09-04-2007, 05:31 PM
I'm only judging the movie based on what the previous one - and the last few from the previous series of awful Batman movies - was about.
And of course the "direction" will be something close to what the comic books do, but the actual execution of a Hollywood movie always destroys the icon that it attempts to emulate. That's what happens when people try to shove the equivalent of months of comic book plot development into two hours of action. If people didn't already like Batman before the movies were ever made, and Tim Burton's movies weren't there to draw extra nostalgia from, then nobody would see these movies.
Batman Begins had good "direction" with going back to his roots and showing that he's actually an American ninja, but for fuck's sake he ended up driving a tank and tried way too many times to yell at people in his raspy/old-man-with-upper-respiratory-problems voice. Am I the only one who laughed at all that? D:
And of course the "direction" will be something close to what the comic books do, but the actual execution of a Hollywood movie always destroys the icon that it attempts to emulate. That's what happens when people try to shove the equivalent of months of comic book plot development into two hours of action. If people didn't already like Batman before the movies were ever made, and Tim Burton's movies weren't there to draw extra nostalgia from, then nobody would see these movies.
Batman Begins had good "direction" with going back to his roots and showing that he's actually an American ninja, but for fuck's sake he ended up driving a tank and tried way too many times to yell at people in his raspy/old-man-with-upper-respiratory-problems voice. Am I the only one who laughed at all that? D: