The Dark Knight Rises The Bat voice

[Demon Within]

Needs to go. Its not scary its not tough its cringe inducing and totally takes you out of the movie. Please for the love of God no more Bat voice.

 

[The Chris]

How about no. Changing it now wouldn't be right. Plus as a character, why would Bruce drop the voice, it works, No one knows who he is when he speaks.

 

[IAmTheKnight]

I never had any issue with the voice, and I still don't understand what the problem is. It makes sense for him to use it, and I don't see how it's some laughable thing or whatever. Keep it.

 

[Demon Within]

How about no. Changing it now wouldn't be right. Plus as a character, why would Bruce drop the voice, it works, No one knows who he is when he speaks.

Yeah and no one would really know Clark kent is really Superman just because of the glasses he wears. Please. I have yet to watch either of these movies with normal people who dont post here that dont laugh out loud the instance Batman uses his scray voice. I get the need for it and it worked great in batman the animated series but Bale just isnt delivering well enough.

 

[Mutagen]

I thought it was bad at first, I mean really bad. That is, until I watched it a couple of times. Now I don't even notice it

 

[The Chris]

Yeah and no one would really know Clark kent is really Superman just because of the glasses he wears. Please. I have yet to watch either of these movies with normal people who dont post here that dont laugh out loud the instance Batman uses his scray voice. I get the need for it and it worked great in batman the animated series but Bale just isnt delivering well enough.

Well you're always gonna have people who don't like something so of course you're gonna hear negative about it, but there will also be positive word as well who will say the voice makes sense not just for the purpose of covering his voice but also intimidation. Come on, being in a dark alley, lifted up and upside down, to face a dude in a bat suit screaming out at you like a growling beast. That may not work for you but it works for me and some other people as well, and I see no reason to drop it because half of a group dislikes, coupled with the fact that for story purposes dropping the voice makes no sense. To me there are way more positives than negatives about it.

And the Superman comparison doesn't work for me, the glasses thing is very dumb for me. You're talking about a man completely altering his voice and wears a mask vs someone who just put glasses on but still looks the same to me.

 

[Steelsheen]

i'm not exactly a fan of the Batvoice either, but if they needed to change it, they should've done that before they released BB in the theaters. now that its been established they cant change it too much anymore. they tried tweaking it in TDK and it didnt sound any better.

 

[Steelsheen]

bale can't be the problem because i think he sounded fine in begins , he just went ott in tdk.

that wasnt Bale. the FX company tweaked it in post.

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

I'm a real big critic of the bat-voice. To me it sounds horrible, to the point where the Harvey/Dent/Bats meeting on the roof in TDK is atrocious. Next to the Joker can't even understand him sometimes until someone replies and I go "Oh, that's what he said". I understand that it would be necessary for him to change his voice but it just isn't scary. I wish it would take more the form of a deeper voice instead of what it is.That's just my opinion.

 

[Rincewind]

The Voice should NOT go, period. I loved it since BB and I think that, in a way, is one of the things that separate the Nolanverse's Batman from the one of the previous movies; it makes him sound ferocious and even insane, when you come to think about it. And I would never accept that its hard to understand. I'm not a native English speaker and I understood every single thing he said with the Voice in both BB and TDK. If native speakers can't understand it, the problem is not in the movie...

 

[The Chris]

The Voice should NOT go, period. I loved it since BB and I think that, in a way, is one of the things that separate the Nolanverse's Batman from the one of the previous movies; it makes him sound ferocious and even insane, when you come to think about it. And I would never accept that its hard to understand. I'm not a native English speaker and I understood every single thing he said with the Voice in both BB and TDK. If native speakers can't understand it, the problem is not in the movie...

I think when people say they don't understand they mention the Joker upside down scene in TDK, seemingly not thinking about the fact that he fought a SWAT team and thugs, got bitten up by dogs, beat with a crowbar or pipe, knocked through a window, and then started being choked. Try masking your voice clearly for that. I give Bale points for doing something that made sense there.

 

[Rincewind]

But still there is nothing incomprehensible in that scene...

 

[Christmas]

When Batman scolds Harvey Dent for almost killing Thomas Schiff, his voice sounded AMAZING. "your the symbol of hope, I can never be."- that particular line and the cadence of his voice tied in with the music was truly great stuff.

I think the cowl may be kind of restrictive on his nasal passages and may make it a bit harder to employ a full voice because of it but he does a great job regardless.

He's disguised really really well.

 

[Crook]

I think the cowl may be kind of restrictive on his nasal passages and may make it a bit harder to employ a full voice because of it but he does a great job regardless.

..really?

Anyhoo, we've had 2 films of the bat-voice. No use in changing it now. Best method would be to smooth out the rough edges, so to speak.

 

[Christmas]

i was just being cereal....

 

[souvlaki]

My only problem with it is there is no consistency. Sometimes it sounds great, other times it sounds forced. It would be kind of dumb for them to change it now though, but I do hope Bale is working on perfecting it between now and the next film. After watching the Terminator trailer it sounds like he is.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Absolutely love the Bat voice. So cool.

 

[Asr]

The Bat-voice is ok I guess but they totally need to improve it, I found it hard to understand what he said too many times! The Bat-voice should be intelligible, not some kind of grunt we'd get from Killer Croc!

 

[The Joker]

It needs to be less growly. The final scene with the Joker, it was just waaaaaaay too growly. Some other scenes it sounds good. Some others it's meh. It fluctuates too much.

His best Bat voice scene was the interrogation of Flass in Begins.

 

[Goodfellas]

Its fine when he talks for like a couple seconds

But like at the end when he was giving that speech to Gordon.....That was laughable and when he said the line to joker "This city showed you that is read to believe in good" again that was laughable

Its fine when he just says short quick sentences but when he gets really emotional or something it comes across stupid

It was fine in Batman Begins but i feel like in this one it was corny imo

 

[Sawyer]

I wouldnt mind them going back to the BB voice. Growly, but not too far.

 

[mjbull23]

I think he did fine this 2nd time around, I feel that at times in the first movie the voice sounded forced, or perhaps even strained is a better choice of words. Particularly when he is talking to Rachel on the rooftop after rescuing her.

He sounded his best in the voice when talking to Dent right before he handed him the keys to Gotham.

If I were to quantify it, his vocal performance as the Bat in begins merits a 6/10, in TDK he scores 7/10.

 

[The Chris]

I thought the voice was more consistent in TDK. Like when he talked to Gordon for the most part it was very low and clear yet different, but when he speaks to Rachel it just sounds different, and then there were few instances where it slips, but I liked that because it was Bruce's first few days and he isn't an actor. TDK, it never slips really, it seems more on an even scale. The voice doesn't sound very different in the scene with Fox than in scenes with Harvey and Gordon. Basically I think it sounds best whenever he's screaming and also when he speaks his lowest. For example I think the voice is great during the interrogation scene, seeing as how he hits both.

 

[ross2287]

I think the problem with the voice stems from two things:

1. Batman talked a lot more in TDK than in BB. The Batvoice works great in short, concise sentences which is how Batman should be. No long-winded speeches.
2. The FX guys did something with his voice audio track. They brought it down some. I don't know the technical terms, but you get what I'm saying?

So, if Batman doesn't talk a lot and the FX guys leave his voice alone, I think everyone will be pleased.

 

[MILPERSMAN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48&feature=related

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