Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Scary Batman Hits the Theatres!!!!!

I just got back from the brand new, totally awesome, crowd pleasing BATMAN movie!
For me it was the best.
All the elements you need for a great movie were there.
These elements include: great director, great cast, believable special effects, cool gadgets, lots of things blowing up and yes a love story.
Lets go down the list shall we.
Great director starts us off with Christopher Nolan. His work includes Following, Insomnia and my fav Momento. Can't wait to see "The Exec".
His direction was spot on.
He gave us thrills and surprises and tons of things blowing up. There were cool gadgets in his totally believable arsenal of batarangs, tiny bombs, grapplers and the super pimped up Tumbler that becomes the first of many Batmobiles.
The cast can begin with Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne. Its nice to see Bruce play the major role while his alter-ego plays the smaller role.
Morgan Freeman is so cool and slick to watch on-screen. I just love watching him perform and perfect his craft. He plays Lucius Fox head of Wayne Enterprises, but here he's just another flunkie. Who knows maybe he'll get a raise.
Liam Neeson is magical as Ducard the assistant of Ra's Al Ghul and the man who ultimately trains Bruce to be Batman. Its very nice to see Liam in a movie for more then 5 minutes. Seems like he's always getting himself killed right off the bat.
No pun intended.
Gary Oldman looks lost and confused as Jim Gordon but comes into his own as only Gary can.
Katie Holmes is fine as the "love interest" here but Christian looks too much like Tom Cruise that I couldn't feel their connection.
And Michael Caine as Alfred was a dream casting like I haven't seen in quite awhile. Simply wonderful to watch a pro like Caine do his thing.
The rest did a fine job with Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow doing a fine impression.
I loved how they set up all of Batman's gadgets and explained how they came to be, very solid story line there.
And the Tumbler was cool to watch in action. As the first Batmobile it was quite a thrill ride indeed.
There were many cool one-liners in the movie like the popular "does it come in black" but my fav line was "didn't you get the memo". Let me know what your fav line was.
All in all I went with 2 friends and one of them loved it while the other one didn't.
So I guess you can say 2 out of 3 people liked the new Batman movie.
After you see it let me know what you think.

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