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What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The director was going for realism; as much as one could expect with the topic being a comic book hero. I loved the scene between Bruce Wayne and his doctor. Where the doc runs down the laundry list of physical issues Bruce Wayne has picked up running around as Batman.

Nolan was just following the logical conclusion of what would happen to a man that decided to become Batman in a semi-real world scenario. In a comic book, Bruce Wayne never ages (unless it's retcon) and never suffers the same ailments that mortals do. In a comic book, Bruce Wayne never blows out his knees or a shoulder. Even if he does, he's back to jumping off of 60 foot building in the next issue with no problems. Hell, back in the 1990s, DC had Bane break Batmans spine in two and was parraliyed in a wheelchair. A couple of issues later, Bruce is back to being Batman.

I think the idea was, how could Bruce wayne keep pulling off the Batman thing. At one point he would be emotionally and physically wrecked. At one point, he'd have to find a way to get out or burn up.

I loved all three films.

I hear Spiderman sucks donkey dick.

Totally agree. Loved the doctor scene too. Which reminds me, where can I find a prisoner-physician that can rehab broken backs in 4 months time?

Grandpa's Spells wrote:

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The director was going for realism; as much as one could expect with the topic being a comic book hero. I loved the scene between Bruce Wayne and his doctor. Where the doc runs down the laundry list of physical issues Bruce Wayne has picked up running around as Batman.

Nolan was just following the logical conclusion of what would happen to a man that decided to become Batman in a semi-real world scenario. In a comic book, Bruce Wayne never ages (unless it's retcon) and never suffers the same ailments that mortals do. In a comic book, Bruce Wayne never blows out his knees or a shoulder. Even if he does, he's back to jumping off of 60 foot building in the next issue with no problems. Hell, back in the 1990s, DC had Bane break Batmans spine in two and was parraliyed in a wheelchair. A couple of issues later, Bruce is back to being Batman.

I think the idea was, how could Bruce wayne keep pulling off the Batman thing. At one point he would be emotionally and physically wrecked. At one point, he'd have to find a way to get out or burn up.

I loved all three films.

I hear Spiderman sucks donkey dick.

Totally agree. Loved the doctor scene too. Which reminds me, where can I find a prisoner-physician that can rehab broken backs in 4 months time?

Don't worry. Dragon Door will be putting out another Convict Conditioning DVD that will cover this.

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The director was going for realism; as much as one could expect with the topic being a comic book hero. I loved the scene between Bruce Wayne and his doctor. Where the doc runs down the laundry list of physical issues Bruce Wayne has picked up running around as Batman.

Totally agree. Loved the doctor scene too. Which reminds me, where can I find a prisoner-physician that can rehab broken backs in 4 months time?

j-cubed wrote:

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The director was going for realism; as much as one could expect with the topic being a comic book hero. I loved the scene between Bruce Wayne and his doctor. Where the doc runs down the laundry list of physical issues Bruce Wayne has picked up running around as Batman.

Totally agree. Loved the doctor scene too. Which reminds me, where can I find a prisoner-physician that can rehab broken backs in 4 months time?

Disagree, I actually thought that made no sense. Spoiler warning if you haven't seen it.

During The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne was still doing fine physically. He retires from being Batman for 8 years, immediately after the end of "The Dark Knight" - So some how in retirement he suddenly starts walking with a cane and being all "old man" and stuff. Didn't make sense, if they knew that was the way they were going to go, he should have gotten seriously beat up and injured at the end of The Dark Knight.

Ed Zachary wrote:Set in Japan. Hopefully it will follow the Frank Miller Wolverine story arc.

WildGorillaMan wrote:
I was just saying that. I hope it's got him taking on Silver Samurai, Madame Hydra and the motherfucking ninjas of the motherfucking Hand.

Jay wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:
I was just saying that. I hope it's got him taking on Silver Samurai, Madame Hydra and the motherfucking ninjas of the motherfucking Hand.

If so, that's worth an IMAX ticket

Back in June, a story surfaced that 20th Century Fox had recently registered the title Days of Future Past with the MPAA Title Registration Bureau. For comic fans, that was a big deal as the story is a huge one in the X-Men universe, and with the X-Men: First Class sequel in development, with a set release date of July 18th, 2014, it only made sense that we would see director Matthew Vaughn take the young X-Men into this popular 1981 two-issue storyline that deals with alternate timelines. Now producer Bryan Singer confirms that fact saying, "It deals with aspects of that comic, but also some very new things." More below!

For those unfamiliar, here's a synopsis of the story from Wikipedia:

The storyline alternates between present day, in which the X-Men fight Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men's failure to prevent the Brotherhood from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly. In this future universe, Sentinels rule the United States, and mutants live in internment camps. The present-day X-Men are forewarned of the possible future by a future version of their teammate Kitty Pryde, whose mind traveled back in time and possessed her younger self to warn the X-Men. She succeeds in her mission and returns to the future, but despite her success, the future timeline still exists as an alternative timeline rather than as the actual future. (The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 gave the numerical designation of "Days of Future Past Earth as Earth-811).

Basically, the idea of alternate universes allows for the original timeline of the X-Men trilogy to remain intact while setting off on a new arc with these younger X-Men. It's basically the same idea J.J. Abrams applied to his Star Trek franchise so as not to disrupt the original Star Trek film franchise. However, I think the story seems even more out of this world than the universe Matthew Vaughn created, which was fairly grounded for a movie about people with mutant powers. But Bryan Singer does note to IGN that this whole alternate timeline business might allow for some connectivity to the other X-Men films as well:

"I think there's a strong desire to broaden out the universe. I mean the 'X-Men' universe is every bit on is own as big as the Marvel universe. I thin it s time to reach out and explore and perhaps even bring some connectivity between the films as Marvel has done so well. So you may see some of that. I don't know."

Now the problem we run into here is that since Fox owns the rights to X-Men, we wouldn't see any cross over with The Avengers or any of the characters from that team (though a small crossover with The Amazing Spider-Man almost happened). However, Fox does own the rights to Fantastic Four, and there could easily be some crossover action there with the reboot. Or perhaps Singer was talking about the connectivity of certain characters from the original X-Men films cropping up in the X-Men: First Class sequels as the timelines comes closer to the not to distant future of the original film trilogy. I guess we'll have to wait and see what writer Simon Kinberg has in store for us.

j-cubed wrote:

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The director was going for realism; as much as one could expect with the topic being a comic book hero. I loved the scene between Bruce Wayne and his doctor. Where the doc runs down the laundry list of physical issues Bruce Wayne has picked up running around as Batman.

Totally agree. Loved the doctor scene too. Which reminds me, where can I find a prisoner-physician that can rehab broken backs in 4 months time?

Disagree, I actually thought that made no sense. Spoiler warning if you haven't seen it.

During The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne was still doing fine physically. He retires from being Batman for 8 years, immediately after the end of "The Dark Knight" - So some how in retirement he suddenly starts walking with a cane and being all "old man" and stuff. Didn't make sense, if they knew that was the way they were going to go, he should have gotten seriously beat up and injured at the end of The Dark Knight.

Shapecharge wrote:Well for fucks sake Batt I don't remember what that was...what was the quote?