

Batman (movie) can afford to play the detective roll better if he has a supporting Avenger (no pun intended) I would not mind not a side kick but another hero coming in as not a team up but just another person who picks up the mantle of protector (they hinted at this in the second movie even though it was a fat guy in a NHL suit) and a mass of fighting gangsters trying to fill the void the joker left.

With of course maybe a Kingpin or two just to give the bad guys a face. PIck any of Bats B level villians for this.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]

A local bodybuilder recently got involved in strength training my rugby team. The dude is fucking huge. At the last game one of the opposition players get sent off for eye gouging and was getting some abuse from the crowd. The BB’er shouted ‘‘get off the pitch ya fat cunt’’ and the dude turned around the retaliate but then though better of it when he saw the sheer size(a damn lean 260-ish) of the guy.

Yeah, big people can be pretty damn intimidating

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]

Dude, that’s 'cause you’re a dentist.

If people aren’t scared you’re not doing your job.

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[quote]Jereth127 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]

A local bodybuilder recently got involved in strength training my rugby team. The dude is fucking huge. At the last game one of the opposition players get sent off for eye gouging and was getting some abuse from the crowd. The BB’er shouted ‘‘get off the pitch ya fat cunt’’ and the dude turned around the retaliate but then though better of it when he saw the sheer size(a damn lean 260-ish) of the guy.

Yeah, big people can be pretty damn intimidating[/quote]

On a rugby field, definitely.

On a movie screen, no.

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]

Dude, that’s 'cause you’re a dentist.

If people aren’t scared you’re not doing your job.[/quote]

Very few people know what I do for a living outside of work and I get along well with my patients and wasn’t speaking of how I do at work.

I can see how people respond at the fucking grocery store. You can also bet that in Jet Li’s Kiss of the Dragon, when the big black dude he fights shows up, the whole fucking crowd in the theater gasped and then got silent…and he wasn’t even that big.

What fantasy world are you living in where this no longer has an effect?

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[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I know a decent amount.

What has he done that has made a breakthrough in technology or proving the origins of natural phenomena?

Don’t get me wrong, he’s obviously very intelligent, but people hang off his every word and respect him more because he’s disabled. [/quote]

You have to be one of the biggest retards to have ever graced this forum.[/quote]

LOL the only people getting pissed at this are people of british descent. It’s not offensive

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Your stupidity is what’s offensive, not the crass and ignorant statements themselves.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]

Dude, that’s 'cause you’re a dentist.

If people aren’t scared you’re not doing your job.[/quote]

Very few people know what I do for a living outside of work and I get along well with my patients and wasn’t speaking of how I do at work.

I can see how people respond at the fucking grocery store. You can also bet that in Jet Li’s Kiss of the Dragon, when the big black dude he fights shows up, the whole fucking crowd in the theater gasped and then got silent…and he wasn’t even that big.

What fantasy world are you living in where this no longer has an effect?[/quote]

It’s different in person, obviously, but on a screen size just isn’t impressive. Who’s more frightening, Brock Lesnar or Heath Ledger as the Joker? Movies have evolved considerably since the Arnold days where being big was enough to entertain people. Now Arnold just looks like a big goofy (bad) actor with a silly accent. Modern villains intimidate with their minds, not their bodies. Scarecrow freaks me out. A bodybuilder with a mask on doesn’t.

Big isn’t scary anymore. It’s pandering; we’re beyond that.

And of course you scare people at the grocery store. You’re big, black, hungry and angry.

But just because you’re big doesn’t mean the entire world holds the same views of muscular size as you do. It’s called projection, X.

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[quote]Sarev0k wrote:

[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I know a decent amount.

What has he done that has made a breakthrough in technology or proving the origins of natural phenomena?

Don’t get me wrong, he’s obviously very intelligent, but people hang off his every word and respect him more because he’s disabled. [/quote]

You have to be one of the biggest retards to have ever graced this forum.[/quote]

LOL the only people getting pissed at this are people of british descent. It’s not offensive[/quote]

On topic, Sarevok was one of the big guys that actually intimidated me.

To be fair, I did watch him kill my father. It was very traumatic.

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[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
Your stupidity is what’s offensive, not the crass and ignorant statements themselves.[/quote]

Life just ain’t fair :wink:

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Sarev0k wrote:

[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I know a decent amount.

What has he done that has made a breakthrough in technology or proving the origins of natural phenomena?

Don’t get me wrong, he’s obviously very intelligent, but people hang off his every word and respect him more because he’s disabled. [/quote]

You have to be one of the biggest retards to have ever graced this forum.[/quote]

LOL the only people getting pissed at this are people of british descent. It’s not offensive[/quote]

On topic, Sarevok was one of the big guys that actually intimidated me.

