Overdue: Batman Begins

[Don Corleone]

Well, wifey & I went on a date last night, and I took her to go see Batman Begins. I haven't seen a thread on the movie yet (I know, it's been out a long time). If one does exist, feel free to merge my post into it.


What was everyone's thoughts on the movie? I thought it was awesome. Way, way, way better than the Timothy (???) versions from the late 80's early 90s. I only had one problem with the film... the whole idea of a microwave generator that could vaporize all of the water in the city's plumbing... 1) it would need a power supply the size of a building (think about it... your microwave doesn't instantly vaporize the cup of water you put in for coffee) and 2) even if you could get a microwave emission device large enough to pull it off... WHY WEREN'T THE PEOPLE, WHO ARE 90% WATER being vaporized?

Other than that, awesome, awesome flick. I LOVE the new Batmobile. Katie Holmes is a slag & they could have picked a better female lead, but I'm seriously impressed that they decided to follow the 'Dark Knight' cycle.

[Sjakihata]

cool

What I dont understand is, why do they make the Spiderman (the ultimate super hero ever) movies so sucky, I mean come on! Spidey derserves better.

Anyway, im going to see the phantastic phour, I love superheroes.

Sorry to go OT from batman, but didnt see the movie.

oh, and isnt this frontroom material?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Batman Begins was awesome, the best Batman film of the bunch, no doubt. They pitched the character just right-the correct amount of Noir mixed in with the super hero action.

Christian Bale was well cast, too.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

It was ok. Like most movies these days the fighting scenes were cut cut cut, with the camera zoomed way in and a bunch of loud noises. I guess that's more cost effective than actually choreographing it.

Michael Caine was great and the bad guy with the glasses was impressively creepy.

The end bit was lame, directors rely to much on having a twist just for the gasp factor when it doesn't actually make the movie better (in this case worse).

Kind of weird how he refuses to kill a criminal without him going to trial, but runs over police cars with his batmobile and generally causes wanton destruction.


Lot's of cool stuff and nice special effects, but I can't say it was a good movie or that I'd ever watch it again.

[discovery1]

I thought it very good, even better if I thought the death penalty was a good idea.

The microwave emmiter didn't make much sense though, and why would putting the emmiter at the hub cause all the water in the city to vaporize? Wouldn't they have to wait for the water to come through the hub, which gives Betman a lot more time to take them down? And then there would be the problem of ensuring the cloud of gas is properly disperersed so that at least most of the city goes mad. So I guess the whole microwave thing was lame. Oh well, still fun to watch.

[Lazul]

suprisingly good... with a few "bad" things, fightscenes was to much cut cut cut as said.
Also the water thing, I guess one should expect to much realism.