Batman begins.<\/p>\n
Oh yea verily, he does.<\/p>\n
Now that<\/b> was a movie. Revenge of the Sith<\/a> had mythmaking and sensory overload, but Batman Begins<\/a> was the most … well, involving<\/b> movie that I’ve seen in a long time … since Finding Neverland<\/a>, I guess.<\/p>\n (Speaking of “finding Neverland,” among the previews was a sneak peek at “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. It was Michael Jackson level creepy and looked almost as unappealing as “Kingdom of Heaven” or “Cinderella Man”. (Note I have not seen any of those movies; I merely found the previews so unappealing that I didn’t want to see them. I mean, really! “Chocolate Factory” with a Michael Jackson-ized Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka? “Kingdom” with giant Tolkien-esque battles sans mythos or any recognizable characters? Or “Cinderella” with yet ANOTHER paper-thin depression era story of an underdog who wins big – didn’t we do that back with Little Orphan Annie?)<\/p>\n Anyway, “Batman Begins” was great stuff. I believed in the character, his motivation, his limits. I wanted his car. And NO neon tubes were used in the making of any costume that I could see. The movie, while not “understated” by any means, focused more on storytelling than on static visual impact. I could critique the fight scenes as a bit too rushed and hard to follow, but it worked for what they were trying to achieve – and to focus on the fights would distract from the great story: how Bruce Wayne became Batman.<\/p>\n So go see it! Batman begins. Oh yea verily, he does. Now that was a movie. Revenge of the Sith had mythmaking and sensory overload, but Batman Begins was the most … well, involving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"