Eartha Kitt As Catwoman

Anne Hathaway's Catwoman Costume Will Include Goggles, Actually Be Functional

Only on a Christopher Nolan film can information about one character's costume actually count as news. OK, fine, that's often the case for any adaptation of a superhero movie-- we were all very anxious before getting the first look at Chris Evans's Captain America costume-- but in the case of the story over at Hollywood Life , we're not even talking about the hero's costume here-- we're talking about the villain. They talked to a source "very close to the costume design" who revealed a few details about what we can expect Anne Hathaway to be wearing as she plays Catwoman in next summer's The Dark Knight Rises , which is filming now. Not that you really expected them to hearken back to the 2003 disaster Catwoman , but her costume will not in fact be anything like Halle Berry's. Here's what they had to say:

“Anne’s outfit is more tactical, like the comic book, than the previous Batman movies. She will definitely be wearing the goggles and it’s going to be less sexy than Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman costumes. She’s going to look more like a robber. But fan boys shouldn’t be worried. This costume is going to be form-fitting enough to make Anne look smoking hot.”

Hathaway's actually in an interesting position in the movie, playing the first female villain in Nolan's Batman universe, and possibly the most sexualized of any of the characters in the movies so far. Though Rachel Dawes, as played by Katie Holmes and Maggie Gyllenhaal, was perfectly pretty and played a key role in both films, she was never all that sexualized-- as the assistant district attorney, it really wouldn't have been appropriate. But Catwoman is a character who practically invented sex appeal-- she was once played by Eartha Kitt, for God's sake-- and Hathaway is inevitably going to have to look hot in her costume, even if it's retrofitted to make her fight scenes more believable.

I've been sticking up for Hathaway's casting since the beginning, and feel totally confident that she's putting in a ridiculous amount of work to be in proper shape for the role. Now we know she'll have a costume to match her skills-- though knowing how secretive these Batman productions tend to be, it will likely be many months before we get a look at the real thing.

Catwoman Comic | First Person Comics

Film Review: Ghost Rider

The special effects are good.

That’s about all the good I can say about this debacle of a comic book turned movie franchise. It wasn’t enough that writer/director Mark Steven Johnson ruined DAREDEVIL but to ruin another decent comic book that was GHOST RIDER is inexcusable. The main reason this film fails on so many levels derives from the weak, unoriginal, and derivative script. From that point on there was nowhere else to go but down.

The script plays out like a bad issue of TALES OF THE GHOST RIDER not even good enough to be featured in the main title. Don’t get me wrong, all the plot points that Syd Field describes in his famous books are all present, so, you will least get a film that has a plot and direction. The fault lies in the translation to screen where the dialogue falls flat and the actors come off as two-dimensional and the plot is something resembling a story I’ve seen somewhere before or heard somewhere before or … well, you get the picture.

It’s an uninspired mess. Nicolas Cage is channeling something between a traditional cowboy and Elvis Presley which if he was consistent it might have worked but Cage is a cowboy in one screen then Elvis in the next and it comes off as laughable (kind of like his performance in CON AIR).

Neither Peter Fonda nor Eva Mendes have anything to do and both have seen better days and appear like they are “slumming” here (although there’s a good chance that they did this movie thinking it was going to be “cool”). The greatest atrocity goes to Wes Bentley as Ghost Rider’s nemesis Blackheart. In the comic Blackheart is to Ghost Rider what The Joker is to Batman but in this film he comes off as a second rate Poison Ivy (BATMAN & ROBIN). Bentley himself has never lived up to the potential on display in his breakout success AMERICAN BEAUTY but this is an all time low. His Blackheart makes Sharon Stone’s performance in CATWOMAN Oscar worthy. His henchmen The Hidden, all easily forgettable, do nothing for his defense.

The only thing remotely decent about the film are the special effects on display when they bring the fame headed Ghost Rider to life. For years someone has been trying to get this film made but the special effects just were not available at the time, but now they are as the title character is brought to life seamlessly. I was appalled at how bad the story was in regards to how well the SFX were, but this is a Hollywood film and as such they don’t want anything original or that could actually be both entertaining and good. They want to pander down to the lowest common denominator.

I saw Eartha Kitt as Catwoman yesterday. It was funny.

Nearly four o'clock. That means same bat-time, same bat-channel and Eartha Kitt as Catwoman.

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