Comments on: Batman Begins review

By: decrepitoldfool

decrepitoldfool — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:48:08 +0000

Thanks, Doris! I agree the movie was dark but to handle the character properly it had to be. Making Batman a sunny-day character would be analogous to making Jeeves and Wooster into a vampire flick. ;-P

By: Doris

Doris — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:25:41 +0000

I enjoyed your review more than the film itself even though I had already seen the film. Thanks for your comments onmy Batman review which wandered off onto thunderstorms!

Mr Doris also thinks it was the best Batman movie. I still found it too dark and that perhaps there were other things I would preferred to have been doing with my time.

I love the comments here about the “scientific bungle”. It is so funny because this is Batman. Since when should any of Batman’s technology be correct. Lucas gave a great reply.

By: WeeDram

WeeDram — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:45:07 +0000

The microwave emitter is the most “egregious” ... the others I could live with.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 04:56:23 +0000

Umm, which one? The microwave emitter which vaporize water, but not humans? The nature of the fear chemical, when there is no known anxiety receptor? The question of why a plant would evolve an orally inactive compound which causes fear? The enormous amount of the compound which would be required if it were to be active? How Fox could possible squeeze several years of pharmaceutical research into two days? How the compound went undetected for so long given *daily* analytical tests required of municipal water supplies? How Batman was able to survive some of the falls, or how people were able to converse in a burning house without coughing? Etc…

By: WeeDram

WeeDram — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:54:39 +0000

Partly on the strength of your comments, I went this afternoon. I quite liked it, even though I didn’t know the original story beyond your description. Even without that, I would have liked this movie. Way better than any other Batman on a screen I’ve ever seen.

There is (at least) one scientific bungle in this film, but as my wife said, “Shhhsh, you’re at the movies!”

Can anyone else figure out what that glitch is?