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THE DARK KNIGHT Blamed For Unsolved Murders And High Female Suicide Rate In Turkey!!
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I’m thinking maybe a Dubai stringer at Variety mistook something in The Onion for real news.
Apparently the mayor of the Turkish city of Batman is gearing up to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. While apparently David S. Goyer and Bob Kane's heirs go scott free. From the trade paper:
The mayor is prepping a series of charges against Nolan and Warner Bros., which owns the right to the Batman character, including placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film's success has had on the city's inhabitants.
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I thought it was because they all such depressing cunts anyway
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Let him have what he wants.
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If a Batman movie makes them all go crazy, I would hate for them to see SE7EN or Blue Velvet. On second thought, that could be fun to see what happens.
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wants a piece of the pie.
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You have it.
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the world is awesome
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Nov 11, 2008 6:09:30 PM CST
So...did Speed Racer made them all euphoric or something?
by derlanghaarige
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You heard it here 1st folks!
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This is gonna be a fun fucking talkback!!!! Grab a beer, sit back and enjoy!!!
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"The Dark Vader causes night craimes"
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So does that mean I can sue the country?
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...but Wicked Pictures is being sued by the denizens of Anal Fuckfest, Bulgaria.
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there is no way this is real
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... they named their community Batman? Why? Shouldn't Warner Bros be suing them? And they're trying to establish that they existed before 1939? Only now?
There is no way this story could be real, and IF IT IS, that's just stupid.
It'd be like the citizens of Vulcun, Alberta suddenly pulling a stunt like that over the new Star Trek movie (which they, of course, would never do). =P -
its a bunch of joker wannabees
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All the more reason to re-release it before the Oscars; and maybe we can dethrone fucking Titanic. Fuck that movie and all it sank for.
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Wait until this asshole hears about Thanksgiving. Holy shit.
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You almost made me spit out my pizza. WIN.
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Nov 11, 2008 6:35:25 PM CST
Just when I thought the world couldn't get any stupider...
by spacker dave
Along comes a mayor of Batman, Turkey. The bar has once again been lowered.
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Guaranteed.
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I'd hate to live in a city named Spider-man 3.
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don't be afraid to use your nails boys!
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HA!!
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I'd be pissed too If my town was called Batman and Bale sounded like he was dropping a deuce on himself every time he talked during the movie.
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Well, granted, they are still pretty bad...
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Idiots.
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are endlessly entertaining.
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That movie's gotta be responsible for some atrocity.
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Ahhh...
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the translation for ~"FUCK OFF, please find enclosed a copy of batman begins."
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and the logo is actually a chicken dressed as Batman and flexing his muscles. i bet they would have been forced to change their name in the states.
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Yep.
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because of the effect it's delicious sounding name has had on his appetite.
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That's fucking awesome.
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Somehow I love The Dark Knight even more now.
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and he said the Mayor of Batman is full of shit.
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I want to live in a called Batman. Come on, that rocks. Are the streets named after villians and other characters. Alfred st., Poison Ivy BLVD, Catwoman district( you know what kind). That's Awesome!
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If by shittiest you mean greatest ever than I agree.
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...the real actual BATMAN is surprised as hell as he's fighting his arch enemy THE PRODUCER (real name WARNER HONCHO when an army of evil turkies enters the room.
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I think you got yourself a case, Turkey!
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Chicks are for dicks. Not suicide. Maybe if turkish men would shower, wear deodorant, or clean out their foreskins turkish women wouldnt be commiting suicide.
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Let us all vent our hatred upon thee. So it is spoken...
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someone hating TDK. It's a fucking masterpiece that only a mouthbreathing imbecile would not at least enjoy a little bit. Unless you're one of the dozen dumbfucks that somehow still think it was Bush propaganda.
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Peter North is being sued by a male enhancement company based in the North Pole!
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oh wait, there are no films from that nation I give a flying fuck about.
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they're big fans!
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they never got over the loss of Michael Keaton.
seriously, Batman is the honor-killing capital of eastern Turkey. they ain't suicides, those poor women are getting offed by their sick psycho relatives. And the fucking mayor goes and blames on a movie?
