Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Alex Towers and Phil Bagnall, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins.
Following the death of his parents, billionaire Bruce Wayne finds himself struggling for a way to make sense of the world. Studying under the mysterious Ra’s Al Ghul, Wayne vows to devote his life to a war on crime itself. However, on returning home to Gotham, Bruce very quickly discovers that something very sinister has taken root in his home city.
At time of recording, it was ranked 126th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 8th September 2022.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Batman Begins at the Internet Movie Database.
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- Darren Mooney at The Escapist looks at the evolution and the ubiquity of the Hollywood franchise reboot, July 2022.
- The origins of the term “reboot” on Usenet, June 1994.
- David Goyer has to explain the term “reboot” to The Los Angeles Times, May 2005.
- Christopher Orr at The Atlantic ponders whether The Incredible Hulk is a sequel to Hulk, June 2008.
- John Hazelton at Screen Daily reports on “the impressive, if not spectacular” box office performance of Batman Begins, June 2005.
- Nikki Finke at Deadline reports on the record-breaking performance of The Dark Knight, February 2009.
- Priscilla Page at Polygon considers Constantine as an underrated comic book movie, October 2021.
- The Gainesville Sun reports on the dual release of V for Vendetta and A History of Violence, March 2006.
- Tom Breihan at The A.V. Club considers the context and legacy of Batman Begins, September 2018.
- Emma Dibdin at Digital Spy discusses Darren Aronofsky’s aborted adaptation of Batman Begins, July 2014.
- Boaz Yaken talks to IGN about his aborted Batman Beyond movie, June 2015.
- Mike Cecchini at Den of Geek discusses the William Petersen version of Batman vs. Superman that never happened, November 2017.
- Douglas Laman at Collider discusses George Miller’s aborted Justice League: Mortal, May 2022.
- Ryan Faughnder at The Los Angeles Times looks at the decline of Warner Bros. as a creative-friendly studio under AT&T, December 2020.
- Darren Mooney discusses the cancellation of Batgirl at The Escapist, August 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how Warner Bros. culture has shifted in revent years, August 2022.
- Christopher Nolan talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the importance of Insomnia in his development as a director, January 2015.
- Kim Masters at The Hollywood Reporter discusses the fiasco over Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, August 2015.
- Josh Trank talks to Variety about what happened to his version of Fantastic Four, May 2020.
- Peter Tonguette at The New York Times reports on Jerry Lewis’ infamous The Day the Clown Cried, December 2018.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the controversy over Chloé Zhao’s direction of Eternals, October 2021.
- Emily St. James at Vox considers how the Marvel Cinematic Universe is arguably a television show, May 2016.
- Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly considers Marvel’s pivot towards television directors, April 2015.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers how Sam Raimi retained his distinct identity on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, August 2022.
- Justin Harper at Digital Spy reports on Dan Harmon being hired to punch up the script to Doctor Strange, August 2016.
- Michael Waldron talks to Vanity Fair about how he became hugely influential in the worlds of Marvel and Star Wars, June 2021.
- Donna Britt at The Washington Post reports on parental outrage over the sex and violence in Batman Returns, June 1992.
- Tom Chapman at Geeks on how McDonalds’ discomfort with Batman Returns led to Batman Forever, 2017.
- Hilary De Vries at The New York Times reports on fan outrage over Tim Burton’s Batman, February 1989.
- Kim Masters and Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter discuss how Warner Bros. is navigating the controversies around Ezra Miller, August 2022.
- Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter reports on the reshoots of Aquaman 2 replacing Michael Keaton with Ben Affleck, August 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses the eccentricities of Michael Keaton’s take on Batman, June 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist explores how Nolan peered into the psychology of his subject in Batman Begins, June 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses how The Lord of the Rings tapped perfectly into the post-9/11 mood, November 2021.
- Christopher Nolan talks to The Hollywood Reporter about casting Michael Caine in all his movies, March 2014.
- Christopher Nolan chats to Richard Donner on The Dark Knight Trilogy, April 2016.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Forbes about the influence of Blade Runner on Batman Begins, July 2015.
- Alex Abad-Santos at Vox reports on the controversies over Liam Neeson’s confessions about his racist fantasies of violence, February 2019.
- Peter Suderman at Vox reports on the controversial legacy of Frank Miller’s reimagining of Batman, March 2016.
- Abraham Riesman at Vulture considers the legacy of comics like Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, March 2016.
- JoBlo provides the screen tests of Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy for Batman Begins, September 2020.
- Christian Bale talks to extratv about his advice for Ben Affleck, March 2016.
- Andrew Fedorov at The Los Angeles Review of Books considers “the imperialist anxieties of Christopher Nolan”, December 2020.
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