Batman Begins
Dec. 20th, 2004 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenTook the Times long enough to catch up with this film...
...but what they focused on surprised me: an overwhelming amount of the principles are British or of UK descent in one form or another. I also was not aware that Gary Oldman was going to be James Gordon. Wow, that's, uh, different. If I had to pick someone who was the part of Gordon, I'd probably pick along the lines of a narrower-faced Michael Douglas, I think, maybe Kirk Douglas at Michael's current age. Mmm, gonna have to give that one a think some more.
Well, I'm not worried. For one, the British have this stuff down cold; Christian Bale has already proved himself capable of playing a stone-cold psycho with a sizeable bank account; Cillian Murphy's proven he can be unbelievably skinny and still draw breath, so he'll do as the Scarecrow; Ken Watanabe just looks like a badass, so he's gonna do fine as Rahs Al Goul (or however you spell that). Throw in Liam Neeson being himself, and ditto Michael Caine, what's to worry? Do we even need the guy who did Memento to sell this? Nope. Am I so there already? Is Christian Bale H-O-double T-with-an-exclamation-point HOTT! ?
Duh.
...but what they focused on surprised me: an overwhelming amount of the principles are British or of UK descent in one form or another. I also was not aware that Gary Oldman was going to be James Gordon. Wow, that's, uh, different. If I had to pick someone who was the part of Gordon, I'd probably pick along the lines of a narrower-faced Michael Douglas, I think, maybe Kirk Douglas at Michael's current age. Mmm, gonna have to give that one a think some more.
Well, I'm not worried. For one, the British have this stuff down cold; Christian Bale has already proved himself capable of playing a stone-cold psycho with a sizeable bank account; Cillian Murphy's proven he can be unbelievably skinny and still draw breath, so he'll do as the Scarecrow; Ken Watanabe just looks like a badass, so he's gonna do fine as Rahs Al Goul (or however you spell that). Throw in Liam Neeson being himself, and ditto Michael Caine, what's to worry? Do we even need the guy who did Memento to sell this? Nope. Am I so there already? Is Christian Bale H-O-double T-with-an-exclamation-point HOTT! ?
Duh.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 11:10 pm (UTC)I just hope Christian Bale doesn't smile...*shiver* gives me the creeps.
no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 08:37 am (UTC)That's the BEST casting idea for Batman I've ever heard!! It's brilliant! anybody who could play a character that creepy in Equilibrium is totally Batman material.
no subject
Date: 2004-12-21 03:57 pm (UTC)Carrie, back when she worked late hours at the law firm, came home one night and I was finishing it on the movie channels (I'm one of those OCD movie watchers who HAS to finish the movie whether it's bad or not, which is how come I've seen all of "Swordfish" and "The Crow: city of Angels"). Over the course of the film, all of my awake family members had drifted into the TV room, and had been saying at regular intervals how awful the movie was or otherwise poking fun and asking if we could change it yet. Carrie came in, watchd the last ten-fifteen minutes, without comment, then said the best thing ever:
"Wow. I have been watching this movie for fifteen minutes and there's been ONE line of dialogue."
Priceless. Also, Taye Diggs was pretty HOTT! in that, too.
no subject
Date: 2004-12-22 08:13 am (UTC)I'm of two minds though -- do you think the Bale-Diggs showdown was all the more bad-mutha for being so anticlimactic? Or was it just... anticlimactic? Kinda like the whole gun-kata thing: on the one hand, it totally should be cool, but on the other... it just isn't.
no subject
Date: 2004-12-22 03:52 pm (UTC)Also, the end fights were rather anti-climatic, but what else could you expect? It was no 1984...
no subject
Date: 2004-12-22 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-22 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-23 03:44 pm (UTC)