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Friday, March 18, 2011

Batman Begins



Batman Begins is a well told story of the origin of Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale). It covers a lot of the same ground as Michael Keaton's original Batman, but goes much further in depth in many factors of his creation. It goes into great detail about subjects such as how he got his costume, what exactly it is. Same goes with the Batmobile. We also find out why he chose to be bat-like.

One of the more interesting aspects here is how it shows Bruce's father, Thomas Wayne (Linus Roache), and how he molded Bruce's life and instilled good judgment within him, a point which is misunderstood about him by most people he comes in contact with. Thomas, too, teaches Bruce valuable lesson, such as "We fall so we can learn to pick ourselves up". This is pretty close to the theme of the movie or motto Bruce Wayne lives by. The resemblance of the father & son is pretty good, too.

I also thoroughly enjoyed the training Bruce Wayne endured becoming "invincible". Bruce is trained by Ducard (Liam Neeson) in many ways like a ninja (The concept of Batman IS similar to a ninja). He is taught many valuable lessons in this temple and is shown no mercy. Eventually, we even see his first real enemy as a superhero/vigilante.

Although I am not positive as to how true to the comic book this movie is, I am sure it took a few liberties, as did Spider-Man. Most of the small examples I have noticed are for the better and make for a good story. The Batmobile is more believable as an expensive armored vehicle that the military would not spend the money on than a juiced up Corvette (or whatever that was). Same with the Batsuit.

Katie Holmes is excellent as Rachel Dawes, a D.A. who is not afraid to go after the big villains in court. Also worthy of mentioning is Michael Caine as Alfred the butler. I do not believe they could have found a better man for that role, although I could not get the image of Caine as Austin Powers' dad out of my head when he was on screen.

Finally, in my opinion, Christian Bale makes a much better Batman than the three recent previous ones in Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney. Something about him makes Batman darker and more mysterious. Hopefully, DC Comics and movies have learned from their mistakes and we will not have to worry about Batman picking up a sidekick in this newest installment of the Batman series. 9/10

18 comments:

  1. Haven't seen all of it, maybe with weekend though.

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  2. the Dark knight was a much improved concept

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  3. i enjoyed the new batmans but the old still have a place in my heart lol

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  4. Jesus you actually update.

    Impressive

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  5. I did like the psychology behind Batman in this movie.

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  6. I approve of your concept for a blog. I watch a movie everyday as well, mostly stuff that's not all over TV and favorite lists..maybe do that yourself?

    Followed.

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  7. nice review :) hope to see you soon again

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  8. nananananananananananana, batman!!!

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  9. I really like the new realistic approach on the batman theme, but the old tim burton movies are still my favorite.

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  10. i have fear of the sidekick too

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  11. I never really liked the movie to be honest, I'm not much a superhero fan. Nice blog on the movie though.

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  12. I mostly like how they don't bog down the story with too many origin stories. Joker is just the joker, with no past and we are left with just that.

    I've never been much of a fan of Two-Face, but Dent's conversion from a straight laced lawyer into a big-bad seemed a little rushed. BTAS did that story better.

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