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NOT THE BEST...
PostedJuly 20, 2008
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from ARLINGTON, TEXAS
BUT IT WAS BETTER THAN MOST OF THE OTHER 7 BATMAN MOVIES. THE PROBLEM WITH THIS MOVIES IS THREEFOLD.
1) THEY CLAIM TO STAY WITH THE COMICS STORY AND THEN KILL OFF TWO MAIN CHARACTERS, JUST LIKE THE OTHER MOVIES, AND THESE CHARACTERS HELPED DEFINE WHO BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN WAS AND IS.
2) HEATH LEDGERS PERFORMANCE AS THE JOKER IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE WANNABE JOKER GANG OF THE CARTOON SERIES BATMAN BEYOND. THE JOKER WAS NEVER COWARDLY AND IN THIS MOVIE HE IS MORE COWARD THAN SUPER VILLIAN.
3) ANYTIME THE SUPPORTING CAST STEALS ALMOST EVERY SCENE IN THE MOVIE AND THE MAIN STAR(S) SEEM TO ONLY BE GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS FOR A PAYCHECK INSTEAD OF THE ENJOYMENT OF ACTING IS VERY SAD AND DETRACTS FROM THE WHOLE MOVIE EXPERIENCE.
THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE GREAT. AND THE BATMAN GADGETS ARE ON PAR AS ALWAYS JUST LIKE JAMES BOND. BUT AGAIN, JUST AS IN BATMAN BEGINS, CHRISTIAN BALE WAS FLAT AS BOTH WAYNE AND BATMAN. AND AGAIN I FOUND MYSELF MORE INTERESTED IN THE CHARACTERS OF LUCIOUS FOX, ALFRED, RACHAEL, AND LT./COMMISIONER GORDAN, EVEN ERIC ROBERTS CHARACTER - MOB BOSS MORONEY. EVERY SCENE THEY HAD THEY STOLE AWAY FROM WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BATMAN OR JOKER SPOTLIGHT. EVEN THE BATTLE BETWEEN BATMAN/JOKER WAS FLAT.
THE STORY WAS A GREAT STORY, AND THE CHARACTERS WERE RIGHT ON PAR FOR THE MOST PART AS WELL AS THE SPECIAL EFFECTS BUT POOR ACTING BY THE TWO MAIN STARS GREATLY DETRACTED FROM THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS. THOUGH BIASED BECAUSE OF OUR HISTORY AND KNOWLEDGE OF BATMAN COMICS OVER THE YEARS, MY FRIENDS AND I HAD GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS FILM. SADLY ALL OF THE MOVIES EXCEPT FOR BATMAN AND BATMAN RETURNS, HAVE BEEN A BIG LETDOWN FOR COMIC AFFICIANADOS FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW. THE ALLSTAR PERFORMANCES OF JACK NICKELSON, MICHAEL KEATON, AND DANNY DEVITO, HAVING THOROUGHLY "BECOME" THE CHARACTERS AND MAKING FANS GO "WOW! THAT WAS JUST LIKE IN THE COMICS! PERSONALITY, MANNERISMS, THE PURE ALL ENCOMPASSING PRESENCE THAT MADE YOU NOT WANT TO LOOK AWAY FOR WANT OF MISSING SOMETHING" IS JUST LACKING IN THIS LATEST FILM. I AND SEVERAL OTHERS HAD NO PROBLEM GETTING UP FOR SNACKS OR RESTROOM BREAKS. THERE WERE EVEN A FEW WHO DEMANDED THEIR MONEY BACK.
BUT IF YOU COMPARE THIS TO THE BATMAN BEYOND SERIES, THIS IS RIGHT ON PAR, THOUGH BALE IS MORE OF THE PUNK KID TYPE THAN THE OLD BATMAN, AND OVERALL WAS A GREAT MOVIE, BUT AGAIN MUCH LIKE THE 3 X-MEN MOVIES, AND THE FIRST FANTASTIC FOUR, THIS WAS ANOTHER HUGE LETDOWN FOR COMIC FANS EXPECTING IRONMAN/INCREDIBLE HULK TYPE PERFORMANCES OUT OF SUBPAR ACTORS.
MAYBE NEXT TIME DC COMICS WILL FOLLOW MARVELCOMICS PATH AND JUST OPEN THEIR OWN MOVIE STUDIO, OR EVEN PAIR UP WITH MARVEL, AND DO BATMAN, SUPERMAN, AND SEVERAL OTHER LIFELONG FAVS A FAVOR, AND PRODUCE THEIR OWN IN HOUSE ADAPTATIONS INSTEAD OF RELYING ON THE OTHER STUDIOS TO SCREW THEM UP LIKE THEY DID SPIDERMAN 3. I AND SEVERAL MILLION OTHER TRUE LIFELONG FANS EAGERLY AWAIT THE DAY THAT WE GET A SUPERMAN OR BATMAN MOVIE THAT TRULY IS STRAIGHT FROM THE COMICS WE SO LOVE, AND RIVALS THE GREATNESS AND AUTHENTICITY OF ADAPTATIONS LIKE THE 1ST BLADE, IRONMAN, AND THE RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER.
