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iView Author: Suprateek Chatterjee (Mumbai, India)

Email: supchats [at] gmail [dot] com

Christopher Nolan and Batman - The Phenomenon

Just finished watching Batman Begins, a film I’d seen a couple of years ago on the IMAX screen. Having arrived a little late for it, and also being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the IMAX experience, it is of little surprise that I remembered very little of the movie (Anyone who has seen a commercial movie on the IMAX screen will agree – the experience is mind-boggling, but forgettable).

Anyway, that’s not the point I’m trying to make here. I saw The Dark Knight recently of course, like every other human being who hasn’t been living in a Bat-Cave. Of course, like everyone else, I was blown away by the …

 
At last!!!!!!! I watched The Dark Knight on the date I’d been waiting for over more than two years now – July 18th 2008! Never have I been more overexcited at any movie before. From the moment I had the tickets in my hand in the morning I was restless the whole day. It felt like I was going to get laid after a 2 year drought or something.
 Boy did I love the film! Yes, the film IS worth all the hype, all the attention it’s got. Heath Ledger, may his soul rest in eternal peace, has done a Bruce Lee / Jim Morrison / Kurt Cobain. This is the stuff of legends – people …

It amazed me no end that someone would try a equivalent of professional hara-kiri by redoing any film of Tim Burton. But Nolan did and gave such a fresh breath to the franchise with Batman Begins that The Dark Knight was the most anticipated film of the year!! He began with elan, is making merry with the knight and the journey has just begun.

And I am being extremely balanced and fair here when i say its worth every fucking minute!!!

I have unashamedly professed a love for comics before. Once the red and blue cape fantasies wore thin, Batman has always been the most intriguing amongst them all. Whilst Burton made Batman in his own signature style and Schumacher tried his bit to resuscitate the comic (pun very much intended) bit, Nolan reinvented!! The character depth and detailing which he gave Bale’s crusader is what prompted me and so many like …

I have been meaning to write this for eons now but as the Dark Knight is just round the corner, it felt as the right time to write this. God how clichéd am I….

Well what can be written about Batman? For those comic virgins, I have a small primer in the next 2 Para(s). For all those twats like me, who did nothing much other than read comics, live in a warped world of their own, gloss over the next 2 paragraphs as its my take on what comics are & who Batman is

There are comics and then there is a world outside that. I have for the past 27+ years unsuccessfully tried to battle between these 2 worlds but I can hardly say I have ever lived in one world for all time. Comics are a genre of books that can take you quite quickly into a world so …

He is friggin 34!!!!
Christian Bale is just 34!!!!

Another thing I didnt know about.. (well not just the fact that it involves the resurrected Batman) that theres a Golden Trailer Awards!!!

and guess who won it ?? no prizes for guessing.

After a long, hard-fought battle, the second official trailer for The Dark Knight took home top honors at this year’s Golden Trailer Awards (with a margin of victory of 44%). The contest, held over at USA Today, tallied votes on films from several different categories — all of which were chosen as this year’s Golden Trailer winners earlier in the month. Among the top trailers users had a chance to vote on were Enchanted (Best Animation/Family), Tropic Thunder (Best Comedy), Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (Best Documentary), No Country for Old Men (Best Drama), I am Legend (Best Horror) and Iron Man (Summer 2008 Blockbuster), among …