Batman Begins: The Thread

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).