Batman Begins: The Thread

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OTM.

This was one of my favorite bits of dialogue in the movie, too. I also liked the rationale for dressing up like a bat.

I think most of the disappointed reactions are coming from people who were open to a serious Batman but who think BB failed to deliver.

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Yeah, every fight scene in BB was a complete and utter shambles. The film was overlong and laughably ponderous. It looked great though, so that's alright.

Also, I think maybe he said "our family" built the monorails, not neccesarily him personally.

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They played the "Batman's a scientist" Simpsons clip from the monorail episode during the previews at the Alamo drafthouse. I could have kissed someone.

And hey, y'know what, the Adam West Batman is FUN. And also, when I was like 5, watching it for the first time (in reruns, I'm not 45 years old!), I had no idea it was supposed to be funny. At five, that stuff is pretty grim.

I admit that I couldn't stifle laughter when Neeson mentioned Constantinople as an aside.

He then decides out of the blue to become Batman, but instead of Alfred making him his costume and weapons, he hires Samuel L. Jackson to do it for him.

Batman himself doesn't have the stocky, square-jawed appearance that we all recognize, but is played by the thin guy from Memento.

This makes 20% doubt seem a bit excessive.

a few thoughts:

the worst thing about c. bale is his mouth. it ruins all his acting. the unfortunate thing about batman is that the mouth is all you see, too. still, I didn't mind him and thought he was OK, partly because he seemed quite lacking, in personality, perhaps--better than OTT.

wouldn't the microwave vaporisor thing have used its microwaves to vaporise the water in people, too?

couple of silly things that were vital to the story's progress:

when batman first met the scarecrow and didn't catch him because the scarecrow totally set batman on fire and batman had to jump out of a window--how come he got totally set on fire, as if he had been soaking in petrol?

and the bit when he went down amongst the gas-affected people, after he had lost his grapple gun in a fight with shadow guys, and was jumped upon by the strangely curious, supposedly scared masses and managed to find his gun just lying on the ground

I didn't like the scarecrow guy's mouth, either, and am not wild about katie holmes'

I don't like morgan freeman, as a rule, but he was OK

quite liked gary oldman, despite the necessary, stupid lines ("I gotta get me one of those" re: batmobile)

the v. funny bit where the bum he'd given his coat to, seven years earlier, turned up at the drugs thing where he put tom wilkinson on the spotlight and b.man says "nice coat" and the bum says "thanks"

liam neeson, I dislike, too

nice to see freddie starr and tim booth with bit-parts, though, and ken barlow's son as bruce wayne's dad

Who was Booth again? (Also, RJG, did yer get my mail?)

(I did, ned, and I will reply, soon!)

Booth was in a band called James, they had a big hit in 1990 with "Been Caught Stealing

I love you.

He threw gas all over Batman while he was freaking out.

I think I share Ally's amazing mutant ability to pay attention to movies.