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Jun. 17th, 2005 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiI've been trying since last night to come up with words for how amazing I thought Batman Begins was, and all I keep coming back to is "I love Gary Oldman, I love Christian Bale, I love Michael Caine, I love Liam Neeson, I love Morgan Freeman, I love love love whoever it was that played Crane and I don't quite get why Katie Holmes was doing a Drew Barrymore impersonation but perhaps it's because it would've been weird, continuity-wise, for Drew to actually have played that part because she was Sugar in Movie #3, which, coincidentally, also starred Nicolle Kidman, but the meta of that was a little too much for me.
I've seen a lot of Gary Oldman movies while up in the wee hours of the night with Cate - Sid & Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, Dracula, Immortal Beloved - even Fifth Element, which I have always enjoyed, and seeing him in a role where he's just a normal, good guy, just reminds me of how damned good he is. And, of course, how woeful I am going to be trying to sit through OotP. Weirdly enough, I'm not really looking forward to GoF with any all-consuming passion, the way I was about PoA. But even though I didn't love OotP as a book as much as PoA or even GoF, I really think that it has tremendous potential as a film, if they don't screw it up.
And, o la, only there was a sequal to Batman which also incorporated Smallville and an Evil Lex because it's so clear to me now that Bruce is Clark's Replacement!Lex.
Seriously, I think that Christian merits consideration for Best Actor - why is it that every year, there's another film which takes comic book mythos and makes it more than what we are seemingly supposed to consider "just a comic book film." This year, it's BB. Last year, Spiderman 2. The year before that, X-Men 2.
Hopefully, next summer, it'll continue with X-Men 3, which is being directed by my high school-mate Brett Ratner, who is thankfully a bit of a comic book geek, and should give it the right feeling. I'm not a huge fan of Brett's Rush Hour or Bad Boys work, but I think this just might work well. Plus, he's a really nice guy, so I like it when he does well...
Now, to search for Batman icons!
I've seen a lot of Gary Oldman movies while up in the wee hours of the night with Cate - Sid & Nancy, Prick Up Your Ears, Dracula, Immortal Beloved - even Fifth Element, which I have always enjoyed, and seeing him in a role where he's just a normal, good guy, just reminds me of how damned good he is. And, of course, how woeful I am going to be trying to sit through OotP. Weirdly enough, I'm not really looking forward to GoF with any all-consuming passion, the way I was about PoA. But even though I didn't love OotP as a book as much as PoA or even GoF, I really think that it has tremendous potential as a film, if they don't screw it up.
And, o la, only there was a sequal to Batman which also incorporated Smallville and an Evil Lex because it's so clear to me now that Bruce is Clark's Replacement!Lex.
Seriously, I think that Christian merits consideration for Best Actor - why is it that every year, there's another film which takes comic book mythos and makes it more than what we are seemingly supposed to consider "just a comic book film." This year, it's BB. Last year, Spiderman 2. The year before that, X-Men 2.
Hopefully, next summer, it'll continue with X-Men 3, which is being directed by my high school-mate Brett Ratner, who is thankfully a bit of a comic book geek, and should give it the right feeling. I'm not a huge fan of Brett's Rush Hour or Bad Boys work, but I think this just might work well. Plus, he's a really nice guy, so I like it when he does well...
Now, to search for Batman icons!
