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Co-written by the team of David S. Goyer (a veteran comic book writer) and director Christopher Nolan (Memento), Batman Begins is a welcome return to the grim and gritty version of the Dark Knight, owing a great debt to the graphic novels that preceded it. It doesn't have the razzle dazzle, or the mass appeal, of Spider-Man 2 (though the Batmobile is cool), and retelling the origin means it starts slowly, like most "first" superhero movies. But it's certainly the best Bat-film since Burton's original, and one of the best superhero movies of its time. Bale cuts a good figure as Batman, intense and dangerous but with some of the lightheartedness Michael Keaton brought to the character. Michael Caine provides much of the film's humor as the family butler, Alfred, and as the love interest, Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek) is surprisingly believable in her first adult role. Also featuring Gary Oldman as the young police officer Jim Gordon, Morgan Freeman as a Q-like gadgets expert, and Cillian Murphy as the vile Jonathan Crane. --David Horiuchi
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DVD Features
The first disc is filled out by the theatrical trailer and a Jimmy Fallon-starring Batman Begins spoof from the MTV Movie Awards. The second disc consists of eight featurettes (about 105 minutes total) on a variety of topics. "The Journey Begins" covers the early stages of the movie, including the casting and how director/co-writer Christopher Nolan brought in co-writer David S. Goyer for his comic-book expertise. "Shaping Mind and Body" covers Christian Bale's fight training, and other featurettes discuss the sets (the Batcave is shown being constructed out of wood and sheets), the Batman costume, the Batmobile, the monorail sequence, and the hazards of filming in Iceland. All the behind-the-scenes featurettes are solid but somewhat routine, and while "The Journey Begins" is the widest overview, there's not really any centerpiece documentary (all are 8 to 15 minutes, and there's no Play All option). Interviewees tend to be the same throughout: Nolan, Goyer, Bale (the only cast member to get much face time), and other crew members (it's nice to hear from the stunt people).
Potentially more interesting to fans is "Genesis of the Bat," which covers the comic books that influenced the film, including The Long Halloween, Neal Adams's Ra's Al Ghul from the '70s, Dennis O'Neill and Dick Giordano's The Man Who Falls, and Frank Miller's Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns. Interviewees include DC Comics editor Paul Levitz and artist Jim Lee, but the latter's involvement eventually degrades the featurette into a pitch for DC's All-Star Batman line. A nice bonus to the Deluxe Edition is a mini comic book (DVD case-sized) that has Batman's first appearance (Detective Comics #27), The Man Who Falls, and a 48-page excerpt from The Long Halloween. (Once you get a taste of Halloween, you'll want to pick up the full-length, full-size version.) Filling out the disc are overviews of four gadgets and eight characters, DVD-ROM features, and a variety of poster-art concepts. To get to the features menu, you have to scroll through a multi-page Goyer-scribed comic book, which is a good read, but you can't skip it the next time you want to watch the second disc. Note that the comic book is also viewable in French, and the second disc offers a French menu and French (but not English) subtitles for the featurettes. --David Horiuchi
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Christopher Nolan |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 15 June, 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Gift Set, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 012569732162 |
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Customer Reviews of Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
This Is Batman! Batman, like the Phoenix, has risen from the ashes and has returned with 'Batman Begins'. This movie is truly amazing and is never dull. I have seen this film many times and it is just as fresh and just as exciting as it was when I watched it for the first time. <
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>Christian Bale has taken Batman and made it his own. I didn't think anyone could top Michael Keaton's performance as the dark knight, but I was wrong. The entire film in itself is truly unbelievable. I wasn't that big of a fan of Ra's Al Ghoul before this movie, but he was the best villain for it. Cillian Murphey was also the perfect choice for Scarecrow. Overall, everyone was right for who they portrayed in the movie. <
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>Let's not forget the locations that we see in this movie. All truly breath taking. Batman fans rejoice! This is a movie that is not something you should miss. Every single person owes it to themselves to see this movie. One of the best movies of last year.
Batman AND moviegoers finally get the film they deserve..
I can't add much more to what everyone else has already said except to say that I totally love this film, and it is one of the best comic/superhero films of all time, much less the BEST silver-screen representation of Batman. None of the other films can even touch this one.
