Christian Bale visits Aurora Hospital.

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Berithil

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When celebrities do stuff like this with a camera following them, I roll my eyes and think "whatever. It's expected".

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But when celebrity do stuff like this surreptitiously: massive props.

Good on ya, Mr. Bale.


As for the lawsuit against warner bros for the DKR being too violent? There's more violence in your average cable cop drama. Seriously?
 

General Twinkletoes

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I wouldn't have thought that the kids would want to see him. I don't think I would. But if they did, good on him.
 

thereverend7

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This is one of those times when I realize not all hope is lost for humanity.

I loved this story, it made me smile, something hard to come by these days. Mr. Bale, I politely salute you. It's not like it reverses the tragedy, but i'm sure it brightened some people's days at least a little bit. What more could they possibly need right now but a little bit of unexpected kindness?
 

chadachada123

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Since he tried to do this incognito, I give massive props to him. I do wish that more actors would be selfless towards the public.
 

Korolev

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Well it's nice, I guess, for those who are injured to get visits. I'm not sure if I would want to see him if a loved one of mine died. I wouldn't hold him responsible in anyway shape or form, but I think that I wouldn't want people associated with the film my loved one died trying to watch coming to see me right away. I know he meant well, and again, you'd have to be insane to hold him responsible in anyway for the shooting, but even just thinking about the film might cause some emotional distress to the victims and their families.

Still, he meant well.
 

Scarim Coral

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That's a coincident, yesterday I read a comment somewhere (I think it was in that latest Marvel Vs DC video) that Bale should visit the hopital in the Batman suit, well close enough!
Either way I'm glad he did it. Those patients needed something to cheer up over this sadness.
 

hazabaza1

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Wait wait wait wait wait...
Christian Bale is British? I always thought he was American.

Anyway, uhh... cool, I guess? Do people really want to see more Batman right now?
 

Phisi

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That is a nice gesture, I don't think he is to blame at all and would not have expected him or cared if he didn't do anything about it. Good hon'em.
 

Chairman Miaow

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Definitely just trying to get rid of the bad publicity he has over assaulting his family, flipping out on set, etc.
 

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chadachada123 said:
Since he tried to do this incognito, I give massive props to him. I do wish that more actors would be selfless towards the public.
He didn't try to do it incongnito for any other reason than to make people think he wasn't doing it for the publicity. An actor that big CAN'T be incognito and he knows that.
 

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Instant K4rma said:
Gotta admit, I have to give props to Mr. Bale. Entered the hospital "in secret", didn't want to make a big publicity thing out of it
He didn't exactly have much of a choice though. If he made a huge deal out of it and took a dozen photographers in with him, everyone would have critisised him for only wanting the publicity. He would have known the news would get out either way so he just chose the better option.

It's good he went I guess, but I can't help but think he only did it because he felt pressured by the poll.
 

CaptainMarvelous

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Yeah, I dunno if he did it just because he was almost certainly going to get outed for it and made him look good but I like to think the best of people and assume this was just him doing something good.
 

CrazyGirl17

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Good for him, then. ^^

thereverend7 said:
This is one of those times when I realize not all hope is lost for humanity.

I loved this story, it made me smile, something hard to come by these days. Mr. Bale, I politely salute you. It's not like it reverses the tragedy, but i'm sure it brightened some people's days at least a little bit. What more could they possibly need right now but a little bit of unexpected kindness?
^What they said
 

Moonlight Butterfly

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What a classy guy. It's such a sad thing. It seems the shooter is severely mentally ill. I hope they put him somewhere where he can't hurt anyone else.
 

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That's pretty damn cool of him. Since it's impossible to know his motives, I'll just assume he had good intentions in his quiet visit to those who got injured watching a film he starred in.
 

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Glad to see he went as himself and not as Batman. On top of bringing up bad memories, can you imagine some poor Kid asking "Batman" why he didn't save them from the bad guy? Pretty sure in that situation, id just have a mental breakdown.

But yeah, this is good to see, good for Bale doing this, and if he did it for his image...screw it, the victims needed the cheering up, good for him anyways.
 

Relish in Chaos

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Good on him. Um, can't think of anything else to say.

TizzytheTormentor said:
Good on him, still doesn't stop the fact that he is a lame Batman.

EDIT: I find it hard not to laugh when he overacts Batman, he just growls words at people.
I couldn't even take the scene in Dark Knight Rises seriously when...
When he was roaring at Bane for the trigger, good lord, I had to hold my laugh in. He may as well have been screaming "I'M ACTING!?"
To be fair, his Batman voice was fine in Batman Begins. Then, for some reason, he made it overly gruff in The Dark Knight. But I think he's really good as both Bruce Wayne and Batman, and made me both like and believe in the humanity of the character. The previous actors just felt like they were a guy playing Batman, rather than actually Batman himself. I didn't get the same feeling from Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer or George Clooney that I did in Christian Bale.