THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Christian Bale Visits Colorado Shooting Victims

That's fantastic news. What an awesome gesture. 10 points Mr Bale!

I hope he doesn't read a book in the Batman voice to the children.

That's nice.

I love Christian Bale and really think it's wonderful of him to do this but I think everyone is addressing this tragedy in the wrong way.

The media have blown this way out of proportion and as a result that homicidal madman is getting more attention than he should. Because of this people are afraid to go to the movies now and Warner Bros is even thinking about removing a pivotal scene in their new movie Gangster Squad- which means now that our lives are basically being controlled by a madman and Warner Bros are taking film notes from him.

One thing that Sept 11th has taught us that the US does move on from great tragedies and the theatre killings are no where near as bad as that. In a few weeks this will be old news and no one will care anymore so we need to get this all in perspective and stop treating what happened with more attention than it deserves.

People get shot everyday in the US and nobody cares as much. What bugs me the most is that the more time we spend on this the more that madman wins. We need to sentence him, reclaim the safety of our movie theatres and move on from this so that the families of these victims can mourn in peace. If we carry on like this we are encouraging these homicidal maniacs- that all they need do to become media sensations is kill a bunch of people at a movie theatre and they'll have the whole word running scared.

very nice gesture,well done mr bale you're a top man.

Thoughtful of Bale. Cool gesture. WB is Greedy for not offering help!

Bale is the man!!!! Great actor and person!! Go buddy!

awesome job Bale.

Good move on his behalf. He did not have to do anything and the fact that he is speaks volumes about his character as a human being. This is just wonderful to read.

One of the survivors posted a picture of him and Bale on facebook.

Christian Bale is a class act, I give him props.

@TheGoddamnBatman but he didn't wear the suit lol

Awesome, I always thought the idea of him going dressed as Batman seemed inappropriate and somewhat insensitive. But going of his own accord is great, now he doesn't seem like the complete douche bag we've often been told he is.

that's great!

VERY cool dude that Mr. Bale ;-)

That's very good of him, very good!

you done well bale.. you done well

It's always nice to see actors and influential people doing things like this, kind of reminds me of Ron Perlman visiting those kids dressed as Hellboy for the Make A Wish foundation - except, rightly so, Bale isn't in costume.

I also don't understand why people always seem to make Bale out as some horrible person, I mean everyone has bad days or experiences or gets angry, and unfortunately two particular examples of this were made available for the public to learn about.

I would love to see Bale interrogate the shooter..
*wham! *wham!! *slam!

Ahh Well done Christian Bale. What a nice guy. This isnt like the rest of the 'Apology statements' He came out and made their day!!

Bale does something incredibly cool and this lame types about him reading book to his kids.

Hopefully this puts an end to the hate on Bale.

Bale's a class act

I'm glad that he showed up on his own free will. Thanks, Mr. Bale.

my respect and sympathy go out to the victims

but who else would wanna see Bale cut loose on the shooter..

he truly is...Batman