First of all am of age 23, outside from the Hi-Tech Western world. I usually comment on movies which I liked or hated the most. But for this particular movie I had to wait around two months, not for judging its moral/creative content, but for forgiving myself for not using any harsh words.
I have seen all Batman adaptations up to 90's Batman Beyond cartoon series. I liked Tim Burton's Batman movie but don't fully agree with it, I liked it only because it paved the way to 'Batman Animated Series' the only artistic work that revised Bob Kane's original concept. I rather consider it as the only Bible for Bob Kane's great character Batman. But for commenting this movie, I am stepping out from the die-hard fan point of view and speaking from a normal viewer's mind.
Batman Begins (Spoilers******)
After "Batman and Robin" Warner Bros. was in a confused state whether to continue the vitiate franchise further or not. With new executives they tried to negotiate with the franchise with edged spin-offs, nothing went production wise. So they choose another path, restarting the whole franchise and now the problem is, the director. Warner Bros. early approached Clint Eastwood, Wolfgang Petersen, Darren Aronofsky and then to my favorite David Fincher. They even approached Wachowski Brothers, the hot Warner products at that time but nothing happened.
Finally after every noted Hollywood directors walked away from the picture Warner Bros. were forced to give the franchise to a foreign hand. It was the British art film director Christopher Nolan; who done his debut Hollywood movie few years back. The moment he touched the project, every thing went up side down. To make things even worse, writer David S. Goyer who worked as generator operator on Nolan's "Insomnia" teamed up with him to make a new milestone.
The movie begins with a young Bruce Wayne who discovers the fear of Bats for the first time. This fear made him to loose his beloved parents; and the guilty in him leads the adult Bruce (Christian Bale) to leave the country. In the path to salvation Bruce travels across the world as an ordinary man until he was jailed by the Himalayan guards. It was then he meets Ducard (Liam Neeson) who make him to be a member of 'League of Shadows', a secret dark organization owned by Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe). But things went wrong when Bruce violated the rules of the Shadows and was forced to end his quest, making a decision to go back to his home town Gotham.
Only one problem arise; Will the new Bruce finally identify with the Gotham city he once left off, or can the Gotham city recognize the new Bruce Wayne.
Written by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan tells the reinventing story of Batman as well as the young Bruce Wayne. I can't believe it was written from the sucking David Goyer who done the Wesley Snipes' Blade franchise. But dialogue wise it sucks because of corny, misused, one sided character placement lines. The treatment was set to be well paced but the director's interpretation made it a dreadful one.
Nolan is the director, so I don't want to speak about the visualization of this movie, it's an art film, sucking camera works of Wally Pfister and inimical editing of Lee Smith was really from Nolan's idea. Nolan changed everything; Batman's appearance were changed, his Batmobile beefs up, Gotham city got elevated trains and above all, the new Batman is Bisexual. Who cast Christian Bale as Batman; He looked like a born Gay person, with his thin blade lips, vulgar smiles, all made Bruce Wayne, as well as Batman to a chicken level man. He remembered me of the first sucking Batman Adam West. He didn't succeed even in representing the two separate aspects of the same person, at least in the vocals (which was done brilliantly by the voice-over actor Kevin Conroy in Animated Series).
The rest of the cast sucked, anything good was from Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon; also Mark Boone Junior done a great performance as the frustrated officer Flass, when considering with original characters. Ken Watanabe failed to create a good impression because of his little screen time and ridicules makeup appearance which doesn't resembles to Ra's Al Ghul in the original titles.
O.K if these all things went wrong, there was one probability that would have saved this movie and that was its soul, the music. I was spellbound when I heard Hans Zimmer was going to score for the new franchise and also teaming for the first time, with versatile composer James Newton Howard. I really wanted to see how his version going to clash with classical Elfman's theme. All my expectation shattered when I heard the musical score from the movie, it really sucked, a terribly frustrating failure. Till now I can't figure it out, what was Batman's new theme score? Nolan would have stick with his usual collaborator David Julyan, at least for bringing a taint look in Wayne's duality.
All in all it's truly a dreadful experience to watch the entire movie. We can clearly see the failed attempt from an art film maker to bring an action film, with his own twisted visions. With the shades of Chinese Ninja movies blundered with classical James Bond movies, Nolan failed to deliver what the non/true-fans really waited for; Warner Bros would have given this movie at least to some kid from MTV for directing the most anticipated franchise. "I gave this movie 0 out of 100!"
