Swift update + movie review
For those who ain't heard, passed my driving test with 10 points! 29 June. Woot!
Also, saw batman begins 30 Jun. Pretty good. Not totally true to Batman canon though, but close enough. The Scarecrow was a real villain, not just a drug-induced hallucination, for instance. I also dislike the way Bruce has to deliberately rasp up his voice in his Batman guise. Batman, though a dark guardian, is a figure of authority and menace, I think it’s more apt if his voice is cool, steely, with a dark menace. Raspy sounds so fake and amateurish for some reason. Other than that, he looks like Spidey when using his grappling gun. Heh. Another major plot-hole: a microwave weapon like that will vaporize anyone getting near it too! Since a human is 70% water. So the villains shouldn’t have been able to just cart it around in a train, at least not without major reflective suits for protection or sth.
I’ve also liked how Batman is for most purposes merely human, without powers of any sort (excepting vast wealth, heh). Yet he’s made a major name for himself, as superheroes go, for having peak-level fitness and a Sherlock-level of intelligence and investigative prowess. Which brings me to a minor movie gripe: not enough opportunities for Batman to use his sleuthing abilities. I mean, the bad guys walked into his home and burned it down. That really eliminates the need to do impressive logical/deductive reasoning tricks that Batman has been known for, to track down his quarry. And yes, Batman did use bugs to listen in on conversations, but any two-bit amateur with the money can do that. What I really liked about Batman was his unsurpassed mastery of disguises. I’d loved to have seen Bruce Wayne disguised as a fat balding waiter actually using sleight-of-hand to plant a bug below the table of the local crime lord, before slipping outside to listen in to the conversation.
For those who ain't heard, passed my driving test with 10 points! 29 June. Woot!
Also, saw batman begins 30 Jun. Pretty good. Not totally true to Batman canon though, but close enough. The Scarecrow was a real villain, not just a drug-induced hallucination, for instance. I also dislike the way Bruce has to deliberately rasp up his voice in his Batman guise. Batman, though a dark guardian, is a figure of authority and menace, I think it’s more apt if his voice is cool, steely, with a dark menace. Raspy sounds so fake and amateurish for some reason. Other than that, he looks like Spidey when using his grappling gun. Heh. Another major plot-hole: a microwave weapon like that will vaporize anyone getting near it too! Since a human is 70% water. So the villains shouldn’t have been able to just cart it around in a train, at least not without major reflective suits for protection or sth.
I’ve also liked how Batman is for most purposes merely human, without powers of any sort (excepting vast wealth, heh). Yet he’s made a major name for himself, as superheroes go, for having peak-level fitness and a Sherlock-level of intelligence and investigative prowess. Which brings me to a minor movie gripe: not enough opportunities for Batman to use his sleuthing abilities. I mean, the bad guys walked into his home and burned it down. That really eliminates the need to do impressive logical/deductive reasoning tricks that Batman has been known for, to track down his quarry. And yes, Batman did use bugs to listen in on conversations, but any two-bit amateur with the money can do that. What I really liked about Batman was his unsurpassed mastery of disguises. I’d loved to have seen Bruce Wayne disguised as a fat balding waiter actually using sleight-of-hand to plant a bug below the table of the local crime lord, before slipping outside to listen in to the conversation.
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