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I have no more time to waste on trolls like you. Buh bye.
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This article was worth it for the amazing They Might Be Giant video! And the TB is pretty fucking funny too! Bonus!
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Didn't those carpet making fucks make their own version of Star Wars?
I guess since the only things they're good at making is Rugs, Mosk's and GYRO's they have to claim that they invented the franchise name. -
...Turks like to file silly law suits about Batman.
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Who in this Talkback is the self-proclaimed "Queen of ALL Things Batman"?Here is your clue: he's the sad, trolling asshole.
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April 2nd. Nobody Fools Chuck Norris.
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That's hilarious! Also, aren't Gyro's from Greece? Okay, the Turkish Doner Kebab is the original(maybe?).
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...that JJ Binks 4 Prez holds up Batman: Dead End as the example of a REAL Batman movie.
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Of Batman. While They Do Enjoy The Catchy Them Song As Well As Colorful Sound Effects. Turkey Also Recently Viewed A New To Them Episode Of Full House And Are Appalled Over Why There Are 3 Men In 1 House?!
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the talkback as a real conversion between people at a party.a topic is brought up, people discuss, some people disagree, and the conversation goes on. then i just picture a person jj bink at the party in the background talking all loud and shit "BLAH BLAH YOU GUYS ARE WRONG.. EVERYONE IS STUPID.. WHAT YOU ALL AGREE ON MUST SUCK BECAUSE IF EVERYONE AGREES ON SOMETHING THAT MUST MEAN THEY'RE SHEEP! PLEASE LISTEN TO ME."It's kind of amusing in a metaphysical way.
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The reason no one responds is because you are clearly just trolling. No one with a functioning brain would say that Dark Knight is one of the shittiest superhero films of all time when films like Electra and Superman Returns are out there. I mean, I can understand you not liking it but to say it is a piece of shit is a little overkill.
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= awesome. (As well as the 'Why so Syria' comment.) Hope youse guys don't mind, but when I bring this subject at work tomorrow, I'm gonna use those and probably won't give you credit for them.
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Did I miss a comment or something that explains what this means? JJ used it several times, yet it means nothing if other people don't know what he's talking about.
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= the dark night in name only. goes all the way back to gino which was godzilla in name only. (as in, the the movie had nothing to do with the original mythology except for its name.)
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And it's Continentalop! "Anal Fuckfest, Bulgaria" made my laugh my ass off. Good luck beating that, everybody.
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This has to be Mayor Adam West, its the only way to explain the bitterness towards our new BATMAN.
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is and always has been retarded. It was Godzilla in name only. Oh, and the fact that it had a giant lizard monster destroying a major city. Just like Transformers was TINO. Except that it also had giant robots with names like Optimus Prime and Megatron that transformed into vehicles and fought each other over energon cubes. They may be shitty movies and shitty adaptations, but -INO is a shitty argument (if you can even call it that).
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I think JJ is christoper nolan fishing for complements cause there's no one ...no sane person who could hate the dark knight so much. Its a masterpiece
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Ah ... I've heard that before in politics (RINO = Republican in name only, DINO = Democrat in name only), but never like that. That's what threw me. It seems to work better when it's a word that you can say, unlike TDKINO, which just sounds bad when you try to pronounce it. Either way, The Dark Knight ruled, no matter what the trolls say.
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I read that the residents of the town are not allowed to use "Batman" in the names of their businesses and this is a way of trying to rectify that. Of course, they could just be crazy too.
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I appreciate your obvious good taste in liking TDK but comparing Returns to Elektra? I've wasted hours already defending SR, and I've come to accept people hate it even if I love it, but Elektra? Come on dude.
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counter-sue and bankrupt the country.
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...So hopefully we Aussies should get us a slice of that sweet lawsuit cash. Or not.
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For the record, I liked Returns too. It had its problems, largely having to do with Singer's obsession with the original, but I really don't think it deserves the hate it gets. It absolutely doesn't deserve to be lumped in with Elektra.
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I still maintain that the first teaser with the Brando voiceover was one of the best I've ever seen.
