June 22, 2005
prequel shmequel
So I saw Batman Begins on Monday after reading my brother’s positive review, and agree that it was an awesome movie. My first thought was that it was a shame they didn’t make this movie before George Lucas started making the Star Wars prequels, because then they could have sat him down and made him watch this movie, saying, “Ok George, pay attention! This is how you make a prequel!”.
The other thought my buddy and I had was that, “wow, this was almost as good as the original Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson”, so we resolved to watch it last night.
Damn, were we wrong. The original Batman *sucks* in comparison to Batman Begins. I had vestigial memories of it being a really dark and creepy awesome movie, but watching it last night, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the campy original tv series with Adam West, not to mention that it was stupid goofy like Dick Tracy (although a quick IMDB search shows that Dick Tracy came out after Batman). I suppose one of the disadvantages that the original Batman faced is that it was made in the 80’s (yup, you heard me — released in 1989 — feeling old now?), and as we all know, our sense of what was cool back then was being distorted by alien mind rays coming from Uranus.
Still, we should just go and erase all of the current Batman movies, and just start over with Batman Begins, or as I like to call it, “the good one”.
June 22nd, 2005 at 11:23 am
What about Batman Returns? that was a pretty good movie, i think–it’s been a while. Michelle Pfeiffer definitely looked good throughout the whole movie too, especially as a skintight-leathered catwoman.
June 22nd, 2005 at 11:30 am
But does this one have Prince on the soundtrack? I dont think so!
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Props to Michelle Pfeiffer for being hotty mc hot hot, but I haven’t seen that movie in a while, so I forget whether I liked it or not.
Re:Prince, yeah, some of the music from Batman was awesome, notably Danny Elfman’s theme music and Prince. Can’t go wrong there…
/ac
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:16 pm
Are you kidding? Batman Returns is even worse than Batman. They all get successively worse as the franchise moves on. Batman Begins just restarts the whole thing. The only good thing about Batman Returns is Walken. The story was crap, and don’t forget Danny Devito eating a raw fish straight from the wrapper, with fish guts dripping out his disgusting maw.
June 23rd, 2005 at 6:12 am
ah c’mon, everybody knows that batman forever is the best when the costume designer decided george clooney needed to accessorize the bat suit with erect rubber nipples. regardless though, since you’ve seen batman begins, i urge you to see the machinist which was made just a year before. it’s eerie that christian bale can look so different in such a short amount of time, talk about getting into your role(looks different in that he weighs about 120 pounds)
June 30th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
Yep, Batman Begins is the best Batman flick so far.
War of Worlds - entertaining, but not kick butt awesome omg must see again.
Bewitched - I think it’s a good date movie
Mr. and Mrs. Smith - by far the best movie I’v seen recently
my 2 cents,
hong