Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Yeah, yeah... it's slightly dated, but I just saw it in entirety for the first time on DVD this afternoon. I have a long list of stuff to watch.

This movie impressed the hell out of me. I followed the old chain of movies... I liked the first three and I think B&R was a crime against humanity, but this one is completely different and fresh. For the most part, it's completely believable... not comic-bookish or centered around playing up some celeb like Nicholson or Ah-nold.

The casting works well. The tech is believable... no Bat-nuclear power plants or any of that crap. Wayne's motivations in this one are far better than the split-personality tauted in the first Batman. Chistian Bale is superb in this role as he is in most roles, and Michael Caine brings a dimension to Alfred I found to be refreshing.

I should have seen this in the theater in widescreen glory.

One of the best fantasy movies of all time, IMHO. The soundtrack works very well for my Ravenloft games.

The title should have been: "Batman Begins Not To Suck Anymore".

This film to me represents the salvation of the Batman on the big screen. I had thought it was over - dead and gone - after Batman & Robin, but Batman Begins is a huge step in the right direction.

Now they're talking about Heath Ledger playing the Joker in the next one. I'm not entirely sure he can pull it off (Joaquin Phoenix might be a better choice) but I am hopeful.

What I'd like to see would be Frank Miller's Dark Knight series brought to the screen. It would be a tough role to cast (somehow, I always hear Clint Eastwood's voice coming out of Batman's mouth when I read it) but otherwise it would work well as a movie.

The movie was on sale at Target this weekend for $3.80 and I picked it up. It was pretty decent - better than the rest but still.... ehhh.

My biggest (and the most glaring, imo) pet peeve was the dang microwave water vaporizor thingamajig. If this device, which is a hundred feet in the air is vaporizing the water in the water mains under the city streets, why isn't it vaporizing the water in all of the human bodies 3 feet away from it?

Still, a decent movie I guess - worth the $3.80 for sure but I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.

I've had this movie for months sitting in my DVD collection and I've never gotten around to seeing it. Wasn't a big fan of the other Batman movies, but maybe I'll invest a couple hours and check it out instead of my 128th viewing of Strange Brew . . . or maybe not .

- Wheggi

Thoth Amon wrote:The movie was on sale at Target this weekend for $3.80 and I picked it up. It was pretty decent - better than the rest but still.... ehhh.

My biggest (and the most glaring, imo) pet peeve was the dang microwave water vaporizor thingamajig. If this device, which is a hundred feet in the air is vaporizing the water in the water mains under the city streets, why isn't it vaporizing the water in all of the human bodies 3 feet away from it?

Because... uh... the device used the kinetic energy of water moving through pipes and sewers to vaporize it. Yeah that's it.

I can't believe, Wheggi, that there is someone else out there who remembers Strange Brew, the only movie ever presented in the infamous 3-B format ("Three Beers and it looks good").

Talk about a classic.

Hey.....Hoser, everyone remembers Strange Brew.

As for Batman Begins, far and away the "best" Batman movie, in fact the only one I can stand to rewatch.

I watched Strange Brew three weeks ago, eh?

Before we get too far afield from Batman Begins, and at the risk of contradicting my positive review of the film, I would like to mention one of my two pet peeves with it:

First: the villain is headed toward Wayne Tower, with Batman in tow...literally. He's hooked to the train by his bat-rope and getting pulled along behind it. Wouldn't have been terribly uncomfortable for the caped crusader the first time the train went through a station, or even through one of those arches supporting it?

Second: why was it necessary for the driver of the Batmobile to abandon the driver's seat and move into a prone position to operate the weapons? Who the heck would design a vehicle in which it was even possible to do that?