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Funny pussy shit.
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I have my problems with the movie (same as another "so-called" masterpiece, "The Matrix") but I don't see how anyone can view it as completely horrible, or even bad. To me it is a missed opportunity and has some "flaws" that prevent me from enjoying it, but I can easily see why others love it and why they hold it in high esteem. It's not "Ghost Rider"!
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Unclean!
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yup,
Major of Lesbos, Greece is Suing Lesbians for make people giggle at Lesbos.
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Gotta be one of the funniest things I've read in one of these talkbacks in a while.
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Just so you know.
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Nov 11, 2008 10:26:46 PM CST
The president of Shazam! wants some answers.....................
by crackerfarmboy
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And Prop 8 passing in California!
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But this story is so not real.
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version of Conan
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And I'm not just talking about JJ Binks and his ridiculous comments. It's ok, though. Anyone who claims not to be able to appreciate the quality of TDK (which goes WAAAAAAYYY beyond like or dislike) AND has that flappy-eared, racially stereotyped cunt as part of his name SURELY cannot be serious, can they? Surely not! No-one can be THAT inbred, can they?Sorry if anyone is offended by my use of the "c" word, btw, however I firmly believe that making any sort of reference to Jar-Jar Binks is the ONLY time when use of that word is permitted (some would say mandatory!)As for this dumb, money-grabbing, attention-seeking little village in Turkey, I thought I had enough reason to hate the Turks being Greek-Cypriot...
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Thanks everybody, Thanksgiving, Syria, all greatness. I do want more of the Batman video where he flips into action and SHOOTS a dude. That's some pretty awful rape of the source material. Seriously. I can't see how an adaptation could be worse than that, and yet I want more and more.
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Somebody should tell JJ Binks that you can't see yourself in the mirror with your eyes closed.
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This is one for the pop culture history books the infamous Turkey vs. Batman trial.--This town needs an enema.
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Fuck 'em.
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Anyone?
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..these crimes are "unsolved"?
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Bitches are throwing themselves out windows hoping some smelly goat herder in a cosplay outfit saves them. Score one for gravity.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8OXdDFWm0 That's Warner Brothers' countersuit right there!
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I'm sure Bob Kane never intended to plagarize. And I'm sure Batman(the title/name)has a very different meaning in Turkey. Oh the price of success. It took them this long to file a lawsuit. Fucking losers..get a life..get a job!
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I'm sure Bob Kane never intended to plagarize. And I'm sure Batman(the title/name)has a very different meaning in Turkey. Oh the price of success. It took them this long to file a lawsuit. Fucking losers..get a life..get a job!
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I'm sure Bob Kane never intended to plagarize. And I'm sure Batman(the title/name)has a very different meaning in Turkey. Oh the price of success. It took them this long to file a lawsuit. Fucking losers..get a life..get a job!
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hmm... you know there's a Batman in Melbourne...
http://tinyurl.com/598xxt
so... if I was to own property in Batman, Turkey (say, on the Batman River) and also own property in Batman, Australia... would I have a shot at owning some of the Warner Bros property also named Batman??
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this is COMEDY GOLD! absolutely stranger than fiction!
is Mayor Huseyin Kalkan Turkish for Mayor Adam West?
so his problem is really whenever he goes to the mayors conventions and gets asked which town he represents, nobody believes him when he says "I'm Batman" -
Is this any worse than Michele Bachman, the Rep. from Minnesota, who said Obama is ant-American? Or Rep. Paul Broun from Georgia claiming he fears Obama imposing a Gestapo-like security force to impose Marxist rule? Their is nutty, loser politician's in every country.
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every hack in hollywood who cons a 100 plus million budget keeps talking about how they're going to make a movie like it without displaying a single fucking clue as to why it actually worked.
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I just wanted to drop a little info for your edification, and please understand I make Turkey to turkey food references all the time. Seeing as my missus is Turkish I always tell her after sex the reason I want to roll over and go to sleep is I just ate turkish.That said The country is actually Turkye it's only in english that we spell it Turkey. Also the mayor is Turkish Kurd. The Kurds want independence and a good swath of Turkish land as there own by any means even violence. aaaaaaaaaaaand this story has got to be fake.
