Movies: June 2005 Archives

I always sort of cringe and hold my breath when a new comic book-inspired movie comes out. There are so many ways to do it wrong and there are ample examples to prove thats true. But Batman Begins is one of those special ones that got it right. Christopher Nolan's vision of Gotham, the story behind how Batman begins...it's all just right for me. I could enjoy it as a fan who understands the significance of Gotham's lost Narrows while Jeff who isn't a comic person could understand and connect to the depth of the story without needing any comic background. It all just made sense in a very non-comic fantastical way. I'm not sure how they'll pull of doing the Joker in the next one but they definitely won me over in this one. My only criticism is using Liam Neison and it has less to do with how he was used in this movie but rather how he was, as an actor, miserably used in The Phantom Menace. I just can't get stupid Qui-Gon out of my head whenever he was on the screen. Cillian Murphy's Scarecrow is excellent, though.