{"id":799,"date":"2005-06-28T03:18:47","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T03:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=799"},"modified":"2005-06-28T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T03:18:47","slug":"batman-begins-the-definitive-movie-about-a-guy-who-steals-all-the-jokers-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Batman Begins: The Definitive Movie about a Guy who Steals all the Joker's Press"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I saw Batman Begins<\/a> a few Thursday’s ago. That was a damn good <\/em>film. It kicks all the previous Batman films collective asses. Though I guess that’s not saying much when it comes to Schumacher’s idiotic<\/a> visions<\/a>. Funk his noise and <\/em>his “boiling acid”.<\/p>\n

Here are the rest of my two-cents in non-spoiler, random, easy to chew bits.<\/p>\n

The Car<\/strong>
\nI sneak<\/a> peeked<\/a> the new batmobile<\/a> a handful of months before the movie. I wasn’t totally impressed but I wasn’t dead set against it either. The movie shifted me to full-on liking the clunky thing. Maybe it’s because of the movie gave the car roots as a military prototype. Most likely it’s because it reminded me of the batmobile from Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Characters<\/strong>
\nThat was a damn interesting interpretation of the mind and ways of Ra’s Al Ghul. The Scarecrow was definitely one of the better incarnations of a lame character. Detective Gordon was a damn gritty-city cop for once. Lucius Fox finally got some screen time and was well played by Morgan Freeman. I hate to say it but I dug Michael Caine’s Alfred better than Alfred Gough’s.<\/p>\n

Thomas Wayne? Nice to meet ya, guy! Maybe now I’ll actually feel bad for Bruce when you and your wife get murdered-up Crime Alley.<\/p>\n

The biggest surprise for me was how well Katie Holmes fit into the bat-universe. Christopher Nolan<\/a> must have danced around that hat 10 extra times a night to make that fly.<\/p>\n

The Story<\/strong>
\nIt helps when you actually have one. There’s plot, character growth, and all the usual trappings. It’s like they actually hired a good<\/em> writer and a good<\/em> director to make a great <\/em>production.<\/p>\n

Funny how that works.<\/p>\n

The Batman<\/strong>
\nIf Christian Bale<\/a> fell from the sky (or snatched me off the street) in full bat regalia and proceeded to yell point-blank in my face, I have to say that it would give me pause. Ok first, I would wonder why there are no breath mints in his utility belt. Then, there would definitely be pause. I shouldn’t have expected any less from the American Psycho<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You think Real Genius<\/a> or Danny Ocean<\/a> could have pulled that noise off?<\/p>\n

It was also nice that we get to see The World’s Greatest Detective do some actual detecting. Four whole movies and the most detecting we got was a CD scratch mix live from the bat cave.<\/p>\n

Christopher Nolan<\/strong>
\nI’ve always had faith in Nolan<\/a>‘s director skills ever since I saw Memento<\/a>. That man cannot only direct ants to a picnic; he can make the bastards dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Batman Begins a few Thursday’s ago. That was a damn good film. It kicks all the previous Batman films collective asses. Though I guess that’s not saying much when it comes to Schumacher’s idiotic visions. Funk his noise and his “boiling acid”. Here are the rest of my two-cents in non-spoiler, random, easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-pop-culture-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}