Batman Begins

[Paranoid]

Just one line needed...

THE best action movie (not to mention comic adap) I have seen in an extremely long time!!!

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[Prophet Tenebrae]

I'm not sure I'd say *best* but pretty damned close. I feel that they got the feel of film just right - Gotham as a decaying urban cityscape. Wayne as a troubled man, driven by the death of his parents to try and right wrongs.

I loved the Gordon angle - that was cool. Especially his constant disappearing, very much in character. Nice choice of villains too.

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[iohannes]

And Thomas Wayne is more than a McGuffin to lead to Bruce Wayne's Byronic hero. He's an actual fleshed out character and we are actually allowed to see why Bruce Wayne is tortured by his death.

Bloody awesome.

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[Canandrew]

I found it pretty interesting, because it was an action movie that, for a change, was let down by its action and propped up by its characters and story. The way they really fleshed out the Batman character and the world he lived in was well done. You really got a feel for Gotham as a city, and the backstory was compelling. The actual action scenes were pretty bland though, in my opinion. Lot's of quick, dark shots that didn't really reveal much.

The movie was still freaking awesome, there's no doubt about that, but it was just an interesting example of all meat and no sizzle.

[Paranoid]

Well my dad and I discussed the action scenes quite alot. I found them quite similar to the Bourne Supremacy whereby the camera was moving about all over the place that you couldnt work out what was going on...I hated that, but then my Dad counter-argued that in a real fight with Batman that would probably be how it felt, no one would know what was going on and where one minute your mate is right next to you, the next he isnt...so I guess for an all-out fighting movie it isnt like your normal formula (apart from the car chase), but then I think I prefer the balance as you suggest, putting more emphasis on the character than anything else...and for once hardly any CGI was visible! It's brilliant!!!

Final note: I'm so glad they shoved the lovey-dovey stuff to the very last few seconds of the film...finally we dont have a love stroy thrust upon us spoiling the whole 3 hours of a movie!! (Katie Holmes was pretty awful anyway...no wonder she's trying heaps of PR stunts with Tom Cruise...she needs it desperately!)

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[Haunted]

Absolutely loved thwe movie.
But...
did anyone think it was funny that 'stealth' mode meant just turning off the headlights?

[Rilla]

IS the best film ive seen all year.
The first batman film i actually liked.

wow, Christian Bale is incredible.

an action film with a good plot -line - AMAZING!!!

go see it!!!

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"O unworn world enrapture me, enrapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech"

[Prophet Tenebrae]

I have to agree that the action scenes were almost Bourne Identity style (for me, the Supremacy style of action scene while similar was infinitely worse.) I can't stand the propensity of directors in the past 10 years to go for these action scenes that are about 1 foot away from the action, shaky and jumping around all over the place like the camera man and editor are both retards suffering bouts of epilepsy and lashings of ADHD.

That said, it's clear it's supposed to demonstrate the rapidity of the fight and so on. I didn't like it but I think that a lack of set-pieces was to the benefit of the film and the car chase was just awesome.

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[Thackary]

I saw it last night, and LOVED IT!

I particularly liked that we finally find out "Where he gets those wonderful toys", but with a plausible (plausible? - hmm) explanation.

eg The kevlar bodysuit was designed for the army, but the government figured that a soldier's life wasn't worth $300,000, so it never went into production.


Micheal Caine's portrayal of Alfred was kindly, endearing but still with a sense of humour. I liked that. I might have liked it more if he was a little more well-spoken...
During the scene where Alfred points to the news story featuring Batman's chase down the motorway, did anyone else half expect Alfred to say "you're only supposed to take her to the bloody bat cave"? Just me then.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

The fact that Liam Neeson was quite happy to stand next a microwave emitter powerful enough to vaporise water about 100m away through a few dozen feet of concrete when the human body is 80% water was hilarious.

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