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These are the posts for Wednesday, the 19th day of October in the year 2005 of the common era.

Batman Begins (2005)

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

The first two Batman movies may not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but at least they were infused with director Tim Burton’s quirky sensibilities. The second two, directed by Joel Shumacher, were just a train wreck.

The fifth movie does us all a favor by pushing the big cinematic reset button and returning Batman to the beginning, placing him in a universe that has less in common with Edward Scissorhands and the 1960s TV series and more in common with the Batman of the comic books. In other words, the real Batman has made it to the big screen. Finally.

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Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

You’re standing outside my church, comparing God to Rice Krispies?

Million Dollar Baby is a film that has such implicit faith in its characters that it allows them to inhabit an unvarnished reality almost completely free of Hollywood artifice. You never get the sense that you’ve seen these people in another movie, but rather that director Clint Eastwood has simply taken his camera out and pointed it at them, including one guy that looks a lot like the director.

Million Dollar Baby

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