Christian Bale Cast As New 'Batman'

dunno what to think of this, on the good side christian bale's hot and on the other side i can't not think of him as arthur from velvet goldmine. (even when i was watching american psycho i was like 'dude, he grew up weird.')

I didn't even notice a downward trend, they were all acceptable, if underwhelming and disappointing, and the first one seemed almost as campy as the last...

hahahahaha.

Compared to the other people they were thinking of casting (Joshua Jackson???? WTF?!?!?), I think CB is an good choice.

Because it would mean that the Saddest Fan of Movie Musicals Ever By Her Own Description would have rushed out to see N. on the screen.

Seeing Newsies was traumatic enough without all of that unpleasantness.

The rest of the movies I didn't bother with, except to laugh at Batman and Robin when I caught a few minutes of it on cable.

I love living in a world where somthing like that gets "said in a statement."

And yeah, fucking Batman Returns is so much better than all the other Batman movies combined that, you know, if it were any more better than them, it would be something else entirely. Which it is. I respect Tim Burton because he did his time on the first one, made the money to make the money guys happy, then made the movie he really wanted to make, and fucked off. And it's the movie that kind of gets lost when people talk about the "Batman movies," which is probably as he intended.

Also when Batman Forever was released, Digitiser's Mr Biffo wrote something along the lines of "from the title alone, this film sounds like a mid-70's production by the Children's Film Foundation".

The biggest problem I had with "Batman Forever" was the fact that Two-Face was Tommy Lee Jones instead of Billy Dee Williams. (Jones also played him like he was a second-rate Joker, which is just not the right take for that character AT ALL.)

I would be more excited about Halle Berry as Catwoman if she hadn't been so stiff as Storm.

(inner nerd vs inner pervert FITE)

Batman becomes involved in a deadly battle of wits with a relentless gang of school bullies.

yeah this is getting me really riled up. how dare he.

lol @ ed harris / pretentious moderator dynamic

u wanna see something guy ill show u something WATCH ME HIT THIS TABLE SEE I WILL THROW A GLASSSS

It's so inevitable it's scary, the fucking direction we're going in.

Look what happens when Hollywood makes movies like Glengarry Glen Ross and Pulp Fiction.

It's only a matter of time before some loose nut yells up a room full of 30 people.

(In truth, though, last fall I yelled up a room full of about 25 people. Felt great. The guy I yelled at was being unprofessional, rude, was holding up a tight schedule, and deserved it. And it felt great. And it let me to my job on a crucial day instead of having things simmer. And he did a good job after that, instead of the bad job he was doing before that.)

it's apparent you guys prefer this shit to actual cinema

haaahh

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tbh the bale freakout seems at least somewhat in the range of a normal person just losing it and behaving poorly - oreilly/o russell are def on some weirdo narcissist shit

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tbh the bale freakout seems at least somewhat in the range of a normal person just losing it and behaving poorly - oreilly/o russell are def on some weirdo narcissist shit

^this

This honestly does get funnier every time I hear it.

"I was checking the light."

"Oh GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FOR YOU! AND HOW WAS IT?"

I really want him to say, "Great, thanks!"

"Really great, thanks for asking. And how is it getting paid a huge stack of money to pretend to be a soldier from the future?"

lol berman complaint same as bale

This honestly does get funnier every time I hear it.

"I was checking the light."

"Oh GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD FOR YOU! AND HOW WAS IT?"

I really want him to say, "Great, thanks!"

bahahahahahaha

how have we not polled this?

(ohhhhhh goooooood ftw.)

"a ta da ta da" ftw

bale freakout seems at least somewhat in the range of a normal person just losing it

Apparently, BBC Breakfast time broadcast the uncensored version by accident this morning.

It's like a perfect storm of mash up possibilities

Thread of Christian Bale Mash-up Concepts

apparently his dad wasm arriad to gloria steinem. awesome.

Bale and Gloria did not always see eye to eye. 'Gloria liked to pontificate and was going on about something for ages at their table one night,' Cheung says.

'Christian suddenly let out a huge sigh and said, "For God's sake woman, shut up."'

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7874161.stm

BBC 'sorry' over Bale swear gaffe


The BBC has apologised after an unedited clip of the leaked tape of Christian Bale swearing was played on BBC One's Breakfast programme.

"A technical error led to us broadcasting an unacceptable swear word," said a spokeswoman.

Presenters Charlie Stayt and Susanna Reid gasped as the unbleeped clip of the Batman star's tirade went out.

