Batman Begins - The Orange Mane

Garcia Bronco · 06-14-2005, 07:49 PM

Just got back from a screening in NOVA at an Arlington theatre...great movie....I highly recommend it. Better than EIII from a stand alone POV, IMO.

RhymesayersDU · 06-14-2005, 07:57 PM

It comes out this weekend, right? I may have to go catch this.

El Guapo · 06-14-2005, 07:57 PM

figured.

as soon as i heard christian bale was batman i knew it would be good. as mentioned earlier, two great movies of his are; "American Psycho" and "Equilibrium."

scorpio · 06-14-2005, 08:00 PM

Yeah, I've heard this film is VERY good as well. Siskel and Roper said it's what the original Batman should have been. although I actually liked the original batman from a comic bookish point of view. The rest have sucked though.

Ray Finkle · 06-14-2005, 08:07 PM

Where did you see it in Arlington?

Garcia Bronco · 06-14-2005, 08:07 PM

The first two movies were good...the next two were too much like the Adam West TV show....I'm surprised they weren't shown in the "skewed" format

Garcia Bronco · 06-14-2005, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Finkle

Where did you see it in Arlington?

I was an indoor mall off of Glebe....between Randolph and wilson

Ray Finkle · 06-14-2005, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

I was an indoor mall off of Glebe....between Randolph and wilson

Ballston Mall? That's right down the street from me....dammit....oh well, the Shield finale was on tonight, no way I was missing that.

Garcia Bronco · 06-14-2005, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Finkle

Ballston Mall? That's right down the street from me....dammit....oh well, the Shield finale was on tonight, no way I was missing that.

Ballston....that's the place.

It was a screening from Home Realty and I'm doing a conversion of a settlement shop for my company to our network. They had extra's and invited me and a co-worker. Nice mall...Arlington has cleaned up a bit in that spot it seems...but I haven't been there in years.

Crushaholic · 06-14-2005, 11:00 PM

It HAS to be better than the train wreck known as "Batman and Robin". I'm looking forward to seeing this movie...

Mtbrncofn · 06-14-2005, 11:02 PM

It looked really good to me. I may have to go check it out. Who could resist seeing Christian Bale in a form-fitting suit, after all?!

Garcia Bronco · 06-15-2005, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by mtbrncofn

It looked really good to me. I may have to go check it out. Who could resist seeing Christian Bale in a form-fitting suit, after all?!

You might be disappointed to a degree.

Jason in LA · 06-15-2005, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

The first two movies were good...the next two were too much like the Adam West TV show....I'm surprised they weren't shown in the "skewed" format

I only liked the first one. The second one was alright, but I agree, the last two sucked. They were too silly.

I loved the '90s cartoon version of Batman. It was dark, and Batman was very serious. The stories were very good. Is this movie more along the lines of that? I hope so.

Garcia Bronco · 06-15-2005, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason in LA

I only liked the first one. The second one was alright, but I agree, the last two sucked. They were too silly.

I loved the '90s cartoon version of Batman. It was dark, and Batman was very serious. The stories were very good. Is this movie more along the lines of that? I hope so.

That's how this movie is...like the cartoon series you're talking about.

Jason in LA · 06-15-2005, 08:33 AM

Three movies came out of that series, and they were all very good. Subzero, Mask of Phantasm, and The Batman Superman Movie (which was my favorite). I remember Siskel and Ebort saying that Mask of Phantasm is what all the Batman movies should be like. They gave it two thumbs up. The thing I liked about The Batman Superman Movie was that they didn't like each other at all. And they were trying to one up each other. Superman uses his X ray vision to see through Batman's mask. So Batman puts a little tracking devise on Superman's cape. Then tracks him down to his appartmen. As Clark Kent he finds it on his cape, looks out his window, and sees Batman looking at him from about a mile away ontop of a building. Batman has a smile on his face and Clark Kent was pissed. That movie has a lot of good moments like that.

There was an episode of Batman where Superman had to play like he was Batman because Bruce Wayne was missing. It was a trip to see Superman trying to do Batman's job, because their personalities were so different.

Alkazar · 06-15-2005, 08:59 AM

I think its just DC trying to capitalize on Marvel's success with the X-Men and Spiderman movies. The new Batman movie looks pretty good from the trailers but I'll hold off judgment until I get a chance to see it. To be honest, I just watched Spiderman 2 and enjoyed it more than the first one, even though I really liked it too. Course I grew up with Spidey as my fav comic book superhero anyway.

NaptownChief · 06-15-2005, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by RhymesayersDU

It comes out this weekend, right? I may have to go catch this.

Local radio said this morning that they are bringing it today, nationwide was my understanding as they made the point that they aren't waiting for Friday.

Garcia Bronco · 06-15-2005, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Alkazar

I think its just DC trying to capitalize on Marvel's success with the X-Men and Spiderman movies. The new Batman movie looks pretty good from the trailers but I'll hold off judgment until I get a chance to see it. To be honest, I just watched Spiderman 2 and enjoyed it more than the first one, even though I really liked it too. Course I grew up with Spidey as my fav comic book superhero anyway.

