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Eddie - Jun 16, 2005 8:35:43 pm PDT #4247 of 10002
Your tag here.

I've been trying to pinpoint what it is about the Batman movie that affects me so (and apparently many others).

One, the casting was brilliant, especially Gordon and Alfred. I could buy into the motivations and the history. It wasn't quite as fantastical as the Burtonverse; more realistic / logical. The movie didn't strike me as formulaic as other summer fare. It has its fun moments.

I guess it comes down to a lot of little things done right. I just hope to gods they keep the cast for the next two... well, Ms. Holmes NSM, but she did lighten things up a bit, I'll grant her that much.

Mr. Broom - Jun 16, 2005 10:55:05 pm PDT #4248 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

Are we certain we're getting sequels? Is anything optioned? Not that I think we've seen the last Batman movie ever, just that there's nothing stopping anyone from making yet another continuity a few years down the road, one independent from this or any other. That can happen with your more iconic characters.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2005 3:29:55 am PDT #4249 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Bale is obsessed with the role and already talking about what he wants to do in the sequel. I'd say that's a good sign. I assume since the studio knew going in that they wanted to restart the franchise that they had multi-picture options in Bale's, Caine's and Oldman's contracts.

Jesse - Jun 17, 2005 7:24:26 am PDT #4250 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, I have a stupid nitpick Batman question: How was Katie Holmes already in the DA's office in the "seven years ago" part? Bruce was only 23, and she's younger than him. I don't get it.

§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 7:25:14 am PDT #4251 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did they state she was younger? Although I have no idea how those careers work...where's bon bon?

Jesse - Jun 17, 2005 7:29:07 am PDT #4252 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It looked that way to me in the earliest bits.

Jesse - Jun 17, 2005 7:29:46 am PDT #4253 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Anyway, it's not typical to be a lawyer at 23 -- law school is three years, after a bachelor's.

Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2005 7:31:27 am PDT #4254 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Are we certain we're getting sequels? Is anything optioned?

I don't know about options, and Nolan isn't signed on for sequels yet, though there are obvious rumors of Joker for the villain in the second, and then Two-Face in the third. Because as you well know, Broomy, everything must be a trilogy.

§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 7:38:11 am PDT #4255 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have to admit, I don't know how old they were. Just that they met again 14 years after the death, and he returned 7 years past that.

Right?

Wait, that seems a little long. But those were the numbers in my head last night.

Nutty - Jun 17, 2005 7:38:14 am PDT #4256 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

What will the sequellae be called? Batman Comes to a Middle and Batman Ends.

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