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Burn, Batman, Burn!!! Fire and 'splosions in Gotham!!!
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I have no idea if this is spoilery material or not, but the inbox is flooded with images of what is to be Gotham General Hospital being blowed up real good-like. Well, at least the parking structure.
Below we have some nice pics from "Sam PH" as well as a moving gif from high up sent in by "Paul." Thanks for the heads up guys! I love this kinda shit!
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Am I first!
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Boom
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Anyway .That looked exactly like a building being demolished.Is it actually gonna be in the film or is someone going around filming ground levelling work in a city .Is the whole film set in broad daylight or something?
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me likey likey.
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me likey likey.
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still its so cool i wish I had of titled this rant Cool.
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If they BLEW it up, it wouldn't be the same building, now would it?
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That looks like a car park, I also like the fact that its real effects add so much more to a movie than some CGI work, Flames are nearly impossible to render right.
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Chris Nolan likes to do as much as possible for real, including not using a Second Unit on his films (or, for some strange reason, the Digital Intermediate Process.) So no-doubt Mr Nolan was there in person during another 5 month stretch on his latest project...
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AICN needs more explosions! EXPLOSIONS! You here me!?
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Where´s the damn night, Darknight?
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Wasn't one of the production shots that supposedly leaked on the Internet a shot of a group of Batman impersonators sitting together in what looked like a parking garage? If so, then are they corralled up in the parking garage and executed through this explosion, and by whom? The Joker?
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but EVERYTHING needs more explosions, especially movies like Driving Miss Daisy and The Breakfast Club.
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http://snipurl.com/1q498
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They don´t exist.
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But i think instead of them being executed in the parking garage, they are there setting the bombs and framing batman as having done it... thats my guess. Its one of those superhero frame up movies. sort of like how bizarro made superman look bad, or how camelion/ mysterio made spiderman look bad.... its a pretty cheap plot device but effective I suppose. Sending around fake batmans commiting crime to make people hate batman could be a genius plot point if executed well enough though.
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Watch "Cast Away" and realize that most (if not all - I can't remember for sure) of the night scenes were shot during the day and re-colored to appear as night. Sure, I guess it's easier to shoot AT night, but then maybe not.
You could shoot during the day, when the city is busy, and you need more crowd control and cordoning off streets is more difficult, but you have more working hours available. However, you then need to color-time the footage for night. OR you could shoot at night, when your crew costs more, you need to spend a shitload on lighting the set, as well as practical lighting for the production itself, plus you've got fewer hours to get your shots, especially shooting in the summertime, which is what Nolan's been doing. Plus, if you're shooting anywhere near residences, your filming permits are going to be even trickier to get set up, what with stunts, pyrotechnics and noise regulations. But you would get night footage shot at night.
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I olve typos.
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Naah. The Cyberdyne building was here in California. TDK is shootiing mostly in Chicago, if I'm not mistaken. I heard a lot recently about a building in Chicago they were destroying for the movie.
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This doesnt really look like an explosion but rather an ignition of fuel. There were some really tiny "explosions" where it appears they were seeding the air with some type of powder fuel. Then it's just ignition of that fuel. It's like the fireball you get when you squirt lighter fluid on the hot coals. The parking garage probably didnt sustain any structural damage.
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...ironically, they DIDN'T actually blow up the building in T2. They found a building they could shoot at, but they couldn't destroy it. So they built a fake top level to the building and blew that part up.
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There was supposed to be an ear splitting ka-boom.
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like someone figured out that he only comes out at night so they blow shit up, and rob banks and stuff during the day....now I wonder which villain might make fun of Batman? Hmmm....thats a toughie....
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His name: P.I.STAKER.
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See.....that just made this talkback better.
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hmmm....alot of things about this movie are a little concerning. that said, i didnt worship begins like some....batman89 and returns rule all.