To be fair, I did watch him kill my father. It was very traumatic.[/quote]

“I’m sorry that you feel that way old man.”

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Vicomte wrote:
People aren’t impressed or scared by unnaturally large physiques anymore.
[/quote]

Yeah, that would be called “bullshit”. Hollywood may have stopped using more muscular actors in action movies, but to say that a huge physique in a movie is not intimidating is bullshit.[/quote]

Thirty years ago, yeah.

Now it’s just silly. Bad guys are feminine and crazy now, not big and bad.[/quote]

Right. You sound like someone who hasn’t even seen someone big face to face in a while. I can see the way people look at me and tell what you just wrote is horse shit.[/quote]

Dude, that’s 'cause you’re a dentist.

If people aren’t scared you’re not doing your job.[/quote]

Very few people know what I do for a living outside of work and I get along well with my patients and wasn’t speaking of how I do at work.

I can see how people respond at the fucking grocery store. You can also bet that in Jet Li’s Kiss of the Dragon, when the big black dude he fights shows up, the whole fucking crowd in the theater gasped and then got silent…and he wasn’t even that big.

What fantasy world are you living in where this no longer has an effect?[/quote]

It’s different in person, obviously, but on a screen size just isn’t impressive. Who’s more frightening, Brock Lesnar or Heath Ledger as the Joker? Movies have evolved considerably since the Arnold days where being big was enough to entertain people. Now Arnold just looks like a big goofy (bad) actor with a silly accent. Modern villains intimidate with their minds, not their bodies. Scarecrow freaks me out. A bodybuilder with a mask on doesn’t.

Big isn’t scary anymore. It’s pandering; we’re beyond that.

And of course you scare people at the grocery store. You’re big, black, hungry and angry.

But just because you’re big doesn’t mean the entire world holds the same views of muscular size as you do. It’s called projection, X.

[/quote]

No one would be scared of the Joker by looks alone. It is his acting, his facial expressions and his attitude that make him threatening and even then, he is a clown. If some emo kid dressed like that, he would be a joke…pun.

You are acting like no guy with muscles in history will ever be able to act well. This isn’t about whether bad actor plus muscles equal scary. Why would you assume bad acting goes with big muscles?

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I think the animated series embraced the “worlds greatest detective” part quite well. But with:
Holmes - House
Watson - Wilson
Opium - Vicodin
Crime - diseases
That sweet violin - All kinds of instruments

I don’t know if there’s room for another Sherlock Holmes reincarnation at the moment. Nolan seems to like to keep a high tempo through the films, and the detective work would slow them down. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but he might not like it.

A big idiot with a mask is one thing. A criminal mastermind who just happens to be strong enough to lift you in the air and break your back is something completely different.

Hawking would not be as famous if he didn’t have ALS, but he’s got the same position as Newton did, and you don’t achieve that without being intelligent. And who are we to determine how smart someone is? How many have read anything he’s written? I think most have just heard him being referred to as “the smartest person in the world” on The Simpsons and some people base their “opinions” on that.

Just watched The Dark Knight again and it’s still awesome.

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[quote]kakno wrote:
I think the animated series embraced the “worlds greatest detective” part quite well. But with:
Holmes - House
Watson - Wilson
Opium - Vicodin
Crime - diseases
That sweet violin - All kinds of instruments[/quote]

LOL.

I had actually not made that connection…but like House even more for it.

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[quote]kakno wrote:

A big idiot with a mask is one thing. A criminal mastermind who just happens to be strong enough to lift you in the air and break your back is something completely different.

Hawking would not be as famous if he didn’t have ALS, but he’s got the same position as Newton did, and you don’t achieve that without being intelligent. And who are we to determine how smart someone is? How many have read anything he’s written? I think most have just heard him being referred to as “the smartest person in the world” on The Simpsons and some people base their “opinions” on that.

Just watched The Dark Knight again and it’s still awesome.[/quote]

I know right! You’d think I questioned his theorems with this response from people. I said earlier, its OBVIOUS he’s very intelligent, but he wouldn’t be as famous if he didn’t have Gehrig’s Disease. You people can’t read, and I’m the dumb one?

TDK was def. the greatest of the batman series IMHO. I was merely comparing ledger’s performance(accredited as the BEST ACTOR EVAARR) due to the fact that he died.

If he didn’t die, no doubt people would’ve said it was still a great performance, just don’t put people on a pedestal because of a hindrance.

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[quote]kakno wrote:
I think the animated series embraced the “worlds greatest detective” part quite well. But with:
Holmes - House
Watson - Wilson
Opium - Vicodin
Crime - diseases
That sweet violin - All kinds of instruments[/quote]

Awesome Connection