random thoughts on the new batman movie

  • why is he always hunched over and/or looking down? posture, batman! posture!
  • um…his chin…it looks like jay leno in the costume in a lot of scenes
  • the funky rubbery thud-thud-thud-thud sounds of the batmobile’s wheels instead of squealing…neato
  • wait–so the opera house is in a slum?! are you kidding me?
  • gary oldman…it actually took me a while to realize who it was…he *owns* commissioner policeman gordon
  • fight scenes — what the hell is going on? i can’t see!
  • ok! i get it! this movie is about fear! stop already! i get it!
  • cillian murphy…another work of great casting!
  • wait…did i go into the wrong theater? is this Speed? where’s sandra bullock? where’s keanu?
  • wow…the way christian bale just “transforms” from “batman” to “bruce wayne”…it’s like a jekyl and hyde moment

(i had this thought last week when i watched star trek ii for the nth time: ricardo montalban would ROCK as ra’s al ghul!)
i really really really wanted to like this movie, and i do…maybe i’m being nitpicky…but i’m somewhat disappointed. christian bale is amazing. and i like most of the cast…though i’m really sick and tired of morgan freeman playing the “enlightened black man”
i give this movie a b, but that’s only because i reeeaaaalllly like batman

(a quote from my cute but comic-illiterate wife: “i didn’t understand the storyline…i thought when he was a boy, he was bitten by a bat and got powers?”

he say you brade runner, batman

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