Last night I had four rather attractice future Air Force officers riding to the movies crammed in the back of my car. Woohoo!
They are here for a four-week internship and have no cars. The Air Force is putting them up in the Hilton, provides them with a shuttle to work, and even packs them boxed lunches! Wow. Talk about being taken care of. Anyway, they wanted to go see Batman Begins, and Gavin, Becca and I wanted to go see Batman Begins, and so we all did.
I think I may have already mentioned this, but last week I heard the DJs on the radio talking about this new Batman movie. They’d seen an advance screening and were raving about it, saying it was as good as the original. I didn’t really believe them, but I had hope. Turns out they were right! Batman Begins won’t win any Oscars, but it is really good and very entertaining. Here are 10 reasons why:
- Christian Bale. He’s hot.
- There are glaciers and mountains at the beginning.
- I was able to watch Katie Holmes without remembering how grossed out I am by the Tom Cruise thing.
- Gary Oldman is a good guy!
- As much as I adored the old Alfred (and I did adore him, don’t know why they changed actors), I must say that Michael Caine makes an outstanding Alfred as well.
- That awesome main samurai from Last Samurai is in it.
- Christian Bale is hot.
- Morgan Freeman is awesome, even in a relatively small supporting role.
- You get to see Batman getting all his cool gadgets and building the Batcave.
- Did I mention that Christian Bale is hot?
Seriously, it’s a good flick.
We went to the Star Cinema Grill for the second time, and tried the dinner food. I had a pizza, and Becca and I split a bottle of wine. Lovely. I think we may be going to this theater more and more often. The tickets are actually 50 cents cheaper than the Cinemark, you don’t have to order food if you don’t want to (so that makes the price the same as regular movies), if you do order food then it’s reasonably priced, and — best of all — there are no pre-teens running around, giggling, and wearing far-too-skimpy outfits. Yes, it’s official, I am old.
Ken Wanatabi is his name, please Ras Al-Gauld if I recall. Must go see it tomorrow or Saturday.
And what’s wrong with skimpy out fits? That’s WHY I got to the movies! 🙂
Judging from what Gavin said when he got home last night, the wine might just be half the reason for this rave review. 🙂
Yeah, well. We did drink a lot of wine, but we certainly weren’t drunk. Well, maybe Becca was. The movie isn’t like “OMG SPECTACULAR” but when you go in with very low expectations (considering the recent history of the Batman series), it’s not hard to come away impressed.
Irwin, you may like skimpy outfits…but on 13 year olds???
hot Air Force guys???? why oh why did i stay home???? i’m such an idiot!!! 🙁
mmm… hot air force guys. oh, and i think the guy who used to play alfred up and died. bummer.
Dude. The Air Force guys were like 12. Ok, maybe not that young, but still. I think this was the best of all the Batman movies.
The AF guys were within Jo’s range. They were all junior/seniors, so 21/22.
The old Alfred didn’t die — I thought he did too, so I looked it up. He didn’t.
I think they made a decision to not use the old Alfred, since they have no intention of tying Batman Begins and sequels to the previous Batman movies.