We just got some new Batman Action Figures. They are totally awesome and are from the Trinity series, series one.
We have Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman and the each sell for $15.99. If you get on our newsletter mailing list, you’ll be sure to receive a SuperHeroStuff.com discount code.
We also got some new Lot 29 Speed Racer t-shirts in stock.
This is one of our top selling shirts so far. Speed Racer movie will be either a Love It or Hate It. I have high expectations for the film… that is until I saw the trailer at the Iron Man movie. I don’t know… it might have almost wayyyy too much vibrant electric color. Over the top. But I’m still going. I think it’ll still be good. I have faith. You can check out our new Lot 29 Speed Racer t-shirt, for $27.99, at our Speed Racer t-shirts page.
We also got in a brand new Iron Man t-shirt! Very cool, yours for only $19.99. You can see all of our Iron Man Movie T-Shirts here. And don’t forget to go see the movie. It was really well done. I gave it a 4.5 out of 5.
You’ll definitely want to visit our new Batman Dark Knight Movie page to get a glimpse of all the images of this hot movie that’s coming out.
Two new Batman Dark Knight Posters
Michael: … Third, Gary Oldman makes the best damn Gordon ever, right out of Batman Year One!
Ronando: - I agree. I think Oldman’s a good choice, but primarily only based on Year One Batman, but he needs to have white hair and white stash in order to be the commissioner in future flicks. Overall… even with my jaded cynicism I’m very pleased with Ledger as The Joker.
Yes, I HATED JACK NICHOLSON as the joker. That’s right. I said it.
He was fat.
He wasn’t the joker.
Everyone in their friggin mind was nuts to like him, except you of course you… you can like him. He wasn’t scary. He was too much into the costume. But that’s not his fault, stupid whatshisname’s fault… Burton! That freak. That necrophiliac freak has some sort of love affair with dead people. Just look at his work.
Freeman as Lucius Fox is ok. Though Fox is a bit younger in real life… but I like Morgan, yet … he just doesn’t nail it. Something’s lacking in his performance as Fox, but that’s alright since Fox’s a background character and we’re lucky to even have any part of the comics in these damn movies with all of the artistic licensing that’s going around in their production.
Bale is good as Bruce Wayne, good as Batman… no complaints there. But… the uniform… it’s a stretch. Nolan is taking a more practical stance on Batman. They have created their own universe, they aren’t following the comics when it comes to the uniform and the batmobile.
See… there are two ways the movie gods can do this. One is that they can follow the comics and stick to tradition, to a certain extent and yes.. yellow spandex on Hugh Jackman would never ever work. Or, they can launch from the comics and go their own route, which is at the risk of pissing off comic enthusiasts. We go to the friggen superhero movies expecting to see the comics brought to life, and whatthehelldoweget? Some necrophiliac’s interpretation of a superhero with stupid, idiot BOMBS in the Batmobile’s hubcaps. Idiots. Yes, I’m talking about the stupid 1989 Michael I’m not Batman Keaton movie.
Batman Dark Knight is having it both ways. They take what they want and… in fact they all want it both ways (can you say friggen organic webshooters??), so they take what they want which is
A Batman name and look
The joker
Supporting cast and location i.e. Gordon and Fox and Pennyworth in Gotham
and a skeletal outline of a story, i.e. Batman traumatized billionaire boy fights crime with an eye towards techno fashion and emo capes.
Then whatthehelldotheydo?? They then add in their own shit to make it transition, in their opinion, into the real world. i.e. The Tumbler (which is acceptable) 2) electo – cape… (which is… acceptable only because the cape is a kind of a mystery in the first place. We never really know much about it in the comics. In fact, I only read once where Batman had the ends weighted with something to be used as a weapon when he swung it around. Friggin ripped open a guys nose when he did that. I loved it) 3) body armor, 4) trained by ninjas 5)… guns! Someone tell Nolan that Batman isn’t supposed to use guns. Even in Year One.
