The Dark Knight Gotham City Now

[F4xMrFantastic]

I'm not 100% sure if this is the right forum to post it in, but I really want to say this lol. When I really think about it, the way Gotham is being portrayed now is BY FAR the best way it has been portrayed in any Batman movie. It was OK, IMO, in Batman and Batman Return, but the Cirque du Soleil look of Batman Forever and Batman and Rob was just........upsetting. Yea, this a pretty random post, just really wanted to say it.

I know someone out there agrees

 

[StorminNorman]

Shortening Batman and Robin to Batman and Rob amuses me.

Good show lad.

 

[sasquatchs]

I agree. With both of you. Its more fun to speculate when the film actually has some kind of logic and consistency to it.

 

[DieSmiling]

Even though I generally pick Begins over Burton's movies at every chance, I like Burton's vision of a gothic Gotham more than Nolan's real world city. Gotham City shouldn't look like New York or Chicago... It should be its own entity all together...

 

[Yurka]

Even though I generally pick Begins over Burton's movies at every chance, I like Burton's vision of a gothic Gotham more than Nolan's real world city. Gotham City shouldn't look like New York or Chicago... It should be its own entity all together...

I agree, burtons gotham IMO, looked much darker and creepier.it just gave you a feeling you really didnt want to be there. I love both interpretations however.

schumachers was just a f'n joke

 

[Rezzo]

I like the way Gotham is portrayed now in a realistic fashion over the way it was portrayed in Batman, Batman Returns and the just ridiculous looking to me Gotham in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin

 

[FinchersGhost]

I thought we all agreed to Never mention Joel Schumacher again.

 

[The Kid]

Even though I generally pick Begins over Burton's movies at every chance, I like Burton's vision of a gothic Gotham more than Nolan's real world city. Gotham City shouldn't look like New York or Chicago... It should be its own entity all together...

bingo.

And decent people shouldn't live there because they'd be happier some place else.

this was my problem with the spidey movies. Even though it took place in new york, it didn't really feel like new york. Manhattan's unique quality, it's strength is in its great architechture, friggin giant buildings, yet the beautiful nugget in the middle called central park. It feels like its own little planet when you go there. I never got that feeling from any of the spidey's.

Gotham needs to feel like it has its own identity. amen to that.

 

[FinchersGhost]

this was my problem with the spidey movies. Even though it took place in new york, it didn't really feel like new york. Manhattan's unique quality, it's strength is in its great architechture, friggin giant buildings, yet the beautiful nugget in the middle called central park. It feels like its own little planet when you go there. I never got that feeling from any of the spidey's.

I'll see your Bingo, and raise you an Amen.

 

[F4xMrFantastic]

Shortening Batman and Robin to Batman and Rob amuses me.

Good show lad.

That was actually.....a typo lol. Didnt mean to do it

 

[sasquatchs]

bingo.

And decent people shouldn't live there because they'd be happier some place else.

this was my problem with the spidey movies. Even though it took place in new york, it didn't really feel like new york. Manhattan's unique quality, it's strength is in its great architechture, friggin giant buildings, yet the beautiful nugget in the middle called central park. It feels like its own little planet when you go there. I never got that feeling from any of the spidey's.

Gotham needs to feel like it has its own identity. amen to that.

You didn't think you got that in Begins? Probably could have dirtied the whole city up better, than just the Narrows. But Burtons Gotham felt too futuristic and useless, the fanciful creation of an artist. Looked very cool but too far to identify with. Oh, and good post

 

[Bond]

I think by the time Joker comes to town, all of Gotham will be like the Narrows was in BB.

And I too thought that Burton's Gotham was too futuristic.

 

[CrashNburn]

i like the new gotham created by nolan

 

[Cyrusbales]

Personally I prefer the more surreal and diverse backdrop of Burton's work, with it's stunning refferentialism, it did feel like you were entering the characters world etc, partially warped as if we are viewing it from the perspective of the protagonist who is decidely 'edgy'.

BB is a too much like any other city, lacks that expressionistic, abstract and surrealist qualities that made me fall in love with Burton's Batman films.

 

[wikum]

I thought we all agreed to Never mention Joel Schumacher again.

who?

 

[the_monk]

Burton's Gotham had a more comic book style. Nolan's is more realistic. I prefer Nolan's. Tim Burton's movies are almost always recognizable as Tim Burton movies...it sort of removes you from the experience a bit. Plus, he really only has a couple movies that work completely (I'm thinking Edward Scissorhands here).

 

[wikum]

when you consider b89's gotham city was just a set at pinewood studios, i think you have to be really impressed by it.

didn't it catch fire or something at some point?

 

[dark_b]

I think by the time Joker comes to town, all of Gotham will be like the Narrows was in BB.

And I too thought that Burton's Gotham was too futuristic.

lets say 50% ok?

 

[sasquatchs]

I like both, but Begins feels more contemporary, B89 didnt do that for me at the time of release. Agree they could have given Gotham a slightly more unique flavour to the whole island, without stepping outside a modern day city. The despair and economic situation Ra's was talking about could have been applied more broadly. Agree with Mr Bond, I think we'll see a visual change in the city as things go on.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

ill always enjoy how burton interpreted gotham on screen

 

[GoogleMe94]

gotham city in batman begins was one of the weakest things about the movie. the thing i most enjoyed about the burton films, other then how batman was portrayed, was the way gotham was done. it was like its own world, which is the feeling i get from the comics (not all of them, but i do get that feeling for the most part). i dont want it to just look like a more dirty NYC or chicago (begins started the whole gothcago thing), i want it to be its own thing. with burton, we had a dirty, dank, dark world that looked familiar, but not so familiar. i thought that was done incredible in those 2 films. but with nolan, its just so plain and TOO normal, bot enough darkness, and too....brown. sure, the brown helped to make it look more dirty, but it didnt quite make it look like its own place. it was too average of a city, nothing really cool or unique like in past films (mainly the burton films). i hope they do something more like burton did in TDK, and make gotham city GOTHAM CITY, not chicago mixed with LA.

 

[CrashNburn]

sounds great!

 

[FinchersGhost]

who?

Exactly.

 

[Chucktallica101]

This thread OWNS so hard.

 

[sasquatchs]

gotham city in batman begins was one of the weakest things about the movie. the thing i most enjoyed about the burton films, other then how batman was portrayed, was the way gotham was done. it was like its own world, which is the feeling i get from the comics (not all of them, but i do get that feeling for the most part). i dont want it to just look like a more dirty NYC or chicago (begins started the whole gothcago thing), i want it to be its own thing. with burton, we had a dirty, dank, dark world that looked familiar, but not so familiar. i thought that was done incredible in those 2 films. but with nolan, its just so plain and TOO normal, bot enough darkness, and too....brown. sure, the brown helped to make it look more dirty, but it didnt quite make it look like its own place. it was too average of a city, nothing really cool or unique like in past films (mainly the burton films). i hope they do something more like burton did in TDK, and make gotham city GOTHAM CITY, not chicago mixed with LA.

If they go too far with that the city becomes as crazy as Batman, the contrast is what makes this unique. It is a little bland and mega-city prosperous though