Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
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My only real complaint is one I have about most action movies -- too many close ups during the fight scenes. If it's a good scene pull away so people can figure out what's going on!
I complained about that at first (in my head), but then I decided I liked it because it gave it all a frenetic feel, like the maneuvers were so fast as to be impossible to follow by a casual observer. It made Batman into a scarier figure.
All the effects were amazing.
Like when we got a view of Batman from the dr's drugged out point of view. And when the people were after him in the Narrows. And the boy's hallucination of the Scarecrow and the horse.
Bale was fantastic. As Bruce as Batman. And the scene where he's using the bad cop as a yo yo. Changing his voice for Batman was great and he sounded so growly and angry and damn scary. "Swear to me!"
I really need to see this again.
There was applause at the end when I saw it, too. I love it when that happens!
We had applause too! It's nice to hear.
My best friend hates applause at movies. His reasoning is that no-one involved in the process is there to receive it, so it's pointless. I agree with him, but it still doesn't irritate me.
I applaud because I'm very happy with what I saw. It's like how I can laugh when the person making me laugh isn't there to receive it. It is primarily about me.
Broom has a point.
ita has a point.
ita's point is happier and less cynical.
Broom is dumb. The end.
Hey, now. Let's not break out the C-word. Applauding for the same reason you laugh is fine by me. I did just that at Serenity, among other things. Couldn't contain my, well, anything. In my friend's defense, you would find it odd to see someone applaud after listening to a particularly stirring classical composition on the hi-fi, even if it were a live performance.
Okay, sometimes clapping is communication -- with the producer of the piece, or with the rest of the audience. But I clap at my TV without hesitation.
I don't clap for music, now that I think about it, except to say "Thank you for that." It inspires different emotional reactions in me.
Well, that did not suck.
I like my Batman with less goth and more noir, please, but it certainly is an improvement on the earlier movies, even the Burton ones.
But is it really too much to have the world's greatest detective to act like a detective, and to have R'as al Ghul to refer to him as "Detective", like he does in the comics ?
But I'm sounding ungrateful. I'm really not. It was fucking awesome.