A Trip To Gotham City

In keeping with the strangeness that is my life these days, on Monday I got an impromptu invite to the premiere of "Batman Begins." Now for anyone who has never been to a Hollywood premiere let me just tell you that these things are an experiment in organized chaos. The security you have to go through is unbelieveable. (Unless of course you're one of the VIPs. Then you walk down the red (or in this case black) carpet and don't have to worry about the scary guys who practiacally strip search you.) And there were a lot of VIPs. It was an odd assortment of people who made an appearance. Apparently everyone in town thought this was the premiere to be seen at this year. Most of the attention went to Tom and Katie but there were a lot of other cool people as well. I met Topher Grace and Dominic Monaghan and Ryan Reynolds (who is even hotter in person than he is onscreen). I also got to chat with Erica Durance (who plays Lois Lane on "Smallville."). I know I have been very critical of her performance and I stand by that. I still don't think she's right to play Lois, but she's also a very nice person so now at least I'll have to feel guilty about saying I don't like her on the show :) I'm not going to say anything about the plot of this film. It's better if you go in blind. I will say that I loved it! Christian Bale does a great job. As Bruce Wayne he definitely reached back to his performance in "American Psycho" for inspiration. There is a lot of Patrick Bateman in Bruce. He's also very convincing in the suit. This movie was made for comic book geeks. There's no question that it's a summer action movie, but it's also very dark and I think even the die hard Bat fans will like it. Outstanding supporting cast. It's hard to go wrong with Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson in your cast. Katie Holmes was not as annoying and out of place as I had expected her to be. She's still the weak point in the film though. Cillian Murphy is not in it nearly enough, but is great in the scenes he does have. I'm interested to see how this film does. I think it will really help to erase the damage that was done by the last couple of Batman films. All-in-all I had a blast and it was soooo cool to have the chance to go.

"They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge... Me." -- Christian Bale - "Batman Begins"