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Out with the old, in with the new. It's about property values and modernization. That building they blew up here in Chicago was part of the old Brach's candy factory. Brach's was sold and moved on to other locations. http://tinyurl.com/32ygh7
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They only doctored up one side (camera ready side) of the garage structure as Gotham General Hospital. I believe they said it was scheduled for demolishion anyways. But I am intrigued by the fact that there's been so much stunt work and "splosions" being shot during the day. Ever see the Batman Stunt Show at Six Flags during the day? It looks positively gay. At night...not so much. But, in response to Lightstormer...Why on earth would anyone shoot an explosion "day-for nite"? Everyone knows explosions photograph better at night. Ever see a fireworks display during at 4pm in the afternoon? Well...It's positively gay!
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just wondering...
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Where do you see huge fireballs and giant black columns of smoke in a controlled demolition?
This demolition, while, yes they did demolish the building- the explosion was designed for the camera.
-what's impressive is watching the video of this- the production helicopter looks like it's going to get toasted by the explosion. -
I haven't read the script, I have no idea if that scene is day-for-night, or in fact if ANY of the scenes Nolan's shooting are day-for night. I'm just offering up a possible explanation as to why so much daytime photography. It does seem odd for a Batman movie, I agree. But I'm assuming that particular scene is set in the daytime, given that it's the kind of thing that I'm sure they would be willing to spend the extra money and effort to have done at night otherwise, because what you're saying is true; it would lose a lot of its vibrance in the daylight. But who knows? Maybe they have a great day-for-night technique that makes it irrelevant what time they actually shoot it. Like I said, see Cast Away. You'd never guess those scenes were shot in the daylight.
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...apparently Nolan's decided for some reason to film the majority of this in brightly-lit surroundings or in broad daylight. Hope I'm wrong because Batman just doesn't look right running around in daylight... too Adam West-esque.
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Thanks for the Marvin the Martian reference. It made my day! And I thought I was the only one who knew that line!
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...HAD to be shot DFN as using artificial light while shooting at nite, on what is suppose to be an uncharted island, would have been really tough....especially when Hanks moves away from his campfire. "Lost" has the same problem... In a lot of their nite scenes, when they don't have torches or fire nearby, I'm always wondering "Gee...where's all that light coming from?...Must be a really full moon"! But...I'll betcha anything the Joker had one of his "Batman Imposters" blow up Gotham General...while a certain politician was inside...and the explosion burns off half of his face...Does The Joker create Two Face? Hmmmmmmmm....
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... Like China, where they enhance the flavor of the candy with such delicious new ingredients like anti-freeze and battery acid. MMmmm-MMM!
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Longer clip
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Yippee Kai Ya Mother(Grappling Hook)!
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Don't know if it's the same thing?
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I can't wait for Batman, but I am going to steer clear of major spoilers so I don't ruin it. Why hasn't AICN done any stories on the JLA movie? I have seen info on dark horizons, iesb, etc. and they haven't ran one story.
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You're not the only one who's noticed that...
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A Spike Lee Joint
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sorry misnomer, I saw you post, but this was my immediate reaction as well.
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Unless you want to know who's voicing it, there's really nothing else to know.
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for keeping it real, and not cgi, one thing I'm liking about this production that its all shot on location, I hope it doesn't suck!
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... It's Memories-ofoMurder again and his "If you don't agree with me, you must like Michael Bay" argument. YAWN!
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The all CGI like Beowulf was incorrect initial information. The underwater scenes are where the main CGI is going to be used according to the latest reports I have seen. Check out IESB.
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But I love delicious Brachs candies! Curse you, Joker!
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this was an office bldg of the old Brach candy factory. it was scheduled for demolition. the glass had been removed. the production crew reinstalled some of the glass where it needed to be in the shot. Most of the "action" is out of view on the left side of the bldg.
Was cool to watch it go down. Just before they blew it they had extras all running from the bldg fleeing for their lives and one figure slowly walking out with a camera rig in front of him. Should make for a nice shot. -
but mostly what we are seeing the past couple of days have been the Jokers work, perhaps the Joker is trying to draw Bats out during the day by causing lotso f daytime mayham
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Erm, maybe Nolan is shooting day-for-night? I know that's a common filmaking trick. Also the building was a candy factory due to be demolished which the film took advantage of (a la Lethal Weapon 3).
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I did a few inventories there when I was an auditor for Arthur Andersen, place was huge. I worked on Brach's audit for a few years in Chattanooga, TN before the whole Enron thing happened and got another job. Loved that free candy during Halloween season!
