THE BATMOBILE THREAD

[Travesty]

This is a great little find. Good on you for sharing it!

This is the best resource for the history of the Batmobile. Been going here for a very long time.

The History of the Batmobile - BatmobileHistory.com

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

This is the best resource for the history of the Batmobile. Been going here for a very long time.

The History of the Batmobile - BatmobileHistory.com

I actually came across this site a few months back while doing an image search for Lee's Hush-mobile. It's cool, but some of the entries could stand to be a bit more descriptive.

 

[Zorro]

So when it comes to batmobiles in live-action films, how do you rank them? For me it has to be..

Tim Burton's
Adam West's
Batfleck's
The Tumbler
Batman Forever's
Batman and Robin's

 

[TheJumpMan4523]

So when it comes to batmobiles in live-action films, how do you rank them?

Burton-mobile
Nolan-mobile
Snyder-mobile
West-mobile
Forever-mobile
BnR-mobile

 

[shauner111]

Keaton’s batmobile
Kilmer’s batmobile
Bale’s tumbler
West’s batmobile
Affleck’s gunmobile
Clooney’s nipplemobile

 

[Schlosser85]

Keaton’s batmobile
Kilmer’s batmobile
Bale’s tumbler
West’s batmobile
Affleck’s gunmobile
Clooney’s nipplemobile

nipplemobile

 

[The Guard]

Are you serious?
Every Batmobile goes through walls and buildings.

So? It's one thing it did.

You didn't say "Did things that no other Batmobile does (spoiler, neither does The Tumbler, especially when compared to the comics mobiles)", and I never said no other Batmobile could do the things it does.

It didn't survive the parademons, they were wrecking it till the JL arrived.

Except that it did. They were starting to wreck it, but did not in fact, wreck it.

Survived a collison with Superman? Lol, he was just standing around.

And he's Superman.

It didn't fire missiles but yeah it had guns, guns and even more guns and a grapple line which I already mentioned.

Yes, it did fire missles, to clear a path through the large building right after Wonder Woman rescues him from the parademons.

It didn't have a leaping ability or an ejector seat. Please stick with what
was actually shown.

Maybe you should go watch the scenes in BVS and Justice League again. You are incorrect.

The vehicle wasn't shown to do anything beyond firing bullets and towing another car...

Look,the point is that the Snyder mobile did absolutely nothing. His vehicular action was garbage as hell. Remember that giant plane?all it did was shoot missiles.

I mean, it also carried him places rapidly, which is what Batman's planes are generally designed to do, and had remote piloting capability, so Alfred could fly it from the cave. We also saw Batman leap from the plane through a warehouse window. But hey, if you want to be reductionist, be reductionist.

The Batmobile is a product of that particular vision of Snyder. The Burton and Nolan cars played pivotal roles. The scenes they were used in were pivotal and tense. Rescuing Vicki, Penguin taking control, saving Rachel, blowing up the train tracks, etc. Snyder mobile shot thugs and parademons. In the end, that's all it did.

There were story reasons for the inclusion of the Snydermobile in BVS and Justice League, too. You don't have to like them as much as the chase sequences with the damsels in distress, but there are concrete story reasons for their inclusion.

No, that is not all it did, nor all it could do. You are talking about the quality of the movie in a discussion about the car itself. Which is relevant to a comparison of the films and the use of the cars, but when you make hyperbolic statements like "It didn't do anything but X", you confuse the issue.

I'm simply saying that story telling matters a lot. Burton and Nolan's cars are iconic because everything about their visions are iconic. These things dont exist in a vaccum.

Then simply say that. When you resort to using lazy shorthand like "It did nothing", again, you confuse the issue. Someone who cares about the quality of the film around the car should be able to be more articulate.[/quote]

 

[Zorro]

I would have liked Clooney's batmobile more than Kilmer's if it had two seats and a top. At least bulletproof windshields like Adam West's(I assume they were supposed to be).

Joke about Batman & Robin and the nipples all you want but the batmobile wasn't that terrible! It's just that Batman wouldn't have an exposed driver's seat and probably not just one seat like a bat wing

 

[Rorschach2012]

My Batmobile rankings:

1. Burton’s
2. Nolan’s
3. Batman Forever
4. Batman & Robin
5. Snyder’s

I didn’t include the legendary 66 Batmobile as it’s hard to rank it objectively alongside the more modern takes

 

[Milkman95]

1. Affleck
2. Bale
3. Keaton
4. Kilmer
5. Clooney
6. West

 

[SirThomasSharpe]

1. Burton
2. West
3. Clooney
4. Batfleck
5. Bale
6. Kilmer


Hoping for a cross between the Burton Batmobile and West Batmobile. Long and sleek with red details.

 

[Vaibow]

The more I think about it, the more I feel this Batman will use a motorbike - easy, cheap to replace, ok to leave it and retrieve it later or for it to self destruct.

I think he will have a car and it will feature once or twice, but for a specific situation... stealth. I think it will look like any old cool, vintage car - that database website, I never actually realized, just how much the older cars were just simple cars with a logo/face at the front.

I also want Gotham to have a punk/neonesq gang/crowd that drive at night - life the fast and furious, so it would not be uncommon to see a weird looking, gothic car.

 

[hulk24]

With the way the suit looks I'm fully expecting a black Ford pinto

 

[Wheels]

So when it comes to batmobiles in live-action films, how do you rank them? For me it has to be..

Tim Burton's
Adam West's
Batfleck's
The Tumbler
Batman Forever's
Batman and Robin's

Burton
Snyder
Nolan
West
Forever
Batman and Robin

 

[TheGuy]

Tumbler
Adam West
Batfleck
Burton
Batman & Robin
Forever

 

[spideyfan77]

Burton
Snyder

I dont care since the rest sucked.

 

[Jig96v]

I definitely don't want a car with Bat-stylings. It needs to be it's own model, not a Lamborghini with wings or what-have-you. It's a Batmobile.

The most important thing is that chicks dig it.

 

[Dark Raven]

1960s: Bat phone

Current day: Bat mobile:

 

[Travesty]

After the Batsuit reveal, I'm not expecting much of anything great. My expectations have been significantly lowered for the overall look and designs for the gadgets and characters.

 

[Jig96v]

I've now been through this entire thread, and the one for me is the one in the very first post:

This or Arkham v1.0 please

I think the black/red is a safe bet for all the tech given the Batsuit reveal.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Burton
Tumblr
1966
Snyder's Murdermobile
Neonlight plastic cars that dance on the road

 

[I Am The Knight]

I've now been through this entire thread, and the one for me is the one in the very first post:
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This or Arkham v1.0 please

I think the black/red is a safe bet for all the tech given the Batsuit reveal.

That's beautiful.

 

[Zorro]

Went to a car show earlier today and there was this! Damn I love this car

 

[Fincher]

Burton
Kilmer
Batfleck
Tumbler
Clooney
West

 

[emielaen]

That music ****ing rocks. People who were judging Giacchino based on his MCU work weren't digging depper.

his scores for the MCU fits with the MCU, quality wise

After the Batsuit reveal, I'm not expecting much of anything great. My expectations have been significantly lowered for the overall look and designs for the gadgets and characters.

lol that's highly reactionary. all optimism gone because of a 50s teaser that didn't have what you preferred to have