nah-nah-nah-nah-nuh-nuh-nuh BATMAN!!
edith head
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i saw this last night and it was surprisingly really good! the first half was kinda slow cause it's all about bruce's training which is essentially like watching a fancy therapy session only with martial arts. but the second half was so so hot. has anyone seen it yet? i am so glad the series went back to the dark ages cause the joel schumacher ones were so stupid. gotham looked like a garish ass circus - it was almost as if a giant toddler swallowed a giant box of crayons and threw up on a city. gotham in this batman is gritty as f***....the way it should be!
I give this movie 4
I give this movie 4
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Same with me but this is the Dark Knight not he Cape Crusader! I will see this again and again... One of those fliks I can throw on and watch over and over kind of like a Shaw Brothers Flick!
Batman Begins was beautiful. I already spoke about it on a previous post.I loved the Joker reference at the end. What really put this movie over was the acting. No one was annoying. Even Katie Holmes did a fine job. She even got tough. Im a comic book head so I left very satified. I would go as far to say it was better than Spider-Man. But Spiderman had more CGI-orientated action(better-fisticuffs).
I think Nolan's storttelling/directing was hot but his fighting sequences were heavily spliced to the point of confusing. Still I could ramble on for hours on this flick. INCREDIBLE.
Only BATMAN fans would go to see BEYOND. It's too underground for regular moviegoers.
Too MTV-ish for sure.
seriously! but i noticed that almost all fighting sequences in movies for the last decade or so are overedited like this. shit is so close up and frantic that you can't tell what is going on. my boy says is for realism, but i miss the old days of choregraphed fighting and simple editing.
i thought this batman had its flaws but it was still very enjoyable for me. i do think that the spiderman movies are better though.
that fantastic4 movie looks fucking stupid, however. even jessica alba aint gonna save this one.
Saw it last night and really liked it. Maybe I'm being to nice, but I thought the chopped up fighting was to create the image that Batman just kicks everyones ass before they know what's going on. After all he is a regular person with no "super powers". So he has to act fast or he can be mobbed. Just like when the crazyies smother him at the end.
The only complint I have is that none of the movies have ever been true to the comic book and had young Bruce going to see Zoro with his parents when they get shot. I think the fear thing was covered enough they didn't have to have him scared and the opera and then guitly about leaving early. But hey, it's just a movie. Other wise is kicked ass. As post a few days ago I hope they get Crispan Glover to play the Joker.
And how about Gay Oldman as Gorden? Talk about playing a regular guy. Little different for him and he did really good.
I also liked the fact that they kept the cheasy one liners pretty tame.
The Tim Burton one was good, but it was always hard to take Micheal Keton as Batman. Still a good movie and whoever plays the new Joker will have some big shoes to fill!!!
Fianlly, when did people start clapping at the end of movies? I've noticed this over the past few years and it's always at "nerd" movies like this. Happened last night. I mean I was happy, but I didn't feel the need to clap. Maybe if your at a screening with the actors/director etc.....
Awwwww! Looks like rentable fun to me. I think if you read those comics as a kid you just have to see them even if they look corney. Plus, dude from the Sheild is the Thing! But of course his costume looks kinda weak.
I started that a few years back when after watching the movie I started to do Hand Clap Push Up's to wipe the grease off my hands from the popcorn and then everyone started to clap after that. Now the true story is out!
As you know Batman is down with push up's so maybe that's why the claped also...
Also Mr Nelson's performance was nice!
I started that a few years back when after watching the movie I started to do Hand Clap Push Up's to wipe the grease off my hands from the popcorn and then everyone started to clap after that. Now the true story is out!
As you know Batman is down with push up's so maybe that's why the claped also...
Also Mr Nelson's performance was nice!
HA HA! Yea, Liam is always soooooo good his easy to over look. You just expect him to be great so you aren't suprised when he is. And Michael Kane as well.
That's why i was so taken with Gary's acting. Cuz usually he's playing some really out their type, but here his just a good cop trying to get by.
Man, I am in my almost-late 30s, and I remember as a kid, it was weird if people DIDN'T clap at the end. I think in the early 80s this stopped happening on the regular. Can't really say why. I think the last movie that I remember applause at the end was the first Matrix. Just don't hear it much anymore. I think you still hear it at art films and special events, as you alluded to.
I didnt like the idea of Ra's Al Ghul personally teaching Batman. Big rumour is Adrian Brody to play the Joker which is an excellent choice. Skinny w/ a big nose.
Another rumour is Mark Hamill due to his work on the animated series. Hamill has created the definitive voice of The Joker. He's just a little too old and short for the Joker.
What didn't you like about the teaching? That some one taught him at all? I got the impression that Ra taught most of those guys in the mountian.
Man, Mark would be coll, but your right about the shot and older. Make up would take care of the older cuz you'll never see his face anyhow. But, maybe a CGI Joker with Marks voice!!!! (ok I'm streaching it now)
I really wouldn't want to see Brody play Joker, that guy bugs me ever since that Coke comercial.
My fave Batman story line is from the old Neal Adams books in the early 70s where Ra's Al Ghul is like the most evenly matched Batman villian ever, and even suggests that Batman is not quite on his level. I guess that always stuck with me, and I always think of him as the most realistic of his enemies, so it will be a bit odd to see him in this light.
Ever see the super special with the anti-batman that dresses like him and everything? Pretty cool.
You now basically cant bring Ra's Al Ghul back because he knows Batman's identity, which makes for a 15 minute movie.
Cool. Wasn't sure if you were talking with- the move or the comics as a whole. Yea, haveing Joker kill the parents in that first movie was silly. My guess is they never know if they will get to make a second movie so they shove as much in as possable. But, I too would like to see movies stay a little closer to the comics. I guess I can understand a little. The comics span over years and years so they have time to elaborate on and on. While the movie is going for the more bang for the buck theory. It seems too they want to have a villian introduced and killed in the same flick so that justifies their "twists".
At least we saw Gorden's kids so we may get a decent Batgirl around the 3 one.
He'll have to be the Commish by then. I saw the kids but i missed the daughters hair color. Was it red?
They need never bring Batgirl OR Robin into this group of films, thank you.
I talked about this with my homie last night. Robin is tough to do because any child next to C.Bale is just gonna lighten the mood too much. If the child actor is a brooding 13 year old w/ a dark attitude, then maybe.