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>When I heard that Christopher Nolan was making this, I had hopes that it would be a quality film. I was equally intriqued when they cast Christian Bale. They understood that an actor has to be convincing as Bruce Wayne AND Batman, and Bale is an inspired choice. I read that they wanted to make a great, timeless adventure movie (as in Star Wars, the original, and Indiana Jones) with this, and they have. You have lots of great stuff going on here, archetypal characters such as Liam Niesan's Obe Wan Kinobe-type teacher character. They also finally get Batman's origin correct, and no, the Joker didn't kill Bruce's parents, as in the original film. The scene where Lt. Gordon is comforting a young Bruce after his parent's murder is really emotionally charged. Great casting, great attention to details all around. This isn't someone's interpretation of the source material, this IS the source material, collectively on film, and it even enhances the source material (as there is no one true definitive ORIGIN story for Batman because DC Comics rejiggers their continuity all the time).
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>Really, this is what Batman is supposed to be. Not a bunch of gadgets, neon, camp, and silliness. This is more believable. I really hope that they can keep up this momentum for the next film, The Dark Knight.
Superb movie treatment of the Dark Knight
At last, there is a film worthy of DC Comics' second great superhero. When Tim Burton's 1989 film came out, I was very impressed, and enjoyed the film immensely (even if I never was completely sold on Michael Keaton as Batman). I remember leaving the theater thinking it was a really good film, but disappointed that it didn't prove to be as stirring as "Superman: the Movie" had been in 1978. It's interesting how the passage of the years, and the appearance of numerous other superhero pictures, has affected my perception of both films. Even if the special effects are a little dated, Richard Donner's Superman film remains a powerful, thrilling, entertaining movie, and is still the definitive movie treatment of the character. Burton's Batman, however, has not aged so well. In fact, after recently watching my old VHS copy of Burton's movie, I wonder what I ever really saw in it. The gothic/art deco Gotham seen in the film is a visual feast, but comes off seeming a bit too much. Keaton is physically just all wrong for the part, and while he acts the part of Batman well enough, his Bruce Wayne seems like a clueless, socially inept geek, not a billionaire playboy. Most of the supporting characters (Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, et al.) are unmemorable. And finally, the focus seems to be more on the villian (the Joker) than on the title character (indeed, this was a problem with all the four films in this series). When I recently re-watched Burton's take on the character, I found the Batman looking inexcusably hokey in his first onscreen appearance, a rooftop fight with a couple of muggers. He doesn't look scary at all, and when he walks toward the muggers "flapping" his cape downward once like wings, it looks so ridiculous that you just can't buy the reaction of one of the crooks a few moments later when he wails: "what are you?" You just can't believe a hardened thug would be so frightened of what is obviously just a guy in a weird-looking rubber suit.
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>Fortunately for Batman fans, Christopher Nolan does it much, much better. He clearly took a page from Donner's book, making this an origin story that doesn't give us a look at the character in his superhero guise until halfway into the picture. And like the 1978 Superman movie, the story of the character's journey is told so well you don't mind waiting that long. Moreover, when the hero does appear, the wait is well worth it. This Batman, unlike Burton's/Keaton's, is actually scary and menacing. He stays in the shadows, taking out criminals without ever giving them a good look at him. Christian Bale is far better for role physically than Keaton was, and makes a much more imposing figure. Not only does Bale make a better Batman, he makes a superior Bruce Wayne. He portrays the real Bruce Wayne in his scenes with Alfred and Rachel, and the Bertie Wooster playboy Wayne becomes for the public, making him far more true to the comic book character, and also giving him far more depth than Keaton's maladjusted geek, or Val Kilmer's angst-ridden nice guy (I won't even go into George Clooney's attempt to put a stake through the heart of the character). The supporting characters are much more interesting than in Burton's film, as well. I was leery of a cockney Alfred, but Michael Caine does an outstanding job, and you can really see how Bruce Wayne would see him as a father figure, not just as the hired help. Gary Oldman is superb as Commissioner-to-be Gordon (he's just a sergeant here). And Morgan Freeman is great as Lucius Fox. Katie Holmes is the only weak link in the cast, but she's not so bad as to hurt the film. I really hope they can follow this movie up with sequels that are worthy of it. Bad sequels killed Christopher Reeve's Superman franchise, and Batman was already sliding downhill when Joel Schumacher made his 1997 abortion with George Clooney - film so staggeringly bad it might easily have put an end to Batman on film for all time. Fortunately, Christopher Nolan rescued a great and enduring character from the hands of those who almost destroyed him. For that he is to be congratulated.
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