Tue, 05 Jul 2005
Batman Begins - ****
I was a bit nervous in seeing BB. It had a lot of hype built up around it, and that's one thing that kills a lot of movies (music, events, etc) for me. But I was pretty impressed with the flick. It really gave the Dark Knight a good retelling and it felt believable.
I was happy when Tim Burton's Batman came out way back when. It built up a ton of hype and was a pretty entertaining movie. It probably got the ball rolling on the current slate of comic book flicks that have come out in recent years. Although enjoyable, that franchise annoyed me on a lot of levels (and no, I won't get into Joel Schumacher's utter destruction of the flicks). The main thing that ate at me from afar was that I was a fan of the Frank Miller type of Batman and the Burton version, although played darkly by Michael Keaton, still seemed a bit campy- thanks to Jack and the villains. But in Batman Begins, they really returned to the realism and made it scary in an adult movie type of way. When the villains are being villainous, you kinda think- shit, I wouldn't mess with them. And I'm talking about the mob, corrupt cops and judges, not the "villains", which are scary in their own right. Not to give too much away, but when The Scarecrow drugs someone and we see their perspective- it's f'd up. And that's why the movie has four stars from me. Hopefully, it'll hold up better over time more than Burton's Batman did(n't). Quick notes- I didn't really realize this until part of the way through but (almost) everyone in the movie is not American [except for Flass, Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise's beard]. I didn't even realize that one of the characters was Tom Wilkinson until I looked up the movie credits later. also- I saw the movie w/ Angie and Mike. They're cool. Angie likes to read the blog to see if she's mentioned. So here ya go. Oh, and another thing- I hadn't been to the actual movie theater in forever. I was glad BB didn't let me down.05 Jul 10:40 | /movies | 0 comment(s)
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