Cool! The bat-cars race: http://now.msn.com/now/0322-batmobile-drag-race.aspx
Batmobile race!
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It would have been nice if their experts were, well, actual experts, given that the skinny guy thought the '89 was actually loaded with live grenades.
I also have to laugh that he was surprised that the Frankenstined vehicle made of two Chevy Impalas with a "turbine" that doesn't actually provide thrust lost to a Lincoln Futura with a body-kit. Moron.
Don't get me wrong, both cars are great, but watching this video was like watching someone like De Niro in Little Fockers.
In terms of geek factor the guy defending the '66 car forgot about its lasers. I'm pretty sure I saw that in one of the episodes. 
The '89 doesn't look bad onscreen, but seen for real I don't care for it. The '66, as impractical as it is, still looks crazy cool. And I heard myself humming the '66 series bat-theme while they were racing.
The '89 doesn't look bad onscreen, but seen for real I don't care for it. The '66, as impractical as it is, still looks crazy cool. And I heard myself humming the '66 series bat-theme while they were racing.
I think when the "fan guys" were talking about the cars they were talking about their in-universe abilities and their merits there.
On the full-length video I enjoyed the car-washing scene at the end.
On the full-length video I enjoyed the car-washing scene at the end.
Oh, wow. So their "experts" aren't even that well versed.
Guess all the money went to the "wash" at the end. Can't say they wasted it in that case.
That would have worked, if the Host had actually setup the intro that way, i.e. claiming that the Dark Knight let them borrow his old rides or something for the race.
However, this was presented from our POV, so everyone just comes off as a massive tool.
Guess all the money went to the "wash" at the end. Can't say they wasted it in that case.
That would have worked, if the Host had actually setup the intro that way, i.e. claiming that the Dark Knight let them borrow his old rides or something for the race.
However, this was presented from our POV, so everyone just comes off as a massive tool.
I haven’t watched the video, but I’m not quite sure what you mean by “a Lincoln Futura with a body kit.” There was only one Lincoln Futura, a concept car built in 1955, on which the 1966 TV Batmobile was based.I also have to laugh that he was surprised that the Frankenstined vehicle made of two Chevy Impalas with a "turbine" that doesn't actually provide thrust lost to a Lincoln Futura with a body-kit. Moron.
If the ’66 Batmobile in the video is “built on a C4 Corvette platform
complete with a small block Chevy V8 engine,” as the accompanying text says, then it has to be a modern replica on a stretched Corvette platform to accommodate the Batmobile’s considerably longer wheelbase.
When both of the guys talk about the virtues of the cars they speak about their in-universe abilities and speeds. The 69BM guy points out the car being atomic powered, etc. After that segment they bring in the guy who built them who talks about their real-world stats and capabilities.
So clearly, to me, when the "geeks" are talking about the cars they're comparing their in-universe/fictional capabilities and not the real-world ones.
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Christ, what a waste of time. Can I get my ten minutes back?
That whole thing was pathetic, just a bunch of macho boasting and posturing, and a very sexist treatment of the woman who was hosting. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a woman presenting herself in a sexy way if it's her choice -- and she certainly was quite gorgeous -- but the bikini sequence at the end was scripted to come off as a humiliation she was made to endure reluctantly at a man's whim, and that's demeaning and objectifying.
Although of course the whole thing was rigged to result in that outcome -- no way something this testosterone-drenched would've permitted the alternative result (where the unattractive man has to wear the bikini instead of the gorgeous redhead). I don't think it was a legitimate race at all. I mean, it looked to me as if the '66 Batmobile was on the left in the race yet on the right in the "photo finish" replay. So it wasn't even a well-executed pretense. The Batmobile deserves better than this trash. The only good thing about it was that the right Batmobile "won," even though the fix was in.
Although of course the whole thing was rigged to result in that outcome -- no way something this testosterone-drenched would've permitted the alternative result (where the unattractive man has to wear the bikini instead of the gorgeous redhead). I don't think it was a legitimate race at all. I mean, it looked to me as if the '66 Batmobile was on the left in the race yet on the right in the "photo finish" replay. So it wasn't even a well-executed pretense. The Batmobile deserves better than this trash. The only good thing about it was that the right Batmobile "won," even though the fix was in.
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Not to defend the video, but you do realize that the video was very likely designed to be exactly what you just described it to be, right Christopher?
Well, yes, it was obviously designed to be dumb macho posturing and a demeaning objectification of a sexy woman, but my point is that I didn't enjoy that and I think the topic of the Batmobile deserved a classier treatment (and that lovely young lady certainly deserved a classier treatment as well).
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I'm not disagreeing with any of that, but try to remember, 1) the Batmobile is a car 2) the actress/hostess wouldn't have done the video if she'd had any major qualms about being objectified like that.
I'll agree, it was pretty tasteless, and speaks terribly to the kind of audience the producers and backers of this video expected/thought they were aiming for, but at the same time ... they all consented to do the video.
Just playing devil's advocate though. As I said, it was a shit video and a waste of time.
I'll agree, it was pretty tasteless, and speaks terribly to the kind of audience the producers and backers of this video expected/thought they were aiming for, but at the same time ... they all consented to do the video.
Just playing devil's advocate though. As I said, it was a shit video and a waste of time.
Well, of course. The whole thing was obviously scripted, which is one of the reasons it's so bad. I'm not saying I think she was actually victimized, I'm saying I think it's unpleasant that they wrote it to make it seem like she was pressured into it against her will, as if they were catering to an audience that gets off on the idea of women being sexually dominated and humiliated. There are contexts where that kind of sexual fantasy can be explored validly, as long as it is only a consensual fantasy, but in the context of a feature that's supposed to be about Batmobiles, it feels inappropriate. It perpetuates the worst stereotypes about comics and their fans. And it feels completely out of place in a feature that's supposed to be celebrating the '66 Batmobile, an icon of the most clean-cut, wholesome, and polite incarnation of Batman that ever existed.
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I agree, completely.
The person who made that video has done some pretty good to decent Batman fan films in the past but this was just pathetic and a waste of time.
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I know Bat in the Sun did Batman Beyond: Year One.... didn't they also do Batman: Dead End ?
^ No that was Sandy Corolla. The best thing from Bat in the Sun is the excellent "Patient J".
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Hmm. Weird. I used to have Batman: Dead End on DVD... and I know Batman Beyond: Year One was by Bat in the Sun.
Ah well. Never saw Patient J.
Ah well. Never saw Patient J.
No. That was Sandy Collora.
Aaron Schoenke, a friend of mine, has done such fan films as Batman: Dark Justice, Batman: Legends, Patient J, Seeds of Arkham, the aforementioned Batman Beyond: Year One and the wildly popular film City of Scars. I only really like Patient J out of all their films.
I agree this reality video was a piece of crap, though.
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