Re: Some Dark Knight reviews are in

Batman Forever's one of the worst super-hero movies ever made. I put it right down with the crappiest TV movies or "Captain America." Batman and Robin is a masterpiece by comparison. Batman Forever has the two worst-conceived villains ever assembles - Carrey and Jones are atrocious, but it's the fault of the script and direction more than bad acting. That movie is sheer torture.

At least Ahnold was funny in Batman and Robin.

Oh come on Chris! Jim Carrey is hilarious in the way he overplays every single line. Tommy Lee Jones hams it up for the camera. From what I remember, it looked good, too. And they took a stab at getting inside Bruce's head. It's fun. (Mind you, I never said it was a GOOD movie, k?)

Jason, apologist?

I thought it was more of a fun movie. Damn, that whole series of movies, was fun. It was all about the cheezy glam 60's tv series. Without the BAM!, POW!, and ZowEE!!! It was definately one perspective of Batman, that won't be revisited. People and Hollywood are looking towards a reality based series, hence the newer two films.

The first two Burton did are classic, Batman Forever is mediocre at best and Batman & Robin was Skittle vomit! There were times that BF worked for me, and it is passable as a cable stand-by movie, but bringing in the glam to something that should be serious and dark in the first place just doesn't work for me. Batman Begins and Dark Knight are a lot closer to what I would expect to see, rather than the Skittles rainbows we got with BF & B&R.

There are 30+ reviews floating around (most not yet posted on RT) and all have been positive.

I'm looking at the Wall-E reviews and 6 were negative out of 169. Sometimes I wonder if there are people out there who deliberately write up a negative review for publicity. You're not going to be recognized in a sea of "fresh" reviews, but those "rotten" reviews certainly stand out.

depression,

undoubtedly, there are some reviewers who like to be contrarians, but there are times when i wonder if there is too much "follow the sheep" in this line of work (just as with most professions). where is it written that people have to like pixar 100%?

personally, i think that pixar has made some great movies and that the technical quality is stupendous, especially when compared to the CGI garbage released by dreamworks, disney, weinstein, etc. however, many of pixar's stories tend to skew towards "middle america", and they are such inoffensive milquetoast offal that they become, paradoxically, offensive precisely because they are neutered.

eddie

p.s. i owe chris a debt of gratitude for introducing me to "milquetoast"--what a great word!

I'm worried about watching it on IMAX... I'm disappointed because they aren't showing it all in the same aspect ratio. They shot 4 specific scenes using the IMAX Cameras. Instead of upscaling the parts of the film that weren't shot in IMAX... they are just leaving them be. I guess so the audience knows what is or isn't in IMAX format but, whatever.

I'm just not sure if that's gonna bug me or not...

So far 100% at RT, but so was Hellboy...I know these two movies won't dissappoint, and hope that if they are good enough, will be considered for the academy award...

So what you are saying is that Nolan is a BAD director? When all his movies that were mentioned after my first comment came out, I cannot remember anyone BASHING them. I personally think that as a director, his vision is top notch. As for Memento, well I personally thought it was amazing and it took us where no other movie has taken us before. Now I look at myself as a movie freak, and I cannot remember a movie like that before. So to me it was original.
I mean he can be more like say um George Lucas, now theres a guy with a vision.

Angry Bale Was Bolted In As Batman

Christian Bale really was a brooding, angry Caped Crusader in Batman Begins - because his tight-fitting costume made him feel restricted and caged.

The movie star insisted on making some vital adjustments to the iconic batsuit for his second outing as Batman - and started with the comic book superhero's headgear.

Bale reveals his Batman Begins costume was topped off with a helmet that felt like "I was going scuba diving".

He recalls, "You couldn't move your head, you were bolted in. It was a vice on my skull, so I had a headache the whole damn time.

"I used it Batman's supposed to be full of anger and rage and I didn't have to act that."

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0257055/