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Batman Begins (2005)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Action | Thriller | Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria, danfinn, ashe5k, schofizzy, jeneot33, twobitme, SIxBORG, lordofthemovies, krazykat, themarc

Overview

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City.  Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

Rated PG-13 | Length 140 minutes

Actors

Christian Bale | Michael Caine | Liam Neeson | Katie Holmes | Gary Oldman | Cillian Murphy | Tom Wilkinson | Rutger Hauer | Ken Watanabe | Mark Boone Junior | Linus Roache | Morgan Freeman | Larry Holden | Gerard Murphy | Colin McFarlane | Sara Stewart | Gus Lewis | Richard Brake | Rade Serbedzija | Emma Lockhart | Christine Adams | Catherine Porter | John Nolan | Karen David | Jonathan D. Ellis | Tamer Hassan | Ronan Leahy | Vincent Wong | Tom Wu | Mark Chiu | Turbo Kong | Stuart Ong | Chike Chan | Tenzin Clive Ball | Tenzin Gyurme | Jamie Hayden | John Kazek | Darragh Kelly | Patrick Nolan | Joseph Rye | Kwaku Ankomah | Jo Martin | Charles Edwards | Lucy Russell | Timothy Deenihan | David Bedella | Flavia Masetto | Emily Steven-Daly | Martin McDougall | Noah Lee Margetts | Joe Hanley | Karl Sheils | Roger Griffiths | Stephen Walters | Richard Laing | Matt Miller | Risteard Cooper | Shane Rimmer | Jeremy Theobald | Alexandra Bastedo | Soo Hee Ding | Conn Horgan | Phill Curr | Jack Gleeson | John Judd | Sarah Wateridge | Charlie Kranz | Terry McMahon | Cedric Young | Tim Booth | Tom Nolan | Leon Delroy Williams | Roger Yuan | Joe Sargent | Mel Taylor | Ilyssa Fradin | Andrew Pleavin | Jeff Christian | John Burke | Earlene Bentley | Alex Moggridge | Jay Buozzi | Jordan Shaw | Omar Mostafa | Patrick Pond | Poppy Tierney | Rory Campbell | Fabio Cardascia | Spencer Wilding | Mark Smith | Khan Bonfils | Dave Legeno | Ruben Halse | Rodney Ryan | Dominic Burgess | Nadia Cameron-Blakey | Mark Straker | T.J. Ramini | Kieran Hurley | Emmanuel Idowu | Jeff Tanner | Mark Strange | Dean Alexandrou | Jon Foo | Joey Ansah | Adam Kirley | Rick Avery | David Murray

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

At York Classic Cinemas in the XQ theater by myself! Big thanks to Mike S for the tip!

So there was one other person who sat in the first row of the stadium seating five rows in front of me. But it might as well have been a private viewing and it was glorious. That XQ laser projection is very nice and this particular theater is very nice with big recliner seats. Guess all that is new since I was last there 2 years ago.

It was really cool to see this movie on the big screen again. Only saw it once in theater when it opened 15yrs ago then maybe one or two other times when it hit home video but haven’t seen since I started logging films on the regular in 2009. So it had been a while and I had forgotten certain sequences in addition to how neat it is to see Chicago rendered in this film. The Board of Trade is Wayne Tower and my last office space.

Michael Caine really is the anchor of this story and so good. I also love all the horror imagery between the bats and Scarecrow’s hallucinations (that black drippy Batman is wicked). How the fighting combat is filmed is still a hangup and Bale’s Batman is goofy at times but I really enjoy this movie. I’m very happy Classic Cinemas is showing films like this to fill the void until new movies return. Next week I think The Dark Knight will be there in XQ, according to Mike, then DK Rises after that. For six bucks a ticket this is an ideal situation and I don’t have to worry about crowds.

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