Batman Begins: The Thread

jocelyn, he looks like Jim Gordon!

ahhh - that's right, that was nagging at my brain. Cuz movie's Flass = comics' Harvey Bullock.

in other words, Rex Reed is gay and he's angry that this movie didn't provide any wanking material.

x-x-x-post godDAMMIT!

(xpost: Judging by what my straight female and gay male frineds have been saying, Christian Bale sans shirt = primo wanking material.)

That Rex Reed review reads like he was almost watching a completely different movie from the one I saw.

(I remember the Flash TV series - it sucked, but Mark Hammill had a wacky two-toned costume... shit, I forget who he was, off to IMDB).

Bale as Batman was the first to put pen to paper, followed by Caine as
butler Alfred and Freeman as Bruce Wayne's business associate Lucius Fox.

But Holmes won't reprise her role as district attorney Rachel Dawes --
reportedly because Warner Bros. is angry her engagement to Tom Cruise has
stolen media attention away from the movie.

A source tells Page Six, "Everyone is in agreement that the movie's
strength is with Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman."

Adding of Holmes, "She won't be in the sequel ... the next romantic
interest will be a much stronger actress.

"Warner is happy that people are now focusing on who'll be playing the
Joker rather than Katie and Tom."

CRISPIN GLOVER as the Joker!

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

Rex Reed has recently pushed for NYFCO acting awards for Jeremy Sumpter and Emile Hirsch, so there you have it.

"OMG BRUCE WAYNE IS BATMAN!"

Imagine him doing this one.
"OMG BRUCE WAYNE IS BATMAN!"

And yet I'm reading scores of defenses for this film's elementary chronological juggling and its lame fight scenes.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40641000/jpg/_40641684_cruise203.jpg

CRUISEBOT CARES NOT THAT HOLMESBOT IS NOT RECAST. CRUISEBOT HAS OTHER THINGS TO DO. I ACKNOWLEDGE CROWD.

True.

Ah yes, the Trickster. Sub-Riddler character.

oh man. the riddler is already so sub-joker.

Sir, at heart I am only cruel to you.

OW MY BRANE

He keeps this body morphing shit up, he'll kill himself. To go from less-than-dead to buff, well, I imagine that for months he:

Woke up at 4AM. Shoot up steroids, drink a shitload of protein, aerobics for an hour, pass out.

6AM. Woke up, sho0t up with Human Growth Hormone, more aerobics, eat some high calorie meal, pass out.

8 AM. Wake up, take more androgens, puke, pump iron for a few hours, answer email briskly.

Noon. More iron pumping, probably more drugs.

2PM. Another big meal.

3PM. Boxing, or some other stretch/pull excercize, perhaps enhanced by some sort of speedish drug.

5 PM. 3 steaks.

7PM - 8PM. Vibrate; take some Xanex.

8:30. Puke.

9PM. Watch Val Kilmer BATMAN, hiss "Pussy!", pass out.

Repeat for several months, no days off.

The whole beginning was just...MY KINGDOM FOR A CONCRETE NOUN. Control your fear, my anger outweighs by fear, vengeance your truth, all this grandiose talk that added up to jack shit. Between this and Episode One I'm surprised Liam Neeson hasn't jumped off a roof. Morgan Freeman bringing amiable warmth to a movie is right up there with me taking a good shit after eating taco bell in the Not News department. Michael Caine got shouldered with the rare and clumsy capper quips. Christian Bale was passable as Bruce Wayne but added little and JESUS CHRIST his Batman voice is hysterical. He already sounds a tad awkward anyway but when he gravels up and goes for ominous he's just pathetic. Michael Keaton did a way better job giving Batman a personality.

Aside from a few early moments with Thomas Wayne (well cast) and maybe Gordon (Gary Oldman was the only actor who seemed really intriguing in the parts I caught, sort of reminded me of Laurence Olivier in The Boys From Brazil in his determination to not just coast on skills a la Caine and Freeman but have something going under the surface despite being in an overwraught joke of a movie), the scenes just zipped along without gripping me despite their weighty tone. Actually it might be BECAUSE of that tone. I know a lot of people are anxious for a 'serious' Batman movie but Batman and all superheroes are to some degree completely ludicrous. It's hard to look at a LIVE HUMAN wearing that outfit and not giggle, ESPECIALLY when they're being excruciatingly earnest, and this movie seemed to be under the notion that we were at church.

I have a hard time believing this movie is gonna have legs at the theatre, but hey evidently people like draggy, self-serious tripe. I did like Holmes' homage to the batnipples.