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BATMAN in it's title? They had like a dozen chances to sue - the old movies, the series, the comics... When it comes to DK, Batman is just a character. Montana has a better cse suing Hannah Montana. Which is not a bad idea in itself.
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you had me with your post until "I thought I had enough reason to hate the Turks being Greek-Cypriot" tsk-tsk bub Turkey is one of the most beautiful places I've been and the people are wonderful. But your Binks comments are warranted. Peace.
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Listen I'm not gonna hate on you bub. Everyones entitled to their opinion, it's just I really haven't met anyone who didn't like it let alone hate it. It's funny what one finds good, great , amazing, bad , awful etc What super hero movies have you liked...if any?
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I actually tried eating my shorts one time. Nearly choked to death!
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Nov 12, 2008 2:24:00 AM CST
Lawyers in Turkey never heard of the concept of causality?
by billypilgrimisunstuck
Fucking morons.
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The Turkish Exorcist is a riot, I did a riff comentary on it some time ago, it's on the internets somewhere. I think I'll have it on youtube.
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I'm faiing to do any work today because of it. I'm stealing "Why so Syria?" for use later in the pub.
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Nov 12, 2008 4:47:03 AM CST
Now if we can just get them to sue Metropolis, Illinois...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
we could finally get Batman vs Superman in 2009! Fuckin A!
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Nov 12, 2008 5:19:57 AM CST
That's it, blame a piece of fiction, not the nutters who did it.
by mr nicholas
When did common sense and accountability give way to this ignorant blame culture?
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Gotham City is in Turkey? Who knew?
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Anyone remember the JLA Annual by Brian K. Vaughan back in the day in which Batman goes to Batman?
JLA goes to Turkey for something I don't particularly remember, but they go anyways... Batman questions and beats up someone and asks where General Whatever is. He starts mumbling "Batman, Batman..." Green Lantern goes "Well, he's worthless now. You drove him insane. All he's doing is mumbling your name." Batman says, "Batman is the name of a city in Turkey..." And they go to Batman... There was also a Turkish heroine called Janissary in that issue... -
...oh, I dunno, a religion that's currently stuck in the 10 Century? Not naming any names, ya unnerstand... just sayin'...
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Damn You Michael Bay
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this year no Turkey eating allowed at thanksgiving. may cause trauma.
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Batman city should be renamed Clownshoes...absurd
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See who shows up.
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Nov 12, 2008 8:23:59 AM CST
The article said nothing about unsolved murders or suicide
by i kick tits
Yeah
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Not a fan, and I'd prefer it didn't win an Oscar... but to say it doesn't have amazing moments is wrong. The magic trick scene is excellent, the entire opening section is fantastic, and there's some great stuff there. It's just a shame they added a love triangle.
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I don't know what this guys problem is.
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...due to his Adam West Signature Series utility belt no longer being able to accommodate his ever expanding waistline? Or maybe he felt burned by his can of Shark Repellent that couldn't even deter a housefly.Or maybe he's angry that the Batusi is no longer in vogue now that the Macarena has finally reached Turkey.He should just do the sensible thing and rename the town ZAP! or BLORT!
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Which has happened there over friggin cartoons and books. It shows they are becoming more like us in the west. In the words of Sol Rosenberg (willow's cousin)...."SUE EVERYBODY!"
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"Mayor of Batman" is obviously an infringement on "Mayor Batman" and I feel so supremely traumatized by all of this that I may file a lawsuit of my own.
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Nov 12, 2008 9:15:36 AM CST
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Aquaman, New Zealand is just fine with t
by spyguy
Which, quite obviously, proves once again that Aquaman > Batman.
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What a useless superhero...
"I'm sending a school of fish over to you. You'll be sorry once they flop out of the water at you..." -
They've been showing it a lot on AMC. That movie leads to suicide.
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what a cunt. Talk about hating for hating's sake.
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Film at 11
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actually capital punishment is illegal in turkey, unlike some of the states...
