Batman Begins

[K9soul]

David was off work today so we went and saw it at 4 (today is opening day). The word that immediately comes to mind after seeing it is: Wow

I was not disappointed. VERY intense and dark. But VERY well done. My heart was just hammering through a good portion of it. Christian Bale makes a very good batman/Bruce Wayne, and a very attractive one too . If any of you other Batman fans go and see it you will have to post what you thought!

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Edit to add:

I was reading some reviews of it (I never read reviews before I see movies because I don't want to read spoilers), and this review REALLy said it well. I will only quote a part that has no spoiler info:

To make another "Batman" movie might seem cynical, but not to anyone who sees "Batman Begins." To see "Batman Begins" is to think maybe this is the way to go: Take an artistically spent franchise, and instead of adding to the series and compromising with the mistakes of lesser filmmakers, pretend as if those other movies never existed. Start at the beginning of the saga, and tell the story again. This time do it right.

"Batman Begins" does it right, and it's the first "Batman" movie to get it right since Tim Burton's "Batman," 16 years ago. Like the first "Batman" it has a dark spirit and an intellectually viable leading man -- Christian Bale, in this case. Unlike the first "Batman," it's not a masterpiece of set design, and it doesn't have a flamboyant villain. Those elements were virtues of the original film, but they became pernicious as a prototype, when subsequent "Batman" movies tried to top the first in terms of both visuals and flouncing, raving villainy.

"Batman Begins" goes in another direction, telling the story as neither a comic book in motion nor as a wild fable, but as the true story of a man who has a series of odd, transformative experiences.

That whole review is here but it does put in some hints here and there of what you'll see Full Review