I couldn’t sit still, I had an urge to look "Start" Nolan. Well, really, no "Start", which Inception, and "Beginning", which "Batman". Recently I just replayed it, I think it’s a complete masterpiece Arkham Asylum, just the other day I was rewatching Usachev’s videos about Batman, and now. It’s finished.
I’ll write down my impressions and especially complain about the actors.
As usual, everything said below is a completely subjective opinion based on the characteristics of my interests, stereotypes, etc. In no case is this the ultimate truth. And you shouldn’t take all my words to heart.
To avoid unnecessary holivars. Otherwise, there will be people who want to argue and say that everything was wrong, ok.
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The film, despite all its failures, is quite suitable for someone who is a fan Batman never counted (read: me). For me, the image of Batman is an image from the nineties, an image from a cartoon, which in my personal top cartoons has always been in second place after Spider-Man. And Batman as a superhero never appealed. For some reason, although I have been very impressed with his style in recent years.
This brutal, calm, self-confident man in a black suit with a yellow bat is for me the true, canonical Batman, even if from the comics, a small part of which I read even a hundred and eleven years ago, he is not such (I have no idea – I don’t remember what’s in the comics).
Okay, that’s it with the lyrics.
Disgusting superhero
I wrote all this down just to say that Bale-Batman I didn’t like it for the most part. Bale-Wayne – yes, it’s a 100% hit, but it so happens that Wayne should still be Batman, and here’s the problem. Again, I remind you: the stereotype of Batman in my brain is a brutal, calm guy with a square jaw (okay, you can skip that last one). It’s not Bale’s fault that he is not so broad-shouldered and brutal (even if he is very, very well-pumped); the fault is that he played Batman in 80 percent of Batman’s appearances, very disgustingly. The antics (this applies to almost all the characters: they are overacted terribly; it is clear that this is a “superhero” movie, but not so much as to make faces so terribly), the poses in which he stood, and, sorry, the not very beautiful mug under the mask does not make him in my eyes someone who can be loved and whose actions can be savored and relished.
The image of Batman in this particular film turned out to be very bad: a grimacing, emotional dead guy, trying to feel like an important person and do it like “in the movies”. All the pathos that should be conveyed in the scenes with Batman disappears when you see Bale’s next facial antics and his next pose, hunched over to the point of impossibility, on some hill in the night. No, the idea itself with the pose is good, but, remembering the same cartoon, it looked much, much better. And in the end it’s some kind of bullshit. It’s not pretentious in a good way, and that’s a minus. Sorry, Christian, but you make a very bad Batman in this picture.
"Correct" billionaire
Since I kicked Batman, I https://casinosnogamstop.co.uk/review/prive-casino/ need to praise him Wayne. I sat with my mouth open for the first half of the film: it was so interesting to follow this particular character. I’m not an expert on the history of Batman’s formation, I only know briefly what and how, so the movie version suited me. And it should be: in the image of Wayne Bale is very, very good, as noted above. He makes less ugly faces, his sophistication is superbly manifested (still, in spite of everything, Bale’s facial features are quite, I would say, aristocratic), which fits very harmoniously into the financial and social situation of the rich Wayne. Here he, Bale, deserves credit, however.
You can’t figure it out without the 25th frame
Action scenes left mixed impressions. I am more or less familiar with Nolan’s works (the same "The Dark Knight", which I saw in the cinema at one time), and, anticipating these scenes, I roughly imagined that what would come out was what ultimately happened. That is, it seems beautiful, but it seems like nothing is clear. Who is hitting whom, who hit whom where, how many people are fighting in the frame, and what the hell is going on here anyway?. I’m no longer used to this, but I want something more beautiful and elegant than constant flickering and large frames for such scenes. Again, I’m not a movie buff, but as a viewer I want everything in films about Batman to be a little more balanced and not jump from frame to frame when I still don’t fully understand what happened three frames ago.
Plus, I was confused by how in one episode Batman evaded a police chase (after the well-known one from the same AA) from Arkham. How the cars overturned there – it’s something with something. No, they turned over steeply, and Bats drove along them steeply (while people were sitting there), but, excuse me, isn’t that dangerous?? For some reason, all my life it seemed to me that Batman’s ideology is to sow goodness and justice in this world, and by creating such life-threatening, by the way, lawlessness for innocent cops – is this Bat’s destiny?? Would he take such a risk?? These moments were terribly confusing.
But the escape from the hospital building itself is a creepy gorgeous thing that you can admire and admire. This is one of those few moments when I felt that in front of me was a real, graceful, elegant, “refined”, clear Batman. Stylish, beautiful, even somewhat glamorous in a good way – why wasn’t the whole film in that tone?.
Let’s get treatment!
Since we’re talking about the hospital, I can’t help but note Crane. Alas, only as a character, because the acting of the person who played this role (alas, I don’t know his name) also suffers. Of course, he can be forgiven for all these antics on his face, all these supposedly (ideally) beautiful and necessary movements on his face, since he is clearly not at peace with his head, but still somehow he cannot be forgiven. Although the face is beautiful – a typical doctor’s. Well, nevermind. Crane’s character is great, and the way he influences people’s minds in this film is also great. Carrying out his work stylishly, without unnecessary movements, he left, perhaps, a very strong and partly even indelible impression on me, since everything connected with the influence of the mind is, by default, chic for me. 😀
It’s a shame there wasn’t so much of it.
From the world by thread
But who definitely and without any “buts” left a pleasant impression is Ra’s al Ghul (Neeson plays this role?). No comments: the best image in the film. Outperformed even my impressions of Bale-Wayne’s performance.
Muzyaka background, and she doesn’t need anything else. It is not memorable, it creates (however, not very well for some reason) the necessary mood for the stage; let him live.
Final also disappointed. I mean the final epic makhach. It could have been made more beautiful and, in general, better in terms of the intensity of passions. Or am I being picky.
So.
In principle, I don’t regret spending more than two hours watching. The movie is pleasant, for fans it will probably be pleasant, but for the ordinary viewer, who, however, wants to finally, after many years, understand what the beauty of Batman is, it will take one – maximum two – times.
Without exaggeration, the first half of the film is gorgeous (before Wayne began to do things in the guise of Batman), an interesting philosophy in this first half, a terribly dull, uninteresting, boring and unjustified performance of the main actors (except Neeson and partly Bale-Wayne), underpathetic pathos (which this film, I think, needs in even overpathetic form) and a crumpled ending (and yes: by this I’m not I mean the idea with the map Joker was bad) they don’t allow me to give the film a high rating (although why are these ratings needed at all??). Basically, now, from the bell tower "The Dark Knight", it is clear that Nolan, in principle, was only training, honing the technology and essence of this very “Knight”, but in 2005, I think few people cared about this.
That’s it, it’s over.
Pies for your patience will be given out immediately at the exit.
P.S. I’ll try to review it sometime "The Dark Knight" and also write down your impressions of the acting and pathos, because now I don’t even remember what was there and what my impressions were like. The only thing I remember besides Ledger and the total boom-bang is that the figure of Bale-Batman confused me there too.
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