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[nigeltde]

lainy122 and I go to see Batman Begins. Two and a half hours later, the credits roll, and we literally curl up into little balls and go eeeeeeeeeeeee.

I was expecting this to be really good, and it was better than I expected. There are a couple of minor flaws but nothing too serious. I fucking loved it. I got SUCH a kick out of Gotham; Burton's Gotham was great but so small, this Gotham is vast and awful and believable. Arkham and Scarecrow played such a big role! Burton's movies on the whole had fantastic elements and are wonderful camp, but were seriously flawed; this was well scripted, well acted, great production design, exciting (if a little confusing but that's Batman, right?) action, the whole caboodle, and probably the best superhero movie I've seen. Damn! I can't think coherently at the moment but I am just so happy to see Batman, the first ever superhero I fangirled, get such a great treatment onscreen.

Bale will be my movie Batman for ever and ever. Every movie I see him in I love him more. I'm off to see The Machinist tomorrow and I can't wait.

I have also decided that the world NEEDS a movie about the road-trip exploits of Harley and Ivy. It would be very lesbian and hilarious and fun.

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[frostmourne.livejournal.com]

Na na na na Batman!

That is all ^_^

[nigeltde]

The piano tune they played to get into the Batcave should TOTALLY have been the Batman song.

[frostmourne.livejournal.com]

Thats a BRILLIANT idea!
But then again it would have made it seem a tad more goofy and it was all so deliciously darker than the other batman movies ^_^

[nigeltde]

Yes, good point. There was not much quirk to this movie. Which of course doesn't detract from its absolute awesomeness! I've always thought the Burton movies (which--well really, Batman Returns--IMO are the best of the lot) are really scary just in terms of the production design and the view of human nature they present (plus Penguin was FREAKY). The plot of this one was fairly typical action movie, which is not to say it wasn't excellently done, but just as an examination of character it was so much darker than most Hollywood bullshit.

[lainy122.livejournal.com]

*squees along with you* It was so awesome! I can't get over it either! Christian Bale is my new Batman too ^_^ *hugs him to her chest and never lets him go* And Gary Oldman! As Commisionor Gordon! *loves*

Ah, it was just so cool! <333 *wants to go see it again*

[nigeltde]

*squees again*

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

Yay! Oh, I am so pleased. I'm going to see it tomorrow - hopefully our opinions will match again. (If Gotham's anything like Burton's work, I shall be very happy.)

[nigeltde]

Well, don't expect Gotham to be too much like Burton's. Aesthetically, they're quite different films: Nolan is going for some degree of naturalism, here. But I am sure you will like it anyway!