Batman Begins

[kodalai]

The movie could have done with less freaky Eastern mystical stuff and more underage teen sidekicks in short shorts. But other than that it was perfect. :D

Comments

[catzero.livejournal.com]

But but but Batman is supposed to know all forms of marital arts! And and NINJAS! REAL NINJAS!

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Marital arts?

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

You know, the ones Alfred taught him. Oh, that was bad.

[windsorblue.livejournal.com]

*dies*

One of the friends I saw it with was disappointed that the kid in the slums didn't turn out to be Dick Grayson.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

One of my friends tried to suggest that it was. But it wasn't. Totally the wrong look, wasn't a circus boy, parents weren't dead.

Alas.

Oh, well, it's probably all for the best, considering the only incarnation of Robin that I like is Tim Drake.

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

The Batman of 1939 borrowed heavily from The Shadow of radio & the pulps; so it was interesting to see how much this movie's plot borrowed from The Shadow movie of a decade or so back. All to the good, I would say: the movie was less ruined by campy performances than most superhero movies I've seen (even Superman I was hurt, sad to say, by Gene Hackman's Luthor). Ras al-Ghul I think makes a much scarier villain, if less gory, than the Joker; and the cliche ridden Himalayan secret society made that an easy tie-in; it's also good for suspension of disbelief to have a Batman who can be invisible when he wants to be — swinging visibly on a rope into gangs of armed crooks night after night without a scratch strains credibility almost as much as does having a man who can fly.

My preference in teenage sidekicks runs more to Mary Marvel or Supergirl in a miniskirt!