"Would you like to see my mask?"

Which made me think, "How do you like my darkness now?"

Hee!

It was the moment of the movie for me.

It really, really was for me as well. What an incredible image.

"What is that sound?"

"Backup."

you can get one off the HD trailer on the Apple site

I didn't remember the scene from the trailers. But I have the HD one on my Powerbook, so I'll have a look.

Will the film's kickassitude suffer from my lack of cred?

Depends. So far I think people who like Batman are pretty solidly liking the movie -- however, if you're just not a Batman person at all (or thought the TV show got him right), it may not be for you.

I liked the movies a lot. Well, the first two. (And secretly, kind of the third.)

This movie is a distinct departure from all the previous movies. It's a hard reset of the series into a more realistic vision, different from Burton's dark cartoon or Shoemaker's neon, nipples and codpieces.

It was the moment of the movie for me.

Yeah. Such an indelible image, both epic and personal.

Lilty, I have not read a single Batman comic (or any comic for that matter, outside a few issues of Sandman), and thought the movie worked very well as the introduction to the whole Batman mythos. Actually, this is the only Batman movie I've liked so well, since the first Tim Burton flick left me sort of blah and I actively disliked the rest of the franchise until now.

If nothing else, it sounds interesting to me. I'd like to see why he's Batman (I know the basics and all, parents dead, evil BAD!), but I'd like to see it unfold, taken seriously. The cartoonier the other movies got, the more I was turned off.

I have not read a single Batman comic (or any comic for that matter, outside a few issues of Sandman)

Heh. The only comics I've ever read in my life were the Tales from the Crypt comics my brother bought for a month or two. Like I said: No Cred.

Lilty, I am not a comic book person at all, and I think that made me less squee-ey over the movie than most here. I did like it though, even if I didn't love it, and was not sorry I saw it.

My dad would give me a funny look at the implication that he might even conceivably ever read a book made almost entirely of pictures, and he talked to me about how much he liked the movie (specifically, he mentioned the acting an awful lot) for several minutes during our Fathers Day Phone call.

And my sister, equally a comic virgin, saw it for the second time today and loved it again.

So, yeah. It's good without the cred.

I thought the Pengiun and Catwoman were... well.. OK, maybe not scary, but completely uncompromising. Which is as good as scary in my book.

ITA. Not that I scared of Catwoman, but hey, if I met her in a dark alley, I'd make sure I had some catnip. And Penguin, freaked my shit out. Loved Danny DeVito.

I need to see this again. And again. And again.

ita, busy next weekend???

I never watched Dawson's Creek. My introduction to Katie Holmes was in Go!, which may dispose me more kindly to her.