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03-15-07, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
I love all that stuff. Clearly Burton wasn't striving for realism in either Batman film, and the stuff he did in Returns is so artfully done. Awesome movie.
That's probably why I loved it. He had the balls to take a sacred cow and cut it back down to human size. I actually read Strikes Back more than Returns.
That's probably why I loved it. He had the balls to take a sacred cow and cut it back down to human size. I actually read Strikes Back more than Returns.
Well to each his own. But as someone that has been reading Batman for the last 18 years and who has (In my humble opinion) a real understanding and appreciation for the character, I just can't stand to see them cut down and sodomized (metaphorically) on screen by terrible scripts, bad characterization and hack directors. All that being said, Begins was fantastic and the truest to the source material and I cannot WAIT for The Dark Knight.
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03-15-07, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Doc MacGyver
Well to each his own. But as someone that has been reading Batman for the last 18 years and who has (In my humble opinion) a real understanding and appreciation for the character, I just can't stand to see them cut down and sodomized (metaphorically) on screen by terrible scripts, bad characterization and hack directors. All that being said, Begins was fantastic and the truest to the source material and I cannot WAIT for The Dark Knight.
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03-16-07, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
Since when is Tim Burton a hack director? I've been reading Batman for over a decade myself, so I don't see why your opinion is more valid than anyone else's.
Sorry, mate. That was the last thing I posted before I left work last night, and just checking it now I thought, "Goddamn, that came off as snarky." So I apologize, it wasn't meant to sound as if I own the character. And Burton IS a good director (if a wierd one), I was speaking of Shumacher.
But come on, you have to admit that in both Batman Returns and The Dark Knight 2, that guy was no Batman. Frying people with the Batmobile's turbine? Hitting on girls with factoids about misstle toe? Taking your mask off in front of the villain? standing there as one villain kills another? And I won't even list the numerous offenses to his character in DK2.
All that being said, I should have just left it as "to each his own." That was the intention of my earlier post and I apologize for the unintended condescention.
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03-16-07, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by The Bus
I'm a big Batman fan too. The closest we've ever come to accurate portrayal of the character on the screen is the mid-90s animated series.
It lacked the complete darkness of the comic, but you're right, just a fantastic take on Batman and the DCU as a whole. Bruce Timm is the man. I still whip out Mask of the Phantasm from time to time.
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