I just downloaded and watched Batman: Dead End. And it was....uh...really really cool.

I am going home now, but just wanted to see if anyone else had seen it, so in the morning I could read someone say something better than "cool" and then wrod whatever they said.

Oh - I guess it would help if I explained. It's a 7-minute short done recently by well - somebody cool - and it's a very non-Hollywood, no-plastic-suit-with-nipples version of Batman and it fucking rocked.

I think the person who I got it from got if off a filesharing network or I'd give a link.

I just searched on Kazaa for "Batman dead end" and found it. It's downloading as I write this!

It's a 7-minute short done recently by well - somebody cool - and it's a very non-Hollywood, no-plastic-suit-with-nipples version of Batman and it fucking rocked.

Is that the one that crosses over with Predator ? I was expecting it to close on some kind of revelation or punchline, but it didn't even manage a cliffhanger. I was impressed that they did it in live action, though. At first I thought it was a vid.

it didn't even manage a cliffhanger

That would be because there was no plot. Frankly, I thought it looked like a very impressive and shiny audition reel, and not like anything I'd call a film at all -- it read to me like "see what I can do with lighting and effects!"

Pretty as hell, and not something I could do even if I had the budget, but it utterly failed to hold my interest. And I'm an absolute screaming batman freak....

That would be because there was no plot. Frankly, I thought it looked like a very impressive and shiny audition reel, and not like anything I'd call a film at all -- it read to me like "see what I can do with lighting and effects!"

It's true.

I have her as-she-watched reactions stored somewhere. And I totally agree. Also, the Bat was bleh. But they Joker was nifty.

That would be because there was no plot.

I agree with everyone else. It looked good but that's about it. I might have enjoyed it a little bit more if I'd ever seen or even knew anything about Predator, but I don't.

It's got Ah-nold in it, so soon California children will be viewing it in schools. Its most quotable line seems to be, "If it bleeds... we can kill it." But I kind of like

Dutch: Did you find Hawkins?
Poncho: I...I can't tell.

I might have enjoyed it a little bit more if I'd ever seen or even knew anything about

Jon's geek credits are hereby revoked.

The guy that played the Joker was Walter Koening's (Chekov from Star Trek) son.

I kind of liked the guy who played Batman, but I agree that the whole thing seemed like a test reel. Still, I hope that maybe it will trigger some buttons at Warner Brothers and they'll get of their asses and let Chris Nolan direct a Year One take on the Bat.

Hey, Jesse Ventura was in that Arnold movie too! Two governors in that one? And the title of his book I Ain't Got Time to Bleed (2000) is a quote from his character. That was an interesting sidetrack off the information highway.

Hmmm. OK.

I liked it because I didn't expect a plot and I kind of expected it to be test-reelish. I never expect a plot with something that short (I am sure there are lots of extremely good 7-minute films with plots, I have just never seen one.) I liked it because in that small amount of time, with a small budget (one assumes) that live-action Batman was about a zillion times cooler to me than the recent Hollywood versions.

I love Predator - so I liked that too. I liked the interaction with the Joker, and I especially loved the "Daddy."