Batman Begins
spoiler ahead, if you wanna watch the movie without knowing anything beforehand, please skip this blog post 
if you’ve decided to read on, long post ahead – don’t bitch
Yesterday was sort of go-with-the-flow day – was actually planning to go buy a badminton racquet for my wife in Gurney Plaza. Normally, our trip to Gurney Plaza starts at the top floor – Level 7 where GSC cinemas were housed. Then it struck us – we haven’t watched Batman Begins yet. Badminton racquet can come later, we thought. So, we bought the next available tickets which was at 12.20pm (the clock shows 12.23pm already when we bought the tickets), and rushed into the cinema hall.
I grew up not reading most of the superheroes comic books – the superheroes i know (Superman, Batman, Spiderman) was mainly from the cartoon version shown on TV back then. I never have the priviliges of reading DC or Marvel comics – it’s just too expensive to buy back then (poor mar…). This not-so-intelligent review is based solely on cinematic experience
The movie started off with 2 kids running around from each other – the boy was chasing the girl for something that she found on the boy’s garden. Then, the boy falls into some kind of well, and there’s hordes of anacondabats flying out from the cave inside the well itself. The boy, being a sissy boy, naturally would be scared and shit in his pants shouted for help – and develop a phobia for bats. There’s one day his parents took him to an opera, there’s a scene where it’s bat-like movement, and it freaks him out. His parents needs to sacrifice the opera for this whiny sissy boy. Unfortunately, his parents got mugged and killed on the spot – this further freaks him out.
Sissy boy aside, he grew up to become quite a hunk, and ended up in the prison somewhere in God-knows-where, where it’s so sick that the prisoners had to fight for their food. The sissy boy, now a hunk (Christian Bale), got caught in one of the fights and put in isolation cell. Then this weird guy (Liam Neeson) appears out of nowhere within the isolation cell, talking shits like he need to conquer his fear or stuffs like that. That he should follow some weird-name cult or something in order to be better.
So it begins the adventure of the sissy-boy-turn-hunk in the realm of the weird-name cult, to train up some Japanese martial arts (that doesn’t make sense – the place that the movie was set in had nobody who speak Japanese) so that he can use to chop some heads off. He got to use the chopping heads skill, when the cult master decided that they should attack the city that the hunk comes from to neutralise it. So he went around chopping heads, and save the weird guy from being burnt down in the burning cult realm.
The hunk, now with training completed, journeys home, and found out that his parents had left shit loads of cash for him to enjoy, with his father’s company high tech products – kevlar vest, some weird looking armored car – damn, how I wished I have the toys to play myself. And decided that he should save the city from corruption, by turning into something that he was scared of – bats. So he becomes Batman (yawn~). With all the high tech gadgets, he don’t need any super power to make him the greatest saviour of the town.
He goes on saving the town from some weirdo with some dizzying gas, and gets to hook up with his childhood dream girl. The end.
Yeah… my review sucks – i’m just lazy
And by the way, we still got the badminton racquet alright (quite a deal – got a big multi-purpose racquet bag free with the racquet)
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ashotiwoth July 11th, 2005 at 9:24 pm
anyway, it’s better than War of The Worlds… at least in my opinion lah