A clearly stunned Reid said: "An enormous apology, that was definitely supposed to be edited."

Seconds earlier, Stayt had introduced the clip, saying "people may want to block their ears" because he expected it to be heavily bleeped.

The tape, of star Bale berating a colleague for ruining a shot on the set of Terminator Salvation, was leaked earlier this week.

OHHH GOOOOOOOD

fucking amateurs, man.

Seriously, the BBC and me are done professionally.

thread needs the vid of the irish pundits talking tht ronan posted once

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090206/en_movies_eo/98799

Los Angeles (E! Online) – There are at least two men with whom Christian Bale is not professionally done: Los Angeles DJs Kevin and Bean.

After a week of unrelenting press coverage in the wake of his leaked onset rant, Bale unexpectedly chose to break his silence over the incident on KROQ radio's popular morning show, taking full responsibility for his Terminator: Salvation explosion.

"It's been a miserable week for me," Bale told hosts Kevin Ryder and Gene "Bean" Baxter. "Listen, I know I have a potty mouth; everybody knows this now.

"The thing that I really want to stress is I have no confusion whatsoever. I was out of order beyond belief. I was way out of order. I acted like a punk. I regret that.

"There is nobody that has heard that tape that's been hit harder by it than me. I make no excuses for it. It is unexcusable. I hope that that is absolutely clear."

As for what brought on the much-played rant, Bale said that the day's shooting was particularly intense and that "I put so much into what I do and care so much about it and sometimes the enthusiasm just goes awry.

"I'm embarrassed by it. I ask everybody to sit down and ask themselves, have they ever had a bad day and have they ever lost their temper and really regretted it immensely."

Not that he doesn't understand the public's insatiable desire to hear—and mock and remix—the audio.

"Feel free to make fun of me at my expense; I deserve it completely."

Bale, who could easily have chosen any worldwide media to deliver his mea culpa, said he selected KROQ because had been listening to the morning show's mockery and incessant playing of his rant all week.

"I spoke with you guys a few years back; you seem like good guys and I wanted to talk with you about it," he said, before adding that the DJs' take on his rant made him laugh. "Believe me, this is no punk."

Kevin and Bean, meanwhile, had a slightly more humbling take on why they were chosen.

"You can talk to a guy who tries to high-five a blind dude or you can talk to Kevin and Bean; those are your options in the morning," they said.

(For those doubting the validity of the scoop, Bale's rep Jennifer Allen has confirmed that it was the actor, and not the station's dead-on Bale impersonator, Ralph Garman.)

As for any residual hard feelings between Bale and the object of his on-set rant, the actor said it ceased being an issue shortly after the outburst.

"We have resolved this completely...I have no intention of getting anyone fired. There is no problem whatsoever."

Shane Hurlbut's side of the story.

(Yeah, it goes to cracked.com, but I lol'ed. It's Friday, sue me.)

lol

worst part of the apology: The actor insisted he does not have an oversized ego.

"Please, if anybody ever sees that I really am thinking that I'm better than anybody else, stick a fork in my backside, turn me over, I will be done. That is not me."

He said he has not yet adjusted to "this notion of being a movie star."

"I'm an actor and I don't quite know how to handle this movie star thing," he said.

Sometimes the Enthusiasm Just Goes Awry

Ooh, that is such a fantastic phrase!

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Be more fun had he called into the Adam Corolla show

Bale also used Friday's call to come to the defense of swimmer Michael Phelps, who has come under fire after a photo surfaced in a British tabloid showing the Olympian smoking a bong.

“Please, Michael Phelps, swim in the next Olympics,” Bale said. “This guy has a God given talent. So he’s smoked a bit of weed, plenty of our presidents have.”

Phelps has since apologized for acting “in a youthful and inappropriate way,” and Bale hopes the incident will not impede the swimmer’s career.

“Everybody makes mistakes. Bounce back from it,” Bale said. “Do not waste that Godlike talent. Swim in the next Olympics, please.”

Please, Michael Phelps, swim in the next Olympics

the inevitable tracy (jordan) morgan parody

ugh bale just needs to shutup now. if i have to hear anything else from him about God, morals or his lack of conceit, i might puke.

did terminator 3 really happen then?

all a dream.

nightmare.

I think I like this DP. He worked on a few John Stockwell films, and JS films pretty much always look great! Also, Anton Yelchin is in this film, so duh i'm seeing it

Hypnotic:

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