1) THEY CLAIM TO STAY WITH THE COMICS STORY AND THEN KILL OFF TWO MAIN CHARACTERS, JUST LIKE THE OTHER MOVIES, AND THESE CHARACTERS HELPED DEFINE WHO BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN WAS AND IS.
2) HEATH LEDGERS PERFORMANCE AS THE JOKER IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE WANNABE JOKER GANG OF THE CARTOON SERIES BATMAN BEYOND. THE JOKER WAS NEVER COWARDLY AND IN THIS MOVIE HE IS MORE COWARD THAN SUPER VILLIAN.
3) ANYTIME THE SUPPORTING CAST STEALS ALMOST EVERY SCENE IN THE MOVIE AND THE MAIN STAR(S) SEEM TO ONLY BE GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS FOR A PAYCHECK INSTEAD OF THE ENJOYMENT OF ACTING IS VERY SAD AND DETRACTS FROM THE WHOLE MOVIE EXPERIENCE.
THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE GREAT. AND THE BATMAN GADGETS ARE ON PAR AS ALWAYS JUST LIKE JAMES BOND. BUT AGAIN, JUST AS IN BATMAN BEGINS, CHRISTIAN BALE WAS FLAT AS BOTH WAYNE AND BATMAN. AND AGAIN I FOUND MYSELF MORE INTERESTED IN THE CHARACTERS OF LUCIOUS FOX, ALFRED, RACHAEL, AND LT./COMMISIONER GORDAN, EVEN ERIC ROBERTS CHARACTER - MOB BOSS MORONEY. EVERY SCENE THEY HAD THEY STOLE AWAY FROM WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BATMAN OR JOKER SPOTLIGHT. EVEN THE BATTLE BETWEEN BATMAN/JOKER WAS FLAT.
THE STORY WAS A GREAT STORY, AND THE CHARACTERS WERE RIGHT ON PAR FOR THE MOST PART AS WELL AS THE SPECIAL EFFECTS BUT POOR ACTING BY THE TWO MAIN STARS GREATLY DETRACTED FROM THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS. THOUGH BIASED BECAUSE OF OUR HISTORY AND KNOWLEDGE OF BATMAN COMICS OVER THE YEARS, MY FRIENDS AND I HAD GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR THIS FILM. SADLY ALL OF THE MOVIES EXCEPT FOR BATMAN AND BATMAN RETURNS, HAVE BEEN A BIG LETDOWN FOR COMIC AFFICIANADOS FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW. THE ALLSTAR PERFORMANCES OF JACK NICKELSON, MICHAEL KEATON, AND DANNY DEVITO, HAVING THOROUGHLY "BECOME" THE CHARACTERS AND MAKING FANS GO "WOW! THAT WAS JUST LIKE IN THE COMICS! PERSONALITY, MANNERISMS, THE PURE ALL ENCOMPASSING PRESENCE THAT MADE YOU NOT WANT TO LOOK AWAY FOR WANT OF MISSING SOMETHING" IS JUST LACKING IN THIS LATEST FILM. I AND SEVERAL OTHERS HAD NO PROBLEM GETTING UP FOR SNACKS OR RESTROOM BREAKS. THERE WERE EVEN A FEW WHO DEMANDED THEIR MONEY BACK.
BUT IF YOU COMPARE THIS TO THE BATMAN BEYOND SERIES, THIS IS RIGHT ON PAR, THOUGH BALE IS MORE OF THE PUNK KID TYPE THAN THE OLD BATMAN, AND OVERALL WAS A GREAT MOVIE, BUT AGAIN MUCH LIKE THE 3 X-MEN MOVIES, AND THE FIRST FANTASTIC FOUR, THIS WAS ANOTHER HUGE LETDOWN FOR COMIC FANS EXPECTING IRONMAN/INCREDIBLE HULK TYPE PERFORMANCES OUT OF SUBPAR ACTORS.
MAYBE NEXT TIME DC COMICS WILL FOLLOW MARVELCOMICS PATH AND JUST OPEN THEIR OWN MOVIE STUDIO, OR EVEN PAIR UP WITH MARVEL, AND DO BATMAN, SUPERMAN, AND SEVERAL OTHER LIFELONG FAVS A FAVOR, AND PRODUCE THEIR OWN IN HOUSE ADAPTATIONS INSTEAD OF RELYING ON THE OTHER STUDIOS TO SCREW THEM UP LIKE THEY DID SPIDERMAN 3. I AND SEVERAL MILLION OTHER TRUE LIFELONG FANS EAGERLY AWAIT THE DAY THAT WE GET A SUPERMAN OR BATMAN MOVIE THAT TRULY IS STRAIGHT FROM THE COMICS WE SO LOVE, AND RIVALS THE GREATNESS AND AUTHENTICITY OF ADAPTATIONS LIKE THE 1ST BLADE, IRONMAN, AND THE RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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