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.

For me, Katie Holmes character validated itself with the scene in the car, after Chill has been killed and Bruce shows her his gun. She slaps him and it's so right. A male DA in that scene just wouldn't have worked.

Also, just because I want to flaunt esoteric knowledge -- the handgun that Bruce took to the courthouse to kill Joe Chill with was a Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Special, a revolver that was developed especially for Air Marshall program, and is notable for only holding five rounds in its cylinder, instead of the usual six in most other revolvers.