I'm Batman

[ehowton]

I have not yet seen the movie. I heard it was really good. I heard that it did very well at the box office. I'm getting a lot of 'I told you so.' Its this last part which has me confused. You hedged your bet based on speculation. As did the studio. There was no guarantee for its success.

I heard in the news the reason it did so well at the box office opening weekend was that most people went to see it because Heath Ledger died. I don't understand that. When I see it, it won't be to see some actor who later died. Why is that such a draw? There are no words I can think of to explain it. I'll want to see it because I enjoyed the first one, and I heard that this was a spectacular movie.

You said it was going to do well because it was going to be such a great movie, which, as it turned out, it was. But that's not why it did so well opening weekend. So which is it? And furthermore, how do you justify your answer?

Lastly, because I won't take my son to see The Dark Knight I bought the 1966 original Batman: The Movie I saw in theaters in the late 70s.

He'll probably hate me.

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[lehah.livejournal.com]

The 1966 movie is good, old-fashioned fun. If anyone can discredit it, they're not people worth talking to.

TDK is not a fun movie. It's written with a dark and misunderstood nihilistic edge - like someone who saw Fight Club and understood the words without hearing the message.

If you want a fun movie to watch with your son, go and rent The Phantom (1996).

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Batman: The Movie when camp was king! I'm waiting to watch it with him. Both for nostalgia's sake (my father took me to see it when I was about my son's age) and to see his reaction to the villains he has come to know only through the new cartoons and the Schumacher films.