[Vampyr]

I saw the movie today, and it is the best comic book movie I have ever seen, even better than Spider-Man and X-Men, which I thought were fantastic. This was the first, and only, good batman movie to date.

They fixed one of the things that I found most annoying in the old movies: his mobility. In the old batman movies his leather suit was so thick and tight that he could barely move with it on. He had a very small degree of freedom, and I didn't find it realistic that he could win a fight with it on.

Another thing that they fixed that really annoyed me was the toughness of Batman. In the old movies he had been fighting crime for years and had been through extensive combat training and had experiance, but then in the second one a woman came along, fell out a building and turned into Cat Woman for a day, and all of a sudden she was kicking his ass. He pretty much owned everyone in this movie.

Everything about the movie was done well. I liked the way they had Morgan Freeman explain how all the gadgets and gear worked, and I liked how they gave him the long bat-claws that he has in the comics. Not to mention he can glide!

And I agree that the Batmobile should stay exactly the same. I love how they explained his access to such weaponry through his companies military relations, and his stuff should keep that military feel...it makes it seem more down-to-earth and realistic. Lets face it: the original batmobile serves no tactical purpose.

And the snarling was fantastic, I thought. He was trying to create the image that he was a monster, and the snarling was integral to that. Someone mentioned the consistancy of his voice, but I think that that was done to symbolism "who" he was at the time. Sometimes he was the legendary bat-monster, but at other times, such as the scene with him and Rachel when he reveals his identity, he is being a human.

And the blurry and too-fast-to-follow action scenes were a little annoying, but I think that was done so you could see just how impossible it was to fight him. I actually said "I can't even keep up with him" during one of the fight scenes, so it's hard to imagine how scary that would have been for the criminals, and fear was the main thing he was going for.

The scarecrow was the best villian from any of the movies. I know who the scarecrow is, but I don't own any comics with him in it. Are there any comic novels that are stare the ScareCrow as the main villian? I can't keep up with buying a comic every month in a series, so I always just buy the collective novels.

The parts with the special effects involving the hallucagen (sp?) were personally my favorite parts of the movie. I couldn't stop grinning at the part where batman shot it into Crane's eyes and then he turned into a bat-monster.

The only part of the movie that dissapointed me was the level of involvement of the scarecrow...I really wanted to see another battle after Crane went full fledged insane and became the 100% scarecrow. Hopefully he will be in an upcoming film.


edit: I also liked The Dark Knight Returns. The opening passage depicting a bar with old super heroes gives me chills every time I read it. Although I admit my favorite part is when Batman beats the crap out of Superman...