Everything tagged with “Batman Begins”

1. Reboots and remakes

   4 June, 2009:

   I’m not sure where the habit for using the word ‘reboot’ came from but when people use it when they mean ‘remake’, I start getting angry in the same way I get angry when people spell it ‘loose’ when they mean ‘lose’.

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   Batman Begins

   19 June, 2005:

   This was the one I’ve been waiting for. Not since the original Tim Burton/Michael Keaton outing has there been a good Batman film; the franchise style has been slowly whittled away by Joel Schumacher’s love of dry ice, naked male torsos and high camp. Batman Begins was to be the one that redressed the balance. Did it?

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3. The Shape of Things to Come

   11 December, 2004:

   With 2004 nearly over, and fewer opportunities to be disappointed by awful films that promise much yet deliver little this year, I thought I’d have a look ahead to see what’s in store.

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