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# Batman Begins
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1408/
- Published: 2005-06-18T01:50:40.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-18T01:50:40.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Culture, #wpChunk

*Crux Magazine* on the boring beginning of *Batman Begins* and Hollywood's inability to stage a fight. Funny stuff.

> OK, I understand it's *Batman Begins*, and you feel obligated to show his beginnings, which is acceptable as a premise even though we've seen his beginnings some 55 times before, but that doesn't mean it has to be *Batman Begins with a Whole Bunch of Boring Dialogue and Puzzling Fight Scenes Shot in Close-Ups So That You Can't Tell Who the Heck Is Doing What or Why*. That's another pet peeve for me: the fancy-schmancy tendency of Hollywood directors to cut the fight scenes up into close-up shots lasting approximately three tenths of a second apiece, quite obviously to disguise the fact that the actors couldn't fight their way out of a preschool birthday party. Man, make them learn the moves and then step back and let us see them fight it out a little.

[Link](http://www.cruxmag.com/asset/batman.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

The reviewer, S.T. Karnick, actually gives it a thumbs up, albeit a bent one.