Batman Begins

[trinityvixen]

Took 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.

Comments

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Personally, I liked the idea of the gun-kata thing, it was pretty inventive--someone just sat down and figured, like they would for an edged weapon, what would be the best positions to minimize misfires or missed shots, minimize effect of kickback, give the best shot for a particular desire (death, incapacitation, et al), and so on. However, the second they didn't bother giving it a faux Japanese name and just went with gun-kata, you knew they weren't going to make the best of it.

Also, the end fights were rather anti-climatic, but what else could you expect? It was no 1984...