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Set in Los Angeles, in November 2019... er, I mean... Gotham City in, er... 2008?
Good to think the true Batman movie and the true movie Batman are still there. As is its sequel, "Batman Returns". -
explosions are cool. Context is even better.
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"Did you remember to take the lens cap off?" Cameraman to Nolan: "whoops."
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at least according to the latest info. What it is though is a complete, unmitigated disaster and the cameras haven't even rolled
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is going to be horrible.
Nolan apparently flipped out after reading the script.
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IESB.net has it, it's a freaking nightmare. I hope to God it's not true because there's one particular element that is god-awful. Think Lex Luthor as a Kryptonian in the original Superman Returns script. It's that bad. Plus Miller wants to "cast big"...Mel Gibson (?) as Max Lord, Bruce Willis as Lex, DiCaprio, Alba...ARGH! I don't think he'll get all those big actors though, that's too much. Still though, it sounds awful and it also sounds like they're cramming too much into 1 movie.
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No more Brach's Candy for you to suck on, Batman! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Where's Harley.
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From the people who titled the 'Nightwatch' sequels!
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Big size versions of some Indy 4 Hawaii set pics are online. Spoiler Warning: http://www.harrisonfordweb.com/
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... Now there's a real Silver Age/Batman TV plot device for ya! (Yes... I know he building's supposed to stand in for a hospital in the film) Cool that Nolan's using a real explosion instead of a cartooney CGI one like in the X-Files film. Don't see how you can shoot day-for-night when you have a massive explosion in the shot, but what do I know?
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Wouldn't that be what you'd feel if you'd inadvertantly left your fly unzipped?
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... Oh yeah... this'll never actually happen. And if it does... it's the death of superhero movies for about 10 years!
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I was surprised to see the local Fox station here in NY had some good footage of the explosion as well as a bit of reporting on it. Kinda odd hearing news reporters on a real newscast talking about Batman and The Joker in real terms and showing a building being blown up.
Look around the whole bit might be found quite easily. -
FFS, will you just fuck off.
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watch the moving gif, in the last couple frames theres a yellow school bus driving between the parked ones that comes out from the garage
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Bye bye
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...Zombie is a hack, and Devils Rejects is shite. TTFN.
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Yeah, the school bus is interesting. It's obviously part of the shot since it's driving pretty fast and cuts right in front of one of the cameras, which is on a crane/jib at the bottom of the screen. Hard to tell which way that camera is pointing, but it raises just in time to let the school bus by, so my guess is it's aimed at the school bus, which is speeding toward it at the beginning of the shot.
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Way to ruin the movie, guys.
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There's something about a parking structure in the plot.
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for 'You Dropped A Bomb On Me'.....baby.....
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Absolutely nothing about filming in a parking garage says "kewl" to me as regards this film. Yes, I'm projecting. But, c'mon, obviously the James Bond-ifying of the Batman mythos that began with "Batman Begins" clearly continues with this film. I'll take Burton's fucked up cartoon Gotham any day over the hum-drum banality of an exploding parking structure anyday. Anyone know if Nolan learned how to film fight sequences yet? Blipverts of action shots aimed at the beltline do not make Bat-martial arts shimmer on film. Mmm-kay?
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...can we do it over just a little to the left?
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Nothing but whining from you bunch. My God, grow up.
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Wait, did I miss the part where it shows Joker fighting Batman in daylight here? That sounds sarcastic, but I'm at work and can only steal glimpses here and there, so if it's there, I totally missed it.
If it is there though, didn't Burton have Batman fight Joker during day at the art museum? I'm confused why it matters. -
He'll do all his crimes in the daytime, where Batman won't catch him! :P
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Jesus, it's three shots without any context that could amount to all of 10 seconds in the finished film. It might not even be a product of the Joker's machinations, remember the mob is still involved in this film. Until then relax.
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Yeah, I'd take Burton's films of Batman Begins any day because when I think about great action sequences I think about Tim fucking Burton's two Batman films. . .
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Looks more like Burbank, CA out by the airport Hilton.
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Daylight action is just what we need. Can't wait to see Batman run up the steps to commissioner Gordon's office.
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