Batman Begins: The Thread

That said,

1. The batmobile shouldn't look like a brisquet
2. I beg Christian Bale to use his normal voice when wearing the suit. The "Batman" voice is ass.
3. Katie Holmes will not be missed.
4. While the stuff I slept through was better than the ones I caught (seriously, how did I nod off EXCEPT for the most mediocre scenes), the script is still overbaked by half. Especially when the mob boss ("you've never tasted desperate!" quoth the raven) or Liam Neeson are around.

Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy were great, though. The childhood scenes were strong too. If they bother to work the kinks out I think the same cast & crew could make a really solid sequel.

Unleashed was definitely better though.

Comic book-based films I'd rather see than yet another Batman abortion:
"Silver Surfer", "Ghost Rider", "the Inhumans", "the Avengers", "the Green Lantern Corps", "DR. STRANGE!"

I do think Michael Caine as Alfred is an inspired choice, though, I'll give them that.

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:33 (2 years ago)

I am now curious as to what Alex thought of the first two of those compared to Batman Begins.

they made a Silver Surfer movie WITHOUT GALACTUS

wtf

I was talking to a girl who had seen that movie, and I asked her if Galactus was cool in it, and she said yeah and that he's a big cloud or something?

glacts and ss should have their own damn movie series

FTFF

Batman Begins, 0:31:38

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this was kinda weak wasnt it? some good parts, but too ponderous. and too much shit that seemed to be too much like any other action film rather than a comic book superhero one.

saw 20 seconds on TBS this weekend, wow, didn't even remember Tom Wilkinson's awful part. Soooo dreadful.

Tried to watch this on the plane. First 40 minutes unwatchably terrible (by which I mean, I couldn't actually make myself watch it, I kept fast forwarding to see if it got any better.) As far as I could tell, 20 minutes of ponderous drecky kung-fu dialogue of the sort that can only be enjoyed in 10-second snips on a Wu-Tang Clan record, then 20 minutes of ponderous drecky social-conscience dialogue, then I think Batman did finally punch somebody but I was already so bored that I switched to an episode of "The Big Bang Theory."

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batman returns pwns batman begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKjra8i2XTw

But yes Returns is the best.

batman returns pwns most superhero movies

batman's Not A Superhero but u know what i mean

The logo for the first movie is still pretty eye-catching. Cropping the sides of the Batsignal was a brilliant idea. It's like "This movie is so big the logo can't even fit on the VHS box".

OTM. one of the best vhs covers ever
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ha yeah

Emphasizing the frame was a clever way to subconsciously remind everyone it will be on video tape.

so the making of batman was interesting. but it seemed to gloss over . . . michael keaton? i mean, the biggest story in the run-up to batman's release was the casting of keaton, over some action-star type. that had to put incredible pressure on the entire project. and it paid-off; he was a comic who showed uncommon depth (like bill murray in lost in translation, those that was a far different type of film, obv.). but until they knew the audience would recognize keaton's greatness in the role, they all had to be living with the weight-of-the-world pressing on them. funny that the making of ignores this key point (and, indeed, mostly ignores keaton entirely).