Batman Begins (saw it)

[DinosaurInc]

Alright

Numerous persons told me I needed to go check this after my take that I usually do not dig Superhero films and I vehemently hat Burtons and the subsequent sequels. I watched this one tonight...........

Wow. I loved it. This was Batman. This felt plausible. What a cast. Great.

4 out of 5 Bat Stars

Yes!! He's a believer!!!


I will agree that this movie just has some amazing tone. Lots of the imagery just stuck out to me. A visual delight, to say the least. I even got chills a couple of times.

Oh yeah, bought this sucka for 9.99 brand new at Wal-Mart the day it came out :thumbsup:

 

[DinosaurInc]

We all know that the orginal Batman TV series was bizarre; a 60's thing...

But defending and/or comparing BUrtons to Schu's is your Batgeek side coming out. There the same same thing.

Burton screwed it up from Day 1. It never felt real; from the get-go it was a big absurd comic book placed into Burtons world. The same world he cant let go of; Beetleguese, Scissorhands, Pee Wee.........................................

Schumacher's versions were not anymore nor any less gayer than Burton's. At least there was color in Schu's.

This new one is what i wanted to see all along; a real world 'what if' plausibility. and not some crap

Bingo!! Hudson's on today. That's the problem I have with Burton, is that it always feels the same. Compare Beetlejuice to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--damn near same set designs. Even movies that I used to like of his have grown tiresome (here's looking at you Edward Scissorhands). The Tim Burton novelty has worn off.

Also got the feeling that the villains were weak in Burton's films. The Joker didn't even fight, he has the kung-fu thug practically take down Batman. Tho, Keaton wasn't an entirely bad choice ****why oh why did you do White Noise, Mike? Why?!!!****

If I double posted, then tough ****. I replied as I went :beer:

 

[David Jimerson]

Well . . .

There's something to be said for the idea that in the "real world," no one would really dress up as a bat and swing around the city in the middle of the night fighting crime. And certainly, no law enforcement agency would condone it if he did.

It's a do-no-pass-Go ticket to the psych ward.

So, there's a certain degree of reality you need to let go of to begin with. A comic book feel is apporpriate.

That said, I think BB *had* a comic book feel.

 

[Ought2bCommitted]

Bingo!! Hudson's on today. That's the problem I have with Burton, is that it always feels the same. Compare Beetlejuice to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--damn near same set designs. Even movies that I used to like of his have grown tiresome (here's looking at you Edward Scissorhands). The Tim Burton novelty has worn off.

Also got the feeling that the villains were weak in Burton's films. The Joker didn't even fight, he has the kung-fu thug practically take down Batman. Tho, Keaton wasn't an entirely bad choice ****why oh why did you do White Noise, Mike? Why?!!!****

If I double posted, then tough ****. I replied as I went :beer:

I don't think Big Fish looks like Batman or Beetlejuice.... Ed Wood??? I don't think all of these films feel the same or even look the same. There are Burton-esque touches in each of them, as I would expect, but that hardly makes them carbon copies of each other, IMO.

I don't agree with Hudson, as I have said before. I think it's all just aesthetic and opinion. Burton's Batman works for me on the visual level, not script level and BB works on both for me.

PS
Keaton did White Noise to pay the bills.

-robert

 

[Ought2bCommitted]

That said, I think BB *had* a comic book feel.

Really? How so? I mean, I felt it looked gritty and almost drama-like feel in terms of tone, but the subject matter was clearly comic booky.

-Robert