An ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot
(Continued from The Man of 2012, Part I: Christian Bale vs. Ryan Gosling.) There was another public figure who captured the attention of America in a way that few others did in 2011. That man? Denver Quarterback Timothy Tebow. But unlike Gosling, Tebow has not been adorned with universal adoration. He divides the country, causing …
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Christian Bale arguably had his best year yet in 2011, but 2011 was not the Year of Bale. Yes, he had many amazing moments, including (but not limited to) winning an Academy Award for his performance in The Fighter, winning a Golden Globe for the same thing, and actually receiving another thirty awards throughout the …
The rumors continue to mill regarding a new Jurassic Park movie. Stephen Spielberg has officially announced that it's happening, and the release of the trilogy on Blu-Ray has gotten people talking about it again, but there seems to be virtually no information available beyond that there will be another movie with "Jurassic Park" in the …
The Flowers of War trailer was released today. If you're not familiar with it, this is the Chinese-made, Bale-starring film that was previously titled Nanjing Heroes, 13 Flowers of Nanjing, The 13 Women of Nanjing, and Christian Bale is: The Warrior Priest of Nanjing. The problem isn't that the trailer shows too much. The problem …
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No. No, you cannot reboot the Batman film franchise again. The Dark Knight Rises hasn't even been released and as we all know, Warner Brothers has been talking since March about how to keep squeezing money out of the Caped Crusader, with a tentative release date for the next next Batman movie being 2015. But …
You may not have heard of Karl Welzein yet. As of now, he exists only in the realm of Twitter, but has amassed a following of nearly 25,000 Twitter Followers, a number which is constantly growing (he had around 4,000 followers in March, when What Should Bale Do began following him.) Karl Welzein is a …
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Try googling "marmaduke fart." No? Does that not interest you? Are you not entertained by what could only be an endless supply of humorous web pages centering around Marmaduke and farts? If you have decided to type "Marmaduke fart" into a search engine, you probably notice that the blog I Hate Your Favorite Movie is …
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The idea that Selina Kyle will be a metaphor for Sarah Palin in The Dark Knight Rises has already been previously discussed here, in the post Why Catwoman Will Be Sarah Palin. There is little left to say on the matter, aside from these key points: 1.) Anne Hathaway will be an excellent Selina Kyle, …
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While another Teminator film should seem like the most inevitable possibility ever, there are a number of issues that seem to be holding it up. Little issues such as bankruptcy, lawsuits, a political scandal of some sort revolving around Mr. Schwarzenegger, and Bale's shouting incident that occurred during the filming of Terminator Salvation. Terminator Salvation …
I am seriously disappointed that I'm not the one who came up with this, but website "The Wrap" (I don't know what it is; I googled it) wrote an article in February of this year on something that I was going to write about this week: The Bat Pack. The Bat Pack, meaning the team …
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