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Score: 7.6 / 10 
Batman Begins
So, Batman Begins. Now, I don't want to get carried away. That's not my way. But I am increasingly of the opinion that this film deserves to win a dozen or more Academy Awards (and not in March - I'm talking right now), including Best Picture, Best Actor In A Cowl and Best Use Of Liam Neeson As A Guru Type.
However, the movie cost $135 million dollars to make! Ouch!! That's nutty. I know it's pretty much standard for a modern-day blockbuster, but by my reckoning you could buy about 45 million Batman comic books for that money, which, if nothing else, would certainly startle the comic book vendor with whom you made the transaction.
No - why couldn't the studio have simply edited together recycled footage from assorted other movies the main actors have appeared in? It would have saved money and time, a rare combination in this modern day world in which we, the modern day humans inhabiting this planet currently live (ie given our shameful lack of access to space and/or time travel - wake up NASA!!).
Sure, it might have been odd to see James 'Dawson' Van Der Beek in the background whenever Katie Holmes got cross and did that crooked half-smile she does. And Liam Neeson may have had to redub 'padawan' to, say, 'parademon' to avoid the wrath of the Lucasfilm lawyers. And, sure, the script may have had to have been rewritten (perhaps with a narration by Adam West!!) to explain why Bruce Wayne is butchering hookers and dancing to Huey Lewis. But essentially you could have made the same movie. And let's face it, that scene where Batman test-drives the tanklike prototype of the Batmobile with Morgan Freeman is a virtual frame-for-frame reshoot of the corresponding scene in The Shawshank Redemption.
Begone,
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