Nananananananananana BATMAN!
Jul. 5th, 2005 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumFriday evening Charlie and I went with his friend Devon, Devon's moms, and our friends Tracy and Joanne to see Batman Begins.
Yes. I realise now that it wasn't the best movie to take 7 year olds, but we thought it would be okay. I'd read reviews, and it didn't sound horribly violent, and they both know who Batman is, so we thought it would be okay.
Um...It wasn't.
Firstly, we missed the earlier showing because our dinner at Friday's took forever, and I forgot to check how long the movie ran. Three hours plus! It was loooonnnnngggggg.
Then the movie was rather talky, when it wasn't blowing things up. Talky is good, I personally enjoyed lulls between things going boom, but I did think there'd be more Batman being Batman then there was, and the boys, of course, couldn't care any less why Bruce Wayne was all angsty and sad. I deliberately took Charlie out to the bathroom (and Devon came with us) during the bit where Bruce Wayne's parents get killed (and if that's a spoiler, then you obviously don't know enough about Batman to care that I spoiled this bit. Hopefully) because I thought that might be a bit too disturbing.
They were pretty well behaved overall, although I wouldn't blame anyone if they were glaring at us. There was actually an even younger child in the theatre who was really noisy, thus diverting the attention away from our boys, which was a good thing.
Anyway, it was pretty good, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes that sort of thing.
Yes. I realise now that it wasn't the best movie to take 7 year olds, but we thought it would be okay. I'd read reviews, and it didn't sound horribly violent, and they both know who Batman is, so we thought it would be okay.
Um...It wasn't.
Firstly, we missed the earlier showing because our dinner at Friday's took forever, and I forgot to check how long the movie ran. Three hours plus! It was loooonnnnngggggg.
Then the movie was rather talky, when it wasn't blowing things up. Talky is good, I personally enjoyed lulls between things going boom, but I did think there'd be more Batman being Batman then there was, and the boys, of course, couldn't care any less why Bruce Wayne was all angsty and sad. I deliberately took Charlie out to the bathroom (and Devon came with us) during the bit where Bruce Wayne's parents get killed (and if that's a spoiler, then you obviously don't know enough about Batman to care that I spoiled this bit. Hopefully) because I thought that might be a bit too disturbing.
They were pretty well behaved overall, although I wouldn't blame anyone if they were glaring at us. There was actually an even younger child in the theatre who was really noisy, thus diverting the attention away from our boys, which was a good thing.
Anyway, it was pretty good, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes that sort of thing.