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   StainlessSteelRat wrote:   
   > Sentinel wrote:   
   >> I haven't been keeping up with movie releases, apart from the Iron   
   >> Man & the Dark Knight trailers. Both look really yummy.   
   >   
   > I've never really been a huge fan of the Batman series.   
      
   Well, this is a new series, technically. However, I'm in a minority of   
   Batman fans who think Batman Begins was massively, massively over-rated   
   and really quite underwhelming. In fact I kind of think it's shit... in   
   a completely different way than Batman and Robin is shit, but still shit.   
      
   There's a lot that it gets right that they've never got right in Batman   
   before, but a lot they gstill get wrong or was done better in Burton's   
   films. Aside from the Batman-ness of it, I just think in terms of   
   film-craft it's really, really poor. The action is abyssmal, for one   
   thing, and the entire film is poorly edited. I just don't enjoy actually   
   *watching* the thing.   
      
   Yet people go crazy for it for some reason.   
      
   TDK look like more of the same. I hope it's an improvement but from what   
   I've seen it just doesn't press the right buttons for me as not only a   
   Batman fan but a film fan.   
      
   LH   
      
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