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because people want a government they can believe in, and real change.
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Turkish "Street Justice". FYI:
ISTANBUL, April 18. Assailants on Wednesday slit the throats of three employees of a publishing house that distributes Bibles, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Turkey's small Christian minority.... -
which religion are you speaking of? Because there are Christians in Turkey also and I'm not sure which repressive religion you mean. The older I get the more I understand "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" Indeed!!! It doesn't just mean a lack of knowledge it means having little bits of knowledge on individual subjects and making judgments based on those little bits of knowledge. As silly as the lawsuit is and I can't imagine it will be entertained I don't wish to see this TB spiral into an anti Turkey venue. First The Turks are a western ally, friends to many nations and it's a misconception that Turkey is a Middle Eastern nation (not slamming the middle east here) but Turkey falls in two continents Europe and Asia. ETHNOCENTRICITY is a bad thing. Food for thought:-)
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don't get into the dangerous area of researching individual crime unless you are prepared to shine your investigatory light on your own country. I'm pretty sure you'll turn up stories of hate crimes and crimes of intolerance, unless you live in huh in..I don't know where that is but I'd like to live there.
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was originally 'Illuh' until 1957. When they renamed it Batman as shorthand for the Bati Raman mountains. So... how the FUCK do they expect this to work? Did they not realize this character has been around for 20 years longer than their province existed? God, I hope Warner doesn't settle. The world is going to shit. Everyone is stupid everywhere and I hate them all. O_O;
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there are cunts everywhere, it is not right to hold an entire nation responsible for some farts dickheadedness...
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they sent us gangs, so we retalliated with the dark knight. theres a lesson to be learned here: dont fuck with nolan.
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November 27th. This is where greed and absurdity meet together and create a new breed of useless scum humans.
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Dude, its a talk backabout a joke story about a Batman film, every one needs to lighten the fuck up. thecheesegrommit, settle your ass down, so quick to stand up for the Jihad!
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My ass is calm, in fact I'm sitting on it right now. I don't even understand your Jihad statement. I pretty sure you don't either. As far as "Lighten up" This is an extremely silly story which is why some of the more serious post surprise me "Well it beats being beheaded, or shot in the back" sheash talk about lighten up.
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everyone is missing the main argument, pointing out The Batman was created in 1939 before Batman Turkye. The real and final fact is there is no legal Precedent. First is there a filed trademark on behalf of the mayor/city and if yes one is a city and one is a fictional character, two different intellectual properties that fall under different trademark protections. Again this is a joke and who ever is responsible is having a good laugh at our expense.
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AWESOME!
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SHIIIIIIIT!
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Nov 12, 2008 3:30:49 PM CST
Is the City of Batman, Turkey at war with the City of Joker, Gre
by spyguy
If so, I gotta side with Joker on this one. Sorry, Batman.
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is a tad overrated. A masterpiece? Oscar-contender? Ledger did put in a frightfully good performance as the Joker. There was a palpaple sense of danger when he was on screen. It wasn't just an actor playing a role, I felt the presence of a true madman.But was Nolan's only trick to add drama to a scene between two characters talking was to circle-track arouond the two? I lost count how many times he employed that gimmick.
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But then realized that Aquaman had inspired/influenced NOTHING.
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For turning me retarded?
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Come for the scenery, stay for the lawsuits.
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no bullshit!
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...we have batshit crazy mayors!
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In post I quoted the Jerky Boys and made a side reference to Buffy the vampire slayer. Good signs that the tone is comedic.....
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They ripped off Star Trek as well. But the Turks insist "Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda" is actually a great movie. Yeah, right.
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I see that as Turkey looks to become a memeber of the EU, they have adopted a strong western trait of taking no responsibility for your actions and blaming/suing others.
Welcome to our club guys!!
Oh yeah and will be suing Turkey (yes the whole country), for making me so irritated and raising my blood pressure on this issue, will of couse seek pain and suffering, will take the city of Istanbul as payment. -
at the risk of using the word "seriously", chill the fuck out people!
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turkey ain't nothing without that special sauce
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...will own this lawsuit.
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