Batman Begins - Early Thoughts
We're about 24 hours from the opening of Batman Begins. I have not seen it yet. There will be midnight screenings just like Star Wars, but circumstances are such that I will not be able to show up and taunt anyone who shows up dressed as Robin. We will get a review online for opening day however.
In terms of acting ability, this is by far the strongest cast a Batman movie has ever had. However, having Christian Bale in the lead role may screw me up. You see, I'm a huge fan of the movie American Psycho. So I'm thinking that if you show Batman a business card that is better than his, you may find yourself tied up in the bat cave listening to Huey Lewis and the News. And for those of you who have not seen American Psycho, you're wondering what I'm smoking long about now.
We're quite stoked to see the Dark Knight. And we're also very happy he's not longer in Joel Schumacher's care. We liked the Tim Burton movies. But in the last two Schumacher seemed to think all that was necessary for success was some high profile casting and a lot of neon colors.
Billy Bob's Ranking of the Batman movies, excluding Batman Begins:
In terms of acting ability, this is by far the strongest cast a Batman movie has ever had. However, having Christian Bale in the lead role may screw me up. You see, I'm a huge fan of the movie American Psycho. So I'm thinking that if you show Batman a business card that is better than his, you may find yourself tied up in the bat cave listening to Huey Lewis and the News. And for those of you who have not seen American Psycho, you're wondering what I'm smoking long about now.
We're quite stoked to see the Dark Knight. And we're also very happy he's not longer in Joel Schumacher's care. We liked the Tim Burton movies. But in the last two Schumacher seemed to think all that was necessary for success was some high profile casting and a lot of neon colors.
Billy Bob's Ranking of the Batman movies, excluding Batman Begins:
- Batman (1989) - Nicholson as The Joker steals the show
- Batman Returns (1992) - Keaton returns, but again the villains steal the show with DeVito as a very gross version of The Penguin
- Batman (1966) - Ok, so I grew up on the campy 1960's version, and still like it today, so what
- Batman Forever (1995) - Only Jim Carrey's over the top version of the Riddler keeps this one from being the worst Batman movie, both of the bottom two are horrid.
- Batman & Robin (1997) - Alicia Silverstone in tight leather cant save this from being one of the worst big budget big cast movies ever made.
3 Comments:
Well, if the critics are right, this is gonna be one of the best comic book adaption films around. And of course it's going to make big $$ in the box office. Yet, I'm not really excited about this movie... Maybe I'm just not a big batman fan.. (Although, a embarrising secret I have is that I kind of enjoyed thos last two batman films, so what do i know about batman flicks?) Oh well, at least it will be better than fantastic 4.
Get ready to rerank those Batman films Billybob. Batman Begins fucking OWNS. Its amazing. Its the Batman film that all the geeks and comic book fanatics and fanboys (myself included) have been waiting for. Bale perfectly nails the combination of Bruce Wayne AND Batman, something nobody else had done before him. The story is dark and hard and gritty, this is no Schumacher film. Cillian Murphy as the Scarecrow is a perfect example of brilliant casting, I can't wait to see if they use him more in the next one. Caine, Neeson, and Freeman all turn in predictably strong performances. Oldman is perfect as Gordon, even with the against-type casting of his role. Seriously who didn't get chills when Batman is holding the crooked cop twelve stories up and he exclaims in terror "I swear to God I don't know!" and Batman responds with a voice straight out of hell (to steal from AICN), "Swear to ME!" Awesome. Pure fucking awesome.
I cant wait to see BB, it looks so awesome!
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