See..I thought the Spiderman movies are terrible...the worst part is the casting.

anthonypacino · 06-15-2005, 09:25 AM

I hope it is good I have been waiting for a comic book movie that stuck close to the comic, Spiderman stayed close so did Daredevil and Hellboy, the rest strayed away. I still think the new Superman movie souds like a complete diaster, it could kill the whole comic book movie thing for a few years just like Batman and Robin did.

Garcia Bronco · 06-15-2005, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by anthonypacino

I hope it is good I have been waiting for a comic book movie that stuck close to the comic, Spiderman stayed close so did Daredevil and Hellboy, the rest strayed away. I still think the new Superman movie souds like a complete diaster, it could kill the whole comic book movie thing for a few years just like Batman and Robin did.

I'm not s comic book guy, but I really liked this one. In fact...I've never been to movie before where people clapped at the end.

MajikMan7 · 06-15-2005, 09:28 AM

I'm not really looking forward to the movie but I can't wait for the Batman Begins 400 next sunday. Go Rusty!!!!!!

PS: Wisconsinhomer is saying Go Harvick!!!!

Rock Chalk · 06-15-2005, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by anthonypacino

I hope it is good I have been waiting for a comic book movie that stuck close to the comic, Spiderman stayed close so did Daredevil and Hellboy, the rest strayed away. I still think the new Superman movie souds like a complete diaster, it could kill the whole comic book movie thing for a few years just like Batman and Robin did.

X2 had a good portion of the characters getting back to their roots. Wolverine was much improved in the second one though Storm still sucked. Nightcrawler was spot on just like the comic and Magneto and Professor X seemed to grow more into their roles.

I liked most of the comic book movies, with the exception of Daredevil.

anthonypacino · 06-15-2005, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by AlecRaenos

X2 had a good portion of the characters getting back to their roots. Wolverine was much improved in the second one though Storm still sucked. Nightcrawler was spot on just like the comic and Magneto and Professor X seemed to grow more into their roles.

I liked most of the comic book movies, with the exception of Daredevil.

One of the things wrong with DD was that they tried to fit too much in to the movie withour really developing it, they tried to fit his origin story and events that happened 30 years later with the whole Elektra and Bullseye story, I know it is hard to translate a book into a movie but some could be better, Nightcrawler was alot better set up and closer to the comic version than the other X-men.

anthonypacino · 06-15-2005, 10:10 AM

The whole reason that they make these movies is because they already have a fan base that people are familiar with. And the fans want to see on the screen what they have came to love in reading the books, so why when we get to the theatre we see Brian Singer's version of the X-Men instead of the one that we have seen for the last 40 years. Most people's idea of the Hulk was the TV show and that was far removed from the book but still far better that Ang Lee's Hulk, Sam Raimi at least respected the comic and did his best, The writer of the Batman movie IS A COMIC BOOK WRITER and even he probably had a hard time getting it right but it will be the closedst version we have seen yet, I am not a fan of the Spy Kids (i have never seen them cause they seem stupid and i am not 5 yrs old) but what Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City was awesome wether you were a fan of the book or not you had to respect how he put it together, the most accurate of all the movies.

Jason in LA · 06-15-2005, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

See..I thought the Spiderman movies are terrible...the worst part is the casting.

I wouldn't go as far as saying they were terrible, but I thought they could have been better.

I do agree about the casting. I'm basing my opinions on the cartoon series back in the '90s that came on Fox Kids. It came on about the sametime the Batman cartoons were coming on.

In the cartoon Peter Parker was a bit of a dork, but he didn't come off as a complete wuss like Toby Maguire does. I could picture the cartoon Peter as Spiderman, but I can't do the same with Toby. He's too much of a wimp. In the cartoon Harry Osborn was a complete wuss. Toby should have played Harry, and the guy that played Harry should have played Spiderman. There is nothing hot about Kirsten Dunst.

The biggest problem that I had with the movie, just like with the Batman movies, was there was too much Peter Parker, and not enough Spiderman. Spiderman seemed like he was barely in the movie. In the cartoon he went through all his issues as Spiderman, not as Peter.

The Batman movies had the same problems. Too much Bruce Wayne, not enough Batman. And Batman wasn't mean enough. In the cartoon it was mostly Batman, and he was a mean SOB. The guy was old school. He was the Dark Knight.

06-14-2005, 07:49 PM	#1
Garcia Bronco Hokie since 1993 Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 46,001 Adopt-a-Bronco: Tom Jackson	Batman Begins Just got back from a screening in NOVA at an Arlington theatre...great movie....I highly recommend it. Better than EIII from a stand alone POV, IMO.

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anthonypacino off season mode Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 2,283	Hope I hope it is good I have been waiting for a comic book movie that stuck close to the comic, Spiderman stayed close so did Daredevil and Hellboy, the rest strayed away. I still think the new Superman movie souds like a complete diaster, it could kill the whole comic book movie thing for a few years just like Batman and Robin did.

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