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Saturday, 6 September 2014

"You look like a man who takes himself too seriously." - The Scarecrow


BATMAN BEGINS
2005 - imdb (link) 

After training with his mentor, Batman begins his war on crime to free the crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption that the Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it.

Cast

Batman/Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale
Alfred Pennyworth - Michael Caine
Lucius Fox - Morgan Freeman
Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul - Liam Neeson
The Scarecrow/Dr Jonathan Crane - Cillian Murphey
James Gordon - Gary Oldman
Rachel Dawes - Katie Holmes

Director - Christopher Nolan

Writers - David S. Goyer (story & screenplay), Christopher Nolan (screenplay)


26 comments:

  1. Qui-Gon Jinn without the hair

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  2. Actually feels refreshing to see the whole origin unravel...

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  3. Thomas Wayne just makes so much sense in this one. Wouldn't have been upset if they'd had even more flashback time

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  4. BB solves the issue Batman 89 created – get’s the chance of revenge and is robbed of it... Can't destroy that motivation.

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  5. Dumping damaged Bruce Wayne outside Carmine Falcone’s haunt seems a little mean!

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  6. I really enjoy watching Tom Wilkinson, but it always takes a few minutes to put 'Full Monty' out my head.

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  7. Also, this movie has a good few British actors putting on American accents.

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  8. This is one of the last things Holmes did before Cruise.

    She looks happy.

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  9. It has always struck me as a little strange that Gotham should be SO bad as to gain the attention of a Tibetan loon...in Tibet.

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  10. Mr Zsasz – key villain in the upcoming Dawn of Justice! Bit underused here!

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  11. And for once the bat comes in though the window like Bob Kane's origin!

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    1. Well, that explains why the '43 Batman only EVER came in through windows.

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  12. It's nice for someone to finally acknowledge the major pain in the balls it must have been sorting out the Batcave.

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  13. Like the way his first major mission goes very badly - and how they make the Scarecrow incredibly effective.

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  14. Excellent move using Lucius Fox. Seperates Batman from Iron Man

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  15. In the scene with Batman running through the Arkham cells, it's refreshing that Nolan didn't fall into the 'cliche' that so many of the other comic book film-makers do, and gratuitously have the names of other universe villains on the doors.

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  16. How to do a roof top car chase right

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  17. Difficult to see the 60's Jim Gordon getting quite so involved.

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    1. He'd probably have been a better shot though...

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  18. It's not that it is done 'seriously' that makes this film so good. It's just that it's done 'properly'. Nothing seems half arsed. Everything has been thought out fully. Refreshing!

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  19. Thus we enter the Age of the Bruce mask and... Escalation.

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