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Saw a preview last night. Usually get these free preview things from my local comic shop. It's always rush seating, so banking that it would be popular, I showed up over an hour before, and there was already over 100 people in line. The theatre supports 450, and every seat was filled. Standing in line, I got a good oppurtunity to observe the crowd, which was diverse to say the least. Grandmothers, teenagers, everything in between, from geek to barstar.
Gotta say, I loved it. I preferred the whole training, origin, first half, to the batman second half, but the whole thing was fantastic. General comments: The fights were a little muddled looking (I think with reason, it makes batman scarier/ and maintains the illusion a little better than seeing some guy in molded plastic doing lame kung-fu), The car chase was very tense and fun, Ra's al Gul rocks as a villian, and all the recent Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes press kind of ruined her performance for me. It also had a pretty intensely gratifying plot which was easy to follow, but NOT Simple. Great ending, with a fantastic setup for the next film. Oh, Liam Neeson and Kent Watanabi (I probably fucked up both of there names) ARE amazingly good in this film, really knocking it out of the park.
So, all the old ladies, young kids, comicbook geeks, ect. break out into applause, and if I didn't have issues with that sort of thing, I would have joined them. Fun, fun, movie. |
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