Judging from this trailer, this one looks very promising. The only problem I forsee is that the summer "We want action RIGHT NOW!" crowd might be very peeved at the scenes with Liam Neeson and Bruce Wayne's introspection.

BATMAN BEGINS trailer 2

Seems like Hollywood is finally going to do the character justice & make the other Burton/Schumacher Films look ridiculous...Besides the SCARECROW, we also get RA'S AL GHUL & THE LEAGUE OF ASSASSINS...Some of that TIBET sequence made me think of THE SHADOW & how he learned the secrets to "cloud men's minds"...I disliked the other films, yet with the quality given to SPIDERMAN/X-MEN these days, this hopefully will put the DC Characters back on the map(One thing I am hoping for is that they correct that it was "JOE CHILL" who killed the WAYNES, not the JOKER!)...

Between this film and the new Will Wonka movie I am very excited about next year's blockbuster films.

The Joe Chill / Joker thing never really bothered me. I may be wrong, but didn't Bill Finger invent Joe Chill for a fifties Batman story anyway? I always thought that Bruce Wayne might see his parents' killer in every villain he fights.

Wow - So far everything I've seen or heard about this new Batman film has got me itchin' to see it.

The only thing that bothers me, and I've started a thread on this back at the "old" Mobius, is the costume.

batsuit

The two things that get my goat are:

- The bat symbol on his chest isn't black (I've never seen anyone depict his costume this way in any comic - if anyone else has, let me know and I'll admit that I'm full of doo-doo). Would it have killed them to darken it just slightly?

- The mask. Maybe Warner Brothers requested that the designers make it similar to the earlier films but I think this new mask looks just as bulky and uncomfortable as the ones Keaton and company sported. If this updated Batman is a high-flyin' martial arts expert I would think that his costume would allow for total mobility. It would make more sense for him to wear something closer to Ben Affleck's mask in DAREDEVIL - almost a helmet of sorts that covers the top of the head to just below the ears. Then, underneath could be something akin to a scuba diver's top that wraps around the base of his skull and tapers into the cape- make everything jet black and you're in business.

But, whatta ya gonna do? Complain?