{"id":1085,"date":"2005-06-19T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/19\/batman-begins\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T14:04:01","slug":"batman-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/19\/batman-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Now <em>this<\/em> is what a Batman movie should be.  I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s even better than the &quot;original&quot; modern Tim Burton vision.<\/p>\n<p>They actually had a 9:15 am showing this morning, and since I was up, I decided to go see it.  I actually love going to movies at that hour, because there are like 5 people in the theater (which greatly reduces the possibility of other people annoying me to death), and I got the perfect center seat.  In front of the biggest screen at the theater.  I think I may only ever go to early morning shows from now on.  Plus, I was out before noon, and got to enjoy the beautiful day out as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, the movie.  All-star cast (Liam Neeson was particularly awesome) and a backstory that finally makes sense.  There&#8217;s always a certain amount of suspension of disbelief whenever you watch a movie like this, something rooted in the supernatural, but there was actually a gritty realism to the whole thing. A hyped up reality, but it was dark and dirty, as opposed to flashy.  Which is the only thing that really works with the Batman story.  He&#8217;s always been the darkest (and the most human) of all superheroes and he deserves a film that plays, well, <em>down<\/em> to that.  And the surprisingly low-tech Scarecrow (straight out of the comics) was pretty cool too.  No bells and whistles, just pure psychosis wrapped in a burlap bag.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re going to pay $11 on a blockbuster movie this month, you should definitely pick this  one over, say, George Lucas&#8217;s bloated shlock-fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is what a Batman movie should be. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s even better than the &quot;original&quot; modern Tim Burton vision. They actually had a 9:15 am showing this morning, and since I was up, I decided to go see it. I actually love going to movies at that hour, because there are like 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-hv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}