Mark Millar's Review of the Batman movie.

[Mister Mets]

Thought you guys may find this link interesting.

http://www.sundayherald.com/50202

The two best parts IMO....
One Los Angeles Times critic told me he thinks it’s one of the greatest films ever made.

Everything from the bullet-proof costume to the amazing fight-scenes to the contents of his utility belt have been worked out by experts and grounded in realism to the point where even the Batmobile was designed and built by a real-world military vehicle manufacturer as a functioning piece of hardware.

[Uncensored]

Awesome! Though I didn't really get his 9/11 comparisons, but maybe I will after I see the film.

[Tony Bang]

I didn't the 9/11 stuff either, but I didn't get it in Star Wars either.

I'am really glad we are getting a good Bat-movie after the last two.

[Uncensored]

Well Forever was an alright movie, though after Batman & Robin came out, it made Forever look worse than it did two years previous. I'm no expert though, I've never read a Batman comic book.

[pureclint]

I think Millar failed to point out that none of these themes are new to Comics or Batman (who has been around since 1939 last I checked). The way Millar wrote the review, in which he barely talked about his opinion of the final product (Yo Mark did you LIKE IT?), you would think that Nolan and Goyer altered Batman to make him more contemperary with the Republican majority in the USoA.

Not a great review.

[1HELLBOY]

I wouldn't really call that a review per se. It's more like an article he wrote in making Batman Begins a metaphor to describe 9/11.

Not a movie review at all. But a damn good article.

[LukeRed5]

I haven't seen the movie yet, I'm going Wednesday. But can everyone please stop trying to find 9/11 in every Summer blockbuster?! First Star Wars, then Batman, and over on the drudge report Speilberg is taking about War of the Worlds and 9/11. We want to be entertained. Leave 9/11 out of it!

[Nate C.]

I think Millar failed to point out that none of these themes are new to Comics or Batman (who has been around since 1939 last I checked). The way Millar wrote the review, in which he barely talked about his opinion of the final product (Yo Mark did you LIKE IT?), you would think that Nolan and Goyer altered Batman to make him more contemperary with the Republican majority in the USoA.

Not a great review.

I agree. As soon as I saw the horse and the car in the trailers, I thought, "great, they are ripping off Miller's "Year One" AND "DKN" ". The car looks very much like Miller's "batcar" ("only a kid could come up with that name. It's actually a tank")

And I think he begins with his political bias, and extrapolates into the work a little.

We'll see.

[The Joker]

Good article. Interesting read.

Tomorrow night. The wait is finally OVER.

[pennywisdom]

Millar's worldview and his own opinion of politics affects his every opinion, his perception of characters, and even the genre itself (not to mention his own work). And, yet, as tired as I am of post-9/11 American politics, I can't entirely disagree with him. He's a very perceptive guy and his observations of the movie seem to mesh with everything I've heard about it. Sure, his critical lense is permanently set to "Everything in relation to the Bush Administration" but he makes some great points. I've always felt that comic books (and comic book adaptations) could be viewed as allegory.

[Alan2099]

I haven't seen the movie yet, I'm going Wednesday. But can everyone please stop trying to find 9/11 in every Summer blockbuster?! First Star Wars, then Batman, and over on the drudge report Speilberg is taking about War of the Worlds and 9/11. We want to be entertained. Leave 9/11 out of it!
Well, we could sit around and try to figure out ways to see Batman and Star wars in Fahrenheit 9/11 but the fact that Micheal Moore is about the same size at the Deathstar is about the only thing I can come up with there. ;)

[Shellhead]

I haven't seen the movie yet, I'm going Wednesday. But can everyone please stop trying to find 9/11 in every Summer blockbuster?! First Star Wars, then Batman, and over on the drudge report Speilberg is taking about War of the Worlds and 9/11. We want to be entertained. Leave 9/11 out of it!

Since Spielberg is the director of War of the Worlds, his mention of 9/11 is probably less of a comparison and more of admission of what inspired his interpretation of the H.G. Wells story. The brief footage that I've seen on the tv commercials look very reminiscent of Manhatten on 9/11, with those huge dark clouds of dust and smoke. Very likely, on 9/11, Spielberg was thinking about that infamous radio broadcast that was so scary and convincing that it caused some listeners to commit suicide. He may have been hoping against hope that the initial 9/11 reports were a similar hoax.