Bat. Fuckin'. Man.
That sounds unpleasant.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Polter-Cow - Jun 18, 2005 5:21:34 pm PDT #4375 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
tommyrot - Jun 18, 2005 5:22:44 pm PDT #4376 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That sounds unpleasant.
Nah. Bats are pretty small.
Polter-Cow - Jun 18, 2005 5:27:11 pm PDT #4377 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But all the...flapping.
Sean K - Jun 18, 2005 5:28:21 pm PDT #4378 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Saw a movie. It was okay...
Steph L. - Jun 18, 2005 5:52:56 pm PDT #4379 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bat. Fuckin'. Man.
That sounds unpleasant.
That just took me to a Batman/Gordon place. (Because one of the nicknames for Batman is, simply, "the Bat," so -- you can perhaps understand my interpretation of the first word in Sean's profane yet succinct movie review.)
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 18, 2005 8:05:25 pm PDT #4380 of 10002
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
My one addition to all the Batman Begins furor is this;-
A little over a third of the way into the movie I said to myself, "My god this movie is astounding. I think I've been putting up with so much mediochre shit these last few years that I'd forgotten what a real movie could be."
Now, in the light of day, this seems odd because the last few years brought some astonishing works, not least among them the LotR trilogy. I think that what was different here was that Batman Begins felt more like a drama than an action movie, and with that brought a dramatic depth and sincerity to a group of characters I've enjoyed for decades.
The director and writer were interviewed a few weeks ago and do have films 2 & 3 plotted. Now let's hope the WB doesn't get twitchy and interfere more with the next couple. Hope springs eternal.
Sean K - Jun 18, 2005 8:34:00 pm PDT #4381 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I noticed what people were talking about with the fight sequences, but I felt they'd made a conscious decision to not be an action movie, so the fight sequences were not shot in the normal action style. I liked it.
Jon B. - Jun 18, 2005 8:35:56 pm PDT #4382 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
As much as I love Tim Burton, I really think he tried to downplay the scariness. Rewatching Batman , The Joker wasn't scary. He was freakish and strange, but he wasn't scary.
I Agree wrt the first movie, but I thought the Pengiun and Catwoman were... well.. OK, maybe not scary, but completely uncompromising. Which is as good as scary in my book.
Just don't make Oswald a flippered freak again. As much as I enjoyed DeVito as Penguin, I'd like a return to villainy for villainy's sake.
How was DeVito not villainous for villainy's sake? He wasn't a mutant or anything. He was just an ugly baby who was raised by penguins and it made him fucked up, yo.
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2005 8:44:48 pm PDT #4383 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the fight sequences were not shot in the normal action style. I liked it.
I think it was very normal action style -- the fight scenes seem to be getting choppier and blurrier as time goes by. If anything, I give him a pass on being typical, but really I want so much more (and for a large part, got it).
Scrappy - Jun 18, 2005 9:11:01 pm PDT #4384 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw The Batdude this evening and really enjoyed it. Beautifully shot and well-acted (especially Liam Neeson and Gary Oldman). I didn't have the great love for it that most folks do, but thought it was a damn good film.