It's a Batmobile. It's not supposed to realistically drive properly. It's supposed to look like a Batmobile and look awesome and cool. Also, this is Keaton's Batmobile, it's a visual connection to that Batman.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Weird seeing Reeve and Keaton, but the former is the iconic Superman and the latter about to co-star in a big budget movie sooooooo....So apparently this is the new WB Studio Tour banner:
Can't argue with those choices.
So apparently this is the new WB Studio Tour banner:
Can't argue with those choices.
That looks cool (although I could do without the Harry Potter side at this point), and would probably make Snyder stans have a temper tantrum, which is a nice bonus.
I think this may be an age thing. If you started reading comics in the nineties or later, it may be a more common viewpoint.
Probably more influenced by the movies than the comics (which were themselves heavily influenced by the aesthetics of the Burton movies).
I like the poster just fine, so
Yaawwwnnn.
I bow to the expert.
If you're implying I'm a "Snyder stan", you're really barking up the wrong tree
(To be clear, I know you're just being a jerk and insulting me without doing it in a way that could get you in trouble, but in case any one reads the post and doesn't know what you're about, I want to make sure that no one mistakes me for a fan of Scott Snyder's work).
They know....they know.If you're implying I'm a "Snyder stan", you're really barking up the wrong tree
(To be clear, I know you're just being a jerk and insulting me without doing it in a way that could get you in trouble, but in case any one reads the post and doesn't know what you're about, I want to make sure that no one mistakes me for a fan of Scott Snyder's work).
Nah, for me it's from the 60s show. The car already looked unique and had many gadgets. The 89 movie and onwards were just Batmobiles with less limitations with budget and design. It was never a Bond car. It always had "a look".
I still have an affection for the 60s batmobile as well.
I'll always love it, but it doesn't work as a street-legal vehicle. No rear-view mirrors, no wipers, and what do you do when it rains? (Although it was decades ahead of its time in having an anti-theft car alarm.) If we're talking about a more grounded take on Batman, as the Bronze Age and post-Crisis comics aspired to, then a simpler Batmobile design works better. That's why I never cared for the Tumbler -- it felt out of place in Nolan's grounded take on Batman. Yes, they tried to justify it as a combat vehicle prototype, but that doesn't mean it makes sense in an urban crimefighting context.
Audiences do not forget how cars work, and have an ingrained expectation leading them to either accept or reject custom cars (whether based on fantasy or not). As a result, designers needed to strike the balance between functionality / purpose and image, which the '89 Batmobile did not, with its oversized toy-like appearance. Functionality is a crucial detail car customizers (including those who built cars for TV and movies such as Dean Jeffries, Gene Winfield, Tom Daniel, Ed Newton, George Barris, et al.) have always tried to put into most of their film-related cars, so that they actually drive, and are not some ridiculous shell preventing even the most basic of car movements. The Nolan and Snyder Batmobiles were the result of this understanding, and still delivered Batmobiles completely believable as advanced, rolling weapons anyone would expect a Batman to drive.
What does this even mean?
Every year a Batman superfan drives his 89 Batmobile 4 hours to our local comicon with zero issues, including "basic" car movements.
Pretending that audiences don't understand how a car works is getting more condescending than your norm in this case. You don't have to dislike something and call people idiots for doing the opposite. They certainly didn't reject that Batmobile, ask writer/artist Sean Murphy about the delight he gets from people talking positively about him putting that Batmobile into his White Knight series as a surprise for the fans, noting that it seems to mostly be a generational thing.
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The 89 batmobile was a functioning car I believe.
Edit: yup. https://www.totalsim.us/2018-10-31-is-it-fast-or-just-cool-1989-batmobile/
Edit: yup. https://www.totalsim.us/2018-10-31-is-it-fast-or-just-cool-1989-batmobile/
What a fan builds is not how the '89 car was constructed, so the reference is irrelevant. Moreover, fans make numerous changes to replicas of TV/movie cars so they can drive in a normal manner (not only to 1989 replicas, but those who build 1966 Barris versions as well), so again, your reference is irrelevant.
Either learn to read, or stop posting lies. My statement was:
That is the exact opposite of what you claimed. A lie does not support your being so defensive about the 1989 car, so you've just invalidated your argument.
The whole look and feel of the Burton movies was so stylized and over the top that their Batmobile fit in perfectly.
Yeah, they did get a bit annoying at times.