‘The Batman Complex’ Is My Favorite Movie Never Made
The Internet is a magical place, evidence #6930875379046c —
Themanbatman is one of those glorious online fan producers dedicated to “visual creative writing” by chopping up other movies and media to create new narratives. As the name suggests, many of them are in some way related to Batman. In February, “The Batman Complex - Teaser Trailer” hit YouTube, and now the full-length trailer has started making the rounds.
“The Batman Complex” reorganizes several Christopher Nolan films (plus a few other movies on Christian Bale’s resume) and ends up with this perfect Megazord psychodrama experience. If this had been a real full-length feature film, then “The Batman Complex” would be the only movie I’d ever watch for the rest of my life, forever and ever, amen.
Hans Zimmer’s Thematic Scoring For ‘Inception’
This video points out the way Edith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien” is not only used as a key plot element for Inception. It’s also the song Hans Zimmer uses as a foundation for the entire score.
I continue to think that anything dramatic he’s scored since The Dark Knight takes from that at least a little, but the Inception score is still fantastically captivating and a great display of Zimmer’s tendency to use music for enhancing narrative detail.
The twisted electric violin sound to represent The Joker, for instance, will stick with me always:
Re-Cut Trailer: ‘Toy Story 3’ vs ‘Inception’
This doesn’t satisfy quite as much as the Toy Story 2 vs. The Dark Knight re-cut trailer, but it’s still pretty entertaining. Obviously what we should learn from this is that Christopher Nolan and Pixar always go hand-in-hand, in some bizarre way.
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ is Like a Good Game of Bingo
Christopher Nolan is one of the strongest blockbuster filmmakers right now, and Inception proves that all over again. He’s definitely my favorite of all the contenders today, but the thing about fan behavior is that as much as that inspires an immediate interest and excitement about someone or something in us, it means we’re also very aware of that individual’s strengths, tells, and weaknesses pretty well, since because we’ve been so obsessed for a prolonged period of time. I was hooked with Memento. It’s been some years tracing Nolan’s career. I could probably make a list a la How To Spot A Shyamalan or even rough draft a bingo card.
Not that it makes Inception any less compelling, quite the opposite, but it isn’t without things seen from Nolan before. I mean…
