The Dark Knight
- Thread starter Padrino
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This is the way the Dark Knight should be, not all the happy-happy joy-joy cartoony movies that came before Batman Begins (and even that one was a bit off). Those movies were an abomination to what I always wanted to see in a Batman movie. This one looks to be just what I have been waiting for. A serious, badass Batman going after seriously bad dudes.
Save the "happy" comics for Fantastic 4 and others where it fits better.
IMHO, of course.
Edit - and I like those comic book movies as well (Fantastic 4, Spidey, etc), this just was a series that was done a grave injustice at the beginning.
Sorry, I wasn't thinking of that. Don't think I've even seen it.
Now I did like what they did with the Catwoman character in the Batman movie (not the Catwoman movie), but most of the rest of the "baddies" were just ..... annoying. Goofy. An overblown caricature or something. Just didn't do it for me.
Batman Begins was pretty decent and the most enjoyable of them for me except for a couple things. the "device" turns water to steam but doesn't affect people???? And the overly Hollywood ending was a letdown.
GoGoGadget
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I'm very much looking forward to this one, and love the darker turn that the series is taking.
Have to admit to liking some of it's cartoony predecessors, however. The series/movie from the 60's has long been one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I am also a huge fan of the Burton films, which managed to capture both cartoony and dark in his typical style.
As for the Schumacher abominations... just a shame. I actually kind of liked the first one, even though it was pretty awful, just because Jim Carrey made a good Riddler in the Frank Gorshin vain. The second one was so embarrassingly horrible that I'm still surprised it didn't kill the franchise completely. Which is really a shame since I think George Clooney had the potential to make the most interesting Batman/Wayne. Especially if they'd used him for Frank Miller's older/hardened/jaded depiction of Batman.
Have to admit to liking some of it's cartoony predecessors, however. The series/movie from the 60's has long been one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I am also a huge fan of the Burton films, which managed to capture both cartoony and dark in his typical style.
As for the Schumacher abominations... just a shame. I actually kind of liked the first one, even though it was pretty awful, just because Jim Carrey made a good Riddler in the Frank Gorshin vain. The second one was so embarrassingly horrible that I'm still surprised it didn't kill the franchise completely. Which is really a shame since I think George Clooney had the potential to make the most interesting Batman/Wayne. Especially if they'd used him for Frank Miller's older/hardened/jaded depiction of Batman.
GoGoGadget
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Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Nifty.
The Batman thing has already been done once as goofy. Then a second time as...strange and over the top. Now its getting a nice dark wash as a vigilante vs. psychos tale + I love it. Hopefully they will retain time for some sly little observations from Freeman and Caine, but Christian Bale is not a comedian.
DocHolliday
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I'm not sure if Heath Ledger is the guy to play The Joker. As a matter a fact I don't think anyone can play The Joker other than Jack Nicholson. When a guy as fantastic as Jack Nicholson plays a role he ruins it for everyone one else. It's like anyone else trying to play Doc Holliday after Val Kilmer. It just doesn't work.
Padrino
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jack's joker was quite fantastic. but he was over-the-top and absurd. he was too cartoonish, and not in a comic book kinda way. it was more like looney tunes meets one flew over the cuckoo's nest...
heath ledger's joker is a callback to the character as he was originally envisioned and portrayed in the comics during the early 1940's: a violent psychopath who kills for his own amusement...
PixelPusher
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I was all set to post that gif in defense of Adam West's badassness, but you stepped up in my absence.You must.
Immediately.
I'm so proud of you.
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