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Batman redux
Jun. 19th, 2005 04:19 pmHaving seen Batman Begins twice now, I am aflush with the love of a new obsession and versed enough in the film to have it appropriately ensconced in my shoddy memory. I'm ready for a favorite activity: picking out my favorite parts.
How do I pick one or two or twenty or two thousand? The first time through Batman Begins I had my mouth open for much of the film, gaping and gasping with surprise and laughter and love for the whole thing. Things popped into place and just fit to the point of bewilderment. Seeing it for a second time prepared me for the little bits of levity that were never zingers/one-liners and yet managed to avoid being nudge-nudge, wink-wink self-knowing irony. I can settle for what struck me hardest in a film that didn’t pull punches.
( Five Reasons to Love the Bat (cut-tag covers some spoilers, mostly minor) )
New obsession? Yes, very much. I spent most of the trip to and from theKathy's graduation party thinking about various incarnations of the Batman on film and television, occasionally lightening the angst by poking fun at Superman in their various cross-over eps of the animated series. If you haven't seen them, you really, really have to. Batman comes off as a humorless curmudgeon for the most part in the WB's The Batman-Superman Adventures but his few moments of levity are a joy, and his clear superiority to a guy who thinks with his alien fists is a comfort to those of us who cheer for the black and gold over the man in the primary colors.
( Quickie cut-tag for some of my favorite lines from 'World's Finest,' the Batman-Superman animated movie (spoilery!) )
And that's why Batman is and always will be that much cooler than Superman. Also, now we have a serious challenger to Tom Welling for title of 'sharpest-cheekboned actor to play a DC superhero' in Christian Bale. I loves me some blue-eyed hotties with cheekbones you could cut your tongue on (yes please!).
How do I pick one or two or twenty or two thousand? The first time through Batman Begins I had my mouth open for much of the film, gaping and gasping with surprise and laughter and love for the whole thing. Things popped into place and just fit to the point of bewilderment. Seeing it for a second time prepared me for the little bits of levity that were never zingers/one-liners and yet managed to avoid being nudge-nudge, wink-wink self-knowing irony. I can settle for what struck me hardest in a film that didn’t pull punches.
( Five Reasons to Love the Bat (cut-tag covers some spoilers, mostly minor) )
New obsession? Yes, very much. I spent most of the trip to and from theKathy's graduation party thinking about various incarnations of the Batman on film and television, occasionally lightening the angst by poking fun at Superman in their various cross-over eps of the animated series. If you haven't seen them, you really, really have to. Batman comes off as a humorless curmudgeon for the most part in the WB's The Batman-Superman Adventures but his few moments of levity are a joy, and his clear superiority to a guy who thinks with his alien fists is a comfort to those of us who cheer for the black and gold over the man in the primary colors.
( Quickie cut-tag for some of my favorite lines from 'World's Finest,' the Batman-Superman animated movie (spoilery!) )
And that's why Batman is and always will be that much cooler than Superman. Also, now we have a serious challenger to Tom Welling for title of 'sharpest-cheekboned actor to play a DC superhero' in Christian Bale. I loves me some blue-eyed hotties with cheekbones you could cut your tongue on (yes please!).
