Our next two films for the month of July are Batman Begins and the sequel, The Dark Knight.
Batman Begins will be showing Tuesday, July 5th at 6:00pm (please note: It is a Tuesday, not Thursday, and will begin 15 minutes early to accommodate the longer running time)
Batman Begins
is a 2005 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman,
co-written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale,
Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom
Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, and Morgan Freeman. The film reboots the Batman film series, telling the origin story of the title character
(Bale), from his alter ego Bruce Wayne’s initial fear of bats, the death of his
parents, his journey to become Batman, and his fight to stop the villains of
the film from plunging Gotham City into chaos.
The film holds an 85% fresh rating on
Rotten Tomatoes based on 267 reviews.
Roger Ebert awarded the film 4/4 stars saying this of the film in his
review, “Batman Begins at last penetrates to the dark and troubled depths of
the Batman legend, creating a superhero who, if not plausible, is at least
persuasive as a man driven to dress like a bat and become a vigilante. The movie doesn’t simply supply Batman’s
beginnings in the tradition of a comic book origin story, but explores the
tortured path that led Bruce Wayne from a parentless childhood to a friendless
adult existence. The movie is not
realistic, because how could it be, but it acts as if it is. I said this is the Batman movie I’ve been
waiting for; more correctly, this is the movie I did not realize I was waiting
for, because I didn’t realize that more emphasis on story and character and
less emphasis on high-tech action was just what was needed. The movie works dramatically in addition to
being an entertainment. There’s
something to it.”
Here's the trailer:
The Dark Knight will be showing Tuesday, July 26th at 6:00pm (please note: It is a Tuesday, not Thursday, and will begin 15 minutes early to accommodate the longer running time)
The Dark Knight
is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher
Nolan, the film is the second part of Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy and a sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, starring an ensemble cast including Christian Bale,
Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and
Morgan Freeman. In the film, Bruce
Wayne/Batman (Bale), James Gordon (Oldman) and Harvey Dent (Eckhart) form an
alliance to dismantle organized crime in Gotham City, but are menaced by a
criminal mastermind known as the Joker who seeks to undermine Batman’s
influence and create chaos. Nolan’s
inspiration for the film was the Joker’s comic book debut in 1940, the 1988
graphic novel The Killing Joke and
the 1996 series The Long Halloween.
The film holds a 94% fresh rating on
Rotten Tomatoes based on 314 reviews.
Roger Ebert awarded the film 4/4 stars saying this in his review, “Batman isn’t a comic book
anymore. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is a haunted film that
leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care
about. That’s because of the
performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of
the superlative technical quality of the entire production. The
Dark Knight is not a simplistic tale of good and evil. Batman is good, yes, The Joker is evil,
yes. But Batman poses a more complex
puzzle than usual: The citizens of Gotham City are in an uproar, calling him a
vigilante and blaming him for the deaths of policemen and others. And The Joker is more than a villain. He’s a Mephistopheles whose actions are
fiendishly designed to pose moral dilemmas for his enemies.”
Here's the trailer:
