NO! It has to be ultra realistic, mega mega gritty, and darker than than an eclipse or else it sucks. Any film that isn't like the Dark Knight and doesn't have Heath "Best Actor in World History" Ledger sucks! THERE IS NO ROOM for escapism or fun or unrealisticness or lightheartedness in AD2011. Accept it. Fun movies will never come back. Nolan's way is the way, now and forever.
It twas sarcasm. It's just this cult of hyperrealism and that The Dark Knight was the best movie ever has become a little annoying. I want fun, light, campy films like Connery's Bond, or LC or TOD, or any of that sort of stuff to come back. Why do movies either have to be CGI-ed to death, or be dark and gritty?
It twas sarcasm. It's just this cult of hyperrealism and that The Dark Knight was the best movie ever has become a little annoying. I want fun, light, campy films like Connery's Bond, or LC or TOD, or any of that sort of stuff to come back. Why do movies either have to be CGI-ed to death, or be dark and gritty?
Dark and gritty was a welcome change from earlier silly film iterations like Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and the CGI-heavy Spider-man. Having said that, the newness will eventually wear off and a return to campiness will be in order. It's just how humans are hard-wired...we like fresh and new...and when those things get stale and old we go back to what we had before because now those are fresh and new again. It's cyclical. Personally, I thought TDK was somewhere between Batman Returns and Batman Begins...and it currently ranks second among Nolan's batman films in my book.
On a related note, I think Anne Hathaway is hot but she's definitely NOT what I think of when I think of Catwoman and/or Selena Kyle. That's a strange bit of casting if you ask me (which you didn't).
1989 Batman...?
If this is what all films are gonna be from now on...Bleak. Bleak.
Tim Burton's '89 Batman was dark. His Batman Returns was dark and creepy.
The Batman doesn't lend himself to light and fluffy movies. Since the late '80s the comic books took a darker turn, and that's reflected in the films. It was a process of reclaiming the character from the campy excesses of the '60s TV series.
Then there was a set back with the horrors that were Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. It took Nolan to rescue the character again.
I think Burton's Batman films and Nolan's Batman films are all valid entries.
Joel Schumacher's Batman films were embarrassments. ****. Literally ****. A **** stain on a great franchise, character and world. Joel has even apologized for it, he knew his films were ****. That's a big clue.
Joel Schumacher's Batman films were embarrassments. ****. Literally ****. A **** stain on a great franchise, character and world. Joel has even apologized for it, he knew his films were ****. That's a big clue.
"You keep on using that word. ****. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Joel Schumacher's Batman films were embarrassments. ****. Literally ****. A **** stain on a great franchise, character and world. Joel has even apologized for it, he knew his films were ****. That's a big clue.
Not as embarrassing, imo, as Frank Miller's "IM THE GODDAMN BATMAN!"
"You keep on using that word. ****. I do not think it means what you think it means."
The Dr. used a very naughty word. I ran his quote through Babelfish and this is what came out:
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Originally Posted by Dr. Gonzo
Joel Schumacher's Batman films were embarrassments. Poo-poo. Literally Poo-poo. A poo-poo stain on a great franchise, character and world. Joel has even apologized for it, he knew his films were poo-poo. That's a big clue.
It was a shock. I'm not used to such naughty words!
Agreed. I was on the verge of insanity last weekend, out of impatience for an official trailer.
hahaha i know i took one of my sisters out to see Tower Heist yesterday and i went nuts when i saw the trailer for Sherlock holmes and i told her that there was a full trailer for Rises when Holmes comes out. i also scared the hell outta her when i started quoting the Avengers trailer when they showed that one too
"Perhaps surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years after The Dark Knight. So he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state."
Quote:
"He's brutal. Brutal. He's a big dude who's incredibly clinical, in the fact that he has a result-based and oriented fighting style. It's not about fighting. It's about carnage. The style is heavy-handed, heavy-footed, it's nasty. Anything from small-joint manipulation to crushing skulls, crushing rib cages, stamping on shins and knees and necks and collarbones and snapping heads off and tearing his fists through chests, ripping out spinal columns. He is a terrorist in mentality as well as brutal action."
yay!!!!!!