Batman Begins = Batman Sucking
I have seen all Batman adaptations up to 90's Batman Beyond cartoon series. I liked Tim Burton's Batman movie but don't fully agree with it, I liked it only because it paved the way to 'Batman Animated Series' the only artistic work that revised Bob Kane's original concept. I rather consider it as the only Bible for Bob Kane's great character Batman. But for commenting this movie, I am stepping out from the die-hard fan point of view and speaking from a normal viewer's mind.
Batman Begins (Spoilers******)
After "Batman and Robin" Warner Bros. was in a confused state whether to continue the vitiate franchise further or not. With new executives they tried to negotiate with the franchise with edged spin-offs, nothing went production wise. So they choose another path, restarting the whole franchise and now the problem is, the director. Warner Bros. early approached Clint Eastwood, Wolfgang Petersen, Darren Aronofsky and then to my favorite David Fincher. They even approached Wachowski Brothers, the hot Warner products at that time but nothing happened.
Finally after every noted Hollywood directors walked away from the picture Warner Bros. were forced to give the franchise to a foreign hand. It was the British art film director Christopher Nolan; who done his debut Hollywood movie few years back. The moment he touched the project, every thing went up side down. To make things even worse, writer David S. Goyer who worked as generator operator on Nolan's "Insomnia" teamed up with him to make a new milestone.
The movie begins with a young Bruce Wayne who discovers the fear of Bats for the first time. This fear made him to loose his beloved parents; and the guilty in him leads the adult Bruce (Christian Bale) to leave the country. In the path to salvation Bruce travels across the world as an ordinary man until he was jailed by the Himalayan guards. It was then he meets Ducard (Liam Neeson) who make him to be a member of 'League of Shadows', a secret dark organization owned by Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe). But things went wrong when Bruce violated the rules of the Shadows and was forced to end his quest, making a decision to go back to his home town Gotham.
Only one problem arise; Will the new Bruce finally identify with the Gotham city he once left off, or can the Gotham city recognize the new Bruce Wayne.
Written by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan tells the reinventing story of Batman as well as the young Bruce Wayne. I can't believe it was written from the sucking David Goyer who done the Wesley Snipes' Blade franchise. But dialogue wise it sucks because of corny, misused, one sided character placement lines. The treatment was set to be well paced but the director's interpretation made it a dreadful one.
Nolan is the director, so I don't want to speak about the visualization of this movie, it's an art film, sucking camera works of Wally Pfister and inimical editing of Lee Smith was really from Nolan's idea. Nolan changed everything; Batman's appearance were changed, his Batmobile beefs up, Gotham city got elevated trains and above all, the new Batman is Bisexual. Who cast Christian Bale as Batman; He looked like a born Gay person, with his thin blade lips, vulgar smiles, all made Bruce Wayne, as well as Batman to a chicken level man. He remembered me of the first sucking Batman Adam West. He didn't succeed even in representing the two separate aspects of the same person, at least in the vocals (which was done brilliantly by the voice-over actor Kevin Conroy in Animated Series).
The rest of the cast sucked, anything good was from Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon; also Mark Boone Junior done a great performance as the frustrated officer Flass, when considering with original characters. Ken Watanabe failed to create a good impression because of his little screen time and ridicules makeup appearance which doesn't resembles to Ra's Al Ghul in the original titles.
O.K if these all things went wrong, there was one probability that would have saved this movie and that was its soul, the music. I was spellbound when I heard Hans Zimmer was going to score for the new franchise and also teaming for the first time, with versatile composer James Newton Howard. I really wanted to see how his version going to clash with classical Elfman's theme. All my expectation shattered when I heard the musical score from the movie, it really sucked, a terribly frustrating failure. Till now I can't figure it out, what was Batman's new theme score? Nolan would have stick with his usual collaborator David Julyan, at least for bringing a taint look in Wayne's duality.
All in all it's truly a dreadful experience to watch the entire movie. We can clearly see the failed attempt from an art film maker to bring an action film, with his own twisted visions. With the shades of Chinese Ninja movies blundered with classical James Bond movies, Nolan failed to deliver what the non/true-fans really waited for; Warner Bros would have given this movie at least to some kid from MTV for directing the most anticipated franchise. "I gave this movie 0 out of 100!"
Batman Begins = Batman Sucking