Everything about this makes me queasy. With The Dark Knight breaking every conceivable box-office record known to man, I’d hoped we’d enter a new phase of maturity in not just our action movies but our action movie marketing. Alas, it’s not to be.

The director of this little flick, Lexi Alexander, has been fired off the film, by the way – as has her composer. Seems the studio wants to use this kind of crap throughout the entire film. Ugh.

The name of the band that wrote that little ditty is Ramallah, by the way. I want you all to know so that if anyone ever asks you “Do you wanna hear some Ramallah?” you’ll know how to answer.

-AR

[via IGN]

A five part “metal opera” re-telling of 2005′s Batman Begins utilizing the music of Between the Buried and Me? Generally I’d say that falls under the heading of “way too much free fucking time.” But with Dark Knight-mania sweeping the nation and it being a slow news day (Hey, did you guys know Metallica and Slipknot have new albums coming out?), it seemed as good a time as any to post this.

Watch part 1 below; part 2 is after the jump… and I guess the promised parts 3 through 5 are still in the creation phase…

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