Batman Begins is an important movie but it might not be a very good one

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Batman Begins is kind of the father of the modern day "gritty origin reboot". I mean it's influence is everywhere. Look no further than our own superhero genre. Iron Man, Amazing Spiderman, Man Of Steel... these movies pretty much function entirely using the "blueprint" of Batman Begins. You see it's not enough that Superman can just fly because he's from Krypton. Because of Batman Begins filmmakers now feel they have to explain the SCIENCE behind why Superman can fly.

So Batman Begins was a pretty important movie. It changed things... forever.:youngsabo:

Before I get into bashing the movie let me just say this. If nothing else I applaud Batman Begins just for being what it is, a film adaptation of Batman that was taken seriously. Even if it had been the worst piece of shyt ever made you can't help but give it points just on pure ambition.

But judging it on it's own merit I don't think it's a very good movie. I think it's poorly edited, I think it's boring, I think the plot is stupid, and I think the romance completely falls on it's ass. I gotta be honest I'm also not the biggest fan of Christian Bale in these movies. He's serviceable to me but when he's not in costume he's pretty hard to watch.

Plus let's be honest TDK improved on it in just about every way imaginable so that only highlights this film's flaws.
 
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It's the most proper Batman movie since Burton's original, but you can make a drinking game out of how many times the word "fear" or its variations are said.
 
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It was a good movie, but The Dark Knight was so brilliant that you forget how good it was. :manny:
 
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It's better than The Dark Knight Rises....although neither is what I'd consider a great film.
 
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Begins is my favorite out of that trilogy. The pacing, plot, and climax was the best out of all three.

TDK is overrated because of Ledger's performance after he offed himself. Way too long. Pacing is a bit off with a build up in the middle only for it to slow down again to build up again. It's like a two part movie in the same movie.

TDKR is pretty good. Villain was weak though. Bane is a henchman not a main villain.

If all three are on, I would watch Begins. It's more enjoyable out of the three.
 
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