I saw, as I suspect most of you did, Batman Begins this weekend.
It is the best Batman movie yet. I left the theater wanting the same crew to make another movie immediately.
Excellent cast. Christian Bale actually looks like Bruce Wayne looks in my head, the first such in forty years.
Cillian Murphy will win the Oscar for Outstanding Achievement in Being a Substitute Johnny Depp. (Of course, Depp's already played the Crane role, Ichabod instead of Jonathan, like there's a difference.)
Too much blows up for no particularly good reason.
When you look at comic book movies like Superman, you see a movie that takes its subject matter from comics but whose creators metaphorically say "We're expert movie makers, we know how to make movies, we don't need anything from the comics." We're in a Golden Age of superhero comic book movies now, with X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman Begins, et al., because the movie makers are taking more than just the idea from the comics; they're taking story and production design and art direction from the comics. They're looking at the history of the characters and they're taking the best for their movies. Gary Oldman is David Mazzucchelli's version of Jim Gordon, just for an example.
Spoilers ahoy!
As others have noted, a microwave emitter effective enough to boil water in mains will fry any human in its path.
Christopher Nolan appears to have a genius-level grasp of movie structure. He actually understands and deliberately uses the Law of Conservation of Movie Actors in a way that impressed me (in the relationship between Ducard and Al-Ghul).
Posted by Greg at June 21, 2005 1:44 PM