Rate Batman Begins

[JoeBlank]

Damn, The Serge is a tough act to follow. Nice review.

I give it an 8.5, bumping up to 9 because the failures that have come before increase the difficulty level.

 

[JoeBlank]

i am now thoroughly convinced i live on a different planet than everyone else.

this movie might have been worse than revenge of the sith. or maybe i'm just being hard on it because its fresher in my mind. so i gave it the same 4 i gave sith.

there was ZERO applause in my theatre, so even if some others looked at me funny for killing it on the way out the door, they couldnt have enjoyed it very much.

with all the little things wrong, and a handful of big things wrong too, the mostly cool Scarecrow wasn't enough to make me enjoy the whole package.

Oh well.
I wonder if War of the Worlds and Fantastic Four will keep up the "it only gets worse" trend.

Opinions are like . . . , well, everybody has one. In the past you have supported your opinions well even when others disagreed. Have you cooled down enough to point out the places where you found fault with the movie?

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I really liked it. Best Batman movie yet. Closest to the comic books, IMO. I do have one logic question though:

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Ok, we see Katie Holmes' character driving her own car, except in the scene where she gets attacked, she is on the train. How come she is not driving? What happened to her car?

Answer Below:

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Have you seen the parking prices downtown? I totally buy it. I know lots of people in Chicago who own cars and drive around plenty - myself included - but take mass transit when going to work.

BTW, it was neat seeing some of the Gotham locations that were shot within a block or two of where I work in downtown Chicago...

 

[Fiery James]

i am now thoroughly convinced i live on a different planet than everyone else.

We can test this theory---

Was Catwoman an excellent movie in your world?

If yes, then your hypothesis is correct.

If no, then we share the same world, just not the same tastes.



- JB

 

[WayneLigon]

Saw it last night. I give it a nine. It was really amazing, and I was very pleased that they didn't

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kill any of the villians; Crane gets clean away, and we never see Ra's body - not that it might matter, if the movie version has access to a Lazerus Pit.

. I was very, very pleased and can't wait for the next one.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Rent Equilibrium. Seriously. Right now. It's hard to find in most video stores, but it's available on Netflix. Heck, I'd almost recommend buying it sight unseen, I thought it was that good.

It's the movie that convinced me they'd chosen right when they first cast Bale.

So very true. We found it at a used CD/DVD store. They had like six copied for like $5 apiece.

 

[Mimic]

with all the little things wrong, and a handful of big things wrong too, the mostly cool Scarecrow wasn't enough to make me enjoy the whole package.

I would like to know what you didn't like about it. I haven't actually seen it yet but you are the first person I have heard about that actually disliked it

Although from this

there was ZERO applause in my theatre, so even if some others looked at me funny for killing it on the way out the door, they couldnt have enjoyed it very much.

I kind of get the feeling you went into the show expecting not to like it.

 

[EricNoah]

Really enjoyed it, on many levels. I wish the cuts during the fights weren't so quick, but it was just reallly solid all the way around.

 

[Dingleberry]

I wish the cuts during the fights weren't so quick...

I liked the "what just happened/how did he do that" element - I felt like I was sharing the criminals' POV instead of Batman's. Burton's Batman showed us the trick, e.g., first time we see him "flying" through the fog, and we see him detatch the line from his utility belt; this one didn't, which makes him a lot scarier.

 

[Berandor]

You know what would have been perfect?

This Batman movie with the fight scenes from "Ong Bak". That would have been a straight 10.

Without the coherent fight scenes, I give it a 9, because the fights didn't really matter too much. It probably won't be a big blockbuster, though, since there's a long stretch without any action.