As for "most summer blockbusters" having superior writers..... really? One thing that "Begins" was noted for was addressing with subtlety and nuance the same themes which were being given ham-fisted treatment in other summer blockbusters - even "Revenge of the Sith" and "Sin City" that same year. And though there's a lot of exposition (I'd be interested to know what superhero movies you prefer, as this terrible flaw is present in most if not all of them) there's also plenty of things that go unsaid.
Try
Mask of the Phantasm, a far superior film that was able to advance it's plot without needless exposition, campy dialogue or HAM FISTED themes. The reason the public like
Batman Begins so much is because we sat through
Batman Forever and
Batman & Robin to get to it.
Sin City was a far superior film, and frankly if you looked at the critics top ten lists for that year,
Batman Begins wasn't on any, but
Sin City actually made a few. In fact some even suggested Mickey Rourke was snubbed at the Oscars. More to the point,
Batman Begins got nominated for a Razzie, and won...
Superman, X2: X-Men United (despite being wildly inaccurate), and even the first
Spider-Man were leaps and bounds ahead of
Batman Begins, a movie which practically falls apart in it's second act.
I wrote my college entrance exam, to a top tier school, on comic books. It does not mean because you can write about it that the film is deep, meritorious on any particular landmark in filmaking. What we got was little more than a cliche' action movie that was just good enough to get fanboys and general audience members up in a tither about how great it was. Remember, although critics liked it, it's far from the highest rated superhero movie. The X-Men movies, Spider-Man 1 and 2 and the first Batman got better reviews on rotten tomatoes and several other critic websites.
Batman Begins is a clunky script directed as best as it could be, but ultimately falls prey to it's own flaws. I know you
think it's deep, hell Transformers fans think Generation 1 cartoons were deep, but it isn't. No film that overstates it's theme in such a way that entire pieces of dialogue spell the entire thing out for you is deep, or subtle. That movie, was about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
"I seek the means to fight injustice", "I need to shake people out of apathy", "It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me". You realize people don't
really talk like that, right.
This movie reminds me of a show I used to love as a child:
Robotech: The Macross Saga. See it has the same problems. It deals with adult "themes" but slavishly spells everything out for you in dialogue that sounds as though it's being written for a 70s pop poet. So most people mistaken it for being a subtle, deep, meaningful piece of american television. But it isn't. Because if you have adult themes, that's not enough, you have to present them in an adult way. Not like your presenting them for the hard of hearing or worse, hard of thinking.
I could easily watch Bruce Timm's episodes and tell you many of their themes, despite the fact that he was often a minimalist with dialogue, sometimes telling entire stories with almost no dialogue at all (there were a few episodes). That's the task of a writer: show me don't tell me. All Goyer knows how to do is tell you. He told you in Blade(s), which was fine, because Blade doesn't have to be a whole big complex story. He told you in
Begins, which is a shame, because Batman can be so much more than that.
Funny thing is, this happens with every decent superhero movie; it's not enough for fans for it to be "okay" as a film. They have to overhype it to oblivion. I wonder sometimes, whether I'm even watching the same film. When they say "OMGZ it's so comic accurate", when it isn't. Or "OMG, that film was so deep and complex" when it isn't.
You're on a comic book message board, and contrary to what you believe, people outside this place don't spend their time obsessing and gushing over
Batman Begins, in fact, I heard CHUD.com posters think very little of the film.
Last thing. You said you posted this because it got ignored in the "Batman got right/wrong thread". Get over yourself, please. If people don't pay attention to you, don't make a thread saying "Oh, please pay attention to my post now", this should really be merged with the thread we already have devoted on this topic.