It's about the greatest man who ever lived. Four stars.
Superargo is a retired pro wrestler who:
“This could be like ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ or bigger,” [producer Vincent Newman] said. Daniel Craig and Heath Ledger are two of his top choices for Lucifer.Paradise Lost: The Movie
'Critics have accused this story of giving birth to the era of "grim and gritty" comic books'
-- The Dark Knight Returns entry at Wikipedia.
'Tim Burton later adapted the comic's bleak sensibility for his first "Batman" movie, and since then, countless comics creators have aped the "grim and gritty" milieu.'
-- San Francisco Chronicle
'Overall, a very cool image that suggests Batman Begins will return the franchise to its grim and gritty pre-Schumacher days.
-- FilmForce
'If the original Dark Knight seems almost normal today, it’s because... it set the tone for the wave of “grim and gritty” superhero comics that’s still going on.'
-- Portland Phoenix
'Comic book writers wrestle with his dark, grim and gritty traits while trying to make him a mainstream hero to whom readers can relate.'
--Detroit News
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So, to recap the conventional wisdom: Batman sucked until 1986, when people began to describe him with the grown-up sounding "grim and gritty."
Well, I found the earliest known citation of the term as it relates to Batman, and it will shock you. I am not kidding. It's true, I swear. And you'd better be sitting down:
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God's Guide To The Hot Parts--the fundamentalist web ministry that fights movie smut by describing it in arousing detail--found little to work with in Batman Begins:
Though heavy on violence and drug-related matters, Batman Begins was delightfully lite on sexual matters. The only sexually oriented matters noted were one instance of the use of two women as toys and of Katie Holmes wearing clothing (the filmmakers decide what is worn) which permitted ghosting of anatomy through the clothing. Even the theater owner noticed it...Still, the hotly anticipated blockbuster deals enough "drunkenness," "riotous behavior" and "uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary" that The Hot Parts Guy can't quite get behind it:
Being a sci-fi fan, I could almost recommend this film as a great Saturday night popcorn flick but the 11 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary and a few other issues prevent me from doing so.
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Will Ferrell as Two-Face