December Lambeth

Batman Returns

  • Title: Batman Returns
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“I want in. The thought of busting Batman makes me feel all… dirty.
Maybe I’ll just give myself a bath right here.”

Michael Keaton returns as the Caped Crusader to fight against evil and corruption. He isn’t just battling a single adversary this time around, oh no he is battling a feathered brained Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot (Danny DeVito), a nimble bi-polar secretary that plummeted to her death and returned with feline alter ego and one crazy
Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), Gotham’s new crime lord hidden behind a mask of a not so much legitimate business man.

Bruce AKA Batman (Michael Keaton) has a bit of a fetish for little Miss. Kitty and whenever the two of them around each other they can’t help it, either it’s almost kissing or scratching each others eyes out, maybe even both. Penguin finds himself a little more than a touch attracted to Cat Woman and is constantly hitting on her with some of the most inappropriate pick up lines.

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Batman

  • Title: Batman
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Vicki Vale: “I just gotta know, are we gonna try to love each other?”
Bruce Wayne: “I’d like to. But he’s out there right now. And I’ve gotta go to work.”

Tim Burton is obviously one of our greats in concerns to innovation, style and creativity towards filmmaking. His vision for Batman was dark and brooding, just like Keaton played him. Gotham City was dark and corrupt, it had dirty streets and always foreboding and controlled by mob boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) until the sadistic and charismatic Joker (Jack Nicholson) appeared and took over not only Grissom’s control of the city, but his gal Alicia (Jerry Hall). The Joker owned the streets and controlled the crime in Gotham with a “smile”, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) created this monster and realized he was the only one who could put him down.

As I see it I must have always been meant to be a film critic. Do you know where I was at 11:00 PM the evening before Batman was released? I was sitting in a theater watching the film before anybody else (as far as I was concerned) got to view this masterpiece. Yes back then I would have considered Batman a masterpiece. If you were to compare it to today’s Batman Begins it would have been considerably dark for it’s time.

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Hellboy…Hell Yeah!!

  • Title: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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Ron Perlman might have began his career in 1975, but certainly has been one hell of a project man since the mid-1980’s from then to date he has worked on over 150 projects from voice over, TV, monsters and priests, Mr. Pearlman is still hitting it strong with his stone fisted sarcastic creature of the underworld, Hellboy. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, one of the few men on this planet I would consider dating as long as he stays in one of his monstrous costumes; he wears big muscles in red and horns with a tail well. Selma Blair has found her calling, between all the phony little characters she has played over her career I would say the strong and oh not so quiet type fire girl who’s in love with the big red hunk of burning love is certainly the part for her. The new characters Prince Nuada played by Luke Goss and Princess Nuala played by Anna Waltong add a fresh change to the story, it’s interesting to see a Tokenistic twist put on the everlasting battle of good verses evil in a modern world.

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Wanted…Less Much Less

  • Title: Wanted
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I went after Wanted with full force. I was really looking forward to a little James McAvoy action and honestly I used to think Angelina was hot, but now she truly needs to invest in a donut factory and eat up. Sadly every time I got a good look at James or even a decent action shot he looked constipated in slow motion, that wasn’t too hot. And the slow motion blood splatters and bullets going through the human skulls, a little over done and too much computer work.

Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy ), a bored account manager, starts with a voice over about how much he hates his job, best friend, girlfriend and ultimately his life. His job is setting in a cubicle with a fat redhead breathing down his neck with a stapler demanding results and being totally obnoxious. His girlfriend is screwing his only friend and he doesn’t have the balls to confront him about it, so instead he provides condoms so his buddy can continue banging his girlfriend over lunch. His life is the same shit day in and day out, till an assassin bites it and they come for him.

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