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June 19, 2005
Batman Begins
MINUS 2 DAYS to the Fabulous Demystifying Divas Plus One
Batman Begins with Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Morgan Friedman, Gary Oldman, and Katie Homes, is, finally, a Batman movie that does justice to the original concept.
It's dark, psychological, weighty, intense, and played for real. You believe the technology. This Batman is invisible, quick, deadly--the Dark Knight.
And more important, it's scary. This Batman comes out of the night like your worst stalking nightmare, instilling real terror into the villains. Christian Bale plays him perfectly. No comic-book villains or action here.
And it does a wonderful job of showing how far such terror must go without crossing the line.
It also shows us the genesis of the relationship between Batman and the future Commissioner Gorden (here, Sgt. Gorden). A very clever genesis of the Bat Signal. And it sets up a sequal that I think the audience would have stayed for had it kicked right in. The first movie I've seen in a while that got a geniune heartfelt applause at the end.
Twenty fingers and toes UP.
*** We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons. Wolfgang Petersen
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Posted by witnit at June 19, 2005 8:12 AM
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