At 6/16/05 09:52 AM, Shrapnel wrote:
The writing was solid. The action was great. The acting was wonderful as well.
It's definitely the best Batman movie so far.
Well put. The writng was solid. here's from the website, from the writor:
"I'd always dreamed about doing a Batman film. I'd told my mother when I was a little kid, 'I'm gonna grow up one day and make movies and make a Batman movie.' And I was kind of disappointed when the previous Batman films came out because I thought, 'oh well, there goes my shot.' So this was the opportunity I had always waited for. It was an enormous honor, not only to be asked to do a Batman film, but to have Chris Nolan be the one asking me, because I think Chris is one of our greatest filmmakers. It's funny how that works out sometimes - you're dying for something, then the opportunity comes."
This guy had a passion for this movie... it deffinitly shows through.
The action too, like you said. It wasn't all about how cool the lighing was (Batman&Robin and batman forever had cheesy lighting and weird angles) the gagets were simple and not all flashy. His costume was so cool, and yet so simple. They didn't over do the "abb" plate and add "tits" on the breast plate. The flow of the action was the best I've seen since the Matrix (I know the MAtrix fighting style is cheesy now... but you gotta admit, you thought it was cool at the time)
The acting too. I loved Christian Bale in Newsies (a favorate of mine)... but this... THIS was nothing short of astounding. His eyes showed fear, true fear. Which is that hardest thing for a film actor to do. Portray fear.
I heard it's gonna be a trillogy, and that the next ones in 08. (predictions: The little boy is Robin... they never said his name, and he was wearing a red shirt I'm pretty sure right? I'm fairly certian he's Robin)
"Why do we fall Bruce? ..To learn to pick ourselves up again", That was spectacular, you could just feel it how torn Bruce was from giving up and fighting for the city.
All around awesome movie... it's now got first in my "fave movies" in my profile :-)