So, Nolan and every other superhero movie maker wants to recreate their own univers. Stupid.
HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE MAKING A MOVIE WHILE STICKING TO THE COMICS
The guy’s name is Sandy Collora. And he’s done the best job so far in depicting Batman.
Michael: I don’t mind the changes from the comic books anymore. You know why? Because nothing - absolutely nothing in comics - is or ever HAS been “bible”. It’s an illusion.
Look at the original Batman. F—er carried a gun in the 40’s when he started!! That’s where they got the idea from now. Every decade or so the character chagnes w/ the times. It’s evolving mythology - what you remember of Batman is probably the 70’s version and that’s cannon to you but not to anyone else. We all come in that way - ie Hal Jordan is/was the best Green Lantern ever, always will be but guys from the 80’s think Gardner is great and the 90’s, Kyle Raynor. It’s whatever you are exposed to first.
It’s evolving mythology. As long as they keep it smart and thought-out —- I mean you can’t tell me seriously that Bob Kane wouldn’t have Batman wearing battle armour if he knew it existed. It wasn’t an option when the character was created.
Think of it this way - the characters are not just characters, they are myths. Myths are ideals, they teach us to embrace ideas and ideals we have/we need, and they need to adapt it to the times.
BTW I used to like the original Batman by Burton - and it was amazing at the time, in context, but it doesn’t hold up. Other movies do, that one doesn’t. IMO.
Well… for whatever reason, people are criticizing the Heath Ledger’s look as the Joker in the 2008 release of the Dark Knight. Whatever. People need something to bitch about. Yeah he’s wearing make-up and the Joker doesn’t, but so what. At some point he’s going to have to fall into a vat of chemicals at Ace Chemical Processing Inc. in order for it to be a permanent fixture.
“The Dark Knight begins with the Joker robbing a huge bank (we’ve seen photos of this everywhere). The bank is where the mob and all the gangs in Gotham keep all of their money. The Joker takes this money and holds it “ransom”. The Joker then says to the mob and the gangs of Gotham, “If you help me take down Batman, you’ll get your money back. If not, I’m going to burn it all.” This is how the Joker assembles his army to take down Batman.”
This is literally, the most fantastic depiction of Batman outside of the actual comics (being restricted to Neal Adams, Michael Turner and Jim Lee). Alessandro did a fantastic job in creating his version of Batman.
“The main source of inspiration, apart the general imagery of Batman`s comics, movies and so on, was the wonderful short movie “Batman: Dead End” by Sandy Collora. I loved Sandy`s realistic vision of Batman`s costume and the dark and dirty mood of the film, so I decided to keep that realistic aspect in 3D, emphasizing even more Bruce Wayne`s dark side. So I took elements from Batman`s iconography assembling them according to my personal tastes of how I like him.”
Go to Alessandro’s site right now and read up on how he made this fantastic piece of art.
- Notice the texture in the suit. The cowel and how you can see the man behind the mask in the eye slots. Check out the wrinkles in the shirt on the abs and on his right tricep.
- You can actually tell the difference in material between the gauntlets and cape and the shirt and leggins.
- The wrinkles in the gauntlets, the metacarples (back of the hand) as they push out in the gauntlets.
- The blood on the Batarang.
- The Utility Belt, the stitching, the chrome and leather, the shadow it leaves on the thigh. You can tell that the light is from nothing other than the moon.
- And my favorite… the zipper in the gauntlet. Alessandro has this down to a science.
And if you haven’t seen Dead End, you better stop what you’re doing and go check it out right friggen now.
Alright, everyone knows that the movie is in full production. Everyone’s excited and we want to get our hands on every image and video we can buy, steal, grab, swipe, dodge and duck to get on our site. Ethics be damned!
So, here’s our favorite Brokeback friend Heath Ledger who will be playing the part of The Joker.
Nahh, that’s not what he looks like in the movie.
THIS is what he looks like in the upcomming Dark Knight movie.
