Well I finally watched Batman Begins last night for the first time (yeah I know but I gave up on the childish batman crap they were dishing up years ago).

I was pleasantly surprised, I thought it was a very good movie.  I thought the depth they went into in Bruce's background was good.  It was definitely (as I expected) a much darker movie which was great.

I liked seeing the background as to how he got all his gadgets - although realistically what does Morgan Freeman do all day (what is/was his role in the company), it was a little far fetched that he worked in that Envrionmental Science department by himself.

I must admit I was surprised that the ninja guys were behind the whole plot against Gotham City - a bit surprised but also disappointed.  I would have preferred if they left the fact that Batman didn't want to be as ruthless as they wanted him to be when they trained him, they had the fight, he won, he left, leave it at that.

I agree withs some of the comments about Joey from Dawsons Creek, she acted ok.  But visually she just still seems like a kid so she was probably not the ideal choice for the role.  Although her acting was fine, she was just cast incorrectly.

As for Bruce Wayne (I can't recall the actors name) he did a good job as Batman - as Bruce though the jury was still out for me.  He didnt' quite pull that off IMHO.

The rest of the film and how they tied everything together - all the cliche things from the original series, from the batcave and how he found it and made it, to the batman logo on the light I thought it was excellent.  Very little childish cringe factor which was great.

I've mentioned a few things that I didn't like, but that was relatively minor in the scheme of things.  Overwhelmingly I thought it was a very good movie.

I'm looking forward to TDK.

Awesome vids thanks.

Damn it's a crying shame that this guys talent is just going to waste. 

I think if he does it intentionally and it's a dig at anything, it's because he has to play those damn songs.

When the majority of what you are serving up is AFD rehash stuff that you had no hand in writing, I would be pretty blase about the songs too.

It would be hard to get fired up night after night, week after week, month after month, year after year playing AFD stuff and not your own material.  It's probably not intentional on his part but if it's how he feels deep down whether he wants it to or not it will eventually reflect in his playing.  If you are really a passionate muisician with any ability and your playing is a way of connecting and communicating with your audience then your personality, feelings and emotions are eventually going to show thru in your playing.  I think it's a subconscious thing that is eventually unavoidable.

Wow that already looks great.  Can't wait to see it finished!

lol - very good I like that.