07-01-2004, 09:33 PM
I didn't really like Keaton, he just didn't seem like Bruce Wayne personified since he was so scrawny and was sporting the slightly-balding look. Don't get me wrong, he was the best Batman (and Batman Returns was the best Batman movie... I loved Michelle Pfeiffer and Danny DeVito in their respective roles) but he still wasn't "that" great. Val Kilmer had the best potential as a Batman (see: The Saint) but just never quite was there. George Clooney was just horrible.
I'm really psyched for 'Batman Begins' though. I will forever regard Christopher Nolan as sweet just because of Memento :) Then with a cast like Christian Bale, Ken Watanabe (Katsumoto in the Last Samurai), Kate Holmes, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Michael Caine - how can this movie now be a winner? Even better, Nolan the movie is apparently being treated as completely outside of the previous 4 movies... which is also outstanding.
I kinda question the new batmobile however.
I have to disagree with the belief that multiple villains bogs a movie down. 3 would probably be too many, but 2 villains just makes the situation of the hero seem all the more hopeless - and thus is more exciting.
I'm really psyched for 'Batman Begins' though. I will forever regard Christopher Nolan as sweet just because of Memento :) Then with a cast like Christian Bale, Ken Watanabe (Katsumoto in the Last Samurai), Kate Holmes, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Michael Caine - how can this movie now be a winner? Even better, Nolan the movie is apparently being treated as completely outside of the previous 4 movies... which is also outstanding.
I kinda question the new batmobile however.
I have to disagree with the belief that multiple villains bogs a movie down. 3 would probably be too many, but 2 villains just makes the situation of the hero seem all the more hopeless - and thus is more exciting.
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London